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Emmett Corry, faculty member at St. Johns University, Jamaica, New York, since 1970, has been appointed director of the Division of Library and Information Science, effective July 1, 1988.

Corry holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and philosophy from St. Francis College, an MLS from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in communications from New York University.

He has extensive experience with governmental and foundation funding for libraries, and his book, Grants for Libraries, has gone into a second edition. He is a member of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn.

Michael GormAN, director of general services at the University of Illinois, Urbana, has been appointed university librarian at California State University, Fresno, effective the beginning of the Fall semester.

He joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Library in 1977 when he served as the director of the Technical Services Department and later became director of General Services. In 1986-1987 he served as acting university librarian. He also holds an appointment as visiting professor of library science at the University of Chicago.

B. Donald Grose, director of libraries at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, since 1984, has been appointed director of libraries and associate professor in the Dance and Drama Department at the University of North Texas, Denton, effective August 1, 1988.

From 1975 to 1984 he served as director of the library at Indiana University- Purdue University at Fort Wayne, where he also held a faculty position in the Theater Department for 6 years.

Grose received his doctorate in theater history from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1979; an MLS in 1970 and a master’s degree in English in 1969 from the University of Kentucky; and a bachelor’s in English from Southwest Missouri State University.

He is president of the board of directors of the Boston Library Consortium, a member of the board of directors of the Fenway Library Consortium, and a member of the executive committee of the Massachusetts Conference of Chief Librarians of Public Higher Educational Institutions.

Jennifer Cargill, associate director of libraries for information access and systems at Texas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock, since 1986, has been appointed associ- ate university librarian at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Hous- ton, effective in August 1988.

Jennifer Cargill

Cargill received her MLS from Louisiana State University (1967) and her master’s in edu- cational leadership (higher education ad- ministration) from Mi- ami University (1975).

She had held the posi- tions of associate director of libraries for technical processing, Texas Tech University Libraries; head acquisitions librarian, Miami University, Ohio; assistant science librar- ian, Miami; optometry and pharmacy librarian, University of Houston, University Park Libraries; and assistant acquisitions librarian, University of Houston.

She has written numerous articles and presentations, and has co-authored five books. She is also active in several ALA divisions, served on the College & Research Libraries News Editorial Board, and served on ALA Council in 1982-1986. For- merly co-editor of Technicalities, she will become editor of Library Software Review in 1989.

Eleanor L. Heishman, associate university librarian for access services at the University of Cincinnati, has been named director of libraries, effective September 1, 1988.

Heishman served as interim dean and university librarian (1986-1987) and director of access services (1975-1984) at the University of Cincinnati. She also worked as acquisitions librarian and head of monograph acquisitions at Cornell University Library (1970-1975).

She holds an MLS degree from Drexel University (1965) and a bachelor’s degree in history from Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (1964). She is a member of the Academic Library Association of Ohio, the Cincinnati Historical Society, and is a board member of Ohionet.

She has been professionally active in a wide range of workshops and conferences, has published a number of papers and articles, and given presentations on a number of subjects both locally and nationally.

Peter V. Deekle, assistant dean of academic affairs at Harrisburg Area Community College since 1982, has been named university librarian and director of the Blough-Weis Library at Susquehanna Univer- sity, Selinsgrove, Penn- sylvania.

Peter V. Deekle

Deekle received his MLS from Drexel Uni- versity in 1973. He re- ceived an undergradu- ate degree in English and history at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and holds a doctorate from Temple Univer- sity.

Deekle worked at the University of Maryland, College Park, through 1981 as head of nonprint media services. Prior to that he served in academic and public library positions after completing two years of Peace Corps service in Iran.

A member of the Pennsylvania Library Association and ALA, Deekle has been active in ACRL, LITA, and RTSD, serving from 1985 to 1988 on the ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter board. His doctoral study concerned the impact of bibliographic instruction on liberal arts undergraduate programs.

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 60611-2795.)

Joseph Accardi has been appointed automation librarian and coordinator of technical services at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Cheryl L. Ade has been appointed senior bibliographer for Anglo-American law in the Law School Library at Harvard University.

Dan Alford has been appointed assistant director of the Rockville Campus Educational Support Services, Montgomery College, Maryland.

Chris Allen joined the staff at Baker Library as business information analyst, Harvard University.

Nancy Allen has been named assistant director for public services at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Karen Anderson has been appointed humanities cataloger at Hesburgh Library at the Univer- sity of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Rosemary Arneson is now the associate university librarian at Fairfield University, Connecticut.

David A. Baldwin has been named head of administrative services at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Jaia Barrett has been named assistant executive director of the Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Sandra Barstow is the new acquisitions librarian at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Andrea M. Bartelstein has been appointed reference librarian in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Jack Batterson has been appointed technical services librarian at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Elizabeth S. Baur has been appointed government documents librarian at Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Janice Beaudin is the new minority outreach coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Donna Bentley is the new instructional services librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Barbara Bishop is now the humanities reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Lois Fischer Black has been appointed rare books librarian at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Cole Blasier has been named chief of the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Julie Bobay has been appointed head of the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Yvonne Boyer has been appointed collection development librarian at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Betty Braaksma has been appointed reference librarian at York University, North York, Ontario.

James K. Bracken has been appointed head of Second Floor Information Services at Ohio State University, Columbus.

Frank G. Burke is now the coordinator of the History-Library Science program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Rene B. Bush has been appointed head of reference/collection development in the Science and Engineering Library at SUNY/Buffalo.

Bruce Cammack is now the special collections librarian at the Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

James W. Campbell has been appointed assistant librarian at the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Connecticut.

Deborah Cardinal is the new OCLC coordinator in the Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Service at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Timothy J. Carobine has been appointed music reference librarian and cataloger at Ohio State University, Columbus.

Clarence Chisholm has been named head of the circulation and interlibrary loan department at Ohio University, Athens.

Jin Moo Choi has been appointed assistant professor at the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Juleigh Clark has been appointed reference librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

Patricia Cloud is now a cataloger at the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago.

Patricia R. Collet has been named non-book cataloging librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.

Barbara Craig has been named archivist at York University, North York, Ontario, effective January 1, 1989.

Elizabeth Davis has been appointed music librarian at Columbia University, New York.

Jinnie Y. Davis is now assistant to the director of libraries for planning and development at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Joan Dawes has been appointed information services librarian at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.

Susan Dentinger is the new microcomputer applications librarian in automation services at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Lawrence Enoch is now the assistant reference librarian at North Texas State University, Denton.

Philip Eppard has joined the faculty at the School of Information Science and Policy at the SUNY University at Albany.

Joseph M. Farara has been named head of reserves and circulation in the Hilles Library at Harvard University.

Janita Farrell is the new reference librarian at Ohio University, Belmont.

Daniel Ferrer is the new library systems manager at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant.

Virginia Fischer has been appointed reader services librarian and head of reference at the Un- iveristy of Maine at Presque Isle.

Carol Fleishauer has been appointed associate director for collection management and technical services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Catherine Gerhart has been appointed music/media cataloger at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Chris B. Germino has been appointed the reclassification project manager at Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

Carol W. Gill has been appointed assistant natural sciences librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Katy Ginanni has been appointed serials acquisitions librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Kimberly Ginther-Webster has been appointed computer science librarian at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Mary King Givens has been named acting director of the Health Science Library, University of Tennessee, Memphis.

Loss Pequeno Glazier has been appointed English and American literature subject specialist at SUNY/Buffalo.

Valerie Gondek has been named director of the National Medical Library, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain.

Scarlett G. Graham has been appointed director of the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Eleanor K. Guenther has been appointed assistant librarian for technical services at Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi.

Barbara Haner is the new sciences reference librarian at the University of California, Riverside.

Randall Hoelzen has been appointed bibliographic instruction/interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

ToddB. Hollisteris the new cataloger in the Harvard College Library at Harvard University.

Sandra Hopkins has been appointed collection management librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

Joan Hubbard has been appointed coordinator of collection development at Wichita State University, Kansas.

Dale Irwin is now the head of bibliographic services at York University, North York, Ontario.

Robert T. Ivey has been appointed assistant director of cataloging at Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Pat Jackson has joined the library staff of Texas Woman’s University’s Parkland Campus, Dallas.

David H. Johnson has been appointed head of reserves and circulation in the Lamont Library, Harvard University.

Jenny Marie Johnson has been appointed head of map collection and cartographic information services at the University of Washington, Seattle.

LindaB. Johnsonis the new head of the Government Publications Department, San Jose State University, California.

Patrick Jones has been appointed science information specialist at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Sonja Jordan has been appointed humanities/rare books cataloger and staff librarian at Hes- burgh Library, University of Notre Dame.

Gail Junion has been appointed head of bibliographic services at Cleveland State University.

Susan Jurow has been named associate director of the Office of Management Services at the Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Zahra Kamarei has been named science information and research coordinator for chemistry/ physics and mathematics at the University of Notre Dame.

Katharine Keller has been appointed indexer/ reference librarian, Avery Index, at Columbia University.

Gregory Kendall-Curtis has been appointed assistant reader services librarian at the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

David Kiley has been named head librarian at Santa Barbara City College, California.

MichaelP. Kinchhas been appointed head of reference services at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Robin R. King is now the HOLLIS training coordinator of the Office of Systems Planning and Research at Harvard University.

Charles Patrick Kingsbury has been appointed systems librarian at Washington University, St. Louis.

Audrey Denna Kinsella has been appointed rare books cataloger in the Countway Library, Harvard University.

Pamela Kircher has joined the staff of OCLC, Dublin, Ohio.

Em Claire Knowles is now the assistant dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Boston.

Karen June Koelker is the new associate director of Texas Christian University Library, Fort Worth, Texas.

Katherine Kott is the new automated services librarian at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

Ruth Lamb is now special collections cataloger at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

David Lasocki has been appointed music cataloger for the Regional Campus Libraries at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Michael R. Lavin has been appointed subject specialist for management and economics at SUNY/Buffalo.

Jimmet Lawrence is now reference librarian at Lamar University, Port Arthur, Texas.

BINH P. Le has been appointed reference librarian at Pennsylvania State University’s Ogontz Campus Library, Abingdon.

Michael Leach has been appointed librarian of the Physics Research Library at Harvard University.

Evelyn Leasher has been appointed coordinator of reader services for Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant.

Gloria Lebowitz has been appointed regional librarian at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant.

Arthur Lifshin has been appointed science librarian at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

Abigail Loomis is the new coordinator of library user education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Diane Lucas has been appointed authority control librarian at the University of Pittsburgh.

Stephen Macksey has been appointed biology librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Sharon Mader is the new associate director for information and research services at DePaul University, Chicago.

Elizabeth Mahoney has been named director of the School of Library and Information Science Library at the University of Pittsburgh.

Louise Malcomb has been appointed head of the Undergraduate Library Services Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Max Marmor has been appointed indexer/re- ference librarian, Avery Index, at Columbia University, New York.

Matthew R. Marsteller has been appointed assistant science librarian at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Andrea Matlak has been appointed records analyst at Harvard University Archives.

Eleanor Messman-Mandicott has been appointed reference librarian in the School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, Ithaca.

David Mill has been appointed reference and information services librarian at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Steve Miller is the new coordinator of the Master of Fine Arts program in book arts at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Thomas J. Moore has been appointed dean of libraries at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

Pamela D. Morgan has been appointed head of the Collection Management Department at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Lee Murray has been appointed head of the science and technology libraries at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

Laura Osegueda is now assistant head of the Reference Department at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Maria Otero-Boisvert has been appointed Latin America bibliographer at Columbia University, New York.

Elizabeth Parang is the new assistant serials librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Marion Paris has been appointed assistant dean at the Graduate School of Library Service at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Taemin Park has been appointed serials cata- loger at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Richard Paustenbaugh has been appointed assistant librarian in the Business/School of Public and Environmental Affairs Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Kathryn Payne has been appointed science librarian at Wichita State University, Kansas.

Sarah Pedersen has been named dean of the library at Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.

Joanne Perry has been appointed head of special reference services at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Elizabeth Pessek is now the automation project archivist at Harvard University.

Lee Pike has been named head of the business library at the University of Alabama, University, Alabama.

Connie Powell has joined the staff of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Neville Prendergast is now Information Dissemination Service librarian of the Health Sciences Library, SUNY/Buffalo.

Kathlyn L. Reed is now the education/information services librarian at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.

David P. Reynolds has been appointed catalog librarian/monographs at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

Gloria Grant Roberson has been appointed reference librarian at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

Gregory Robinson has been appointed chairperson for circulation services at the University of Nebraska, Ohama.

Debora Rougeux is now reference librarian/ca- taloger for the Forbes Quad Libraries at the University of Pittsburgh.

Donald Schnedeker has been appointed head of the Graduate School of Management Library at Cornell University.

Ken Schott is the new assistant government documents librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Robert Schwarzwalder has been appointed head of the Public Information Unit of the Engineering/Transportation Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Scott H. Seaman has been appointed interlibrary loan librarian at Ohio State University, Columbus.

Melissa Shaffer has been appointed science information specialist at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Marilyn Shaver has been appointed personnel officer in the Main Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Laura A. Shepard has been appointed head of the Information Services Department at Ohio State University, Columbus.

David Smith has been appointed supervisor of the Retrospective Collection, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

J. Christina Smith is the new reference/bibliographic instruction librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Lynn Smith has been appointed planning and budget officer in the Main Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Patricia Smith has been appointed head of the Department of Preservation at Ohio University, Athens.

Steven Sowards is now the humanities librarian at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Martha Steele has been named head of access services at the University of Houston, Texas.

Patricia Steele has been named head of the School of Education Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Patrick Stevens is now the general monographic cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Rebecca Sturm has been appointed acting library director at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights.

Susan A. Stussy was named library director at St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.

Marnie Swanson was appointed university librarian at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Marvin Taylor has been appointed reference librarian/bibliographer in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University.

Carolyn Tynan has been appointed assistant librarian in the Halls of Residence Libraries at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Nona Watt has been appointed acquisitions and serials librarian in the law library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Barbara Wildemuth has been appointed assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, Chapel Hill.

Josephine Williamson has been appointed serial acquisitions librarian at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Bruce Alan Wilson is now the director of library services at Andrew College, Cuthbert, Georgia.

Charlene A. Woody has been named science administrator at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Angela J. Wright is now the interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Alabama, University, Alabama.

Cecilia B. Yeeda has been appointed assistant reference librarian for science and technology at North Texas State University, Denton.

Daryl C. Youngman is now the science/engineering librarian at Washington University, St. Louis.

Bruce Ziegman has been named executive director of the Western Library Network, Olympia, Washington.

Carol A. Zoppel has been appointed assistant to the director of libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Retirements

Lois Carrier, reference librarian, Humanities/ Social Sciences Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, retired after 22 years of service.

Laurenda Daniells, university archivist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, retired in June. She was first appointed as a librarian in special collections in 1970. She has recently been recognized by the Alumni Association with a special merit award for her outstanding contribution to the University community.

Chester Davis, government documents librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, retired in June.

Mary-Jo Di Muccio, administrative librarian at the Sunnyvale Patent and Information Clearinghouse, California, retired on May 15, after 16 years of service with the city of Sunnyvale. She is an active member in the American Library Association, California Library Association, Catholic Library Association, and Special Libraries Association. She served as president of the Catholic Library Association from 1973-1975, and managed the only Patent Depository Library in subject order outside of Washington, D.C.

Mary Elizabeth Dudman, assistant librarian and head of circulation for Ladd Library, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, retired August 31. She had been on the staff since 1969. She was president of the Maine Library Association (1970-1971), and served as the librarian of the Army Air Force School during World War II.

Marianne Goldstein, modern languages and literatures subject specialist at SUNY/Buffalo’s Lockwood Library, retired in May after 21 years of service. In 1974 she co-founded ACRL’s Western European Language Specialist Discussion Group (now an ACRL section) and later served as secretary and a program committee member. In 1983, she organized a Public Conference on the Roots of The Holocaust. She also played a leading role in procuring a $155,000 Title II-C grant to provide full machine-readable records to the microform collection in Latin American Documents. Goldstein began her career at Buffalo in 1966 with an appointment to the Catalog Department, shortly after which she was transferred to Lockwood Library’s Reference Department with responsibility for materials selection in Spanish, Portuguese, and German literature.

Dorothy Grosser, cataloger at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, retired after 27 years of service.

Dean Halliwell, university librarian at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, retired June 10, 1988, having served since July 1, 1960. Halliwell was president of the British Columbia Library Association, the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries, and the Canadian Library Association, and a member of the Council of the American Library Association. In recognition of his service to the University, Halliwell has been named university librarian emeritus.

Margaret Huff, dean of the Gressette Learning Resources Center at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College, South Carolina, retired May 31 after 20 years of service. She was responsible for researching and purchasing books for the college before it opened in 1968. She also developed the circulation and cataloging systems, prepared manuals and bibliographies, developed a library instruction course and completed all of the tasks needed to establish a library which meets accreditation standards. Huff was also involved in automating the college’s library. She has served on several visiting teams for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and on several licensing teams for the Commission on Higher Education. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in the South and Southeast. In addition, she has served as the first chair of the South Carolina Technical Colleges’ Learning Resources Personnel group, was active in the S.C. Technical Education Association Executive Board for 5 years, and was elected Outstanding Educator of the Year- Administrative/Manager category for 1987-1988. In March 1988 she was named one of the three Outstanding Educators of the Year.

Robert M. Hayes, dean ot the Graduate Li- brary and Information Science School, UCLA, re- tired June 30 after 14 years in that position. He will return to teaching at the School and serve as in- terim dean through De- cember 31 while the School searches for a successor. Hayes holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from UCLA. In 1964 he joined the UCLA Grad- uate Library Faculty and began to design the first information science program within a tradi- tional library setting. Hayes received the Beta Phi Mu Award from the American Library Association in 1985, and won the Alumni Association’s 1986 Professional Achievement Award. He also served as president of the American Society for Information Science and the ALA Information Science and Automation Division. He served as a Presidential appointee on the Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Library and Information Service held in November 1979. He was also chairman of the task force of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, adviser to the National Library of Medicine, the Office of Technology Assessment, the U.S. Department of Education, and many other educational agencies. Moreover, he has been a consultant to the governments or national institutions of Saudi Arabia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Taiwan and India.

Robert M. Hayes

Galina Kraft, cataloger of materials in Russian and other Slavic languages, recently retired from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, after 16 years of service.

Anna Leith, head of the Woodward Biomedical Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, retired in June after 29 years of service.

Robin LeSueur, librarian of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, retired July 1. He served as librarian at Countway Librarian since December 1977. In earlier years he served in the libraries of New York University as library associate in serials and circulation, associate curator of the libraries, and librarian of the school of Engineering and Science, and from 1968 to 1972 as librarian of the Stevens Institute of Technology. Before coming to Harvard he was librarian of Rockefeller University from 1972 to 1977. LeSueur was elected president of the Association of American Health Science Library Directors in 1980, and was named chairperson of the International Cooperation Committee of the Medical Library Association the same year.

Joyce Loepprich, of the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Irvine, retired August 19 after 19 years with UCI. She served as the chair of the Library Review Committee; was a founder and chair of the Relevant Issues Section of the Medical Library Association; chair of the Nursing and Allied Health Section (MLA); and treasurer of the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona, where she earned their first Achievement Award.

Annette F. Nall, head of the reference and interlibrary loan department in the Cornette Library at West Texas State University, Canyon, retired August 19 after 22 years of service. She began her career at WTSU in 1966 as a documents assistant and was promoted to head of the documents department shortly thereafter. Nall has been an active member of many professional and community organizations, as well as numerous university committees, including the Texas Library Association Documents Round Table (as chairman during 1987-1988). She is also a consultant and chairman of the Commission on Archives and History, Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, and as an archivist for Polk Street United Methodist Church, Amarillo.

Davy-Jo S. Ridge, associate director of libraries at the University of South Carolina, retired June 30. She had served as associate director since 1975. After obtaining an MLS from Emory University in 1955, Ridge began her career as a cataloger at the University of Georgia. From 1956 to 1964 she served as head of the Reference Department of the DeKalb County (Georgia) Library System. She joined the USC Library in 1965 as assistant reference librarian and shortly thereafter was promoted to head of the Reference Department. From 1973 to 1975 she served as assistant director of libraries for reference services. Ridge plans to continue her association with the USC libraries on a part-time basis in the areas of gifts and development.

Hope Smith, librarian at ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, retired in June after more than 12 years of service. A native of England, Smith had joined the British Volunteer Programme (the equivalent of the Peace Corps). She served as a librarian with the Swaziland College of Technology from 1971 to 1975. She helped build a 10,000- volume collection, transcribed into Braille at the country’s only school for the blind, and was active with the Swaziland Society for the Handicapped. She is a member of the California Transcribers and Educators of the Visually Handicapped. Smith holds an MLS from Syracuse University.

Elizabeth Grace Todd, head of cataloging at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, retired this summer. Todd was appointed to the position in April 1964. She presided over the transition from the manual card-catalog production system to a fully automated cataloging system. She also managed the analysis and integration of the catalog of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department following its merger with the Bancroft Library in 1969. Todd also assisted in the development of a separate Copy Cataloging Unit.

Kenneth E. Toombs, director of libraries at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, retired June 30, after serving in that position since September 1967. His 20 years of service ranks him as one of the senior library directors in the Association of Research Libraries. He served as a member of ARL and various offices in state, regional and national organizations. Toombs joined the library staff at Louisiana State University as special assistant to the director of libraries in 1956. Until 1963 he held increasingly more responsible positions in the LSU library administration, including head of circulation, head of the Social Science Division, and assistant director of libraries. His accomplishments include planning the construction of USC’s main library, and organizing and developing SO- LINET, with John H. Gribbin. He was recognized by the Southeastern Library Association with their highest award. Toombs has served as a consultant for over 20 library buildings and will continue his consulting activities in his retirement.

Elizabeth Turk, serials acquisitions librarian at Auburn University, Alabama, retired at the end of December 1987.

Mary D. Walters, assistant university librarian for Collection Development Programs at California State University, Los Angeles, retired July 4 after 14 years of service. She has served on several ALA committees as well as on ALA Council (1982-1986), and served on the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship for four years. Her proposal for an oral history project on “Minority Women’s Personal Perspectives on Librarianship” received a 1988 ALA Goal Award.

William E. Wenz, director of library personnel at the University of California, Berkeley, retired July 31, 1988, after 20 years of service. He began his career at CU in the campus personnel office in 1957, and in 1964 became the first personnel director for the library. Wenz served as a member of the Library Council Personnel Committee from 1964 to his retirement; a member of the Hoos Committee in 1967, a non-Senate academic group; and was also a member of the Task Forces for Clerical and Librarian representation units in 1982-1983.

Deaths

Betty Carhart, former chief cataloger at the Center for Research Libraries, died June 4, 1987, after an extended illness. Her professional career started with her return to Denver when she graduated from the University of Denver Graduate Library School. She was the librarian of Greenlee Elementary School and then an assistant librarian at South High in Denver. In 1959 she became the chief librarian for a school in suburban Chicago. She was soon elected secretary of the American Association of School Librarians. She also spent a year as the assistant cataloger at Roosevelt University Library. In 1965 she was appointed chief cataloger at the Center for Research Libraries. Carhart wound up her professional career doing extended substitute work in academic libraries in the New York area. She also did the cataloging and editing for two editions of the METRO CAP catalog.

Donna Chen, former interlibrary loan librarian at Ohio University, Athens, died on April 30, at the age of 52. She had resigned from her position in August 1987 to accept a graduate faculty appointment at Kent State University.

Ingeborg S. Kauffman, librarian at the California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno, died May 9, 1988, after serving 15 years at that institution. She was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1928, and in 1939 she and her parents moved to Tampa, Florida, where she grew up. She attended several universities and earned progressively advanced degrees in Spanish, English, French, library science, Russian, and educational psychology. She was a member of the Woman’s International League of Peace and Freedom and the Social Action Committee at Temple Beth Israel, in Fresno. She had established and expanded the library at Temple Beth Israel where a special plaque is displayed on the wall of the Temple library in honor of her work. In 1973 she was met with the challenge of building a complete professional library from three cartons of donated books housed in the corner of one room on the CSPP- Fresno. An Inge S. Kauffman Library Fund has been established and will function as an endowment to the library and be used exclusively to carry on the goals Inge had established.

Dona Lloyd, assistant catalog librarian at North Texas State University, died May 3, 1988. She held bachelor’s and MLS degrees from the University of North Texas, and had served both in the University of Texas at Austin Libraries and as the Rusk County librarian.

Ann Telfair Johnson Ritchie, interlibrary loan librarian at Ohio University, Athens, died May 22, at the age of 79. She began work as Ohio University’s education librarian, and became interlibrary loan librarian when Alden Library opened in 1969. She had left the library in 1974.

Paul Sabovik, catalog department librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson, died July 14, 1988. He came to the United States in the 1960s after spending 10 years as a political prisoner in his native Czechoslovakia. He had served more than 10 years with the library and university. Sabovik earned his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Yale University in 1973 and his MLS from SUNY/ Geneseo in 1977.

Ruth Scibird, curator of the Stanford Collection and a member of the Stanford University Li- brary staff for forty years until her retirement in 1962, died recently at the age of 96. She attended Washington State College until illness forced her to withdraw in her junior year. She was later persuaded to attend Stanford and work in the library. In 1922 she became an assistant in the Reference Serials Division. In 1924 she became an assistant in the Reference Division and remained there until her retirement. In 1951 she was appointed curator of the Stanford Collection. Upon her retirement the University trustees appointed her curator emerita.