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ACRL Officers for 1974/75

H. William Axford

Louise Giles

H. William Axford, university librarian at the University of Oregon, will serve as president of the Association of College and Research Libraries for 1974/75. As president of ACRL, Axford serves as chairman of the ACRL Executive Committee, of the ACRL Board of Directors, and of the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1975 Annual Conference in San Francisco. He also serves as a member of the Choice Editorial Board and as an ex-officio member of the ACRL Planning Committee and of all units of ACRL. In addition, he will represent ACRL and ALA to other educational and professional organizations.

Axford’s previous service to ACRL and ALA includes chairmanship of the ACRL Committee on Standards and Accreditation and membership on the College & Research Libraries Editorial Board and on the ACRL University Libraries Section Urban Universities Library Committee. Axford has also been active in ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division.

The newly elected vice-president and president-elect of ACRL is Louise Giles, dean of learning resources at Macomb County Community College, in Warren, Michigan. In the recent elections, Giles received 1,881 votes. James O. Wallace, director of learning resources at San Antonio College, in Texas, received 1,452 votes.

During her recent term as vice-chairman and chairman of ACRL’s Community and Junior College Libraries Section, Giles served as a member of the ACRL Board of Directors and of the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1974 Conference in New York. In the past, she has served as an ACRL representative to the AAJC/ACRL Joint Committee on Junior College Libraries, as a member of the ALA Audiovisual Committee, and as chairman of the ISAD Discussion Group on Information Technology. In 1972, she was elected to serve on the ALA Council.

As vice-president of ACRL, Giles will serve as a member of the ACRL Executive Committee and as an officer on the ACRL Board of Directors. She will chair the ACRL Planning Committee and the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1976 Annual Conference in Chicago. Giles will represent ACRL on the ALA Budget Assembly and on the ALA Chicago Conference Planning Committee. At the close of the 1975 Conference in San Francisco, Giles will become ACRL’s thirty-seventh president.

The results of the ACRL section elections follow. For each position, the elected candidate is listed first. The number of votes earned by each candidate is listed in parentheses.

AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Earl Farley, Director, Clendening Medical Library, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas (137); Binford H. Conley, Director of Library Services, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina (89).

Secretary: Barbara B. Gordon, Forest Resources Librarian, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (175); Walter D. Morrill, Director of Libraries, Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana (46).

ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Antonio M. Rodriguez-Buckingham, Associate Librarian, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (152).

Member-at-Large: Polly S. Grimshaw, Librarian for Anthropology, Sociology, and Folklore, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (130); Kathleen A. Kennedy, Education Librarian, Savitz Learning Resource Center, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey (38).

ART SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Gerd Mueh- sam, Associate Professor and Art Bibliographer, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York (156); Elizabeth P. Armstrong, Head Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California (144).

ASIAN AND AFRICAN SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Alan R. Taylor, Associate Director of Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (116); Gertrude R. I. Linnenbruegge, Africana Bibliographer and Librarian, Associated Studies Division, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (66).

Member-at-Large: Yen-Tsai Feng, Assistant Director, Research Library Services, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts (98); Corinne E. Nyquist, Librarian, World Study Center, State University College, New Paltz, New York (86).

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Richard A. Olsen, Director of the Library, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island (523); Richard L. King, Head, Business, Economics, and Geography Reference Department, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California (446).

Secretary: Betty Jane Highfield, Head Librarian, North Park College, Chicago, Illinois (536); Alvin C. Cage, Director of Libraries, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas (430).

COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Rosemary N. Henderson, Director of Library Services, Coffeyville Community Junior College, Coffeyville, Kansas (324); John F. Herbst, Jr., Assistant Dean of Learning Resources, Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, Missouri (144).

Secretary: Margaret A. Wainer, Director of the Library, Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Illinois (246); John B. St. Leger, Coordinator of Library Services, Central Virginia Community College, Lynchburg, Virginia (217).

EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Wayne Gos- sage, Director of Library Services, Bank Street College of Education, New York, New York (261); Emil Greenburg, Deputy for Learning Systems to the Dean of the Faculty, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, New York (181).

LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Eleanor L. Chase, Librarian, Interlibrary Loan Service, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (210); Abdul Malik, Assistant Branch Librarian, Queens Borough Public Library, New York, New York (105).

Member-at-Large: Dimity S. Berkner, Social Science Bibliographer and Head, Interlibrary Loans, University of Southern California Li- brary, Los Angeles, California (228); Albert James Diaz, Vice-President and Publisher, Microcard Editions, Washington, D.C. (89).

RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Ann Bow- den, Associate Editor, Papers of the Biblio- graphical Society of America, University of Texas, Austin, Texas (322); Donald W. Krüm- mel, Professor of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il- linois (199).

Member-at-Large: Richard A. Ploch, Manu- scripts Librarian, University of Arizona, Tuc- son, Arizona (291); William P. Wreden, Own- er, William P. Wreden Books and Manuscripts, Palo Alto, California (218).

SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Wasyl Ver- yha, Catalog Librarian, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (92); Andrew L. Makuch, Bibliographer for Collection Develop- ment, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, Arizona (58).

Member-at-Large: Wojciech Zalewski, Cura- tor, Russian and East European Materials, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Cali- fornia (79); Joseph Szeplaki, Head, Serials De- partment, Ohio University Library, Athens, Ohio (67).

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Page Ack- erman, University Librarian, University of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (1,254); Alice E. Wilcox, Project Director, MINITEX, University of Minnesota, Minneapo- lis, Minnesota (522).