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Sul H. Lee, dean of library services and pro- fessor of library science at Indiana State Univer- sity, has been appointed director of university libraries and professor of bibliography at the University of Oklaho- ma. Lee will assume his new position September 1.

Sul H. Lee

A native of Taegu, Korea, Mr. Lee re- ceived a B.A. in politi- cal science from Bowl- ing Green State Uni- versity in 1961, an M.A. in political sci- ence from the Univer- sity of Toledo in 1964, and an M.A. in library science from the University of Michigan in 1966. He has done postgraduate study in international relations at Michigan State University. He began his library career as a reference librarian in the Toledo Public Library, where he became assistant head of the Science and Technology Department.

In 1967-68, he worked in private industry as a supervisor of information analysts with Owens- Illinois, Inc., Toledo, Ohio, and from 1968 to 1970 was manager of library systems and later director of the Center for Library and Information Systems at the University of Toledo. In 1970 he was appointed associate director of the library, Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti, and served as acting director in 1972-73. Mr. Lee joined the University of Rochester in 1973 as associate director of libraries where he also chaired a study team for the Association of Research Libraries’ Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP). In 1975 he became dean of library services at Indiana State University, where he has remained until accepting the position at the University of Oklahoma.

Lee has been active as a teacher, consultant, and participant in professional associations. He has served on the faculties of the University of Toledo, the University of Michigan, and Central Michigan University. Mr. Lee was a visiting associate professor of library science at the School of Library Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from 1969 to 1973. His experience as a library consultant includes assignments in the U.S. and abroad. He has assisted the Universidad National Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo in the design of new library buildings; advised in designing an acquisition system for the Division of Biomedical Communications at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee; and assisted the Information Dynamics Corporation in the design of the BIBNET system. He has also served as management consultant for the Division of Instructional Resources at Central Michigan University.

Significant professional activities with state, regional, and national organizations are the following: chairman of the User Services Committee, the Five Associated University Libraries (FAUL); chairman of the Michigan chapter of the American Society for Information Science; chairman of the Academic Division and member of the executive board of the Michigan Library Association; and member of the Board of Directors, Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (INCOLSA). Lee has also been active in the American Library Association and the Michigan Library Association.

Lee has published widely. His most recent work, Dynamics of Library Organization: What Influences Change, is to be published by the Pierian Press. His four other books include Library Budgeting: Critical Challenges for the Future (1977), Planning-Programming-Budgeting System (PPBS): Implications for Library Management (1973), A Challenge for Academic Libraries: How to Motivate Students to Use the Library (1973), and Library Orientation (1972). He has also written a number of book reviews for professional journals.

The National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C., has recently added an important staff member. Walter Alan Tuttle will serve as the center’s librarian.

Tuttle comes to the center from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, where he has been associate librarian.

A native of Greensboro, he holds a B.S. from Wake Forest University, a B.D. from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and an M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also pursued graduate study in physics at Clemson and in theology at the University of Zurich.

In addition to his work as a professional librarian, Tuttle has taught mathematics at Campbell College and at Wake Technical Institute, and he has been an instructor of physics at Roanoke College. He is a member of the American Theological Library Association, the North Carolina Library Association, is a trustee of the Wake Forest Public Library, and has served as chairman of the Wake County Public Library Study Commission.

In his new position Tuttle will be in charge of the National Humanities Center’s library operation. Immediately, he will consult with the architects about the layout of the center’s small reference library and will order the center’s reference collection. When the center opens, he will assist scholars in locating necessary research material, and he will oversee the daily shuttle service by which books will be delivered to the center from the libraries at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University.

Tuttle is married to the former Beverly Shearon and is the father of four sons. The Tuttles will continue to live in Wake Forest.

Hendrik Edelman, assistant director of Cornell University Libraries since 1970, has been named head of Rutgers University library system, effective January 1, 1979. Edelman succeeds Virginia P. Whitney, a longtime Rutgers librarian who retired a year ago.

As assistant administrative head of Cornell’s extensive library system, Edelman was responsible for the past eight years for the development of the school’s voluminous collections and since 1975 for the library system’s long-range program planning. Earlier, he served as university bibliographer for the Joint University Libraries at Vanderbilt University (1967-70) and held posts in two publishing houses in the Netherlands (1958-65). Bom in the Netherlands, Edelman holds a master’s degree in library service from the School of

Library Science of the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee.

Harold W. Bilungs has been appointed di- rector of the General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin, for a two-year term beginning July 1.

Harold W. Billings

Billings has been act- ing director since May 1, 1977. As associate di- rector of the General Libraries from 1972 to 1977, he had general administrative duties as well as library-wide re- sponsibility for collec- tion development ef- forts and for supervision of the Undergraduate Library and special collections including the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center and the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. He organized the Mexican American Library Project in 1973. Since his initial appointment in 1954 as a cataloger, he progressed through various positions to become assistant university librarian, a position he held from 1967 to 1972.

Born near Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1931 he received the B.A. degree in physics, mathematics, and English from Pan American University and the M.L.S. from The University of Texas.

Active in the ALA/RTSD Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group, he served as chairperson, 1972-73, and as secretary, 1973-74. He served the ALA/RTSD Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group as secretary in 1973-74 and 1974-75. Billings is secretary, Board of Trustees of the Littlefield Fund for Southern History; is secretary of the Texas State Board of Library Examiners; served on the Planning Committee on new UT system libraries; and has been a frequent committee member of the Texas Council of State University Librarians. He currently serves on the editorial board of The Library Chronicle.

In addition to his library work, Billings is the editor of: Edward Dahlberg’s The Leafless American (Sausalito, Calif.: R. Beacham, 1967); Edward Dahlberg: American Ishmael of Letters (Austin: R. Beacham, 1968); compiler of A Bibliography of Edward Dahlberg (Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1971); and author of A Collection on Texas and the American West. A Prospectus (Austin: Board of Regents, University of Texas System, 1977). Billings was author of “Introduction” and editor of Edward Dahlberg’s Bottom Dogs, From Flushing to Calvary, Those Who Perish and Hitherto Unpublished and Uncollected Works (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1976; paper, New York: Minerva Press, 1976). A number of his con- tributions have appeared in library and literary journals.

He is a member of various professional associa- tions and is represented in A Biographical Direc- tory of Librarians in the United States and Canada, 5th ed.; The Writers Directory, 2d ed.; and Contemporary Authors, v.25-28.

Robert C. Miller, director of libraries at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has been named director of University Libraries at the University of Notre Dame.

Robert C. Miller

His appointment is effective October 1, said the Rev. Ferdinand L. Brown, C.S.C., act- ing provost, in making the announcement.

Miller earned the bachelors degree in history and philosophy from Marquette Uni- versity and an M.S. in American history from the University of Wis- consin-Madison before receiving the M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1966.

His career has included a year at the Library of Congress and librarian positions with Marquette University and Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. He held three administrative positions in eight years with the University of Chicago Library and was associate director for general services when he left for Missouri in 1975. He also had special responsibility for development of automated circulation systems and has published articles on that work. At the University of Missouri, Miller is responsible for all planning, budgeting, and administration of the University Libraries.

Former treasurer of the Missouri Library Association, he serves on its Task Force on a State Library Network. He is president of the St. Louis Regional Library Network and of the Normandy Historical Association, chairperson of the Learning Resources Council of the Higher Education Coordinating Council of Metropolitan St. Louis, and a member of the Missouri State Library Network Board. He also serves on academic governing bodies at the university.

He and his wife, Ellen, have six children.

Miller succeeds David E. Sparks, who resigned from the post he had held since 1971. Sparks will continue at Notre Dame as a member of the library faculty.

APPOINTMENTS

Richard Anable—associate director of libraries—State University of New York at Binghamton.

Joanne R. Artz—reference librarian—BUCKNELL University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Arleen T. Arzigian—fine arts cataloger— Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. John C. Attic—assistant librarian, Catalog Department—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Patricia A. Barkalow—head, Systems Department—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Stella Bentley—assistant librarian, reference services, Education Library—Indiana University', Bloomington.

Jane Block—visual services librarian, Design Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Alan D. Boyd—assistant humanities cataloger— Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Mary Elizabeth Clack—serials cataloger— Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mary Jane Cuneo—fine arts cataloger—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Patricia Dominguez—American studies bibliographer—-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Joanne D. EUsms—assistant general reference librarian—Virginia Polytechnic: Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Suellen Fortune—assistant librarian—State University College, Oneonta, New York. Cecilia Francisco—medical cataloger— University of Nevada-Re.no.

Linda C. Friend—assistant librarian, Reference Section—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Maria D. Giambi—serials librarian, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Julian Green—geology librarian—University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Shari T. Grove—public services librarian. Anthropology Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sharon A. Hammer—assistant director of libraries for undergraduate library services— University’ of Washington, Seattle.

Thomas Paul Jedele—cataloger—State University of New York at Buffalo.

Judith Johnson—catalog librarian—Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Susan S. Lytle—map and multimedia librarian—Texas A&M University, College Station. William M. McDonald—cataloger, Countway Library of Medicine—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

W. Ellen Daniel McDonell—serials librarian. Center for the Health Sciences Library— University of Tennessee, Memphis.

Cynthia Mitchell—social sciences reference librarian—Auburn University, Alabama.

Jane R. Morhardt—assistant librarian, Lamont Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Leonard Neubert—assistant librarian, assistant head, Chemistry Library—Indiana University, Bloomington.

Lori L. Osmus—instructor and serials cataloger—Iowa State University, Ames. Kathleen K. Piehl—reference librarian— Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.

Thelma J. Potts—assistant to the director for personnel services—Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Casimir Reichlin—head librarian—Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California.

Deborah F. Robbins—special projects librarian—Virginia Military Institute, Lexington.

Naomi Ronen—microforms specialist, Law School Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

D. John Rutledge, Jr.—Western European studies bibliographer—University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ann G. Sitkin—cataloger, Law School Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Laurie Suomala—assistant librarian—State UniVERSIFY

College, Oneonta, New York.

Karen D. Tallman—instructor and serials cataloger—Iowa State University, Ames. Margaret B. Thwaits—assistant reference librarian—Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Lydia Wasylenko—assistant librarian, Catalog Department—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Francis Wihbey—reference librarian— University of Maine at Orono.

RETIREMENTS

Frances Honour, social sciences reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama, retired April 1 after 16 years of service.

Giles B. Robertson, assistant university librarian for public services at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, retired August 31. Minnie Wall, former head of the Cataloging Division at Auburn University, Alabama, was named librarian III emerita upon her retirement on July 1, after 31 years of service.

DEATHS

Myrtle Dubberly, architecture librarian at Auburn University, Alabama, died February 13. Thomas M. Simklns, Jr., former curator of rare books, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, died March 25.