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Lt. Col. Benjamin C. Glidden, United States Air Force, has been appointed as direc- tor of the U.S. Air Force Academy Library System. He succeeds Lt. Col. Claude J. Johns, Jr., director of the library from 1968 to 1976. Col. Johns is now director of librar- ies at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.

Beniamin C. Glidden

Lt. Col. Glidden is a graduate of the U.S. Military Acad- emy (West Point). He was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation. From 1962 to 1966 he served as a navigator aboard C-130 aircraft in Panama, Spain, Okinawa, Thailand, and Vietnam. In 1966 he entered Harvard University in an Air-Force- sponsored educational program and departed in 1968 with a master’s degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was appointed assistant professor of political science at the Academy in 1968. In 1969 he became assistant director for technical services of the Academy library and continued to teach political science courses in the area of domestic politics. From 1971 to 1974 he studied at the University of Pittsburgh and completed a Ph.D. in public administration with a dissertation analyzing Air Force graduate education policy. He returned to the USAF Academy Library in 1974 as assistant director of technical services, where he served until his appointment as director in November 1976.

The USAF Academy Library lias holdings of more than 428,000 volume equivalents, carefully selected to support the academic curriculum which requires a broad education in both basic and engineering sciences and social sciences and humanities.

The library also maintains an archive for all Academy publications, as well as items of historical aeronautical interest. The library houses the Colonel Richard Gimbel Aeronautical Library, a distinguished research collection of 20,000 items recording man’s dreams and experiences of flying from the 1400s to the present. The library preserves and exhibits 5,000 prints on the subject of flying and falconry.

Lt. Col. Glidden has been awarded several Air Force awards and decorations and is a member of professional organizations including the Colorado Library Association, Special Library Association, and American Society of Public Administration.

John Aubry has accepted the position of director of the Michigan Library Consortium. He began his new responsibilities on March 15.

Since 1973 Mr. Aubry has been coordinator of library systems for the Five Associated University Libraries: Cornell, Rochester, SUNY/ Binghamton, SUNY/Buffalo, and Syracuse. During his association with these institutions, the FAUL consortium began implementation of on-line bibliographic cataloging services through the Ohio College Library Center, participated in the Conversion of Serials project through Cornell University, obtained access to the Northeast Academic Science Information Center, became a consortium member of the Center for Research Libraries, and shared in the founding of the Council for Computerized Library Networks. In addition to providing leadership in these advances, Mr. Aubry prepared a document on the joint measurement of shelflists for the FAUL consortium, organized numerous seminars and workshops in support of network services, and facilitated the exchange of planning, staffing, and work-flow information among the five campuses.

Prior to his association with the FAUL consortium, Mr. Aubry served as assistant to the director of the Center for Research Libraries (1972-73). Earlier in his career, he served as chairman of the mathematics department (1962-68) and as a mathematics teacher (1960-62) in private schools in Indianapolis and Akron, respectively. Mr. Aubry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, where he received his MA in 1971. He had previously received an MS in mathematics (1967) and a BA in social studies and mathematics (1960) from the University of Notre Dame. He has written reviews for College and Research Libraries and the Library Quarterly. His publications include Guidelines for Evolving a Governance Structure for a Northern Regional Library System, University of California (1975), with Ruth J. Patrick. Mr. Aubry is a member of the American Library Association and the American Society for Information Science.

Mr. Aubry is married to Ruth J. Patrick who is well known in library circles for her work in both networking and continuing education. They have one child, Ryan, who is six months old.

PhilipC. Weihas been appointed to the position of college librarian at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Mr. Wei began his library career in 1968 as technical services librarian at Centre College of Kentucky. Two years later he moved to the College of Wooster Library, where he was assistant librarian for technical services. From 1973 to 1976 he was director of the library at Mary Baldwin College.

Mr. Wei received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Macalester College. He has associated his recent move to Minnesota as returning “home.” While working on a master’s degree in Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, he was employed as the area supervisor at the university’s Undergraduate Library. In 1968 he was awarded the MALS by the University of Michigan.

He sees the Carleton College Library as entering into a period of much excitement, with a potential of becoming a truly distinguished library. There are possibilities of physical expansion; experimentation with new developments in library services; and increasing cooperation with St. Olaf College’s Library, a near neighbor in Northfield, and other academic libraries in Minnesota.

He was assistant editor of Bell and Howell’s Black Culture Collection and served on OCLC’s advisory committees on cataloging, serials, and acquisitions subsystems while in Ohio. He was secretary of the executive council, Division of Research and Planning, Ohio Library Association, and Minnesota representative of the Asian American Library Caucus of ALA. He attended the 1974 Library Administrator Development Program and 1975 Ethnicity and Librarianship Institute.

Presently Mr. Wei holds membership in ALA (ACRL) and ASIS and the Minnesota Library Association.

APPOINTMENTS

Toni Lee Alello —assistant undergraduate services librarian—Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Wayne Bell —assistant dean of library services—Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

JuneE. Brown—head librarian—Alfred University, Alfred, New York.

Joan Caraher —cataloger, Capitol Campus —Pennsylvania State University, Middle- town.

Stephen Colston —librarian archivist, San Diego History Research Center—San Diego State University, California.

Rosemary Cooper —assistant reference librarian, Lincoln Park Campus Library—De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois.

Sam Dove —reference librarian-bibliographer —Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah.

KennethW. Hedman—assistant director of libraries—Western Illinois University, Macomb.

David Heisser —assistant reference librarian —State University of New York at Stony Brook.

C. David Hickey —assistant circulation services librarian—Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Paul Hinsenkamp —reference librarian-bibliographer—Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah.

EileenR. Holmer—librarian, Quad Cities Continuing Education Center, East Moline— Western Illinois University, Macomb.

Judith Kaufman —music librarian—State University of New York at Stony Brook.

RobertW. Klapthor—physical sciences librarian, University Libraries branch—Western Illinois University, Macomb.

Deanna Marcum —training program coordinator—Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Madelyn Massey —reference librarian, Capitol Campus—Pennsylvania State University, Middletown.

MargaretE. Michaud—cataloger, School of Education Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Constance Suk-Yin Ng —acquisitions librarian—University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Jean Clarridge Pelletiere —head of public services and assistant professor of libraries and learning resources—University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

Steve Pickett —library director—Dharma Realm University, Talmage, California.

AliceE. Roberts—cataloger—Daniel Payne College,Birmingham, Alabama.

NatalieW. Schatz—chief documents librarian, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lynn Siegelman —curatorial associate, Countway Library of Medicine—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Maxine Sitts —SPEC coordinator—Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.

Susan Weiss —head reference librarian— Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

NancyR. Whitman—assistant science librarian for the Department of Transportation —Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

AllieD. Wise—music librarian, University Libraries branch—Western Illinois University, Macomb.

Veronica Yuen —assistant reference librarian—State University of New York at Stony Brook.

RETIREMENTS

Irene Kanasi, senior assistant librarian in the catalog department, retired on April 1 after seventeen and one-half years of service at California State University, Long Beach.

NicholasG. Stevens,professor and director of library science, Kutztown State College, Pennsylvania, is retiring effective September 1.

RobertL. Talmadce,director of technical services, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, will retire August 31 after thirty-one years of library service.

DEATHS

Robert Eugene McGuire, library director at College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, died on February 18.

OscarA. Silverman,professor emeritus of English and director emeritus of libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo, died on March 25. Dr. Silverman was director of university libraries from 1960 to 1968. ■■