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James B. Alsip

James B. Alsip has been appointed university librarian at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Alsip was previously associate director for technical services and associate professor of bibliogra- phy at the University of Oklahoma libraries.

During his four years at the University of Ok- lahoma, Alsip has also served as interim direc- tor of university librar- ies and acting associate director for public ser- vices. Before going to Oklahoma, he spent six years at Western Illi- nois University, where he was assistant library director, acquisitions li- brarian, and circulation and reserve librarian. He began his professional career in 1968 as first assis- tant social science librarian at the University of Georgia libraries.

He received his B.A. degree in political sci- ence and history from Texas Christian University and obtained his M.L.S. from Emory University. He has served as president of the Oklahoma Li- brary Association (OLA) and as director-at-large and chairperson of the automation round table of OLA.

Scott Bruntjen

Scott Bruntjen, head of public services at Shippensburg State College, has been named executive director of the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center, Chatham College.

Bruntjen holds a bachelor of arts in his- tory and a master of arts in library science from the University of Iowa; a master of arts in political science; and a doctorate in Library Administration from Simmons College.

His published works include three volumes of the Checklist of American Imprints (1831-33) and a biography titled Douglas C. McMurtrie: Bibliographer and Historian of Print- ing.

He has held appointments at the Iowa City, Iowa, Public Library; the State Library of Massachusetts; the School of Library Service at Dalhousie University; the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems; and the School of Library Science at the University of Iowa.

Bruntjen is the current vice-president of the Pennsylvania Library Association and a member of the Library Personnel Resources Committee of the Library Administration and Management As- sociation of the American Library Association.

At the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center he will head a multitype, multistate network provid- ing general resource sharing and OCLC services for fifty member libraries in western Pennsyl- vania, West Virginia, and Maryland.

W. Royce Butler

W. Royce Butler, professor of bibliography and director of libraries at the University of Man- itoba, Winnipeg, since 1971, has taken an administrative leave until June 1980, at which time he will retire.

Before his appoint- ment at Manitoba, But- ler had served as ac- quisitions head at the Honnold Library for the Associated Colleges, Claremont, California, and at Boston Univer- sity; as head of techni- cal services at the Uni- versity of Denver; as associate director of li- braries at York University; and as dean of the library at Oakland Uni- versity, Rochester, Michigan.

He received a master s degree in librarianship from the University of California, Berkeley, and in English from the University of Toronto.

During Butler s tenure at the University of Manitoba, the new Science Library was opened; additional space was added to the St. Paul’s College Library and the Medical Library; the Engineering, Administrative Studies, and Agriculture libraries were staffed with professional librarians; the libraries acquired their millionth volume; and a start was made on an addition to the central library which will increase its size by one-third.

During the forthcoming year, Butler plans to examine acquisitions allocations and book selection practices at major academic research libraries in Canada.

John M. Dawson, director of libraries at the University of Delaware, retired in July after more than twenty-one years of service.

John M. Dawson

When Dawson arrived at Delaware as director of libraries, the library had a collection of about 235,000 volumes, an annual circulation of about 81,000 volumes, and a library staff of twenty-nine. Today, the university’s library system holds more than 1.5 million volumes, including microfilm, circulates more than 372,000 volumes annually, and has a staff of seventy-nine.

Before joining the university staff, Dawson served as assistant director of the University of Chicago Library for ten years, and he was a lecturer in the University of Chicago Graduate Library School from 1953 to 1958. He also served as assistant librarian at Tulane University from 1945 to 1947 and as business manager of the University of Alabama Library from 1941 to 1942.

Bom in Scotland, he earned a B.A. in English from Tulane University, a bachelor’s degree in library science from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago.

Dawson has served on the ALA Executive Board, Council, and Publications Board. He has been chair of the University Libraries Section of ACRL and chair or member of numerous other ACRL committees.

Mary Ann Griffin

Mary Ann Griffin is the new director of the McDonald Memorial Library, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Currently completing work on a Ph.D. in li- brary administration at Simmons College in Boston, Griffin has worked as a library de- partment head at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and as a staff member at the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity Library, State College. She earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary mathematics education, her master’s degree in German literature at Penn State, and a second master’s in library science at Simmons College.

In addition to her library duties, Griffin has taught German courses at Penn State and coauthored a paper on the use of library materials, and she is the editor of the alumni newsletter for the Simmons Graduate School of Library Science. She is a member of the American Li- brary Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the American Association of University Professors, and the New England Library Association.

Archie Liddell McNeal

Archie Liddell McNeal has retired as direc- tor of the University of Miami Libraries after twenty-seven years’ service McNeal helped to raise the funds and de- velop the design and interior layout for the university’s Otto G. Richter Library. During his tenure as director the collections have grown from 273,000 to 1,400,000 volumes.

McNeal holds a B.S. in library science from Peabody Library School and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. He has been librarian at East Ten- nessee State College and was chief of Readers Services at the University of Tennessee before he went to Miami as director in 1952.

He has served as a member of the ALA Executive Board (for four years), as a member of the ALA Council (for ten years), as president of the Library Administration Division of ALA (now Library Administration and Management Association), as president of ACRL, and as chair of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of ALA (for five years).

He was president of the Southeastern Library Association, the Florida Library Association, the Tennessee Library Association, and the Association of Caribbean University and Research Libraries and was chair of the Florida State Library and Historical Commission in 1968-69.

Robert W. Oram

Robert W. Oram, associate university librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been named director of central libraries at Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dal- las, Texas. At SMU Oram will be responsi- ble for the management and development of a 1.2 million-volume li- brary that includes Fondren Library, Science / Engineering Library, and the Special Collections in Fikes Hall.

Oram joined the staff of the University of Illi- nois in 1956 as circulation librarian. Later he assumed the position of associate director of public services. With the re- tirement of Dean Robert B. Downs he became associate university librarian, and he served as acting university librarian from the time of the death of Lucien White in 1975 until October 1976, when Hugh Atkinson became librarian. From 1950 to 1956 he was acquisition librarian, circulation librarian, and assistant to Dr. Ralph Parker at the University of Missouri Library, Columbia.

Active in both the American Library Association and the Illinois Library Association, he has just completed a committee assignment as a member of the ALA Publications Committee. He has been chair of the Booklist Advisory Committee and was chair of Adult Selection Committee for Bicentennial Reading, Viewing, Listening, sponsored by ALA and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Oram received his B.A. from the University of Toledo (Ohio) and his M.S.L.S. at Illinois. He has done graduate work at the University of Missouri.

Frank Rodgers

Frank Rodgers, library director at Portland State University for ten years, has been ap- pointed University of Miami director of libraries.

As director, Rodgers will be responsible for the Otto G. Richter Li- brary, the engineering and environmental sci- ence libraries, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmo- spheric Science library on Virginia Key. He will also serve as ad- visor to the libraries of the schools of music, medicine, and law. The University of Miami li- braries contain about 1.4 million volumes.

Rodgers brings more than twenty-five years of library experience to the University of Miami. Before his appointment as library director at Port- land State, he had served as assistant director for public services at the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity Library and had held various reference librar- ian positions in this country and Great Britain.

Born and educated in England, Rodgers earned his B.A. at Kings College, University of Durham, his postgraduate diploma in librar- ianship from the School of Librarianship and Ar- chives, University of London, and a fellowship with the Library Association of Great Britain.

Marilyn Sharrow

Marilyn Sharrow, formerly associate director of libraries at the University of Washington, Seat- tle became director of libraries, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg on September 1.

Sharrow holds a bachelor of science in design and a master of arts in library science from the University of Michigan and is a can- didate for a master s degree in public admin- istration from the Uni- versity of Washington.

She has held ap- pointments in several libraries, including the Detroit Public Library, Syracuse University Li- braries, the Roseville

Public Library, Roseville, Michigan, and since 1975 at the University of Washington. In her present appointment, Sharrow is responsible for units within the University of Washington that include about 3 million volumes, about 160 em- ployees, and a budget of $2.8 million.

Sharrow is active in library organizations and agencies at both the local and the national levels and is a regular contributor to Library Journal.

Joe Richard—MPC J. Daniel Vann

J. Daniel Vann has been appointed head of Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo. He will be responsible for administering the pro- grams, services, and operations of Lockwood Library and its branches, the Archi- tecture and Environ- mental Design Library, the Library Studies Li- brary, and the Main Street Library. The combined collections under his supervision will total more than 1,000,000 volumes; twenty-five professional and twenty-nine support staff will report to his office.

Vann received his Ph.D. in Medieval History from Yale University in 1965 and his M.S.L.S. from Emory University in 1971. He is currently a tenured Professor of Library at the College of Staten Island, and was chief librarian at Staten Island Community College from 1971 to 1976. During 1977-78, Vann was one of five Council on Library Resources Academic - Library Management Interns. He spent the year working with David C. Weber, director of the Stanford University Libraries. He has held librarian positions at Keuka College, the Baptist College at Charleston, and the Newberry Library in Chicago. He has taught history at California Baptist College and Campbell College.

Active in the library profession, he is currently a member of the ALA Membership Promotion Task Force and the board of editors of Choice. He is also the chair of the ACRL Membership Committee.

APPOINTMENTS

Anne Marie Allison has been appointed assistant director for library services, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Ann Beltran is head, Reference Department, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Ann F. Bevilacqua is the new documents librarian at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Susan Blood has been appointed to the position of catalog librarian, Syracuse University Libraries.

Deborah Blouin has been named orientation/ instruction coordinator at the Arizona State University Library, Tempe.

Nancy Books has been named head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Department, General Libraries, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia.

Allison D. Bryant has been appointed head librarian of Brennan Memorial Library, Edgecliff College, Cincinnati, Ohio. Bryant was formerly adult services librarian at Owosso Public Library, Owosso, Michigan.

Sharon W. Bullard has been appointed head of the documents unit in the Technical Services Division, Washington State University, Pullman.

Priscilla Byrne is assistant to the librarian, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Harvard University.

Charles Cecere, formerly vice-president, Kraus-Thomson, Millwood, New York, has resigned his position after twenty-four years and has formed his own firm, EDUCO Services International Ltd., P.O. Box 226, Valhalla, NY 19595.

Gayle Christian has returned to the staff of the Reference Department of the Pullen Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta.

James Stephen Cotham has joined the staff of the Catalog Department of the Pullen Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Paul M. Cousins, Jr., has been promoted to associate director, General Libraries, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Pamela J. Cravey has been appointed head of the Circulation Department of the Pullen Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Walter Crawford has accepted the position of programmer/analyst in the Cataloging Support Unit of the Research Libraries Information Network, Stanford, California.

Susan D. Csaky, formerly head of the Government Publications Department, University of Kentucky Libraries, has been appointed head law librarian, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Charles H. Davis is the new dean of the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Nina Davis-Millis has joined the staff of the library at the State University of New York College at Purchase as music librarian.

Susan DeGregory, formerly at St. Joseph Public Library, has been appointed assistant reference librarian, University of Missouri- Columbia.

Robert J. Dennis was appointed recorded sound librarian in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.

Kathy Downes has been appointed biomedical librarian, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.

Linda Driver has joined the Research Libraries Information Network, Stanford, California, as a library coordinator.

Richard Ellis is original cataloger, University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg.

Halcyon R. Enssle has been appointed assistant circulation librarian at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Chris D. Ferguson has been appointed reference librarian, University Libraries, University of Mississippi.

Ronald W. Force, formerly head of the Education Library at Ohio State University, has been appointed assistant director for public services, Washington State University, Pullman.

Ruth Fraley has accepted the position of head, Hawley Library, State University of New York at Albany. She has been head of Technical Services at Schenectady County Community College since 1974.

Stephen B. Fuller has been appointed music librarian in the Hilles Library, Harvard University.

Ruth Patterson Funabiki, formerly catalog librarian at the University of Idaho, has been appointed catalog librarian, Washington State University, Pullman.

Eduardo Gil has joined the staff of the Reference Department, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

Julian W. Green has been appointed librarian of the Geological Sciences Library. Harvard University.

Alan Gregory has a temporary appointment as music bibliographer, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, New York.

Rona Gregory has been appointed assistant librarian for collections coordination, Rotch Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was an instructor of descriptive cataloging in the Library Studies Program at Concordia University in Montreal.

Larry Griffin is head, Interlibrary Services, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Martha Grimes, formerly librarian, Pembroke Country Day School, has been appointed head of technical services, Greenlease Library, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Missouri.

John Haeger has been appointed associate director for program coordination, Research Libraries Group, Stanford, California.

Thomas Hanley, formerly catalog/reader services librarian at the University of Kansas, has been appointed assistant law librarian, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Barbara R. Healy has been promoted to head of the Management Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Previously, she was assistant head and acting head of the Management Library.

Gwen Hepner has been appointed catalog librarian of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

John Heyeck has been appointed associate director for internetwork relations, Research Libraries Group, Stanford, California.

Anne Hudson has been appointed medical cataloger, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Kathleen Hughes has joined the staff of Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, as a cataloger.

Willem Jacor Philip Isarin is science cataloger, University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg.

Michael Kasper has been appointed to the position of half-time assistant reference librarian, Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Tina Kass has been named associate director for library systems development, Research Library Group, Stanford, California.

Sandra S. Kerbel has been appointed reference librarian, University Libraries, University of Mississippi.

Cheryl Kern-Simirenko has accepted the position of Slavic bibliographer, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, New York.

Leedom Kettell has been named vice- president of marketing for Gaylord Bros., Inc., library supplies manufacturer, Syracuse, New York.

Kathy King has been appointed instructor and manager of instructional resources, University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences Library, Memphis.

Darcy Kirk, cataloger in the College Library, has been appointed management assistant in the Harvard College Library, Harvard University.

Cheryl C. Kugler, head of technical services in Tozzer Library, has been appointed cataloger in the Lamont and Hilles Libraries, Harvard University.

Edward R. Kukla, formerly rare books and manuscripts librarian with Edison Institute (Detroit), has been appointed rare books librarian in manuscripts, archives, and special collections, Washington State University, Pullman.

Marilyn Lake has been chosen executive secretary of the Columbia-based Missouri Association of Community and Junior Colleges.

Lois Lehman is personnel librarian, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.

Deborah Masters has accepted the position of reference and library instruction librarian, State University of New York at Albany. She was a reference librarian at Pennsylvania State University.

Donna Lemon McCool, formerly science reference librarian, has been appointed assistant di. rector for administrative services, Washington State University, Pullman.

John A. McCrossan has been appointed chairperson of the Department of Library, Media, and Information Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Jack McDonald, Jr., chief of the Loan Division of the Library of Congress since 1976, has been named the new chief of the Library Services Division in the Congressional Research Service.

John J. McGorray has accepted the position of science reference librarian in the Science- Engineering Library, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Douglas O. Michael, formerly director of learning resources, Allegany Community College, Cumberland, Maryland, has been named director of library/learning resources, Cayuga Community College, Auburn, New York.

Anne Page Mosry has joined the Reference Department staff at Georgia State University, Atlanta. She was previously reference librarian at Florida State University.

Patrice Moskau is cataloger in the Graduate School of Design Library, Harvard University.

M. Lynne Neufeld has been appointed to the position of executive director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Alexandra Papazoglou is cataloger in the Harvard College Library, Harvard University.

Mary Jane Parrine has been appointed curator for romance languages and humanities, Stanford University Libraries. Previously she served as Western European bibliographer, University of California at Los Angeles Libraries.

Charla Piggott has been appointed health sciences public services librarian, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Janis Pivarnik has been appointed head of the Government Publications Department, University of Kentucky Libraries. She was formerly visiting assistant librarian in the Indiana University Government Publications Department.

Nathaniel H. Puffer, assistant director of libraries, University of Delaware, has become acting director.

Rene P. Raatjes has joined the staff of the University of Arizona, Tucson, as catalog librarian. She has been senior cataloger at Purdue University.

Richard Rexroat has been appointed medical technical services librarian, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Dennis Reynolds has joined the staff of the Bibliographic Center for Research, Denver, Colorado, as resource-sharing systems specialist. He was reader services librarian and acting director at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.

Donna E. Rhein, formerly executive director of the Southwestern Library Association, has been appointed librarian of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Reference Library.

Robert Richardson, reference librarian, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, has been promoted to head of the Nonprint Media Department.

Leslie Schoenherr is serials cataloger in the Harvard University Library.

Nancy C. Scott, formerly catalog librarian, has been named college archivist of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

James Self is head, Undergraduate Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Eileen Snyder has been appointed to a one- year temporary term as chemistry and physics bibliographer, Syracuse University Libraries.

Deirdre Stam has been appointed reference librarian/visual arts specialist at the State University of New York College at Purchase.

Martin R. Steffenson, formerly health sciences librarian at Northeast Louisiana University, has joined the staff at the Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University, as Reference Department head.

Katina Strauch has joined the Robert Scott Small Library, College of Charleston, South Carolina, as the acquisitions librarian. She was formerly on the staff of the Low Country Area Health Education Center, Charleston.

Sarah Thomas has joined the Research Libraries Information Network, Stanford, California, as a library coordinator. She has been a senior cataloger at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and head of computer-based cataloging at Harvard’s Widener Library.

Harry Tuchmayer has been appointed new head of circulation, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Stanley Verhoeven has joined the Reference Department staff at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

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Steven F. Vincent has been appointed to the Reference Department staff at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Mary Anne Waltz has been promoted from assistant bibliographer, geography and maps, to geography and maps bibliographer, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, New York.

Donna Belli Yglesias has been named assistant librarian in the Reference Services Division, California State University, Long Beach. She served on the staff of the University of Southern California Education Library from 1974 to 1978.

RETIREMENTS

Paul Grier, librarian of Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, has retired. He had served as librarian since 1940.

Elsie Phillips, head music librarian, University of Arizona Libraries, will retire in January 1980 after nearly twenty-three years of service.

Harriet E. Wallace has retired from her position as geology librarian and professor of library administration, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. She had held the position of geology librarian since September 1962.

DEATHS

Wallace J. Bonk, a member of the library science faculty at the University of Michigan since 1954, died in Ann Arbor on July 18.

Leslie Shaw Clarke, rare book librarian, University of California, Berkeley General Library, died in July.

Ellen L. Freeman, head of the Geology Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, died on July 3. She had been a member of the Indiana University library faculty since 1958.

Robert W. Greenwood, until recently chief bibliographer at Tulane University Library, New Orleans, where he had served since 1941, died on July 14.

Lloyd W. Griffin, chief of the Reference Division of Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, died July 9. Griffin had served on the staff at Wisconsin since 1953 and had been editor of the Association of Research Libraries’ Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter for the past sixteen years. The Twentieth Century Collection at Wisconsin has been named the Lloyd W. Griffin Twentieth Century Collection, and á memorial fund has been established to enrich this collection in his honor. Contributions may be sent to the UW Foundation, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706. Checks should indicate the donation is intended for the Lloyd W. Griffin fund.

Helen D. Willard, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection from 1960 to 1972, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5. ■■