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Brian Alley has been named university librarian and associate dean of instructional services at Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois, effective July 1. Alley has been assistant director of libraries at Miami University, Ohio, since 1969. Prior to that he was undergraduate librarian at Miami (1968-1969), reference librarian and then acting director at Elmira College (1966-1968), and assistant humanities librarian at Portland State University (1963-1965).

Brian Alley

A native of Maine,

Alley received his bachelor’s degree in art from Colby College and his MLS from Florida State University.

Throughout his career Alley has been active in professional organizations, participating in Library/USA at the New York World’s Fair in 1965, serving as chair of the College Center of the Finger Lakes Library Committee in New York, and as a member of several ALA committees. From 1972 to 1981 he edited and published the IULC Technical Services Newsletter, an Ohio quarterly newsletter with a national following. Alley is currently serving as an intern on the ACRL Publications Committee.

Alley is co-author of Practical Approval Plan Management (1979) and Keeping Track of What You Spend (1982). He has had articles published in Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, American School and University‚ Serials Review, and Technicalities. He is currently co-editor of Technicalities.

E. Dale Cluff has been appointed director of library services at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, effective September 1. Cluff leaves his position at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he has been director of library services since 1980.

E. Dale Cluff

Prior to his coming to Carbondale, Cluff held several positions at the University of Utah Libraries, including assistant director of libraries for information and instructional services (1976-1979) and head of the Library Media Services Department (1973-1976). He was also administrative editor of Utah’s Solid Rocket Structural Integrity Abstracts in 1968-1970 and head of the Solid Rocket Structural Integrity Information Center at the same institution in 1966-1967.

Cluff obtained his MLS at the University of Washington in 1968 and a Ph.D. in educational administration at the University of Utah in 1976. At Southern Illinois he has been active in the Illinois Serial Union List Project Advisory Board and the Illinois Library Computer System Organization Policy Council. He is currently serving as chair of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division’s International Relations Committee, and has been active in other RTSD committees.

Cluffs publications include a text on Microforms, published by Educational Technology Publications in 1979, and several articles in Library Resources and Technical Services.

At Texas Tech Cluff will be responsible for the administration and overall operation of library affairs, including library services, special collections, and learning resources service.

David A. Kearley has been appointed director of libraries at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, effective July 1. Kearley has been director of the Vanderbilt University Education Library since 1979. Prior to that he was director of the Peabody Division of the Joint University Libraries on the campus of George Peabody College, Nashville, from 1973 to 1979, and head of the Graduate Library of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in 1970-1973.

David A. Kearley

Kearley has obtained a master’s degree in history from the University of Alabama (1956), a master’s of divinity from the General Theological Seminary, New York (1958), and an MLS from Peabody College (1969). Since 1973 he has been assisting priest at an Episcopal church in Franklin, Tennessee.

He has been second vice-president and program chair of the Tennessee Library Association, and a member of the Libraries Committee of the Alabama Consortium for the Development of Higher Education.

Mary Dale Palsson has been named director of libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, effective July 1. She comes to Nevada from the University of Arizona where she has served as assistant librarian for public services since 1975. She also held the positions of documents reference librarian and head documents librarian at Arizona, and in 1966- 1969 she was documents reference librarian at the University of British Columbia.

Mary Dale Palsson

Palsson has an MLS from the University of Denver and a master’s in history from the University of Arizona. At Arizona she was active in the Arizona Newspaper Preservation Project and in promoting an Arizona Interlibrary Loan Center.

During her eleven-year stay at the University of Arizona she served on various committees to plan a new main library, establish a computerassisted reference service, and plan a media center.

APPOINTMENTS

Anne Anninger is the new librarian for special collections at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

Pegee Bassett joined the Northwestern University Law Library, Chicago, as documents librarian.

Terry Beckwith is now associate librarian at Washington and Lee University Law Library, Lexington, Virginia.

Paula Benson has been appointed reference librarian at the University of South Carolina Law Library, Columbia.

Judith Bilodeau has been appointed college librarian at the Bangor Community College, University of Maine at Orono.

Sharon Ray Blackburn is now assistant librarian at Texas Tech University School of Law Library, Lubbock.

Pia Christensen is now education reference librarian in the Social Sciences Division of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Evelyn Walker Cilvetti has been promoted to rare books librarian at the University of Rochester, New York.

Anne Clemens is the new public services librarian at Boston College Law School Library.

Lenore F. Coral has been appointed music librarian at Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, New York.

OlHa della Cava is the new librarian of the School of Library Service Library, Columbia University, New York.

Susan B. English was appointed law library director and assistant professor of law at the University of Richmond, Virginia.

Charling Chang Fagan has been appointed head of access services in the Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries New York.

Judith M. Foust has been promoted to the position of director of the Library Development Division of the State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.

Dorothy-Ellen Gross is the new director of North Park College Library, Chicago.

Patricia Harris has been appointed head of public services at Nova Law Library, Fort Lauderdale.

Madeline Hebert is now reference librarian at the University of Chicago Law Library.

Toby Heidtman is now head of conservation and binding at the University of Cincinnati Libraries.

Theresa Iverson has been appointed government publications reference librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Barbara M. Ivey has been appointed post librarian of the U.S. Army Library, Carl Schurz Kaserne, Bremerhaven, West Germany.

Frances F. Jacobson has been appointed reference/interlibrary loan librarian at the Savage Library, Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado.

Joseph A. Jezukewicz is the new assistant director for administrative services at Stanford University Libraries, California.

Linda Joe is now reference librarian at the Sedgewick Undergraduate Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Caroline M. Kent has been appointed reference librarian in the Cabot Science Library, Harvard University.

Lawrence E. Leonard has been named library director of the U.S. Transportation Department Library, Washington, D.C.

Marion Holena Levine has been appointed assistant librarian at the University of Connecticut Health Center Library, Farmington.

Leslie Ann Manning has been named associate dean for technical services and automation at Kansas State University Library, Manhattan.

Patricia Maughan is the new head of the Engineering Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Beth Mobley has been appointed assistant librarian for technical services at the University of Bridgeport Law School, Connecticut.

Nick Omelusik will assume the position of head of the Catalogue Products Division at the University of British Columbia on September 1.

Diane Nixon has been appointed serials librarian at the University of California Library, Santa Barbara.

James E. O’Donnell is the new reference/ bibliographer for the sciences at Trinity University, San Antonio.

Virginia H. Parr has assumed the position of head of reference/bibliographic services in the Central Library of the University of Cincinnati.

Charles Popovich has been appointed director of the Undergraduate Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

James Reardon-Anderson has been appointed East Asian librarian at Columbia University, effective January 1, 1983.

Grace B. Reed was named executive officer of the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress, effective March 22.

Phyllis Reeve is the new acquisitions/ prebindery librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Muriel Regan, formerly librarian for the Rockefeller Foundation, has joined the library services firm of Gossage Regan Associates, New York.

Dorothy Russell has been appointed associate director of PALINET, Philadelphia.

Ann C. Schaffner has been appointed coordinator of the Boston Library Consortium.

Lauri Sebo has joined the Stanford University Government Documents Department as technical services coordinator and state and local document bibliographer.

Lei Seeger has been appointed associate librarian at the University of Puget Sound Law Library, Tacoma, Washington.

Janet Tracy is the new head of public services at Columbia University Law School Library.

Mary E. Van Winkle has been appointed assistant curator of archives and manuscripts at the Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard.

Kirsten Walsh has been appointed music reference librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Janet Weir has been appointed assistant librarian at the University of Wyoming Law Libraiy, Laramie.

Lenore Wilkas has been appointed acquisition/serials librarian at the University of South Carolina Law Library, Columbia.

Sue Rusk Williams is now interlibrary loan librarian at Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan.

RETIREMENTS

Miriam Sue Dudley, reference librarian at the College Library, University of California at Los Angeles, recently announced her retirement from that position which she has held since 1967. Dudley is well known to ACRL members as one of the founders of the Bibliographic Instruction Section and the inventor of the self-paced library skill workbook.

Miriam Sue Dudley

In 1970 when Dudley developed the first self-guided workbook for the UCLA Chicano Library Program, bibliographic instruction did not formally exist as a special field of librarianship. Her efforts in creating the workbook and actively and eagerly sharing her innovative ideas and convictions were an inspiration to others. She was primarily instrumental in gaining formal recognition of bibliographic instruction as a legitimate and vital concern for academic librarians.

Dudley was on the ALA/ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Steering Committee in 1977-78 that recommended the formation of the Bibliographic Instruction Section. She continued to serve ACRL as chair of the first BIS Preconference in Dallas in 1979, chair of the BIS Nominating Committee in 1981-82, and as a member of the BIS Clearinghouse Committee in 1980-81. She is also on the 1983 BIS Post-Conference Planning Committee as local arrangements chair. Since 1978 she has served on the board of consultants of the National Endowment for the Humanities .-Shelley Phipps.

Betty Jane Highfield, director of the North Park College Library, Chicago, since 1944, retired in May. She had been assistant librarian there since 1939.

Highfield was on the executive board of ACRL’s College Library Section in 1974-1976. A member of Beta Phi Mu (honorary library science fraternity), she has also been an active member of ALA s Reference and Adult Services Division, ALA Council (1960-1964), the American Theological Library Association, the Chicago Library

Club, the Illinois Library Association, and the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society.

Betty Jane Highfield

After growing up in Chicago and Evanston, Highfield graduated from Rockford College in 1937, earned her bachelor’s degree in libraiy science from the University of Illinois in 1939, and her MLS from Illinois in 1947.

Lawrence E. Wikander, college librarian at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, retired this summer after 14 years of service there. Williams guided the college library through a major development and expansion of its collection, the construction of Sawyer Library which opened in 1975.

After graduating from Williams in 1937, Wikander attended the Columbia University School of Library Service, earning a BSLS in 1939. He received a master’s degree with a concentration in medieval history in 1949 from the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II Wikander rose to the rank of captain in the Army and spent three years in Africa, Italy, and Austria in Military Intelligence. From 1946 to 1950 he was assistant librarian at Temple University, and from 1950 to 1968 he was librarian of the Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Lawrenee Wikander

Wikander recently received a grant from the Earhart Foundation to prepare and publish a descriptive catalog of the research materials on Calvin Coolidge housed in the Forbes Library. His previous monographs have included Calvin Coolidge: A Chronological Summary (1957) and Disposed to Learn: The First 75 Years of the Forbes Library (1972).

Since 1969 Wikander has been director of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation.

DEATHS

Stephen K. Bailey, former vice president of the American Council on Education, died in March at his home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Bailey was the main program speaker for ACRL at the 1977 Annual Conference in Detroit. At the time of his death, Bailey was Francis Keppel Professor of Educational Policy and Administration and director of programs in administration, planning, and social policy at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

Archibald MacLeish, poet, playwright, lawyer, journalist, government official, and Librarian of Congress from 1939 to 1944, died on April 20 in Boston. He had lived for many years in Conway, Massachusetts.

Bom May 7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois, Mac-Leish was a 1915 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University. He then entered Harvard Law School, but joined the U.S. Army in World War I and served with the field artillery in France. By the war’s end he had attained the rank of captain and he was awarded a French Legion of Honor decoration.

MacLeish graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, in 1919 and joined the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart in 1920. In 1923 he and his wife and their two children moved to Paris where, for the next 5 years, he read and wrote, publishing several collections of verse.

Following his return to the United States, MacLeish went to Mexico to follow the route of Cortez’ army in preparation for writing his narrative poem Conquistador, which won a Pulitzer Prize (1932). During the 1930s he continued his own writing while working for nine years for Fortune magazine.

Archibald MacLeish

MacLeish reluctantly accepted President Roosevelt’s invitation to become the ninth Librarian of Congress in 1939. He was fearful that the job would keep him from his writing, and it did, for he wrote only one poem during his tenure as librarian. Many years later he said, “President Roosevelt’s idea that you could run the Library of Congress while shaving turned out to be not quite true.”

Within nine months of his endorsement by the U.S. Senate, MacLeish had created a departmental organization that had been lacking previously. He was responsible for the creation of the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress and launched LC’s first official series of poetry readings. He was also the author of the library’s Canons of Selection, a set of lofty goals designed to give direction to the library’s growth. At the same time he was Librarian of Congress, MacLeish was also director of the U.S. Office of Facts and Figures in 1941-1942 and assistant director of the Office of War Information in 1942-1943.

After resigning as librarian in 1944, MacLeish went on to become assistant secretary of state for public and cultural affairs. There he participated in the drafting of the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco Conference of April, 1945. That year he also served as chair of the U.S. delegation to the London Conference which established UNESCO.

MacLeish returned to Harvard in 1949, teaching there as Boylston professor of rhetoric and poetry until 1962. Two more times he received the Pulitzer Prize, in 1953 for his Collected Poems 1917-52 and in 1959 for his play J.B., which also won a Tony award.

His association with LC did not end in 1944. He recorded his poetry for the library’s archives and presented readings in the Coolidge Auditorium, most recently in March, 1976. He returned to the library on October 2, 1979, to participate in a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of his assumption of the post of Librarian of Congress.

Edwin Calhoun Osburn, librarian and professor emeritus of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, died November 21, 1981, after 15 years of service.

Helen Sheehan, librarian of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., from 1934 to 1972, died on May 10. She had been associated with the college ever since her graduation in 1924, except for one interval during which she earned her MLS from Simmons College, served as librarian for two libraries in her native Manchester, New Hampshire, and entered the religious congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She served as president of the Catholic Libraiy Association in 1969-71 and was on the editorial board for

ACRL’s Choice magazine in 1966-69. She had many articles published in professional literature, including Library Trends, Learning Today, Maryland Libraries, and Catholic Library World.