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Robert A. Jones

Profiles

Robert A. Jones has been named dean of uni- versity libraries at Seton Hall University, South Or- ange, New Jersey. He served formerly as library director at Bradley University, Peoria.

While at Bradley, Jones was the initial president of the first multitype library system in Illinois, and served on and chaired committees of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the Illinois Library Association and the Illinois State Library. He has published many articles and papers and has lectured in American studies as well as librarianship. Jones has served on the advisory boards of several historical publications and has been involved in the management of state, regional, and national meetings on library and historical subjects.

A graduate of the College of Wooster, Jones received his MLS from the University of Illinois and a master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University.

Haydeé Muñoz-Solá has been named director of the library system of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, effective December 18. She had been a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Librarianship of the University of Puerto Rico.

Muñoz-Solá has a bachelor’s degree (with a major in psychology) and an MLS from the University of Puerto Rico, and a doctorate in library science from Columbia University. Her doctoral study was the first in Puerto Rican librarianship.

While studying for her doctorate, Muñoz-Solá worked as a teaching assistant and later as a consultant for the Electronic Data Processing College of Puerto Rico. She has also worked for the Inter- American University of Puerto Rico, and the Catholic University of Puerto Rico.

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.)

Brent Allison has been appointed head of the Map Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Gloria Barker has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Connie Battaile is now head of circulation and reference librarian at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.

Roland M. Baumann is the new archivist of Oberlin College, Ohio.

Cheryl Becker has been appointed reference coordinator at the University of Wisconsin- Platteville.

Patti Clayton Becker has been appointed head cataloger at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Walter Bell has been appointed assistant reference librarian at North Texas State University, Denton.

Cheryl A. Bernero has been appointed program officer of ALA’s Library Administration and Management Association.

David Bertuca has been reappointed as head, serials management at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Julia C. Blixrud has been named head of the National Serials Data Program at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Beverly Brown has been appointed to a two- year term position as cataloger in the Medical Library at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Amelia Butros has been appointed assistant librarian, Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service (PSRMLS) at the University of California, Los Angeles.

J. RAndel Candelaria is now reference librarian at Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, North Carolina.

Alan F. Carr is now circulation librarian at the Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago.

Amy Chang has been appointed information access librarian for interlibrary loan at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Richard E. Chapin, director of libraries at Michigan State University, East Lansing, has assumed added duties as director of the University Press.

Marilyn Christianson has been appointed science and technology librarian at North Texas State University, Denton.

Bill Coons is now information literacy specialist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Ingrid Depta is now assistant to the director for administrative services at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Marilyn Gibbs Drayton is the new head librarian at Claflin College, Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Marilyn Dunham is now director of library technical services at Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas.

Michael Elmore has been appointed serials cataloger at New York University, New York City.

Ann Ercelawn has been appointed serials librarian in General Technical Services at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Lynn Feider is now librarian at Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, Nashotah, Wisconsin.

Katharin Foster is now head of the Collection Development and Acquisitions Department at Ohio University, Athens.

Paul Frantz has been appointed reference li- brarian/coordinator, library instruction program at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Tara Lynn Fulton is now reference instruction librarian at Loyola University, Chicago.

Kathryn Gabriel has been appointed rare book cataloger in the Bibliographic Control Department of the University of Delaware, Newark.

Frank Gavett has been appointed head of reference at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.

Constance Gempeler is now monographs acquisition librarian at North Texas State University, Denton.

Barbara Graham is now assistant director for financial planning and special projects at Harvard University.

Charles Haddix has been appointed sound archives specialist at the University of Missouri- Kansas City.

Dawn Hale is the new head of cataloging at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Melissa J. Harvey has been appointed acting reference librarian at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Joseph Harzbecker is now reference librarian at the Alumni Medical Library of the Boston University Medical Center, Massachusetts.

Harry Hosel is now an analyst in library plans and policies at the Office of the President of the University of California.

Marjorie J. Hovorka has been appointed acting readers’ services librarian at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Sylvia Hu has been appointed public services librarian at Trident Technical College, Charleston, South Carolina.

Mary Dodge Hujsak is now catalog maintenance librarian at New York University, New York City.

Virginia Inness has been appointed catalog librarian for special projects at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, effective April 1.

Helen B. Josephine has been appointed corporate services librarian at Arizona State University, Tempe.

Peter Kaatrude has been appointed associate librarian in the Management Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kristina Kromer has been appointed original cataloger in the Bibliographic Control Department of the University of Delaware, Newark.

William Kulp has been appointed catalog librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Catonsville.

Linda Lawrence has been appointed humanities and social science reference librarian at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Mary Ellen Lemon is the new reference librarian in the Savitt Medical Library of the University of Nevada-Reno.

Marilyn Neff Loesch has been appointed reference librarian at Hampton University, Virginia.

Sally Lyon has been appointed reference librarian at the City College of New York.

Ellen McGrath has been appointed assistant law librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Gerard James McKiernan has been appointed information services librarian at Iowa State University, Ames, effective April 1.

Michael Markwith has been appointed Mid- Atlantic regional representative in the Faxon Company’s Academic Information Services Division, Richmond, Virginia.

Ann E. Miller has been appointed assistant reference librarian at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Constance R. Miller has been appointed coordinator of computer assisted information services at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Shelley Miller has been appointed cataloging librarian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

William Monroe has been appointed reference librarian for world history at New York University, New York City.

Alicia Morris has been appointed coordinator of the Order Input and Preparation Unit at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Karen Motylewski has been appointed Field Service Director at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts.

Hilary A. Murray has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Janet Murray is the new special collections librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Catonsville.

Timothy Murray has been appointed manuscripts librarian in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library.

Catherine Murray–Rust has been appointed assistant to the University Librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Liz Myers, retiring head of the Government Documents Department at the University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed acting head of the Sciences Libraries Department.

Sherry A. O’Brien has been appointed acting assistant readers’ services librarian at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Paula Olson has been appointed reference librarian in the Bio-Medical Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Teri Oparanozie is now interlibrary loan librarian at North Texas State University, Denton.

Hye Ok Park has been appointed assistant director for library systems at Brooklyn College, New York.

Linda L. Parker has been appointed chair of the Central Reference Services at the University of N ebraska–Lincoln.

Arlene B. Perry is the new reference librarian at Claflin College, Orangeburg, South Carolina.

David Riley has been appointed reference librarian for music at New York University, New York City.

Nancy Rue is now head of the Reference and Library Instruction Department at Ohio University, Athens.

Elaine R. Sanchez has been appointed monographs cataloger at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Roger Scanland has been appointed serials cataloging supervisor at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Sherrie Schmidt has been appointed assistant director for collection and bibliographic services at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Steven Schubert is now cataloger in the Technical Services Department at New York University, New York City.

Lisa Sepa has been appointed reference librarian in the Real Estate Institute of New York University, New York City.

Beth J. Shapiro has been named deputy director of libraries at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Gloria Smith has been appointed part-time media librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Marie Sparks has been named director of library and information services of Sigma Theta Tau, the honor society of nursing.

Edward P. Tallent is now reference librarian in the Lamont Library at Plarvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Deonna Taylor is now business information analyst for the law firm of Weil, Gotshal and Manges, New York City.

Julie Tharp has been appointed assistant reference librarian at North Texas State University, Denton.

Charles M. Vance Jr. has been appointed monographs/retrospective conversion cataloger at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Sally Walters has been appointed media librarian at Hiram College, Ohio.

Victoria M. Waters has been appointed science cataloger in the Monograph Cataloging Division at the University of Washington, Seattle.

A. Elaine Wedeking has been appointed monographic cataloger at Iowa State University, Ames.

Sarah Weiner has been appointed curator of artistic properties at Columbia University, New York.

Sheree Williams has been appointed catalog librarian at Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas.

Catherine Wojewodzki has been appointed science reference librarian at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Retirements

Muriel Lewis, humanities cataloger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, will retire July 1 after 40 years of service. Lewis joined the MIT Libraries as a member of the support staff and was promoted to the librarian staff in 1955. A magna cum laude graduate of Calvin Coolidge College, she earned an MLS from Simmons College.

Julia Moss, catalog librarian at Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas, retired August 31,1986, after 24 years of service.

Jean M. Ray, map/assistant science librarian at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, retired in August 1986 as associate professor emerita after 26 years of service. Ray earned a bachelor’s degree in library science from Simmons College, an MLS at Columbia University, and a master’s in geography from SIU. She has been an active member of ALA during a fifty-year library career.

Deaths

Karen Apton, library specialist in the Foreign Languages and Area Collections office of the Green Library, Stanford University, died January 6 following an extended illness. A native of Hamburg, Germany, Apton came to the United States in 1947 and joined the Stanford staff in 1964 as one of the first members of the newly created Resources Development Program (later the Collection Development Program), working in the Germanic Collections Office. She assumed temporary curatorial responsibility in 1967 and from 1975 to 1977, and earned a master’s degree from the German Studies Department at Stanford in 1979.

Richard Evenson, head of the Rraille Development Section at the National Library Service for the Rlind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress, and his wife Lorraine were fatally injured the evening of January 12 while crossing a street near their home in Washington, D.C. Evenson’s guide dog was also killed in the accident. Evenson came to NLS/BPPI in 1973 as an advisor, and from 1974 to 1984 was program director in charge of a variety of research and development projects, especially those related to braille reading devices and production technology. From 1977 to 1981 he served, in addition to his other duties, as an equal employment opportunity counselor and officer for the Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance Office. A leading authority in the United States on braille codes, Evenson was past chairman of the Braille Authority of North America, and received a Special Achievement Award in 1984 for his part in a group report to the House Committee on Appropriations. Born in Massachusetts in 1929, Evenson attended the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, earning a bachelor’s degree at Harvard, a master’s from Boston University, and an MLS from the Catholic University of America. He had completed the coursework for a Ph.D. at Boston University. Prior to his service at NLS/BPH, he worked in the Boston area for a research and development firm and as a bank personnel officer. Even- son was active in several Washington area groups providing service to blind individuals. He was on the program committee of the Washington Ear, a radio reading service, and chaired the advisory committee of the Montgomery County Special Needs Library.

Frances E. Haslett, former acquisitions librarian and student center librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died November 24, 1986. She was a graduate of Boston University and received an MLS from Simmons College. Before coming to MIT in 1962, Plaslett had been a librarian in the Marine Corps and a schoolteacher in New Hampshire and Vermont. She retired in 1975.

Augustus Frederick Kuhlman, director emeritus of the Joint University Libraries of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, died December 26, 1986, at the age of 97. Born in Iowa, Kuhlman graduated from Northwestern University in 1916 and received a master’s degree and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago. In 1935 he went to Nashville to conduct a survey regarding library needs and problems in the universities and schools of the region, which resulted in the formation of the Joint University Libraries (JUL) of Peabody and Scarritt colleges and Vanderbilt University. JUL became the Vanderbilt University Library in 1979. The first director of JUL, Kuhlman built it into an institution of national recognition. Following retirement in 1960, he served as a consultant in planning new college and university library buildings and additions, and made recommendations for improvements at numerous campuses. Kuhlman was a member of ALA and the Society of American Archivists, and was a Fellow of the American Library Institute.

Charles R. Long, director of the Library and Plant Information Services of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, since 1972, died August 11, 1986. Long received an MLS from Simmons College in 1967 and worked at Harvard University from 1968 until 1972 as librarian of the Grey Herbarium and Arnold Arboretum. He was a founding member of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.

Mary Morrison, reference librarian in the Cabot Science Library of Harvard University, died December 13, 1986, after a year-long illness. Morrison was assistant manager of an area bookshop for thirteen years before coming to the Cabot Library in 1976.

Judith Singleton, director of the Eighteenth- Century Short Title Catalog/North America project at the University of California, Riverside, died December 31, 1986. Prior to taking the position with ESTC/NA, Singleton was head of cataloging in the Lilly Library, Indiana University (1974-80). As secretary of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section she was active at the 1986 Annual Conference in New York, and had planned to attend the Midwinter Conference in Chicago. ■ ■