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PROFILES

Marilyn J. Sharrow assumed the position of associate director for public services at the University of Washington, Seattle, on January 1, 1978. Sharrow holds a B.S. and an M.A.L.S. from the University of Michigan and is pres- ently completing a M.P.A. at the Univer- sity of Washington. She has held positions in several, libraries, includ- ing the Detroit Public Library, Syracuse Uni- versity Libraries, and was director of the Roseville Public Library in Michigan from 1973 to 1975.

Marilyn J. Sharrow

Sharrow has been active in a variety of organizations and has served on numerous library committees. Currently her membership in ALA includes the ACRL and LAD divisions. She is a member of the Resources Sharing Committee of the Washington Library Network and has been a regular reviewer for Library Journal for the past five years.

HAROLD L. Espo is the new program officer at the ACRL Headquarters. Before taking up his position with ACRL on May 1, Espo was an Instruction/Reference Librarian in the Uris Undergraduate Library at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Espo began his library career at Earlham College as a reference librarian with a strong focus on bibliographic instruction. He then became head librarian at the Dreiser Library, a part of the Indiana University Halls of Residence Libraries, and also spent time as the head librarian of the Living Learning Center at Indiana University. From Indiana he returned to Earlham College as assistant to the librarian during the period of time in which the librarian, Evan Farber, pursued work under a Council of Library Resources grant.

A regular contributor to the “Periodicals for College Libraries” column in CHOICE, he has also been involved in a number of workshops dealing with bibliographic instruction.

Richard W. Couper, president of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, is pleased to announce the appointment of David H. STAM to the position of Andrew W. Mellon Director of the research libraries. The new director will assume his office in the summer of 1978. Stam will have full responsibility for the New York Public Library’s twenty-two research libraries and special research collections.

Stam has been librarian of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the library of the Arts and Sciences Division of Johns Hopkins University, since 1973, where he also served as chairman of the University Library Council. From 1967 to 1973, Stam served on the staff of the Newberry Library, Chicago, as head of Technical Services until 1969, and as associate librarian thereafter. Prior to his service at the Newberry Library, he was librarian of Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, where he also taught.

From 1959 to 1964, Stam served in several capacities at the New York Public Library, among these as assistant editor of library publications, and in the library’s Berg Collection of English and American Literature. It was at this time that he assisted Elton F. Henley in the preparation of Wordsworthian Criticism 1945-1959, published by the library. He was the author with Elton Henley of a revised edition in 1965 and compiled the successive volume, Wordsworthian Criticism 1964-1974 (NYPL, 1974).

Stam is a member of several scholarly and professional organizations and has written and edited a number of articles for scholarly and academic journals. He is the recent author of “After the Ball is Hiked: Creativity and Conformity in Academic Library Organization,” to be published in the Proceedings of the Second Annual Library Management Conference, Indiana State University.

Stam is currently completing his doctorate in English history at Northwestern University and has studied at Wheaton College, the City University of New York, and Rutgers University Graduate School of Library Science, from which he received his M.L.S. degree in 1962.

The appointment of Anne WOODSWORTH as director of libraries at York University has been announced by Bertrand Gerstein, chairman of the university’s board of governors. The appointment is effective April 1, 1978.

Woodsworth, currently personnel librarian at the Toronto Public Library, will replace William Newman, who has been acting director of libraries since July 1976. In her new position at York University, she will be responsible for a system of five libraries (including the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, the Steacie Science Library, and Glendon College’s Leslie Frost Library) with a collection of over a million volumes and a staff complement of 220, including 41 librarians.

A professional librarian for the past thirteen years, Woodsworth brings to her position at York University a wealth of experience in general library administration with expertise in such areas as budget and fiscal management, personnel management, collection organization and processing, and measurement and evaluation.

Woodsworth is a graduate of fine arts from the University of Manitoba (1962). She received her B.L.S. degree (1964) and her M.L.S. degree (1969) from the University of Toronto.

Her career as a librarian commenced in 1964 as faculty librarian for the faculty of education at the University of Manitoba. Since then she has served as reference librarian and librarian in charge of three branches of the Winnipeg Public Library (1965-67); reference librarian in the Science and Medicine Department, University of Toronto Library (1967-68); medical librarian, Toronto Western Hospital (1969-70); administrative assistant to the chief librarian and then head of the Reference Department, University of Toronto Library (1970-74); information systems consultant for the University of Toronto Media Centre (1974); project officer in research and planning for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (1974-75); and personnel librarian for the Toronto Public Library from 1975 to the present.

In addition, Woodsworth has directed Information Consultants, a private company she established in 1974, that specializes in research and information needs; retrieval systems; and surveys for federal and provincial governments, libraries, business, and industry.

She is the author of some twenty articles and bibliographies including The "Alternative Press” in Canada: A Checklist and Women: A Guide to Bibliographic Sources.

APPOINTMENTS

David Alexander—archivist, Regional History Center—NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, DeKalb.

LYNDA M. Barrer—reference librarian, Cabot Science Library—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

KEVIN P. Barry—industrial relations librarian—PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, New Jersey.

Elizabeth G. Bishai—cataloger— Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Margery S. Blake—acting librarian, John

F. Kennedy School of Government—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JULIE M. BlATTNER—librarian, International Centers—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JON A. BOONE—head of the Collection Development Department—NORTHERN ILLINOIS University, DeKalb.

RICHARD E. BOPP—assistant reference librarian and assistant professor of library administration—University of Illinois at

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN.

Gaylord Brynolfson—literature bibliographer—Princeton University, New Jersey.

Steven Campbell—acquisitions librarian—Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Billy Sweerus Crawford—liason agent, Africana Project—Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Anne G. Davies—head of technical services, Education Library—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PETER DzwONKOSKI—head of the Department of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Archives—University of Rochester, New York.

Victoria Evalds—catalog librarian, Africana Project—Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Elizabeth A. Falsey—curatorial associate,

Theological Library—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

J. Michael Foster—assistant music catalog librarian and assistant professor of library administration—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Glen A. Gildemeister—director, Regional History Center—NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, DeKalb.

Sanford W. GOIN, Jr.—librarian, Yonkers Extension Center Library—MERCY COLLEGE, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Peter D. Haikalis—acting head of general reference division—PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, New Jersey.

Elaine Hart—instruction librarian— DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

MARY M. Huston—assistant undergraduate librarian and assistant professor of library administration—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lynette FANNON Johnson—data base reference librarian—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle.

PETER T. JOHNSON—bibliographer for Latin America, Spain and Portugal—PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, New Jersey.

Susan A. KIEFER—law librarian— University of Oregon, Eugene.

Lynne O. King—reference librarian—State University College, Plattsburgh, New York.

Brenda KuchinskY—cataloger, Theological Library—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Paul J. LARSEN—social science cataloger UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania.

Arlee May—director, New England Regional Medical Library Service—Harvard UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rebecca NG—business/economics librarian—Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Danuta A. Nitecki—coordinator of Illinois research and reference activities and assistant professor of library administration—UNIVERSITY of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Michael OCHS—librarian, Loeb Music Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hye-OK Park—catalog librarian, Honnold Library—Claremont Colleges, California.

Marcia J. Peterson—reference librarian, Education Library—Harvard UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SIEW-CHOO Poh—health sciences reference librarian—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle.

CAPITOLA W. PORTER—staff associate, library administration—UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN.

Georgia A. PortuONDO—cataloger and assistant professor of library administration—University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

JO RATHGEBER—librarian, Yorktown Heights Extension Center Library—MERCY COLLEGE, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Richard W. Shellman—science bibliographer—Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois.

Earl Shumaker—head of the Government Publications Department—NORTHERN ILLINOIS University, DeKalb.

Bruce Stark—special collections librarian—State University College, Plattsburgh, New York.

DON UHL—social science catalog librarian—Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Howard H. Wade—law librarian— University of Oregon, Eugene.

Linda Hoffman Wallihan—assistant general reference librarian—CALIFORNIA STATE University, Sacramento.

Barbara West—field representative, Regional History Center—NORTHERN ILLINOIS University, DeKalb.

RETIREMENTS

GEORGIA C. HAUGH, curator of rare books at the William L. Clements Library, University OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, retired March 1.

DEATHS

H. Richard Archer, retired librarian of the Chapin Library, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Massachusetts, died January 19.

WILLIAM S. DIX, retired university librarian at Princeton University, New Jersey, died February 21. He was a past president of the American Library Association and chairman of the Association of Research Libraries.