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Judith Messerle has been named librarian of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University. Messerle has been the director of the Medical Center Library at St. Louis University in Missouri since 1985. Before coming to St. Louis, Messerle served for eighteen years in a number of positions at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Alton, Illinois, including librarian for the nursing school, director of the medical information center, director of information services, director of educational resources and community relations, and director of administrative services. She is past president of the Medical Library Association and served on its board of directors for two terms. She was recently appointed to the Biomedical Library Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine. During her career, Messerle has belonged to a number of professional librarian associations and has served on numerous advisory committees, including the St. Louis Medical Librarians Association, the Illinois State Library Advisory Committee, the Association of Academic Health Science Library Directors, the American Association of Medical Systems and Informatics, the University of Missouri School of Library and Information Sciences Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Group on Resource Grants to the National Library of Medicine.

Messerle received a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Southern Illinois University in Alton, Illinois, and an MLS from the University of Illinois, Champaign. She did post-graduate course work in medical bibliography at the University of Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago. She is the author and coeditor of numerous articles, including most recently, “Health Science Libraries: Strategies in an Era of Changing Economics,” and “Beyond the Edge: Risk & Promise,” both in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, January 1987.

Thomas W. Shaughnessy, director of libraries at the University of Missouri-Columbia and professor in the School of Library and Information Science since 1982, has been appointed university librarian at the University of Minnesota. Pending Regents’ approval, Shaughnessy will assume the position effective September 1, 1989. Currently, Shaughnessy manages a library system consisting of a main library, six branch libraries, and two storage facilities. Among his noteworthy accomplishments at the University of Missouri are: five library construction and renovation projects; an award-winning staff development program; and a $600,000 NEH challenge grant to the library for a humanities endowment. Shaughnessy contributes a regular column to the Journal of Library Administration.

Shaughnessy received his bachelor’s degree from St. Vincent College (Latrobe, Pennsylvania), an from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Early in his career, Shaughnessy held appointments at Pennsylvania State Library, Rutgers University, and Chicago Public Library. From 1969 to 1974 he returned to Rutgers University where he served first as assistant dean of the Graduate School of Library Science and then as library director of Dana Library. From 1974 to 1978, Shaughnessy was associate dean at the University of Southern California’s School of Library Science, and from 1978 to 1982 he was assistant director for public services and collection development at the University of Houston Libraries in Texas.

People in the news

Charles A. Bunge is the 1989 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Library School Association of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The Distinguished Alumnus Award recognizes an alumnus making an outstanding contribution to the field of library and information science to the Library School Association or to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Charles Bunge is being honored for his significant leadership in the field of library and information science both as a practitioner and educator. Since 1967, Bunge has been a professor of library and information studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Al Carlson, director of learning resources at Patrick Henry Community College, is one of 65 selected by the League for Innovation in the Community College for funding in its 1989 Competition for Excellence. The competition is co-sponsored by IBM and the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges; 250 entries were received from community college faculty throughout the United States. The college’s Learning Resource Center will receive an IBM model 50-Z PS/2 microcomputer, color monitor, Proprinter and software. Carlson and nine other winners will receive three days of IBM training in the use of Microsoft Windows at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C. in early June. Carlson intends to develop software to provide instruction in the center’s services and resources. It is to be completed by the end of 1990. An abstract of the project will be maintained with IBM and AACJC and the software will be distributed with Wise-Ware or another low-cost medium. In the meantime Carlson would be interested in hearing from those with similar activities or ideas. His mailing address is P. O. Drawer 5311, Martinsville, VA 24115.

David L. Easterbrook, assistant professor and principal bibliographer in the University of Illinois at Chicago Library, has received the 1989-90 Fulbright Research Librarian award. Easterbrook has been a member of the library faculty since 1983, first as bibliographer for professional studies, and since 1986 as principal bibliographer. He has held positions previously at Indiana University and Syracuse University. This award, the only one of its kind in the Fulbright program, allows an American librarian to undertake a professional appointment in a British research library. Beginning in September and continuing through December, Easterbrook will assume a number of collection development responsibilities at the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, the pre-eminent Africana library in the United Kingdom and one of the most extensive Africana collections in existence anywhere. At the same time Easterbrook will be continuing research on the publishing activities of Africans resident in Britain. Easterbrook has participated in a number of international conferences and projects in the area of African studies librarianship and was invited by the Director General of the British Library in 1985 to give a paper at a conference sponsored by the British Library on the status of African studies worldwide. He has chaired the three major groups related to African studies librarianship in the United States: the Archives-Libraries Committee of the African Studies Association, the Cooperative Africana Microform Project of the Center for Research Libraries, and ACRL’s Asian and African Section.

Barbara B. Fischler, director of libraries at Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, is the recipient of the 1989 Louise B. Maxwell Award, presented to an outstanding alumnus by the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science (SLIS). Fischler, who holds a master’s degree from the school, is currently enrolled in the Specialist Degree program. She was honored for her many years of distinguished service to the profession and to SLIS. As director of libraries at IUPUI, she is currently involved in a major expansion of library facilities and services on the Indianapolis campus, including plans for a new central library facility. As an SLIS alumna, she has served as a board member and as president of the school’s Alumni Association, as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board, and was instrumental in the expansion of the SLIS program to the Indianapolis campus.

Lilli Sentz, history of medicine librarian at the SUNY/Buffalo Health Sciences Library, and Dorothy Woodson,social sciences subject specialist for Lockwood Library, are the recipients of this year’s State University of New York at Buffalo Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Librarianship, service to the university, scholarship and professional growth. Lilli Sentz was credited for her ability to attract gifts and endowments for the History of Medicine Collection and working in both public and technical services modes. She was also recognized for making the collection accessible by creating machine readable catalog records, compiling two book catalogs, and preparing exhibits and presentations. Dorothy Woodson was noted for extraordinary outreach to her clientele, for being the best informed person on campus regarding library resources on Africa, and for maintaining the integrity of the collections under her charge.

Ella Gaines Yates, state librarian of Virginia, has received a Serwa Award from the Virginia Commonwealth Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. The Serwa Awards are given to people who have made outstanding contributions in business, education, science, and government in Virginia. The awards were co-sponsored by Philip Morris, U.S.A. and are a tribute to the breadth and diversity of achievement among black women. The Serwa is the symbol of the Virginia Commonwealth Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Serwa is a Ghanaian word meaning a woman who possesses outstanding qualities; impressive; superiority of mind and character; magnanimous.

Appointments

(Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and appointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

Bart Austhof has been appointed to the Central Reference Services Department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Dana Hendrix Barnekow is now the collection development librarian at the Undergraduate Library of the University of Texas at Austin.

JOANBeam has been appointed social sciences and humanities librarian at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins.

Kurt A. Bodling is now assistant librarian, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware.

D. Scott Brandt is the new associate head for collection management at the Engineering and Science Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

David Brinkley has been appointed reference librarian in the Meriam Library at California State University, Chico.

Ellen Brow has been appointed Basque studies librarian at the University of Nevada-Reno Library.

Bobbie Carr has been appointed associate director of libraries, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Hugo Chapa-Guzman has joined the staff of the Benson Latin American Collection Materials Cataloging Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Sharon Chickanzeff has been named director of the Institute of Fine Arts Library at New York University.

Robert Chipok has joined the Catalog Maintenance staff at the New York University Library.

Flora Cobb has been appointed science reference/collection development librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Elaine Day is now social science cataloger at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Barbara R. Donnelly has been appointed reference librarian at the U.S. Naval War College Library, Newport, Rhode Island.

David Ensign has been named director of the University of Louisville Law Library.

Doina Farkas has been appointed chair of the Acquisitions Department at the University of Florida, Gainsville.

Sue Fuller is now serials coordinator for the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

William F. Hafner has been named coordinator of collection development and monograph acquisitions at Hunter Library, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Cristina Hanson has been appointed chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences General Reference Department at the University of Florida, Gainsville.

Janice E. Henderson has been appointed head of technical services at City University of New York Law School at Queens College.

Michael Hironymous is now reference librarian at the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.

David Hirsch has been appointed Jewish studies bibliographer at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Richard P. Jasper has been named head of the acquisitions department at the Emory University General Libraries, Atlanta, Georgia.

S. Katherine Johnson has been appointed assistant technical services librarian for Musselman Library at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

Cynthia A. Kehoe is now Balcones librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Beth Kerr is now reference/collection librarian at the Undergraduate Library of the University of Texas at Austin.

Margaret C. Landrum has been appointed coordinator of library and information science continuing education at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Stephen Littrell has been appointed map librarian in the Reference Services Department of the University of Texas at Austin.

Dan Luckenbill is now head of manuscripts division technical processing at the University of California Library, Los Angeles.

Mark Ludwig has been appointed the BISON applications programmer at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Brian Lym has been appointed assistant librarian for user services at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Susan McGlamery has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Southern California Law Library, Los Angeles.

Len McIver is the new reference librarian in the Curriculum Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Thomas C. Melvin has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Delaware Library, Newark.

Paul D Metz has been appointed principal bibliographer at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Charles J. Myers has been appointed science librarian at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Robert C. Myers has been named library director at the College of Eastern Utah, Price.

Leslie Navari has been appointed head of the Bibliographic Control Division, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Gail Neely has been appointed cataloger at the Catherwood Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Holly Ewan Nordheden has been appointed assistant OCLC cataloging librarian at the University of Illinois Library, Urbana.

Mary Lynn Rice-Lively has been appointed library and information science collection librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.

David L. Richtmyer is now a rare/non-book cataloger at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Tom Rohrig has appointed coordinator for reference documents at the Texas Tech University Libraries.

Jeffrey Ross has been appointed cataloger at Bobst Library, New York University.

Vxveca Seymour is the new head of the Serials Department at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California.

Rebecca A. Barker Sorensen has been appointed associate librarian for the Michigan Information Transfer Source (MITS) at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

John C. Stalker has been named director of the University of Scranton’s Alumni Memorial Library, Pennsylvania.

Teri Switzer has been appointed sciences and technology librarian at the Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins.

Judy Tsou is now assistant head of the Music Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kent Underwood has been appointed music reference librarian at the New York University Library.

Anne Van Camp has been appointed archivist at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California.

Michael W. Whalon has been named associate director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

Molly White has been appointed assistant life science librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Virginia White has been named head of the Loan Division at Green Library, Stanford University, California.

Douglas Young has been appointed science reference/collection development librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Retirements

C. Donald Cook retired on June 30 as professor of library and information science at the University of Toronto after 17 years of service. He has been appointed professor emeritus. His previous positions have included appointments with the Council of Ontario Universities, Columbia University Libraries, and the United Nations Library in Geneva, Switzerland. He has been a member of the ALA Council, the ACRL Board of Directors, president of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division, chair of its Cataloging and Classification Section, a member of the board of the International Relations Round Table, and he has served as chair or member of numerous ALA committees. He has also been head of the Technical Services Coordinating Group of the Canadian Library Association and a member of the Standing Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. He was founding editor of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly and has published frequently in the field of cataloging.

Delbert Gratz recently retired as librarian at Bluffton College, Ohio, where he had served since 1950. He also served as the librarian of the Mennonite Historical Library, a special collection at Bluffton. During the 1963-1964 year, Gratz was chair of the library section of the Ohio College Association.

Warren B. Kuhn

Warren B. Kuhn, dean of library services at Iowa State University, will be retiring this summer, closing out 22 years at the library’s helm and 43 years in libraries and librarianship. Kuhn joined the ISU faculty as director of the library in 1967 and was appointed dean in 1971. Kuhn has presided over tremendous growth in the library system. Technology and new services were priorities while Kuhn was dean. The library’s Media Center for audio and video materials attracts major use as does the specially designed microforms rooms.

Prior to coming to ISU, Kuhn was assistant director of libraries at Stanford University and librarian of the J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library, Stanford’s separate undergraduate library. He earlier served as assistant university librarian of Princeton University, where he developed the Julian Street Library, Princeton’s first residence hall library similar to Harvard’s “house” libraries. He has also been assistant head librarian at Arizona State University and has held positions at the University of New Mexico and the New York Public Library. Kuhn has held elective posts with many national and regional associations, including membership on ALA Council and on the board of directors of the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries. He served as president of the Midwest Regional Library Network and the Universal Serials and Book Exchange, is currently on the board of trustees of the Bibliographical Center for Research, and has just completed service with the Research Libraries Advisory Committee of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). He has been active in state library associations in Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and as a consultant to libraries. He has published widely in professional and popular magazines, and is a decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean War.

Lucy M. Manzi retired recently from her position as a curatorial associate in the Harvard University Archives, where she had principal responsibilities for cataloging and building the Harvardiana collections. Manzi’s employment with Harvard and Radcliffe spans nearly forty years. She first came to the Radcliffe Library in 1950, and she served successively as a cataloger, reference librarian, and assistant librarian. In 1966 when Radcliffe Library was moved to the Hilles building, she became assistant librarian in the Hilles Library. In early 1974 she was appointed as the acting librarian of both the Hilles and Lamont Libraries. She served in that position until 1977 when she joined the staff of the University Archives as a curatorial associate.

Nanette Sargent, music cataloger at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, retired in May.

Lester Smith recently retired from Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University, after 16 years service. Smith was head of the Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Department.

Deaths

Robert Lewis Collison, a reference librarian known for his many books and articles on all aspects of library science, died April 10, 1989. Born in England in 1914, Collison passed the examination for election as a Fellow of the Library Association by the time he was 20. After World War II he took a job at the American Embassy in London as reference librarian for the United States Information Service. Within two years, he had moved to the Central Reference Library in Westminster. He was invited to America on a Fulbright to the University of California Library in Los Angeles in 1951. In 1957, Collison was one of the founding members of the Society of Indexers, becoming its first treasurer and later, for seven years, its president. He produced a basic guide to the subject and his Index and Indexing (1953) became a standard work, running to several editions. Among his other books was the standard work Library Assistance to Readers (1950), which ran to five editions, the Dictionary of Dictionaries of English and Foreign Languages, and An Encylopaedia of Encylopaedias. He became the BBC librarian in 1958 and held that post for ten years. In 1968 Collison came to Los Angeles to take up a permanent post as professor at the Graduate School of Library Services at the University of California. Later, as emeritus professor, he returned to England to head the Ealing School of Librarianship, his last formal post. About this time he conceived his most ambitious project, a series of bibliographies, by individual countries and oceans, that would cover the entire surface of the earth. He persuaded the Oxfordbased Clio Press to take this on and, as editor-inchief, commissioned many of the early volumes, himself contributing volumes on East Africa. At the time of his death 100 of the 160 projected volumes have been published.

Karen W. Jacob, 52, documents librarian at Colorado State University, died May 1 of lung disease complications.

Jacob was born April 30, 1937, in Great Bend, Kansas. In 1965 she received her bachelor’s degree in English from Colorado State University, graduating with highest honors. She attended Rutgers University as an NDEA Title II Fellow, receiving her MLS in 1969. She had been employed at CSU since 1970.

KarenW. Jacob

Among her professional accomplishments, Jacob coauthored the book Collection Development and Acquisitions,

1970-80: An Annotated Bibliographywith Irene Godden and Patricia Smith. In 1987, she was one of the first recipients of the Readex/GODOR- T/ALA Catherine J. Reynolds Award for her indepth study of the State Census Data Centers. She also was a member of the honorary societies Phi Beta Phi and Beta Phi Mu. She was well-known in the Colorado library community through her work with the Government Documents Roundtable of the Colorado Library Association.

Robert Talmadge, associate director of technical services in the University of Illinois Library, died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, on May 6. A fund in memory of Talmadge has been established through Library Friends.

Adele Whitney, on the staff of the University of Chicago Library for 28 years and head of the Cataloging Department from 1943-1956, died at Urbana, Illinois, on March 20. ■■