ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

APPOINTMENTS

Mrs. Hilda Bohem has joined the staff of the department of special collections, University of California, Los Angeles, as rare map, ephemera, and graphic arts librarian.

Mrs. Nancy Boles has been appointed curator of manuscripts of the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.

Howard Dillon has accepted the position of director of university libraries, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois.

Hendrik Edelman has received appointment as assistant director of university libraries for the development of the collections, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Norms Felland was appointed librarian emeritus for the American Geographical Society library, New York City.

Lon-fen Hou has assumed the duties of reference librarian at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount.

Mon-Hua Kuo has assumed the position of serials cataloger with the Drexel University libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Leroy L. Langley is the new associate director for extramural programs at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Margaret M. Mattern has been named head of the reference department, University of Rochester, New York.

Lynn S. Mullins is the newly appointed librarian of the American Geographical Society library, New York City.

Carl F. Oldsen has joined the staff of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Exceptional Children as assistant director responsible for information systems.

Carl F. Orgren has accepted the position of assistant professor in the school of library science, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Margaret Otto has been promoted to assistant director for reader services for the libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Kenneth W. Paull is now acting as coordinator of library systems for the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.

Robert V. Pezdek is now librarian of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Henry Bradford Smith is now assistant head of the reference department at the University of Rochester, New York.

Samuel Yee Sung is the newly appointed assistant professor and cataloger at Mississippi State University at State College.

Richard W. Vierich is now head of science processing, science libraries. University of California, Riverside.

Sukmoon Yoon has been named assistant librarian in the serials, microforms, reclassification section of the catalog department at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

NECROLOGY

Wharton Miller, formerly Dean of the School of Library Science and Director of Libraries at Syracuse University, died suddenly on March 6, 1970, at the age of 80. Mr. Miller retired in 1955 and had been living in De Bary, Florida, since 1959.

RETIREMENTS

The retirement of Ralph W. McComb, effective April 30, 1970, has been announced by W. Carl Jackson, director of libraries at Pennsylvania State University. Mr. McComb, now University Librarian for Resource Development, has served the university for twenty-three years and the library profession for more than forty years. He will retire with the rank of librarian emeritus, the first librarian to receive this honor at Penn State.

Long active in library professional organizations, McComb was president of the Pennsylvania Library Association, a member of its executive board, and of various committees. In October, 1967, PLA honored him with their Award of Merit for his “important and conspicuous contributions to the development and improvement of library service in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” McComb has also been an active member of the American Library Association as a member of the Council and several of its committees, including the Steering Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries, University Libraries Section.

Ellen Shaffer, head of the rare book department of The Free Library of Philadelphia, is retiring from her post after sixteen years of service to become curator of the newly established Silverado Museum, in St. Helena, California.

Announcement of this appointment was made Monday, April 20, by Norman H. Strouse, chairman of the Vailima Foundation, which has sponsored the new museum devoted to the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Miss Shaffer will assume her new post on August 1.

A native of Leadville, Colorado, where she first discovered the fascination of old books while working in the public library during her high school days, Ellen Shaffer has long been a rare book enthusiast. Although she organized an elementary school library system in Anaheim, California, and worked briefly for the Los Angeles County Library, her interest had always been in the antiquarian book field. She went to work with Dawson’s Book Shop of Los Angeles, largest antiquarian book firm west of the Mississippi, and for twenty years headed their department of manuscripts and first editions, where her work included buying, selling, appraising, issuing catalogs, and making occasional buying trips to Europe. ■ ■