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DWIGHT F. BURLINGAME has been named vice president for university relations at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, effective July 1. He has been acting vice president for the past year.

Dwight F. Burlingame

Burlingame, who joined the Bowling Green staff in 1978 as dean of libraries and learning resources, will be responsible for alumni relations, development, public relations, the educational television station, and student publications.

Prior to coming to Bowling Green, Burlingame was dean of the library and learning resources at the University of Evansville from 1974 to 1978. His professional library career also includes positions at St. Cloud State University and the University of Iowa. He has held visiting professorships in library science at the University of Michigan, Peabody College in Nashville, the University of Illinois, and Florida State University.

A 1965 graduate of Moorhead State University in Minnesota, Burlingame earned a master’s degree from the University of Illinois in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1974.

He is the author of a book entitled Fund Raising and the Academic Dean, soon to be published, and he has written numerous articles for professional journals. He is currently chair of the Choice Editorial Board.

DENNIS E. ROBISON, university librarian at the University of Richmond, has been appointed university librarian of the Carrier Library at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Robison has been at Richmond since 1974 where he was responsible for Boatwright Library and two branch libraries. He was instrumental in the development of the Learning Resources Center, instituted an active bibliographic instruction program, and was responsible for substantially increasing the library’s operating budget. Prior to coming to Richmond, Robison was assistant director at the University of South Florida Library.

He has served as president of the Florida Library Association, chairman of the College and Univer- sity Section of the Virginia Library Association, and has served on several ACRL committees. He served on the SOLINET Board of Directors and was a participant in the ARL/OMS Consultant Training Program in 1979.

Robison received his bachelor’s degree in history (1960) and MLS (1962) from Florida State Univer- sity, and a master’s degree in social science educa- tion from the University of South Florida (1969).

RAJ MADAN has been appointed director of li- brary services at the SUNY College at Brockport, effective July 11.

Madan joined the staff of Drake Memorial Library at the SUNY College at Brockport as chief bibliographer in 1965; she was promoted to head of acquisitions in 1969, and monitored the rapid growth of the library collection until December, 1981, when she was promoted to associate director of public services.

Raj Madan

In 1981-82 she served as President of the Western New York/Ontario Chapter of ACRL; and since 1983 she has been a member of the SUNY Librarian’s Legislative Committee. Within the Rochester Metropolitan area, she has been an active member of the RRRLC Acquisitions Committee and the RRRLC Committee on Continuing Education for Librarians. On campus she has served on the Faculty Senate Committee for Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure, and chaired its Committee on Nominations and Elections from 1978 to 1980.

Madan received her MLS from Rutgers University and holds a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Missouri, as well as undergraduate degrees from Punjab University in India. She has published in professional journals and is the author of Colored Minorities in Great Britain: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1970-1977, pub- lished by Greenwood Press in 1979.

WILLIAM GRAY POTTER, assistant director of gen- eral services at the University of Illinois, Urbana, has been appointed associate university librarian for technical services at Arizona State Univer- sity, effective August 15. Potter had earlier held various library positions with the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater.

William Gray Potter

His education in- cludes a doctorate in li- brary and information science, an MLS, and a master’s in English from the University of Illi- nois. He received a bachelor’s in English and philosophy from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. His ar- ticles have appeared in Illinois Libraries, Library Research, Library Resources and Technical Ser- vices, Library Trends, Online, and Serials Librar- ian.

Potter was editor of the Summer 1981 Library Trends which addressed bibliometrics, and is cur- rently editor of LITA’s journal, Information Tech- nology and Libraries.

MAXINE H. RENEKER, assistant director for sci- ence and engineering libraries at Columbia Uni- versity, has been appointed associate university librarian for public services at Arizona State University, effective Au- gust 19.

Maxine Reneker

Reneker’s experience includes the following positions at the Univer- sity of Chicago: assistant reference librarian, clas- sics librarian, assistant acquisitions librarian, and personnel librarian. She had earlier served at the University of Colo- rado, Boulder, as acting head of interlibrary loan and as personnel/business librarian.

Her professional activities include serving as chair of the ALA Herbert W. Putnam Honor Award Committee and the Committee on State Classified Library Personnel in Colorado. She has a chapter on performance appraisal in the 1981 book, Personnel Administration in Libraries. With assistance from a Council on Library Resources grant, she has conducted research on book thefts in academic libraries.

A graduate of Carleton College, Reneker received her MLS from the University of Chicago and is pursuing a doctorate in library science at Co- lumbia University.

ROBERT WEDGEWORTH, executive director of the American Library Association, has been named dean of the Columbia University School of Library Service, effective September 1.

Robert Wedgeworth

ALA’s chief executive officer for the past 13 years, Wedgeworth will become the sixth dean of the nation’s oldest and best-known library school. He succeeds Richard L. Darling, who has retired after 15 years as dean. R. Kathleen Molz, who served as acting dean during the 1984-85 academic year, will continue her research and teaching as Melvil Dewey Professor.

Wedgeworth takes over the helm of the school as it approaches the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1887 by Melvil Dewey, the American library pioneer, Columbia librarian and originator of the Dewey decimal system.

Wedgeworth received his bachelor’s degree from Wabash College in 1959 and his MLS from the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1961. He did further graduate work at Washington University and at Rutgers, where he also taught courses on collection development and librarianship, first as lecturer and then as assistant professor. He left Rutgers in 1972 to assume the executive director’s post at ALA.

Earlier, Wedgeworth held a number of library posts in Missouri. He served as cataloger with the Kansas City Public Library, as assistant and acting librarian at Park College in Parkville, and as librarian at Meramec Community College in Kirkwood. He was assistant chief order librarian at Brown University from 1966 to 1969.

His research activities include service on the U.S. National Commission for New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works from 1975 to 1978 and on the Biomedical Library Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine from 1975 to 1979. He has delivered papers at professional meetings in this country and abroad and has lectured extensively on the new information technologies at schools and libraries across the nation. He currently serves on two national advisory committees for the Library of Congress, on the board of directors of the Public Service Satellite Consortium and on the board of trustees of the Newberry Library.

He is the recipient of four honorary doctoral degrees, and he originated and has edited the ALA Yearbook and the ALA World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services.

People in the news

MIRIAM A. DRAKE, director of libraries at the Georgia Institute of Technology, recently received the 16th annual Alumni Achievement Award from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association.

ROBERT S. MARTIN, assistant director for special collections at Louisiana State University, received the Kate Broocks Bates Award in Historical Research for 1985 for his book, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900. This award, which is given for the best non–fiction book dealing with some aspect of Texas history, life, or its people prior to 1900 and which carries a $2,000 cash grant, is presented annually by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. The book, co-authored by James C. Martin, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1984 and was prepared in conjunction with a special exhibit of Texas maps produced by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.

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.)

MARY FRANCES ABOUSHAMA has been named technical services librarian at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen–Dishner College of Medicine Library, Johnson City.

AIMEE ALGIER is a new reference librarian and cataloger at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

BYRON ANDERSON has been appointed general reference librarian at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

BENJAMIN T. AMATA has been appointed senior assistant government documents librarian at California State University, Sacramento.

GREG ARMENTO has been appointed humanities/ social sciences bibliographer at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

PATRICIA W. ASHBY is now assistant technical services librarian at Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia.

LARRY ASHMUN has been appointed technical services librarian at Northern Illinois University, De- Kalb.

RAYONIA BABEL is the new head of public services at Aurora University, Illinois.

MILDRED BADER has been appointed head of the Original Cataloging Section at the University of Washington, Seattle.

DAVIDA. BALDWIN has been appointed associate director for public services at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

PHILIP BANTIN has been named university archivist for the University of California, Los Angeles.

KERRY S. BARTELS has been appointed university archivist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

SAUNDRA BENJAMIN has been appointed part- time temporary visiting instructor at Southern Illinois University’s Education and Psychology Library, Carbondale.

ROBERT BERK is now medical librarian at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield.

DAWN BICK has been appointed collection development and information services librarian in the Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile.

SANDRA BLACKABY has been named director of the Walla Walla Community College Library, Washington.

KAREN BLANK has been appointed head loan librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

KATHLEEN E. BLEDSOE is now assistant reference librarian for special collections at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

JUDITH M. BLOOMGARDEN has been appointed original cataloger in the Special Collections Division at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

MARY BOCCACCIO has been appointed manuscript curator at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

DARYL A. BOONE is a new cataloger at Harvard College Library.

BEVERLY BOWER is now learning resources coordinator at Pensacola Junior College, Florida.

VICKIE BOZARTH has been appointed government documents librarian at Emporia State University, Kansas.

H.E. BROADBENT has been named executive director of the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center, Pennsylvania.

ANNA BRYAN has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

MARY M. BUSH has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles.

GREG BYERLY has been appointed head of systems and acting director of computer-assisted instruction at Kent State University, Ohio.

SUSAN CAMPBELL has been named head librarian at York College, Pennyslvania.

BEVERLY CARLTON is the new reference librarian at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Library, Nashville.

LILLIAM CASTILLO-SPEED has been appointed head of the Chicano Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley.

JoCATES has been appointed librarian of the Poynter Institute of Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida.

SYVIA CHEUNG has been appointed serials recon project supervisor at Columbia University, New York.

JUNE CHRESSANTHIS has been appointed head cataloger at Texas Tech University Law Library, Lubbock.

STEPHANIE R. CIMINO is now cataloger and research assistant at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

JUSTINE CLANCY is the new head of the Architecture and Design Library at Arizona State University, Tempe.

BARTON M. CLARK has been appointed director of departmental library services at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

EVELYN G. CLEMENT has been named director of the Center for Instructional Services at Memphis State University, Tennessee.

JOEL CLEMMER has been named library director at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

TIMOTHY L. COGGINS has been named associate librarian at the University of North Carolina Law Library, Chapel Hill.

JAMIE WRIGHT CONIGLIO has been appointed associate librarian for public services at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

GREGORY A. CRAWFORD has been appointed reference and public services librarian at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

VERONICA CUNNINGHAM has been named director of microfilm services at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts.

JULIE CZISNY has been appointed head of the Reserve Room at Villanova University, Pennsylvania.

NINA DAVIS-MILLIS is the new music librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

DANA DINWIDDIE has been appointed head of the Acquisitions Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

ROBERT J. DUDEK has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of Central Arkansas, Conway.

ELIZABETH E. EGGLESTON has been appointed cataloger in the Countway Medical Library, Harvard University.

REBECCA J. ELSEA is the new reference librarian for microforms and maps at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

LYNDA ERICKSON has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

HAL ESPO, former deputy executive director at ACRL, is now educational programs assistant at Mead Data Central, Dayton, Ohio.

G. EDWARD EVANS has been appointed librarian of Harvard’s Tozzer Library.

ROBERTA FAGIN is now assistant humanities librarian for technical processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

LINDA FARYNK has been appointed associate dean for management and public services at Old Dominion University Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

CAROLYN B. FIELDS has been appointed reference librarian at San Diego State University, California.

JANET E. FLETCHER has been appointed cataloger in the Union Catalog Services Office, Harvard University.

KENNETH E. FLOWER has been appointed director for administrative services at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

PAT FLOWERS is the new head of reference services at the University of California, Riverside.

JOSEPH M. FLOYD is now catalog librarian at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

TINA FROLUND has been appointed reference librarian at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, University of Washington, Seattle.

RICHARD C. FYFFE has been appointed senior cataloger for the American Children’s Books cataloging project at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.

MALCOLM GETZ, library director at Vanderbilt University, has taken on additional duties as associate provost.

ALEX GILDZEN has been appointed curator of special collections at Kent State University, Ohio.

KIMBERLY GINTHER has been appointed information and reference library instruction coordinator at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

LORI A. GOETSCH has been appointed information and reference librarian at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

BARBARA C. GREEVER has assumed duties as assistant cataloger at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

KAREN GRIFFITH is now personnel librarian at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

SELMA GRAHAM has been appointed assistant librarian in the University of California, Berkeley, Public Health Library.

MARY FRANCES GROSCH is the new assistant business and economics librarian at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

STEPHEN HAAS has been appointed business librarian at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

CLIFFORD H. HAKA has been appointed head of information and reference at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

ELIZABETH-ANN HANKEL has been appointed media services/periodicals librarian at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

ELISA HANSEN has been appointed technical services coordinator at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

V. SUE HATFIELD is now head of the Periodicals Department at Emporia State University, Kansas.

PENNY ANN HAZELTON has been named law librarian at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle.

BRIAN L. HELGE has been appointed head of cataloging at the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago.

SUSAN J. HERON is now head of cataloging at San Diego State University, California.

PATRICIA HERRON has joined the University of Maryland, College Park, library staff as reference librarian.

CHRISTINE HOFFMAN has been named director of the Manhattan School of Music Library, New York.

MARGARET HOHENSTEIN has been appointed principal cataloger at Wichita State University, Kansas.

CHRISTOPHER HOOLIHAN has been appointed history of medicine librarian at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York.

JOHN B. HOWARD has been appointed project librarian in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.

FRANK G. HULSE JR. has been appointed general reference and interlibrary loan librarian at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.

CHARLES JAMISON has been named acting director of Ursinus College Library, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

JUDY JOHNSON has been promoted to chair of the Acquisitions Division at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

MERRILL JOHNSON is now director of George Fox College Library, Newberg, Oregon.

ANN JUNEAU has been appointed chief librarian of the Natural History Branch Library at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

JUDITH KAHL has been appointed bibliographer for the literatures of Western Europe and Latin America at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

HARRY KAMENS has been named budget and personnel officer at the Kent State University Libraries, Ohio.

DEAN H. KELLER has been named associate director for collections and public services at Kent State University, Ohio.

CHARLES KEMP has been named head librarian at Missouri Southern State College, Joplin.

AUBREY W. KENDRICK is now administrative sciences librarian at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.

JOHN KING has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

KAREN KINNEY has been appointed assistant university librarian for public services at San Diego State University, California.

MARY KIRCHER has been appointed catalog librarian at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

MARTHA KNOWLES has been appointed nonprint media services librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

LORETTA KOCH has been appointed assistant humanities librarian at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

DAVID LASOCKI is now music librarian for public services at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

SCOTT LISSNER has been named director of the University Learning Center, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

ABIGAIL LOOMIS has been reappointed to the position of general reference and information desk librarian at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

LINDA LOOMIS has been named head librarian at Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon.

RALPH MCCOY has been named interim director of the Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

LENORE MACK has been appointed original cata- loger for music at the University of Maryland, College Park.

ANNE MCKEARN is now head of technical services at Aurora University, Illinois.

MICHELE T. MCKNELLY has been appointed assistant documents librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

JANET MARTORANA is the new assistant librarian in the Government Publications Department, University of California, Santa Barbara.

LOUIS E. MARTIN has been named director of the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri.

D. DARREN MEAHL has been appointed head of document delivery at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

MERYL MIASEK is the new head of reference at the University of Oregon Library, Salem.

DENISE MONBARRON has been appointed reference librarian at the College of Wooster Library, Ohio.

CLAUDIA J. MORNER has been named librarian of the Bapst Library at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

WAYNE MULLIN has been appointed head of access services at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

LINDA S. MUROI has been appointed reference librarian at San Diego State University, California.

BRENDA NELSON has been appointed librarian of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, Bloomington.

AMY NICHOLS has been appointed information services librarian in the Biomedical Library of the University of South Alabama, Mobile.

JAMES T. NICHOLS has been named library director at Wilmington College, Ohio.

MARILYN NICHOLS has been named director of library services at Brandon University, Manitoba.

JON NOLAND has been appointed coordinator for circulation and interlibrary services in the Network Services Unit of Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

HUGH O’CONNOR has been appointed technical reports librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

GERALDINE OSTROVE has been named head of the Performing Arts Reading Room in the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

KATHY A. PARSONS has been appointed information services librarian at Iowa State University, Ames.

MICHAEL PATE has been appointed assistant director for public services at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

JULIA PEREZ has been appointed science librarian at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

MARTHA PERRY has been named reader services librarian at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

LORNA I. PETERSON has been appointed instructor in the Library Instruction Department, Iowa State University, Ames.

BRIAN PHILLIPS has been promoted to systems librarian at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

JAY MARTIN POOLE, former editor of Choice, has been appointed assistant university librarian for public services at the University of California, Riverside.

PAMELA RAND is a new cataloger at the Health Sciences Library, University of Maryland at Baltimore.

SHARI S. REGEN has been appointed special collections librarian in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

Whiteley appointed Reference Books Bulletin editor

Sandy Whiteley has been named editor for Reference Books Bulletin (RBB), published in Booklist, ALA’s review journal for public and school libraries, effective September 9.

Associate executive director of ACRL for the last four years, Whiteley previously served one year as assistant editor for ALA’s “Who’s Who in Library and Information Services,” five years as head of the Reference Department at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, four years as reference librarian at Yale University Library, and for two years taught social work and anthropology at Amerikan Kiz Koleji in Izmir, Turkey. She has also lectured on reference services in the social sciences and humanities at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.

Whiteley holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Pennsylvania State University, a master’s in library science from Columbia University and a master’s in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

In addition to managing ACRL’s publications program, Whiteley has published articles and reviews in the “ALA Yearbook,” College & Research Libraries News, Choice, Library Journal and Reference Services Review. She edited a column for Serials Review and compiled the 1981-82 and 1983-84 editions of “ACRL University Library Statistics.”

Reference Books Bulletin, which began publication in 1930 under the title Subscription Books Bulletin, has been published in ALA’s Booklist for the past 29 years. Whiteley replaces Helen K. Wright, who has accepted the ALA Publishing position of assistant director for new product planning.

DONNA RESETAR is now assistant law librarian for technical services at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

TIMOTHY F. RICHARDS has been named director of the Central/Science Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

SHARON RIENERTH has been appointed coordinator of the Monographic and AV Cataloging Unit, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

WILMA STRATTON RIFE has been named director of the Washburn University Library, Topeka, Kansas.

JULIE RINALDI has been appointed head of the Earth Sciences Library, University of California, Berkeley.

INEZ JAEGER RINGLAND has been named head librarian at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.

ELIZARETH ROBERTSON has been appointed government documents and maps librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

JANE ROBILLARD has been appointed cataloging librarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

RITA ROGERS has been appointed assistant head for circulation services at Indiana University, Bloomington.

TEDINE ROOS has been appointed science reference and collection development librarian at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

GORDON ROWLEY has been appointed associate director for research services at Northern Illinois Uniersity Libraries, DeKalb.

ELIZABETH SALZER has been named director of libraries at the University of Santa Clara, California.

JEAN M. SCHMIDT has been appointed Louisiana Room reference librarian at the Universitv of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.

JAMES SHAW has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

KAREN L. SINKULE is now head of the Microform and Media Sections at Iowa State University Library, Ames.

DUNCAN F. SMITH has been named coordinator of continuing education and staff development in North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Science, Durham.

MARTIN A. SMITH has been appointed head of collection development at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

LAURA M. SNYDER has been appointed music and reference librarian at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

JEANNE SOMERS is now assistant director for technical services at Kent State University, Ohio.

CECILIA STAFFORD is a new reference librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans.

ROBERT STALEY has been promoted to government documents and maps librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

THOMAS M. STEELE has been named director of the Law Library at Wake Forest School of Law Library, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

ALLAN J. STIFFLEAR has been appointed head of acquisitions at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

DIANA L. STROM has been appointed reference and collection development librarian at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

ANNA MARIE SYLVESTER is now a cataloger at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

NENITA VALINO is a new original cataloger at the University of Maryland, College Park.

MARLENE VIKOR has joined the staff of the Catalog Maintenance Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

ELOISE VONDRUSKA has been appointed authorities librarian and cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

JIM WALSH has been appointed head of the Geology Library at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.

JENNIFER D. WARE is now senior assistant librarian at the California State University, Sacramento.

BERNICE O. WEISS has been appointed cataloger in Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine.

JANET STOEGER WILKE has been appointed education librarian at Wichita State Universitv, Kan- sas.

PHILLIP M. WHITE is a new reference librarian at San Diego State University, California.

WILLIAM H. WIESE has been appointed general science librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

STEPHEN WRIGHT is now music librarian at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

CHRIS WUNDERLICH has been appointed cataloger in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library.

MARY LEE XANCO has been appointed collection development officer at the State University College at Buffalo, New York.

JUDITH E. YOUNG has been named assistant university librarian for public services at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee.

PHILIP HOWARD YOUNG has been named head librarian of the Krannert Memorial Library, Indiana Central University, Indianapolis.

VICTORIA L. YOUNG has been appointed head of reader services at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

LAURENE ZAPOROZHETZ has been named chair of information services at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

STEVEN ZINK has been appointed head of reference services at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Retirements

LE MOYNE ANDERSON, director of libraries at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, retired on June 30 after 28 years of service. Anderson served as president of ACRL in 1979-1980. He has also served as president of the Colorado Library Association (1972), the Bibliographic Center for Research, the U.S. Book Exchange (1979), and the Association of Resarch Libraries (1978), and was chair- man of the Board of Governors of the Re- search Libraries Group in 1981. In 1951 Ander- son accepted a position in the Public Service Division of the University of Illinois at Chicago and became head of reference in 1955. Two years later he was named director of libraries at Colorado State. A festschrift in his honor, “Research Libraries: The Past 25 Years, the Next 25 Years,” was sponsored by the Colorado State University and the Libraries Faculty Council on May 2.

Le Moyne Anderson

BETTY CARSON, serials/technical processing librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, retired in June.

OLIVE CAULKER, assistant director for technical services at Marquette University, Milwaukee, retired September 1 after 21 years of service.

AMERICO CHIARITO, assistant reference librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, retired June 30 after 20 years of service.

T.C.CHIN, social sciences bibliographer at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, retired on June 30.

LORNA DANIELLS, bibliographer in Harvard’s Baker Library, retired on July 1 and will continue to work on bibliographical projects on a part-time basis. Daniells had come to Baker as senior cata- loger in 1946.

EUGENE DEBENKO, head of the International Library at Michigan State University, retired on June 30 after 22 years of service.

MARTIN DICKSTEIN, catalog librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, is retiring September 13 after 26 years of service.

MAURICE D. LEACH JR., university librarian at Washington and Lee University for 17 years, retired on July 1. He continues as professor and has become an adjutant to the president of the university to organize a Friends of the Library development program.

JACK MARQUARDT, senior science reference librarian at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Branch Library, retired on March 30 after 28 years of service.

RICHARD PALCANIS, catalog librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, retired June 30 after 26 years of service.

ELEANOR R. PAYNE, collection development and reference librarian at the University of California, Davis, retired on June 30 after more than 20 years of service.

ANN SMITH, head of the Interlibrary Center of the D.H. Hill Library at North Carolina State Uni- versity, retired on June 30 after 15 years of service.

VIRGINIA THWEATT, cataloger at the State Uni- versity of New York at Buffalo, retired in June.

ALAN WOLSTENCROFT, serials cataloger at the University of California, Berkeley, retired on May 23.

Deaths

MARYL. BLAKELEY, head map librarian emeritus at the University of Arizona, died June 16. She had been with the library since 1952.

DORIS EILEEN LEWIS, former chief librarian at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, died on May 23. Except for two years as circulation librarian at the University of Toronto, Lewis had devoted her entire professional career to the University of Waterloo, and its precursor Waterloo College, first as lecturer in library science, 1949-1951, then as chief librarian, 1951-1969. In 1969 she became collections development librarian until her retirement in 1976. She held the position of president of the Canadian Association of University Libraries and was a founder of the Ontario Association of College and University Libraries.

Doris Lewis

ELINOR GREGORY METCALF, librarian of the Boston Athenaeum from 1933 to 1946 and widow of Keyes D. Metcalf of Harvard College, died on June 13.

AURREY SKINNER, chemistry librarian at the University of Texas at Austin, died on July 6. He had served as head of the UT Austin Mallet Chemistry Library for the last 34 years.

L. HILDEGARDE ZIEGLER, former head of the Catalogue Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died on May 26 after a long illness. She joined the MIT Libraries as a cataloger in 1921 after receiving the fifth year bachelor’s degree at Simmons College School of Library Science. She was appointed head of the department in 1926 and served in that position until 1964. Beginning in 1965 she worked part-time in the Dewey Library Industrial Relations Section until her retirement in 1969.