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Sally Buchanan, assistant director for preservation services and conservation planning at the University of Pittsburgh, recently returned from South America where she served as consultant to the National Library of Venezuela. Buchanan had been working with the National Library to develop disaster preparedness guidelines and training for libraries and archives in Latin America. Sponsored by UNESCO and the International Federation of Library Associations, this effort will provides education and training tools, especially for developing countries, to preserve library collections. In April Buchanan will travel to Leningrad to assess the progress made in the disaster recovery work at the Academy of Sciences Library in Leningrad.

Irene Godden, associate director of libraries at Colorado State University, received the Colorado Librarian of the Year Award in recognition of theprimary role she played in re-establishing graduate library education in Colorado. Since the last class graduated from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management in 1985, there has been no access to graduate library education in Colorado. Through Godden’s leadership as chair and the efforts of those on the CLA Graduate Library School Committee, four years of planning culminated this September in Emporia State University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Management bringing graduate library education back to Colorado.

Irene Godden

Kenneth L. Ketner, Charles S. Peirce professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Studies in Pragmatism housed in the Texas Tech University Library, was chair of an international congress honoring the 150th anniversary of Peirce’s birth. The congress, co-sponsored by Texas Tech and Harvard University, was held on Harvard campus in early September. Four hundred and twenty-five participants from 26 countries attended and approximately 275 individuals presented papers. The congress, was funded by a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; matching funds eventually created a $50,000 grant for the project.

John David Marshall, professor, Todd Library, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, has received the 1989 Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Library and Information Studies at Florida State University. The award was presented prior to Marshall’s alumni lecture titled “Lizzie Borden and the Library Connection.” He is also the recipient of the 1989 Alumni Achievement Award from Bethel College in McKenzie, Tennessee.

Philip O’Brien, librarian of Whittier College, California, has been awarded the Besterman Medal by the Library Association (Great Britain) for his 1988 bibliography of T. E. Lawrence. The medal is awarded annually for an outstanding bibliography or guide to the literature first published in the United Kingdom during the preceding year. A presentation ceremony took place on September 26 at the Regency Suite of London Zoo, Regents Park, in London. O’Brien has been a T. E. Lawrence collector since 1962 and has written articles on Lawrence and on collecting Lawrence materials.

M. Ronald Simpson,head of the Technical Information Center (TIC) of the North Carolina State University Libraries, has been named one of the 1989 winners of NCSU’s Outstanding Extension Service Awards. The Extension Service Awards are given annually to encourage and recognize outstanding extension services by NCSU faculty and staff. Similar to the university’s Outstanding Teaching Awards, they honor superior performance in extending new information, practices or programs and encouraging or assisting in their adoption. A native of Fayetteville, Simpson is a dual graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a bachelor’s degree in German and an MLS. While at UNC-Chapel Hill, Simpson also studied classical Greek, French, and Latin. Before coming to NCSU, Simpson was special librarian for six years at the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station.

Marilyn Van Dyke, assistant librarian for the McCartney Library, Geneva College, Beaver Falls,

Pennsylvania, has been selected as Geneva College’s Scholar of the Year. Van Dyke, a member of Geneva’s faculty since 1955, was instrumental in bringing Geneva’s library into the computer age through the use of an automated information retrieval system. She received her bachelor’s degree from Geneva College in 1954 and her MLS from Carnegie Library School in 1955.

Barbara Walker,curator, and Warren Walker,director of the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative at the Texas Tech University Library, have been elected as the first honorary members of the General Assembly of the Ataturk Culture Center, Ankara, Turkey. It is the highest civilian honor that is awarded by Turkey. The Walkers are the only members from outside Turkey. The honor is in recognition of their valuable contribution to the knowledge of Turkish culture in general and Turkish folktales in particular.

Profiles

Charles D. Churchwell, professor of library science at Wayne State University, has been named dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, effective January 1. He will also serve at Clark Atlanta (formed recently by a merger of Clark College and Atlanta University) as assistant dean for undergraduate studies.

Churchwell has been a Wayne State faculty member since 1987. His previous appointments include: dean of library services at Washington University (1978-1986); university librarian at Brown University (1974-1978); associate provost for academic services at Miami University (1972-1974); director oſlibraries at Miami University (1969-1972); assistant director of libraries at the University of Houston (1967-1969); assistant librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1964-1967); reference librarian at the New York Public Library (1959-1961); and library science instructor at Prairie View A&M College (1953-1958).

Doris J. Hulbert has been named director of the Walter Clinton Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She had served as acting director since January 1989, as associate director from 1984 to 1988, and as head circulation from 1980 to 1984. Hulbert earlier served as head of circulation at the University of Delaware, and as head reference librarian in the Graduate School of Business Library at Indiana University.

Hulbert received a master’s degree in English from Montclair State College and an MLS from Indiana University. She has also been a Fellow of the Elizabethan Institute at the University of Vermont.

Joanne R. Euster

Joanne R. Euster, director of Rutgers University Libraries since 1986 and president of ACRL in 1987-88, has been named vice president for information services at

Rutgers, effective in November. She will be responsible for the university’s computing services and telecommunications and will continue to direct the university’s 18 libraries.

Rutgers President Edward J. Bloustein commented that the appointment addresses a growing need for coordinating the complex interrelationships between print information, electronic data resources, and telecommunications.

Euster received a bachelor’s degree from Portland State College, Oregon, in 1965 and went on to earn an MLS from the University of Washington in 1968 and an MBA from the same institution in 1977, She received a doctorate from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 1986.

Euster served as assistant librarian at Edmonds Community College, Washington, from 1968 to 1973, later becoming head librarian (1973-1977). She was named university librarian at Loyola University, New Orleans, in 1977 and remained there until 1980, when she assumed the position of library director at San Francisco State University.

Michael Terry has been named director of the Asher Library at Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago. The English-born Terry has served as head of bibliographical services and curator of rare books, manuscripts and archives at the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia since 1986. Previously he held positions at the Mocatta Library, the University of London; the Jewish Chronicle, in London; the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research, in Jerusalem; the Anglo-Jewish Archives, at the Jewish Historical Society of England; and the Valmadonna Trust Library, in London.

A graduate of the University of London with a bachelor’s degree in Hebrew, Terry is currently engaged in research on medieval Jewish thought. He spent two years studying philosophy and religion at the University of Oxford and completed coursework in librarianship at the Hebrew University.

Terry obtained his Jewish education at the Gateshead Talmudical College in the north of England and Yeshivat Bet Hakerem, Jerusalem. He earned a diploma in library and information studies at the Polytechnic of North London, serving his library internship at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

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.)

David Barrer has been appointed documents reference librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Mary Ivy Bayard is now head of the Administrative Services Department at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Marion Blauvelt has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Potsdam College of the State University of New York.

Rorert Bolin is the new reference librarian at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

Andrew R. Bonamici has been appointed assistant university librarian for administrative services at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Elinor Folger Vaughan Bridges has been named director of library services at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Terrill Brooks has been appointed division head of library services at Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan.

Lee Ann Bryant is now reference librarian in the Curriculum Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

RoBerta CaBulong has been appointed reference librarian in the Government Documents and Maps Department, University of California, San Diego.

Susan Carpenter has been appointed reference librarian at Temple University, Philadelphia.

DeBorah Carver has been named assistant university librarian for public services at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Candice Case has been appointed serials librarian at the Harrisburg Area Community College, Pennsylvania.

Beatrice S. Citron has been appointed head of public services at St. Thomas University Law Library, Miami, Florida.

Camille Clark has been named technical librarian for a grant-funded project on transportation research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Kathryn Cleland has been appointed social sciences librarian at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.

Lelah Conrad has been appointed assistant law librarian for technical services at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Donna Capelle Cook has joined the reference/ cataloging departments at Potsdam College of the State University of New York.

Elaine Coppola has is now social sciences/ reference bibliographer at Syracuse University, New York.

Linda Cotilla has been named head of the Suburban Campus Libraries at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Carol Currerley has been named director of technical services at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Belinda S. Daniels has been appointed reference librarian at Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, North Carolina.

Susanna Davidsen has been appointed reference librarian at the Library of Michigan, Lansing.

Karen Diller has been appointed reference librarian at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.

Sharon Domier has been appointed Japanese catalog librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Joanna Dyla is the new Slavic cataloger at the University of California, Berkeley.

Robert Felsing has been appointed Orientalia bibliographer at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

James Fox is now rare books/special collections librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Margaret Giles Fallis has been appointed project coordinator in the College of Information Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia.

Leonore Glanz is now evening reference librarian at DePaul University Law Library, Chicago.

Andrea Goldstein is now librarian at the Tyler School of Art Library, Temple University, Philadelphia.

Patrick J. Grace has been appointed as head of special reference services and government documents librarian at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Peter S. Graham has been named associate vice president for information services at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Helen Guice Groves has been appointed public services librarian at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa.

Margaret Hendley has been coordinator of user education at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Rodney N. Henshaw has been appointed director of public services at Emory University, Atlanta.

Nancy Herrington has been appointed science librarian in the Science and Technology Library, Syracuse University, New York.

Virginia Higgins has been appointed interim systems librarian/cataloger at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.

Kate S. Herzog has been named director of the Science and Engineering Library at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

Maria Jankowska has been appointed catalog librarian at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

Andrew Kadel has been appointed reference and libraiy instruction librarian at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Jan H. Kemp has been named head of acquisitions at Texas Tech University Library, Lubbock.

Cheryl Kern-Simirenko has been appointed assistant university librarian for collection development and resource services at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Ann Klavano has been promoted to assistant head of public services at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Lee Alan Krieger has been appointed technical services librarian at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

Suzanne C. Latour has been appointed assistant documents librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Lynda Leach is now assistant undergraduate librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Susan Lewis is the new reference librarian at the Yale Law Library.

Kirsten Lietz is now librarian for public services at the Library of Michigan, Lansing.

Victor Liu is now assistant administrator for technical services at the Library of Michigan, Lansing.

William E. McElhaney has been appointed White Plains Branch Campus librarian at Mercy College, White Plains, New York.

Connie Machado has been appointed public services librarian at the Mississippi College of Law Library, Jackson.

Carole Runnion McIver has been appointed administrative services librarian at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Daniel K. Marmion is now library systems administrator at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Thurston D. Miller has been appointed reference librarian and engineering/physical sciences bibliographer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

William S. Mulherin is now senior reference librarian at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

Gerald J. Munoff has been appointed deputy director of the University of Chicago Library.

Sharon Murphy has been appointed assistant librarian in the Health Sciences Library, State University of New York, Buffalo.

Dennis Norlin is the new media/microcomputer coordinator at the Undergraduate Library, University of Illinois, Urbana.

Joanne O’Neill has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Gretchen E. Pearson has been appointed public services librarian at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York.

Diane Perushek has been named associate dean for collection development and management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Mary Jane Petrowski has been appointed assistant undergraduate librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

David Proctor has been appointed information access librarian for maps and documents at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Diane Prorak is now science reference librarian at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

J. Drew Racinehas been appointed deputy assistant to the director of General Libraries at the University of Texas, Austin.

Katherine Rankin is the new special formats cataloger at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Jeri Resto has been appointed reference librarian in the Undergraduate Library at the University of California, San Diego.

Daniel J. Rettrerg has been appointed rare materials catalog librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Lisa Romero is now assistant undergraduate librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Tim Ross has been appointed map librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Linda Rossi has been appointed public services librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Ruth Rutledge has been appointed access services librarian at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Kenneth Schott is now head of government documents at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Beverley Scott has been named head of the Social Work Library at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Jean Sexton has been promoted to coordinator of technical services at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

John Shields has been appointed serials/reference librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Lynne Simpson has been selected as Emory University Library’s first minority librarian intern.

Cory Skurdal is the new reference librarian at the Ohio State University Law Library, Columbus.

James P. Smith has been appointed coordinator of nonprint media services at the Adelphi University Libraries, Garden City, New York.

Sharon Snow has been promoted to curator of rare books and manuscripts at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Mary Beth Souza has been appointed reference librarian at Emory University, Atlanta.

Mary L. Steinrerg has been appointed special collections/rare books cataloger at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Nina Stephenson has been appointed reference/instruction librarian at the College Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Patrick Stevens has been appointed special collections cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Gary Strawn is now authorities librarian/cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston.

Suzanne S. Striedieck has been appointed assistant director for technical services and collection management at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Duane Strojny has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Miami Law Library, Coral Gables, Florida.

Ann Swartzell is the new head of the Preservation Replacement and Library Photographic Service at the University of California, Berkeley.

Betsy Taras is now head of the Engineering and Science Libraries, Temple University, Philadelphia.

Bridgette Michelle Tapley has been appointed periodical services librarian at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Cynthia Teague has been appointed assistant documents and maps librarian at the University of Vermont, Burlington.

Suzanne Thorpe has been named assistant director for public services at the University of Minnesota Law Library, Minneapolis.

Barbara Van Deventer has been appointed assistant director for collection development and for humanities and social sciences at the University of Chicago.

Ann Vidor has been appointed head of cataloging at Emory University, Atlanta.

Barbara A. Walchle has been appointed cataloger at Emporia State University, Kansas.

Mark R. Watson is now head of the Catalog Department at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Kathy Webster has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa.

Julia Wentz is the new reference librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library, Minneapolis.

Leonette Williams has been appointed assistant director for technical services at the University of Southern California Law Library, Los Angeles.

Thomas A. Woxland has been named director of the Law Library at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Anthony G. Yankus has been named director of the Public Library Development Division of the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond.

Choong Nam Yoon has been appointed assistant librarian for the Korean collections at Harvard University.

Robert Young has been appointed special collections cataloger and bibliographer at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Retirements

Rein Rrongers, head of the Science Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, retired September 30.

Dorothy Rice Cooney, gifts and development librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, retired on December 1. She had been at UNR since 1971 and held other positions as serials cataloger, serials librarian, technical services librarian, and administrative services librarian.

Hong-Chan Li, social work reference librarian and acting director of the Harleigh B. Trecker Library, West Hartford Campus, University of Connecticut, retired September 1 after 21 years of service. Li is a board member of the Chinese- American Librarians Association and is the founder and former president of the Association’s Northeast Chapter. His bibliography on social work education was published by Scarecrow Press in 1978 and supplemented in 1989.

Paul H. Spence

Paul H. Spence, professor emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, retired on August 31 after 19 years of service. He had served as director of Alabama’s

Mervyn H. Sterne Library from 1970 to 1985, and as collection development librarian since then.

Spence began his professional library career as assistant reference librarian in charge of periodicals at Emory University, the school where he earned his MLS degree. From there he moved to the Air University Library as chief periodical reference librarian and then to the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where he became library director. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

In September he was honored by the Sterne Library staff with a surprise retirement breakfast at which he was presented with a Folio Society limited edition of Frank O’Hara’s Poems for the Library.

Deaths

Roy P. Basler, retired chief of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, died on October 25 in Sarasota, Florida. He had retired in 1974 following a career of more than 22 years at LC, the last six years as chief of the Manuscript Division and incumbent of the Chair of American History. He had also served as chief of the General Reference and Bibliography Division (1952-1958) and as associate director and director of the Reference Department (1958-1968). He earned his Ph.D. degree at Duke University in 1931, and was the editor of the 8-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln for the Abraham Lincoln Association in 1953.

Robert E. Blackman, senior cataloger in the Audiovisual Section of the Copyright Cataloging Division of the Library of Congress, died on August 6. He had retired from the library in July and returned to his native Boston. Blackman joined LC in 1973 as a member of the Deposit Copies Storage Unit in the Copyright Office. In 1976 he transferred to the position of cataloger in the former Music Section.

Roman Legedza, on the staff of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries for the past two years, died at his home in Lincoln on November 1. He had also held positions at Wichita State University and the New York Historical Society.

Martha E. Manning, retired head of the Information Services Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo Health Sciences Library, died October 7 in Buffalo after a long illness. A recognized expert in computerized literature retrieval, she was instrumental in developing the university’s computer access to biomedical information. She was also an adjunct professor in the UB School of Pharmacy.

Walter Sheldon Musgrove, reference and circulation librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina, from 1966 to 1989, died June 18.

Margaret R. Sheviak, associate professor emeritus of the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, died November 11 in Bloomington. She had been a faculty member at Indiana University from 1959 until the time of her retirement in 1980. She received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University.