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Beverly P. Lynch, university librarian at the University of Illinois, Chicago, since 1977, has been appointed dean of the University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, effective September 1. She will become the first woman ever to serve in this position.

Beverly P. Lynch

Lynch earned her bachelor’s degree in science from North Dakota State University in 1957, her MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1959, and her Ph.D. from the University of

Wisconsin at Madison in 1972. She has served as assistant in the Serials Department at U. of I. (1958-1959), assistant cataloger at Marquette University (1959-1963), assistant reference librarian at the Plymouth (England) Public Library (1959-1963), assistant head and head of the Serials Division at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library (1963-1968), and executive secretary of ACRL (1972-1976). She has taught in the library schools of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Texas, and the University of Chicago.

Lynch was named ACRL’s 1981 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, and in 1985-1986 served as president of the American Library Association. In 1987 the alumni association of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and In formation Science presented Lynch with its firs Distinguished Alumnus Award. Lynch has writtei extensively on the subject of library management and her articles have appeared in such publication as College & Research Libraries, Library Trends and Administrative Science Quarterly. She is th‹ editor of four books, including her most recent, Ac adernic Libraries in Transition (Neal Schuman 1989).

Christopher A. Bean, readers’ services librarian at Sweet Briar College since 1978, has been appointed director of Howe Library at Shenandoah

College and Conservatory, Winchester, Virginia, effective ne 15. Bean received his bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire (1973), his MLS from the University of Rhode Island (1976), a master’s in history from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1979), and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining Sweet Briar College, Bean held positions at the University of Rhode Island (1975-1976) and Virginia Tech (1977). He has been active in local and state library associations, and has contributed articles and book reviews to several library periodicals including Online and Library Software Review.

Christopher A. Bean

James Michalko, acting president of the Research Libraries Group, Stanford, California, for the past year, has been named president of that corporation. Under his leadership last year, RLG began two new cooperative programs to improve access to research information in particular subject areas and formed a new Strategic Technical Planning Committee of university and industry experts to help design the future computing and communications environment. Michalko joined RLG in 1980 and has served as its chief financial officer since the early 1980s; in 1985 he was named vice president for finance and administration. Before joining RLG, Michalko served as business administrator and assistant director for administration at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He holds MLS and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree in English literature and political science from Georgetown University.

James Michalko

Maxine Reneker, associate dean for public services at Arizona State University Libraries, Tempe, has been appointed director of instructional and research services at Stanford University, California, effective sometime in August. Reneker has worked in various management positions at the libraries of Columbia University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Chicago. She also received a Council on Library Resources Management Internship at Columbia. A magna cum laude graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota, Reneker received her MLS from the University of Chicago, where she was elected to Beta Phi Mu, the librarian’s honor fraternity, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in library services from Columbia.

Maxine Reneker

People in the news

Mary Beilby, collection development librarian at the State University of New York at Cortland, has been selected to receive the 1989 Friend of SUNYLA (State University of New York Librarians Association) Award, which was presented at the 21st Annual SUNYLA Conference on June 8. The award is presented annually to individuals or organizations making significant contributions to the furtherance of SUNYLA objectives. Beilby, a charter member of SUNYLA, has been a regular participant in chairing sessions and planning programs for annual conferences, served as treasurer from 1985-87, and has been a member of the Automation Committee since its inception.

Samuel Y. Fustukjian, library director at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, was recently elected president of the Tampa Bay chapter of the American University of Beirut’s Alumni Association for 1989-1991. Fustukjian attended AUB from 1967-1969 as a graduate student and spent 1983 at AUB as director of its medical, engineering and architecture, science and agriculture, farm, and Jaffet undergraduate libraries at the invitation of AUB president Malcolm Kerr. Months after Fustukjian left Beirut, Kerr was shot and killed; an associate, Peter Kilbourne, was kidnapped and killed; and Fustukjian’s tennis partner, Tom Sutherland, was kidnapped. The Tampa Bay chapter of the AUB Alumni Association has over 100 members, and the group plans to raise funds and consciousness about AUB and its role in bringing peace to the Middle East.

Lester Pourciau, director of libraries and associate vice president for academic affairsadministration at Memphis State University, was chosen 1989 Librarian of the Year by the Memphis Library Council. The award was presented during the celebration of National Library Week (April 9-15) and MLC’s 25th anniversary. He is the first recipient of this award, which will become an annual event.

T Michael Womack, archivist in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, has received a Mid- Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Finding Aids Award for his registers of two manuscript collections relating to German immigration in Texas in the 19th century. The award was presented at the Conference in May. The two collections are the Archive of the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas and the Friedrich Armand Strubberg Collection. In producing registers of the two collections, Womack retained and interpreted the complex arrangement imposed on the papers by German archivists, fitting this system into the Beinecke Library’s format for archival registers. Extensive cross-referencing was needed to show how the two collections relate to each other.

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.)

Prano Amjadi has been appointed cataloger in the Heafey Law Library at Santa Clara University, California.

Michael R. Angel has been appointed associate director of libraries at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Carol M. Antonie wicz has been appointed humanities/social sciences librarian at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Shirley K. Baker has been appointed dean of library services at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Sandra Beehler has been appointed catalog/ acquisitions librarian at Northeastern University Law Library, Boston.

Dana L. Beth has been appointed art and architecture librarian at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

C. Diane Bradley has been appointed social sciences reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

Rhea Bradley has been appointed business and administration collection management librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Mark E. Cain has been appointed circulation/reader services librarian at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Laura Lee Carter has been appointed assistant government publications librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Martin A. Cavanaugh has been appointed humanities/social sciences librarian at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Philip Croom has been appointed health sciences collection management librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Jim Cruse has been appointed assistant chief in access services at Stanford University Libraries, California.

Charles H. Davis has been appointed adjunct professor at the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington.

Shelley Dowling has been appointed librarian of the Supreme Court of the United States Library, Washington, D.C.

Tami Echavarria has been appointed reference/instruction librarian at the Undergraduate Library of the University of California, San Diego.

Grace Ekins has been appointed technical services librarian at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

J. Alison Finlay has been appointed serials librarian at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Jody Bales Foote has been appointed assistant librarian in the Undergraduate Library at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Melanie Gardner has been appointed special collection librarian and university archivist at Bowie State University, Maryland.

Barbara Granick has been appointed catalog librarian for the Catalog Management Unit at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Carl A. Hanson has been appointed social sciences librarian at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

Marlene Harman has been appointed reference librarian at the University of California Law Library, Berkeley.

Valerie L. Harper has been appointed reference librarian at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Carolyn Harris has been appointed assistant professor of library service at Columbia University, New York.

Elaine Harrison has been appointed government relations specialist in the User Services Division at the Library of Michigan, Lansing.

Andrea Millican Hirtle has been appointed head of Lodge Learning Laboratory at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Bill Hood has been appointed assistant director for public services at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.

Martha Tanner Hughes has been appointed head of records maintenance at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Yuki Ishimatsu has been appointed Japanese bibliographer and head of the Japanese Division at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dency B. Kahn has been appointed science/engineering librarian at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Latif Khayyat has been appointed Near East catalog librarian at the Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut.

Robin R. King has been appointed bibliographic analyst librarian in the University Library Office for Systems Planning and Research at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Merri Beth Lavagnino has been appointed assistant to the head in the Systems Office at the Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut.

Margaret Lippert has been appointed head of the Chemistry/Biology Library at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tatjana Lorkovic has been appointed curator of the Slavic and East European Collection at the Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut.

Patricia Lovett has been appointed biological sciences librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Kari Lucas has been appointed reference/instruction librarian in the Undergraduate Library of the University of California, San Diego.

Joyce A. Meldrem has been appointed reference librarian/social sciences bibliographer at Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville.

Nanette Moegerle has been appointed head of cataloging at the Ohio State University Law Library, Columbus.

Michael George Moosberger has been appointed reference archivist in the Archives and Special Collections Department at the University of Manitoba Library, Winnipeg.

Monica Ollendorff has been appointed reference librarian and social science bibliographer at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Martha Perry has been appointed collection development librarian at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Katherine Pittsley has been appointed reference librarian at the Library of Michigan, Lansing.

Katharine Poole has been appointed Rotch Visual Collections librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Linda K. Reida has been appointed librarian for special programs at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Timothy F. Richards has been appointed library director at the University of Michigan, Dearborn.

Richard S. Ross has been appointed coordinator of collection development at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

John Saylor has been appointed head of the Engineering Library at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Leinaala Seeger has been appointed law librarian at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

Russell Shank is the new assistant vice chancellor for library and information services planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Andrea Stamm has been appointed head of the Monographic Cataloging Section at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Susan Starr has been appointed head of the Government Documents and Maps Department at the University of California, San Diego.

Kathleen Vanden Heuvel has been appointed reference librarian at the University of California Law Library, Berkeley.

Richard Wendorf has been appointed librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dawn Williams has been promoted to senior Africana cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Jeanette Yackle has been promoted to head of reference for foreign and international law at the Harvard University Law Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JA'ACOV Ziso has been appointed cataloger of Hebrew and Jewish studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Retirements

Richard E. Chapin, director of the Michigan State University Libraries since 1959, will retire on July 1. Before joining the staff at MSU in 1955 as associate director, Chapin served as assistant director of the School of Library Science at the University of Oklahoma, circulation librarian at the University of Illinois, and reference librarian at Florida State University. A life member of ALA, Chapin has served on many committees and has been particularly active in those relating to copyright law. He has been active in many other national library organizations including the Association of Research Libraries (Board of Directors), the Center for Research Libraries (Board of Directors), the OCLC Users Council (President), and the Research Libraries Advisory Committee to OCLC. In addition, he has played a key role in fostering statewide library cooperation through his participation in the Michigan Library Association, serving as treasurer (1961-63) and president (1966-67), and as a founding member of the Michigan Library Consortium. Chapin has served as a library consultant not only in Michigan but also nationally and in Brazil and Vietnam. An active member of the campus and surrounding communities, Chapin received the University’s Distinguished Faculty Award in 1988.

Mary Sevilla, head of the Loan Division at Stanford University’s Graduate Library, California, retired in April after 32 years of service. Sevilla also served in Stanford’s former Western Civilization Library, in the Circulation Division of the old Main Library, and in the Meyer Library. Her support of opportunities for the disadvantaged was recognized by the Stanford Employment Experience Program, which she served as a member of the Advisory Board. She was one of the founders of Stanford’s Asian Staff Forum and was also active in the realization of affirmative action principles throughout University Libraries.

Deaths

Larry Earl Bone, retired director of libraries at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York, died of cancer in April. He had retired from Mercy at the end of January. During a 35-year career in libraries, Bone served as assistant head of the Gifts Section at the Library of Congress; deputy librarian at the American Library in Paris; assistant director of the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois; librarian at George Mason College; director of the Burrow Library at Rhodes College; and assistant director for public services at the Memphis and Shelby County Public Library. He was a visiting professor at ten graduate schools of library science, and was the recipient of a Council on Library Resources fellowship in 1974. He served as president of ALA’s Reference and Adult Services Division in 1978-79, and was the editor of three books and two issues of Library Trends.

Larry Earl Bone

During his directorship at Mercy College, Bone built the library system to its current holdings of more than 300,000 volumes, and planned and supervised a 5,200-square foot addition to the library at the College’s main campus in 1987. He oversaw the expansion of the College Library to six campuses. At the time of his retirement, the College dedicated the Larry Earl Bone Seminar Room and established a fund for the Larry Earl Bone Collection in American Literature, to which contributions are still being made.

P. Anne Jensen, former head librarian at American University, Washington, D.C., died in March at the age of 94.

Ardis Lodge, retired Reference Department head at the University of California at Los Angeles, died in February from injuries received in an automobile accident. In 1933, after graduating from the UC Berkeley Library School, Lodge went to the two-year-old UCLA campus where she worked with her colleagues to make the most of the Depression-starved reference collection. In 1949-50 she was chosen to spend a year as an exchange librarian working in the pre-eminent Columbia University Library Reference Department. In 1955 she conceived and edited New Reference Books at UCLA, a quarterly publication listing key additions to the collection which was in demand nationwide for many years as the only publication that regularly updated successive editions of Guide to Reference Books. In 1960 Lodge began her term as department head and retired from that position over twenty years ago.

Mae McKernan, cataloger in the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library for 22 years, died in April after a short illness. McKernan retired in 1987 after a distinguished career as special collections and monographs cataloger. She guided the Technical Services Department through three cataloging codes, OCLC, and Dataphase installations. She began the cataloging of the Afghanistan Collection and served as acting head of the Technical Services Department from 1974 to 1979. McKernan received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1962 and her MLS from the University of Denver in 1963.

Robert A. Miller, professor emeritus and retired director of Indiana University Libraries, died in March. During a 30-year career as director of libraries, Miller oversaw the building of the Lilly Library and the Main Library on the Bloomington campus, and coordinated the library system on each of the eight campuses. He retired in 1972 and continued teaching until 1973. Miller received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Iowa and Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He served as director of libraries at the University of Nebraska from 1936 to 1942.

Dorothy M. Schullian, the first curator of the Cornell University Library’s History and Science Collections, died in April after an extended illness. Schullian first went to Ithaca in 1927 when, after receiving her bachelor’s degree from Western Reserve University, she was considering Cornell for graduate study. Chicago was more persuasive, however, and Schullian subsequently received her Ph.D. in Latin from the University of Chicago in 1931. After three years as a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she taught ancient languages for five years at Albion College. In 1944 she returned to Cleveland and began an 18-year association with the National Library of Medicine, beginning as an assistant curator and eventually becoming chief of the History of Medicine Division. Schullian was lured to Ithaca in 1961 to work with the late Howard Adelmann. Over the next 11 years she guided Cornell’s second rare book department from the 4,500 volumes in the Adelmann Collection in 1961 to the 25,000 volumes it contained in 1972, when Schullian retired.

Working on her own time, Schullian edited for 33 years the “Notes and Events” section of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. She also published nearly a hundred books, articles, and reviews on the bibliographic, social, and cultural implications of the historical development of medicine and science.