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On July 1, 1969 James F. Holly will officially become Dean of Library Services at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. His friends in St. Paul where he has been college librarian and associate professor at Macalester since 1959, will miss his continuous activity in developing library cooperation among the liberal arts colleges in the Twin Cities area. His enthusiastic participation will also be missed in the Minnesota Library Association and the Midwest Academic Librarians Conference. On his own campus his colleagues are already beginning to miss his tireless efforts to improve the library for the students and faculty as well as to promote the welfare of his staff. His last semester at Macalester is being devoted to a temporary assignment as interim coordinator of the Expanded Educational Opportunities program until a permanent director is selected. The student who is president of the Black Liberation Affairs Committee was reported in the Mac Weekly as saying that the group was unanimous in its approval of the assignment. They would like to see a “black” appointed as permanent director, but, regardless of color, they thought Jim was the best man available for the post, someone they all felt they could work with. The program involves the selection of seventy-five freshmen, “mostly non-middle class and non-white,” to be brought to the campus next fall. Jim’s now working such long crowded days and nights on EEO as well as flying to Iowa once a week to teach in the new library school at the State University that he says of this sketch, “It may be my obituary!”

Mr. Holly

It’s more than thirty years since I took Jim on as a student assistant in the Penn State Library where I was circulation librarian. He was a Junior transfer and stayed on the year after his graduation, working toward an MA in English. When we moved into a new building the next summer, he was my effective chief assistant in coordinating the work of the student crews with those of the Grounds and Buildings staff. That fall he went to Carnegie library school and the next year became a member of the circulation staff of the Carnegie library of Pittsburgh.

Then we lost him from the library world for fifteen years. After Officer’s Training School his army assignments included infantry and engineer troop and staff duties in the United States and France. In 1946 he came home a Major to the pretty librarian from the Du Bois public library, whom he’d married before he left Penn State, and their two year old son. He and Peg went to the ALA meeting in Buffalo that summer and she and I tried to persuade him to take the library position he was offered at Temple University in Philadelphia, in spite of the cut in salary. But he felt his family deserved a better break, so he went back to the Army. He took his family along to Germany where a second son was born in 1949. From 1950 to 1952 Jim was stationed in Carlisle (Pa.) Barracks and Fort Slocum, New York, and was managing editor of the Army Information Digest. The next year Peg and the boys stayed home while Jim went to Korea. On his return he served as historical and cartographic editor, Office of Military History, Department of the Army, in Washington, 1953-57.

The fall of 1957 I was delighted to have a letter saying he was anxious to get back to being a librarian. In almost the same mail came a letter from the University of Omaha asking for suggestions for an associate librarian. I’m proud to say I transferred the two messages and Jim was offered the position. Ellen Lord, the librarian at the University of Omaha, hated to lose him after only two years, but he couldn’t resist the lure of Macalester—after all, he’s a Presbyterian Elder!

During his ten years at Macalester the library’s collection has more than doubled, from about 85,000 to nearly 200,000 volumes, and the 425 journal subscriptions have increased to nearly 1500. The President, in accepting Jim’s resignation, said:

“You have made contributions to the college which go well beyond those involved in the performance of the usual responsibilities of a librarian. These last responsibilities you have carried out with a devotion and effectiveness which have made our Weyerhaeuser Library today one on which we can look with pride. At the same time you have made distinctive contributions to our teaching and educational programs as well as the social conscience of the community through your involvement and presence among our faculty and students.”

As an ardent advocate of the library-college idea Jim will now have a year to plan and organize a library for the first students who will go to Evergreen in the fall of 1971. He will be responsible for selecting personnel; planning information and distribution systems and facilities; acquiring written, audiovisual and other learning resources materials; and integrating library services with the total college academic program.

SOURCES IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, VOL. I

By Theodore Manheim, Gloria L. Dardarian, and Diane A. Satterthwaite

This handbook is intended as an introduction or orientation to the research literature in the various fields of education. It is available in both complete handbook form and in separate paperbound subject sections for students and entire class use. The guide does not represent all that is available, but rather cites those titles considered to be most useful to the graduate student or advanced undergraduate making his first acquaintance with education research.

The first section cites those tools with which every student engaged in educational research, regardless of subject area, should be familiar. Nine sections of the book are then devoted to particular areas of educational research: mathematics education, social studies education, library science, comparative education, science education, music education, instructional technology, language arts—reading, language arts—composition, grammar, handwriting, listening, literature, speech, spelling. Each section is available separately. Future sections, comprising Vol. II, will cover such areas as educational sociology, business education, administration, curriculum, history and philosophy of education.

Students will benefit most by using both the general section and the subject area sections for their research, and will save many valuable hours in the early stages of "searching the literature.'' Librarians, particularly in teacher-training institutions and library schools, and research personnel in school systems will find the complete volume helpful as a guide to available research literature.

Theodore Manheim is education librarian at Wayne State University Libraries. Gloria L. Dardarian is reference librarian. Education Library, Wayne State University. Diane A. Satterthwaite is a former librarian in the WSU Education Library. All three, with Robert E. Booth, compiled Culturally Disadvantaged: A Keyword-Out-of-Context Index (Wayne State, 1 966).

Individual sections, paperbound. $1.25 Entire volume, 320 pages, dothbound, $9.95

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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Detroit, Michigan 48202

We hope Jim won’t get too busy out in that far corner of the country to come to ALA and ACRL meetings back East—in his various assignments so far he’s made us want to put him to work still harder! It’s far too early for an obituary!—Katharine M. Stokes.

HaroldG. Morehouse, appointed in March as director of libraries at the University of Nevada, has served that institution with distinction since he arrived in Reno in the fall of 1961.

A native of Covina, California, Mr. Morehouse received his baccalaureate, with a major in history, from the University of California in 1955 and his MLS from the same institution the following year.

Mr. Morehouse

After graduation he was appointed to the California State Library staff, where he served three years, first in Cataloging, then in Reference. In 1959 he left the State Library for special librarianship in the Aerojet-General Corporation, where he was assistant librarian when he decided to move to the ultramontane.

At the University of Nevada he served as assistant social sciences librarian, assistant science librarian, and as assistant director in charge of public services until his recent promotion.

In addition to his administrative responsibilities he has taught several library courses in the School of Education, served in the University Council, as chairman of its Election Committee, and as chairman of the Faculty Welfare Committee. He is current President of the Nevada Library Association, and secretary of the ALA/RTSD/RLMS Telefacsimile Committee.

His interest in facsimile transmission, growing out of an early experiment with the Xerox- Magnavox Telecopier, supported by the Council on Library Resources, has been reflected in two substantial published reports and journal contributions.

His local reputation as a dauntless and deadly deer-hunter can be attributed, in no small degree, to the demands from his charming wife Gwen in providing for the young family ranch-hands Deborah, Marilyn, Edward, Douglas, and Johanna.

His national reputation as a member of the indefatigable handful of telefacsimile buffs (whose experience with transmission costs has ranged from marginal to disastrous) reflects the same kind of determined optimism required for building libraries in the splendid desert of Nevada and cataloging backlogs.

He brings to his new post a good understanding of library service in the life of the University; he has a warm sense of humor, and the wit and patience to retain it in trying circumstances.

With these qualities, a little money, and a little luck, the new director at Nevada will lead his library to the new levels of excellence which that fast-growing state demands.—David W. Heron, University of Kansas

GeorgeM. Jenks, a member of the staff of Bucknell’s Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library since September 1966, has been named University librarian. Announcement of the appointment was made by President Charles H. Watts.

Mr. Jenks came to Bucknell in 1966 as chief of technical services for the library and was appointed assistant librarian in May 1968. Bucknell has been without a University Librarian since August 1968 when William R. Eshelman left to become editor of the Wilson Library Bulletin.

Prior to coming to Bucknell Mr. Jenks served three years, including one as acting librarian, at the University of Tasmania Library in Australia, and three years in the library at San Fernando (Calif.) State College.

Recipient of bachelor of arts, master of arts and master of library science degrees from the University of Oklahoma, he also served as a library assistant at UCLA and Oklahoma and one year as librarian at the Queens (N.Y.) Borough Public Library.

A former president of the Tasmanian Branch of the Library Association of Australia, Mr. Jenks served two years as a graduate assistant at UCLA, and one year as instructor in foreign languages at New Mexico State University. He has also been a lecturer in library science at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and a lecturer in librarianship at Hobart Technical College in Hobart, Tasmania.

APPOINTMENTS

Dr. Dale L. Barkerhas joined the staff of the University of Miami as associate director of libraries.

Mrs. Fay M. Blakehas been appointed as an associate in academic and research libraries on the staff of the Bureau of Academic and Research Libraries, Division of Library Development, New York State Education Department, Albany, N.Y.

Linda Brickhas joined the staff of Temple University library as a professional assistant in the reference department.

Mrs. Velma Butterfieldhas been appointed assistant serials librarian and instructor in library science at Texas A&M University.

Christina Chanis now bindery librarian at Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Mo.

MarionK. Cobb has been appointed assistant to the dean for community and professional relations, school of library service, University of California, Los Angeles.

RobertL. Coli.ison has been appointed a professor of library service, school of library service, University of California, Los Angeles.

DorothyA. Craft is now documents librarian at Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Mo.

Terence Crowleyis now director of the library research center, school of library science, University of Illinois.

Donald D. Dennishas been appointed chief, reference services division, library operations, National Library of Medicine.

Lawrence Doylehas been appointed reference librarian, humanities, at the University of Arizona.

Mrs. Rita Estock has joined the staff of Texas A&M University as assistant research librarian. Mrs. Estok will be in charge of a project sponsored jointly by Texas A&M and the State Technical Service Institute to “revise and update a catalog of research facilities in Texas.”

G. Edward Evans has accepted appointment as an acting assistant professor, school of library service, University of California, Los Angeles.

Georgene Ellen Fawcettis now assistant catalog librarian of the Colorado State University libraries.

David Haleshas been appointed assistant to the director at Temple University library.

WilmaL. Hartman is now reference librarian at Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Mo.

Mrs. Edith Hempelhas been appointed head of the reference department of Temple University library.

Donald Leathermanhas been appointed librarian for education and library extension services at the University of Michigan.

Edward Liszewskihas been named assistant director for technical processes at Temple University library.

RuthA. Longhenry has been named director of the Army War College library, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.

Mary McEvoyhas been appointed professional assistant in the cataloging division of Temple University library.

June R. Moroniis a new assistant reference librarian at Pennsylvania State University.

Margo Chris Nikitashas been appointed college services librarian at Bank Street College of Education.

Cyril O. Packwoodhas been named acquisitions librarian, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, N.Y.

Josephine Pickardis now assistant serials records librarian at Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Mo.

Harris Richabdhas been appointed serials librarian at the University of Arizona.

Mrs. HelenaG. Rivoire has been appointed chief of technical services in the Bucknell University library.

Charles Andrew Ryskamphas been appointed director of the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Mrs. Jenny Shihhas joined the staff of the Temple University library as a professional assistant in the cataloging division.

Mrs. ElizabethF. Struble has been named assistant physical sciences librarian at Oklahoma State University.

Mrs. Shirley Tinghas been appointed as a cataloger at Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Mo.

Mrs. Shin-Fang Tsonghas been appointed a professional assistant in the cataloging division of the Temple University library.

FrederickP. Willerford has been named chief librarian, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, N.Y.

Jerry Ray Wilsonhas joined the staff of the Oklahoma State University library as assistant cataloger.

Mrs. Lois Wingis now assistant librarian, California Teachers Association Research Information Center, Burlingame, Calif.

Gaynell Zimmermanhas been appointed a professional assistant in the serial records department, Temple University library.

NECROLOGY

Dr. Fermin Peraza,research associate at the Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, died January 31.

RETIREMENTS

FrancisX. Dwyer, associate law librarian in the law library, retired February 28, 1969, after more than 27 years of service with the Library of Congress.

OstapE. Kotyk-Stepanovych, senior cataloger in the Slavic languages section, has retired after 12 years of service with the Library of Congress.

RichardS. Ladd, reference librarian, geography and map division, has retired after more than 44 years of service with the Library of Congress.

Mrs. Angela M. Lyona,controller on The New York Public Library, has retired after nearly 20 years of service with the library.