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The State University of New York at Buffalo in April chose SAKTIDAS ROY as director of its uni- versity libraries. Roy had held the title, on an interim basis, since the previous June. His new appointment follows a demonstration of effec- tive leadership, con- vincing to the univer- sity administration and to the library staff.

Saktidas Roy

Roy has not taken the conventional route to the top. He has zig- zagged between India and the U.S. and be- tween Harvard and other American univer- sities. He was recruited into librarianship in 1954 by the United States In- formation Library in Calcutta, where he also did his undergraduate work and earned a diploma in library science.

In 1960, ready for American experience, he obtained an “intern” position in Baker Library at the Harvard Business School and enrolled in an MLS program at Simmons College. He laid a firm basis for a future career at Simmons and at Baker Library, where he was soon promoted and aided in computerizing the processing of serials. In 1965 he was offered a position in India and re- turned there to serve as librarian of the American Studies Research Center in Hyderabad for a year and as chief librarian in the American Libraries Book Procurement Center in Delhi for another year.

Restlessly, he returned to this country as as- sistant acquisitions librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then again to Harvard as head of the Serials Records Division in the College Library. In 1972 he became head of the Preparations Division at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, and in 1973 assistant director for technical services at Buffalo. Recent years at Buffalo, as elsewhere, have been marked by multiple changes and dif- ficulties. Through these Roy has kept a steady course, worked harder than anyone else, sup- ported and earned the confidence of the staff, and emerged as a mature, skilled, and successful li- brarian, with many years of achievement ahead of him.—Laurence J. Kipp, Librarian, Baker Li- brary, Harvard Business School.

Hwa-Wei Lee has accepted the position as director of Ohio University Libraries in Athens, Ohio, effective August 1, 1978. In 1955, Lee received his B.A. from National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. In 1959, he earned an M.A. in education from the University of Pittsburgh and in 1961, an M.L.S. from Car- negie Mellon. He re- ceived his Ph.D. in the foundations of education and library science at the University of Pitts- burgh in 1964.

Hwa-Wei Lee

He has been the associate director of libraries at Colorado State in Fort Collins since 1975. Before that, he held administrative posts with the Asian Institute of Technology’s Library and Information Center while also serving as an associate faculty member of Chulalong Korn University in Bangkok.

Lee has been active in a variety of organizations, and his membership in ALA includes the ACRL and LAD divisions. His varied interests are evident in his publications, ranging from Af- ricana to automation and scholarly publishing in Southeast Asia.

Herbert F. Johnson has been named the new director of libraries at Emory University, ef- fective July 1, 1978. The director is responsible for operation of the Woodruff Library for Advanced Studies, the Candler Library, and the Guy Chemistry Li- brary, and a staff of twenty-seven profes- sional librarians. He is also responsible for coordinating library ac- tivities with several in- dependently operated professional school li- braries. Total collec- tions for the university number 1.4 million volumes, 625,000 microforms, 275,000 manuscripts, and more than 14,000 subscriptions. Emory is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and SOLINET.

Herbert F. Johnson

Johnson has been librarian of Oberlin College and professor of library science since 1971. In that position he has been responsible for the operation of the main library, three branch libraries, the audiovisual center, and the Oberlin Public Library.

During his tenure at Oberlin, Johnson was instrumental in the interior planning of the Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center, described by Interiors magazine as a “library alive and inviting” and by Keyes Metcalf as one of the most functional libraries of recent years. Two building projects were completed under his direction, the Learning Center and the Clarence Ward Art Library, and a third project, renovation of Oberlin Public Library space in Carnegie Library, was planned.

A hallmark of the Johnson administration has been an active staff development program, featuring series of visits by leaders from the library and information fields and an exchange of music librarians with the County Cornwall Library System. Johnson has been host administrator for six interns under the Mellon/ACRL management intern program in the past four years.

Oberlin was one of the first Ohio libraries to go on-line with OCLC and had the largest Dewey collection of OCLC participants until the decision to change to the LC classification system and divide the catalog was made, coincidental with moving to the new building.

Johnson long has been an advocate of interlibrary cooperation, which is reflected in Oberlin’s membership in INFO, one of Ohio’s multicounty cooperatives, in the Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System (CAMLS), and in Art Research Libraries of Ohio (ARLO). He has served as chairman, since its inception in October 1976, of the Ohio Multitype Inter-library Cooperation Committee (OMICC) of the State Library Board of Ohio. The fifteen-member committee has members representing several statewide multitype interlibrary cooperation programs that have been endorsed by each library association, the State Library Board, the Board of Regents, and the Ohio Department of Education. OMICC’s draft program was completed in March 1978 for distribution and comment in the state prior to completion of a final draft later this year. Johnson also has been serving as a member of the steering committee for the Ohio White House Conference on Libraries and Information.

In 1975 Johnson received a CLR fellowship to study work-group organization in Swedish industry. Based in Lund, Sweden, he visited many types of libraries in Scandinavia, conducting seminars at the Swedish Library School in Boras and at Stockholm University.

Following his return from Sweden, Oberlin launched the development of an automated circulation system based on one functioning at Bucknell University. That project, using OCLC archive tapes, bar code inputting technology, and a minicomputer tied to the college's Sigma 9 computer, will be ready for operation later this year.

Interested in useful measures of library effectiveness, Johnson encouraged the implementation of user frustration studies to measure the success of students and faculty in finding library materials and in pinpointing reasons for library failure. The studies, run since 1976, are beginning to build a longitudinal picture of library performance at Oberlin.

Prior to 1971, Johnson served as head librarian and associate professor at Hamline University, where he planned and supervised construction of the Bush Memorial Library. Long an advocate of user-oriented service, Johnson was the principal investigator at Hamline for three NSF grants to develop more responsive library service and a 3M grant to study the feasibility of using microfilm materials as a substitute for reserve collections.

He is an active member of the American Library Association and the American Society for Information Science. Johnson has served as chairman of the Minnesota and Northern Ohio chapters of ASIS. He is a member of the ACRL ad hoc Committee to Review the 1975 College Library Standards.

A person of wide-ranging interests, Johnson is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, has served as president and treasurer of his local church, and is a member of Rotary International. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, he received the B.A. in political science and Chinese in 1957 and the M.A. in library science in 1959 from the University of Minnesota and a certificate in Swedish from Kursverksamheten vid Lund Universitet in 1975. He has worked as a federal librarian in Washington, D.C., and at Columbia University Libraries. He has lectured at various library schools, presented papers, and published in vari- ous forums.

Donald W. KOEPP, university librarian at Arizona State University and former assistant university librarian for public services at Berkeley, has been named li- brarian for Princeton University.

Koepp, 49, brings to his new position at Princeton broad admin- istrative experience in university research li- braries, in addition to experience as a teacher of library studies. He has served as university librarian at Arizona State since 1973; prior to that, he was univer- sity librarian at California State University at Humboldt.

Donald W. Koepp

At Berkeley from 1958 to 1968, Koepp taught in the School of Librarianship and also worked as a library analyst in Berkeley’s Bureau of Public Administration. As assistant university librarian for public services (1965-68) at Berkeley, he had direct responsibility for all main library lending, general reference services, the reserve book room, the humanities graduate service, and several branch libraries, including mathematics, the sciences, and other disciplines.

“Mr. Koepp is an extraordinarily fine human being who has worked very successfully with faculty, library staff members, and students at Berkeley and most recently at Arizona,” said Princeton University Provost Neil L. Rudenstine in announcing the appointment.

“At Berkeley he held one of the major administrative posts in one of the nation’s largest research libraries. For his work at Arizona, he is widely regarded as having developed with great skill one of the country’s most rapidly expanding research libraries, with approximately 1.5 million volumes and a staff of about 150 persons. He has been particularly responsible for strengthening the library’s collection of research materials while also improving access and general services for the university’s 30,000 students. I feel extremely confident that Mr. Koepp has the combination of human qualities, the understanding of universities and their research mission, and the administrative abilities to serve Princeton admirably in the years to come.”

Koepp, who succeeds University Librarian Richard W. Boss, will assume his new post in early August.

His numerous professional associations include membership on the board of directors of the Center for Research Libraries. Under his leadership, Arizona State was chosen (with Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as one of three institutions in the country to participate in a major study funded by the Mellon Foundation concerning collection development in research libraries.

He was chosen for the Princeton post from among more than 100 applicants and nominees, according to Rudenstine. A fourteen-member search committee—composed of members of the faculty, library and research staffs, and the administration—consulted extensively with scholars and librarians throughout the country in its efforts to identify outstanding people for the position.

At Princeton, Koepp will be responsible for a library system of some 3 million volumes, more than 900,000 microforms, 280,000 maps, and a wide range of materials from papyri to computer tapes. With its central Harvey S. Firestone Library and eighteen specialized branches, the Princeton system constitutes one of the largest open-stack research libraries in the world.

Koepp is a 1951 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he also did graduate work in English literature and earned a master of library science degree (1956). He received his doctorate in library science from Berkeley in 1966. Koepp has written a number of papers on library problems.

In addition to his literary interests, Koepp is also an amateur horticulturist and in Arizona has enjoyed mountain climbing and hiking in the desert. He and his wife, Dale, have three children, ages eighteen, twelve, and ten. They live in Tempe, Arizona.

CLIFFORD Currie, librarian of the Ash mo- lean Library at the University of Oxford, one of the most important research libraries in Britain, has been appointed li- brarian of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary.

Clifford Currie

His appointment, ap- proved by the board of visitors, is effective September 1.

As librarian and sec- retary to the Commit- tee for the Ashmolean Library, Currie has been responsible for possibly the world’s largest and most comprehensive library in the disciplines of ancient history, archaeology, classical studies, and ancient Near Eastern studies, including the Griffith Library of Egyptology. A Center for Byzantine Studies is now being established in the new building of the library.

Bom in Canada and educated in England, Currie holds a B.A. degree from the University of London and graduate degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, including several in law. His degrees include LL.B., Cambridge, 1950; M.A. Cambridge, 1954; M.A., Oxford, 1973; and B.C.L., Oxford, 1974. In 1950-5l he studied legal history at Harvard.

A personal interest in architecture has led Currie to involvement in planning, interior redesign, and spatial rationalization in a number of libraries. He also has a strong general interest in the history of art and in parallel developments in the structure of society and jurisprudence and technology.

In 1946 Currie became assistant librarian at Wye College, the agricultural school of the University of London. He was assistant librarian at the University of Cambridge, 1951-53, and director of libraries for the Borough of Bromley, London, 1953-59.

In 1959 he became librarian with the rank of professor, directing the libraries at the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines, and the City and Guilds Engineering College, three constituent libraries of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, the largest teaching and research institution within the federated University of London. He was required in nearly ten years there to coordinate the college’s fourteen existing libraries, unify their catalogs, and introduce automated procedures.

Currie has served as London secretary, (1961— 65) of the University and Research Section of the British Library Association and has been a member of the London-based Committee for Librarians and the Book Trade since it was begun in 1966. He also has been secretary of the International Association of Technological University Libraries.

In 1968 Currie became executive director in Ottawa, Ontario, of the Canadian Library Association. He was concerned with matters of library policy and development generally and with the profession of librarianship in Canada. Currie joined the Ashmolean Library in 1972.

Scholar, author, lecturer, and consultant on many issues confronting libraries and librarians, Currie’s work has taken him to many countries around the world. In 1966 he spent a year studying bibliographical and organizational methods in libraries, with special attention to automation in Western European university libraries, mainly in Scandinavia, Holland, and West Germany.

During his years at the Imperial College, he served as a consultant for libraries in India, Israel, and West Africa. In 1971, he toured Australia and New Zealand research libraries.

Currie has authored a number of studies in library science. He was editor, 1962-67, of proceedings, papers, and reprints of the International Association of Technological University Libraries. He was editor of the Canadian Library Journal, 1968-71, and serves as microforms consultant to Newspaper Archive Developments, a nonprofit division of the London Times.

Currie is currently conducting a seminar on the classical tradition in early American building at Oxford University.

Jean Archibald, associate director of the Macalester College Library, has been appointed director of the library, effective September 1, 1978. Archibald suc- ceeds Daniel Gore who has been director since 1970. Her appointment comes following an ex- tensive national search.

Jean Archibald

Archibald graduated from Simmons College in 1939 with a B.S. in library science. She has been an assistant librar- ian and faculty member at the Northfield School for Girls, East North- field, Massachusetts; li- brarian and faculty member at the Mt. Hermon School for Boys, Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts; and cataloger at the li- brary of the St. Paul Insurance Companies.

She came to Macalester in 1961 as an assistant reference librarian. In 1967 she became reference librarian and from February 1969 to July 1970 was acting librarian. Currently she holds the position of associate director and reference librarian, which includes assisting the director in the policies and administration of the library and special supervision of the reference department and the interlibrary loan operation.

Since 1976 Archibald has also held the position of adjunct associate professor and will continue to teach a course on the methods of research in government documents. She is a member of the Minnesota Library Association and the Minnesota Historical Society and is a director and member of the orchestra of the St. Paul Civic Symphony Association.

APPOINTMENTS

KENNETH W. Berger—reference librarian and cataloger—DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, North Carolina.

JON Blake—assistant media librarian—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle.

Scott R. Bullard—assistant head, acquisitions—DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, North Carolina.

Wilma R. Cipolla—head of the serials department—State UNIVERSITY OF New York at Buffalo.

Carolyn C. Cox—serials cataloger—Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

CHARLES D’ANIELLO—subject librarian for history, Lockwood Library—STATE UNIVERSITY of New York at Buffalo.

Richard C. Davis—manuscript catalog editor—Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Kay Frances Denfeld—health sciences reference librarian—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle.

MARIE Devine—instructional services librarian—University of North Carolina at Asheville.

JOYCE L. Farris—monographic cataloger —Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Karen Gruber—editor, Union List of Serials—State University of New York at Buffalo.

William E. Hannaford, Jr.—acquisitions librarian—MiDDLEBURY COLLEGE, Vermont.

Arnold Hirshon—assistant head, cataloging—Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Nancy R. John—catalog librarian—University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

FRANCES Lau—reference librarian— Montana State University, Bozeman.

Anna Marie keck McKee—information specialist, Health Sciences Library—UNIVERSITY of Maryland, Baltimore.

Jean M. McVOY—interlibrary loan librarian, Health Sciences Library—UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, Baltimore.

Carolyn Edith Mann—catalog librarian—University of Washington, Seattle.

Susan E. Marleski—information specialist, Health Sciences Library—UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, Baltimore.

George Mattis—cataloger—Mississippi State University, Starkville.

LAURA J. Miracle—assistant reference librarian—University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

W. BEDE Mitchell—circulation librarian—Montana State University, Bozeman.

PAUL J. Rinaldi—reference librarian—BOSTON University, Massachusetts.

Karen S. Seibert—reference librarian —University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Marjorie B. Simon—information specialist, Health Sciences Library—UNIVERSITY OF Maryland, Baltimore.

Judith K. Sterling—assistant catalog librarian—University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

WESLEY M. TaOKA—information specialist, Health Sciences Library—UNIVERSITY OF Maryland, Baltimore.

RETIREMENTS

GENE McNutt Abel, associate director of libraries for public services, UNIVERSITY OF Tennessee, Knoxville, retired June 30 after thirty-three years of service.

Teresa Chambers, head, science and technology reference department, CALIFORNIA STATE University, Long Beach, has retired after nine years of service.

Virginia H. Ingram, catalog librarian at the John W. Brister Library, MEMPHIS STATE UNIVERSITY, Tennessee, retired June 30 after twelve years of service.

JOHN P. WAGGONER, JR., associate university librarian, retired from DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, North Carolina, on August 31, after thirty-two years of service.