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Berry G. Richards

Berry G. Richards,who joined the Lehigh University staff in 1969, has been promoted to director of libraries with the faculty rank of professor with ten- ure. She was associate librarian in charge of Lehigh’s Mart Science and Engineering Li- brary and an associate professor with tenure, and more recently she was acting director of libraries at the univer-

Announcement of the promotion was made by Dr. A. C. Zettlemoyer, provost and vice-president at the university.

Mrs. Richards joined the Lehigh University staff in 1969 as associate librarian in charge of the Mart Science and Engineering Library. She was promoted to the faculty rank of associate professor with tenure in 1972. Prior to joining the Lehigh staff, she was head librarian for Sprague Electric Co., North Adams, Massachu-

Mrs. Richards succeeds James D. Mack, who has been associated with the Lehigh library staff for 30 years, including the last 26 as director. In September 1976, he was appointed curator of rare books at Lehigh.

Lehigh has two major library facilities. In addition to the Mart Library, the university also has the Lindennan Library. Linderman was built in 1877 and expanded in 1929. Mart was constructed in 1969.

The university system has some 635,000 volumes, including an unusually fine rare book collection that has works dating back to medieval times, among them works by Shakespeare, Ptolemy, Euclid, Copernicus, Franklin, Audubon, Bach, Pliny, Spenser, Kepler, Cooper, Darwin, Whitman, and others.

A native of Newark, New Jersey, Mrs. Richards was graduated from Vassar College with the bachelor of arts degree and received her master of library science degree at the State University of New York at Albany. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in library science at Drexel University.

A specialist in the field of science librarian- ship, Mrs. Richards has served as a member of the Task Force on Alternative Education, consultant to the Center for the Study of Information and Education at Syracuse University, and on the advisory committee of the library technical assistant program of Northampton County Community College. She has taught a seminar on library organization.

Mrs. Richards is coeditor of Magazines for Libraries, R. R. Bowker, New York, and has also authored other articles in her area of specialization. She is a member of the American Library Association, Pennsylvania Library Association, American Society for Information Science, and American Association of University Professors. She served as secretary to the faculty at Lehigh from 1972 to 1974.

Hugh C. Atkinson

Hugh C. Atkinson,director of libraries at Ohio State University, joined the faculty at the University of Illinois September 1 as uni- versity librarian and professor of library administration.

He succeeded Professor Robert W. Oram, who had been acting university li- brarian at Urbana- Champaign since the death of Dr. Lucien W. White in March 1975.

Bom November 27, 1933, in Chicago, Mr. Atkinson attended St. Benedict’s College in 1951-53 and then enrolled at the University of Chicago where he earned a master’s degree in library science in 1959. In 1958 he received a certificate in archival administration from the U.S. National Archives.

From 1951 to 1956, Mr. Atkinson worked as a junior accountant for Lawrence Scudder and Co., CPA’s, in Chicago and in 1957-58 was an assistant in rare books at the University of Chicago Library. He worked as reader’s services librarian at Pennsylvania Military College in 1958-61 and then spent six years at State University of New York at Buffalo, heading the Reference Department and later serving as assistant director of libraries, technical services, and as acting assistant director of libraries for health sciences.

Mr. Atkinson went to Ohio State in 1967 and was assistant director of libraries, public services, until 1971, when he became director of libraries this year.

Active in a variety of library associations, Mr. Atkinson has been a member of the American Library Association, Ohio Library Association, New York Library Association, Pennsylvania Library Association, and Illinois Library Association and has been active in the American Association of University Professors, International Federation of Documentalists, American Society for Information Science, Association of Research Libraries, and University of Chicago Graduate Library School Alumni Association.

He has been interested in library automation and has played a key role in the development of automated systems at Ohio State. Mr Atkinson is a book collector specializing in Theodore Dreiser and has published a checklist of the works of Dreiser. He has spoken and written extensively on the future of academic libraries.

APPOINTMENTS

Linda G. Bills—serials librarian—University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Alice Bodtke-Roberts—reference librarian, Health Science Center— University of Texas, San Antonio.

Carol Ann Brice—undergraduate reference librarian—Northern Illinois University, De- Kalb.

J. Michael Carrigan—exhibits officer—Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

David H. Doerrer—associate director for technical processing—University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Bonnie Grizzard—reference librarian— Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

Wayne G. Hammond—assistant to the librarian, Chapin Library of Rare Books—-Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Linda L. Hansen—head of the cataloging department—University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Linnea M. Hendrickson—assistant librarian, Undergraduate Library—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Diane M. Iwashita—reference librarian— Wichita State University, Kansas.

David H. Morse—reference librarian— Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

Michael B. Pate—director of library and media services—Concord College, Athens, West Virginia.

Ann Kebabian Pfann—SOLINET coordinator—University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Gordon S. Rowley—music/art librarian— Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Tom Russell—chief, library division—National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.

Un Chol Shin—reference librarian—Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Philip C. Wei—college librarian—Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

James Bradford Young—music cataloger— Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. ■■