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Norma Louise Jones, professor of library science at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, has been named acting director of libraries and learning re- sources, Jones received a Ph.D. in library science from the University of Michigan and is currently earning a doctorate in information science from Nova University. She received her MLS from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin- Superior. An ALA member, she is also a member of the Special Libraries Association, the Society of American Archivists, and the Wisconsin Library Association, and four honor societies including Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Phi Mu. Jones also holds four certificates in archives management from the Na- tional Archives and Records Service. Previously a member of the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Michigan, she was given the Distinguished Teaching Award at Oshkosh in 1977. Jones is a former chair of the Department of Library Science.

Paula T. Kaufman, university librarian and acting vice president for information services at Columbia University, has been named dean of li- braries at the University of Tennessee, effective in August. She succeeds Donald Hunt, who will remain at the university until 1989.

Paula T. Kaufman

Kaufman went to Columbia from Yale Uni- versity in 1979 to head the business and eco- nomics library and has been director of the li- brary services group and academic information services group there. She was named university li- brarian and acting vice president at Columbia in August 1987 and is responsible for Columbia’s 27 libraries and its eight million volumes and micro- forms.

A graduate of Smith College, Kaufman earned an MLS degree from Columbia and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of New Haven.

Philip M. Turner, professor in the Graduate School of Library Service at the University of Alabama, has been named dean, effective August 16. He succeeds James Ramer, who has been dean since 1971. A member of the GSLS faculty since 1977, he has been both assistant and acting dean. Turner is a graduate of Boston State College and holds a master’s degree in audiovisual media from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and an MLS and doctorate in instructional technology from East Texas State University. He has been a public school teacher, a library media specialist, and is a co-founder of VideoGuide, an electronic information service.

Turner has been prolific as a writer and researcher, with more than 50 books and articles to date. He has been active in ALA’s American Association of School Librarians, as well in the Association for Educational Communications and Technology and state and local organizations. Turner travels widely as a speaker and is a recipient of the Alabama National Alumni Association’s Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award.

People in the news

Rowland C.W. Brown, OCLC president and chief executive officer, announced his intention to step down at the April 25 meeting of the Board of Trustees in Dublin, Ohio. A search committee to replace Brown, who has held office for the past seven and a half years, has been formed. Brown will remain until his successor is appointed.

Robert B. Downs, dean emeritus of library administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, and former director of its library and library school, has received the inaugural Award for Lifetime Achievement from Columbia University. The new award marks the centennial of Columbia’s School of Library Service. A 1929 graduate of the library program, Downs is widely known as a crusader for intellectual freedom, collection development and improved status for librarians. He has received dozens of awards, six honorary degrees, and the “Second Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure” from the Government of Japan. Books That Changed the World, Downs’ 1956 best-seller, was translated into 17 languages and was followed by three sequels. Now nearly 85, Downs recently published his 41st book, Scieìitific Engimas.

Michael Kouraklis, a Greek Orthodox monk from St. Catherine Monastery of Mount Sinai in Israel and the Very Reverend Christodoulos Con- stantanopoulos recently visited the Cotsidas- Tonna Library of Hellenic College, Brookline, Massachusetts. Kouraklis is presently working in the library to learn its procedures and cataloging methods, and will be one of two monks to enter the Graduate School of Library Science at Simmons College in the fall. Upon graduation they will return to St. Catherine to work on the preservation and cataloging of its valuable holdings. The monastery’s library is second only to the Vatican in its collection of rare religious manuscripts.

Herbert S. White, dean and professor at the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington, has been named distinguished alumnus of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. White is the first recipient of the new award. A 1950 graduate, he spent 25 years in administrative roles in the government and industrial information sectors, including posts as program manager of the IBM Corporate Technical Information Center, executive director of the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility, and senior vice president of the Institute for Scientific Information. He came to Indiana in 1975 as director of the Research Center for Library and Information Science and became dean in 1980. White is the author of five books and more than 100 articles, and has been active as a speaker and consultant. He has been president of both the Special Libraries Association and the American Society for Information Science, and has served on the boards of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies and of the International Federation for Documentation. White is a regular columnist for Library Journal and received ALA’s Melvil Dewey Award for distinguished service to the profession in 1987.

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.)

Kent Abbott has been appointed cataloger at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Robert L. Atkinson has been appointed science monograph catalog librarian at Auburn University, Alabama.

David Austin has been appointed architecture and art librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Emily Johnson Batista has been appointed head of circulation services at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Mieczyslaw Buczkowski has been appointed rare books cataloger in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, effective July 1.

Janice H. Burrows is the new director for library personnel at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tess Carey is the new president of Turner Subscriptions, New York City.

Jane Carlin is the new head of the Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Library at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Kathryn Hammell Carpenter has been appointed bibliographer for the health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago effective July 1.

Carol Casey is the new music cataloger at the College-Conservatory of Music Library at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sharon D. Cline is now director of library services for EBSCO Subscription Services, Birmingham, Alabama.

Marcia Lynn Cook has been appointed head of access services at Aurora University, Illinois.

Susan Craig has been named director of the library at Aurora University, Illinois.

Susan Davi has been appointed head of the Collection Development Department at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Randall Ericson has been appointed associate university librarian for technical and automated services at Syracuse University, New York.

Michele Fagan has been appointed curator of special collections at Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Leslie P. Fatout is the new head acquisitions librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Anita Singh Ferguson has been appointed cataloger at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Mary Ferguson has been appointed librarian in the Reference and Collections Development Department at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Kevin Fredette has been appointed microforms librarian and assistant head of the Government Publications Department at the University of California, Irvine.

Susan B. Harrison has been appointed associate director for technical and computer services in the Branch Libraries of the New York Public Library.

Nancy Herther is now database search services librarian in the Humanities/Social Sciences Libraries Business Reference Service at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Banoo Homaee has been appointed cataloger in the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

J. Michael Homan is now assistant university librarian for the sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

Jeffrey L. Horrell is now assistant university librarian for personnel, budget and planning at Syracuse University, New York.

Nancy Hulston is now archivist at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.

Louis Jeffries has been appointed reference information services librarian at Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Elaine Z. Jennerich has been appointed circulation librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Robert H. Kieft has been appointed coordinator of reference service and collection development at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

Clifford Lynch is now director of library automation at the University of California, Rerkeley.

Kat McGrath has been appointed serials librarian in the Serials Division at the University of Brit- ish Columbia, Vancouver.

Pamela McLaughlin has been appointed online search coordinator at Syracuse University, New York.

Margaret Mooney is the new head of government publications at the University of California, Riverside.

Thomas E. Nisonger has been appointed assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Rloomington.

Nancy R. Phelps is now reader services/circulation librarian at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Vanessa J. Piala is the new head of preservation services in the Collection Management Division of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Nathaniel Puffer has been appointed assistant director of libraries for collection management at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Lorraine Rutherford is the new head of the Preservation Department at Indiana University, Rloomington.

Laine Ruus is now head of the new Data Library at the University of Toronto, Ontario.

Alice Schreyer has been appointed assistant director of libraries for special collections at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Ruth K. Seidman has been appointed head of the Engineering and Science Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Debora Shaw has been appointed assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Rloomington.

Eleanore Stewart is the new head of conservation treatment at Stanford University, California.

Lewis B. Terpstra has been appointed head of learning resource services at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Robert R. Walsh has been appointed library buildings consultant for the Commonwealth of Virginia at the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond.

Thomas L. Wilding has been appointed senior associate director of libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Glee M. Willis is the new engineering librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Dhanarat Yongvanichjit has been appointed cataloger at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Retirements

John C. Broderick, assistant librarian for research services at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., retired April 1. He had been on the staff of the Library since 1964. During his nine- year tenure in the Research Services Department, Broderick was instrumental in many important acquisitions and in establishing the Library’s preservation, literary and concert programs. As assistant chief (1965-1975) and chief (1975-1979) of the Manuscript Division, he helped acquire many important manuscript collections of prominent American authors and public figures. Broderick also served as an adjunct professor of English and consultant in bibliography at George Washington University from 1964 to 1984, and previously taught English and American literature at the University of North Carolina (1949-1952, 1968), the University of Texas (1952-1957), the University of Virginia (1959), and Wake Forest University (1957-1964).

A specialist in 19th-century American literature, Broderick has published articles and studies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, among others. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Princeton University Press) and is general editor of Thoreau’s multi-volume Journal. Broderick has been active in the Modern Language Association, the Society of American Archivists, and the American Antiquarian Society. He has represented the Library of Congress on the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Commission, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board to the U.S. Senate Historical Office. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Broderick earned a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern College and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina. During 1945-1946 he studied Japanese language and culture in the U.S. Army Language Program at Yale University.

Ruth Donovan, associate director of libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno, retired in April after 30 years of service, including 22 as assistant or associate director.

Lise Giraud, head of the Language and Literature Section of the Catalog Department at Stanford University, California, retired at the end of March after 30 years of service. Born in Vienna, Giraud came to the United States in 1940, where she received her MLS and worked as a nursing school librarian, and later, as the medical librarian at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. She came to Stanford in 1958 as a rare book cataloger.

Jess a. Martin, director of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library, Memphis, since 1971, retired May 31.

Nina McMaster, librarian of the Physics Department Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1974, will retire at the end of June after 35 years of service. McMaster began her Harvard career in 1954 in the Office of the Corporation in Massachusetts Hall, transferring in 1956 to the Physics Department as a secretary. Several years thereafter she began working part time in the Physics Library and was appointed departmental librarian in 1959.

Richard E. Moore, former library director at Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, will retire in August after 20 years of service. Presently serving as reference librarian, Moore was removed as library director in 1983 after vigorously objecting to the college president’s complete elimination of the library book budget. A former president of the Oregon Library Association (1976), Moore has been active in the Pacific Northwest Library Association, serving as conference chairman (1970), treasurer (1970-1972), and vice president/president (1981-1983). Moore was also been chairman of the Oregon State System of Higher Education Library Council (1979-1982), and served on the Board of Advisors for the Oregon Book Society from 1972 to 1979. He has written or edited five books, including co-editing the PNLA supplement to Smith’s Pacific Northwest Americana. Moore is a specialist in western Americana and plans to enter private publishing upon his retirement.

Virginia Pratt, librarian in the Library School Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has retired after 37 years of service. Pratt began her career in the General Reference service, beginning part time in the Library School Library in 1963, and continuing full time in 1969. She taught courses in reference, cataloging, and an introductory course in librarianship. Active in library affairs, Pratt served on the Committee on Bibliographic Control, the Subcommittee on the Future of the Catalogs, and as chair of the Selection Committee. She also served on the Education Committee of the Special Libraries Association.

William E. Wenz, director for library personnel at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced his retirement effective July 1.

Deaths

Mary Ellen Clapper, manager of Distributed Systems at the Faxon Company, died May 3. Clapper, member-at-large on the Resources and Technical Services Division’s Serials Section Executive Committee, had been at Faxon since 1982, initially as Union List Project Manager. She received her MLS from the University of Denver in 1975 and was serials librarian at Harvard Business School during 1981-1982.

John Mackenzie Cory, director emeritus of the New York Public Library and former ALA executive director, died April 11 at 74 years of age. Cory was director at the New York Public Library from 1970 to 1978, culminating a 27-year career in many different aspects of librarianship. He had served earlier for seven years as deputy director and for twelve years prior to then as chief of the NYPL Branch Libraries. Before joining NYPL, Cory served as ALA executive director, from 1948 to 1951, and had been associate librarian at UC- Berkeley (1945-1948), a senior public librarian specialist of the U.S. Office of Education (1942-1943), and director of libraries at the University of Alabama (1940-1942). President of the New York Library Association in 1956, he was adjunct professor of library administration at Columbia University for more than 30 years, and served as executive director of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency from 1966 to 1970. Cory was a frequent contributor to library periodicals, and worked from 1980 to 1984 as a part time consultant with Gossage Regan Associates, Inc. ‚ a library personnel services and consulting firm.

Peter Dunin-Borkowski, cataloger in the Italian/Spanish Section of the Shared Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. ‚ died January 15. He had been a cataloger at the Library since 1967. Born into Polish nobility in 1919, Dunin studied history at Jan Kasimierz University and the Jagiellonski University in Poland. From 1939 to 1940 he was a press officer in the Polish Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, and served in 1942 in North Africa in the Polish brigade under British command, where he took part in the defense of Tobruk. Later he was on the staff of a Polish-language newspaper published in Baghdad, in the Polish Information Center in Jerusalem, and was assistant Polish press attaché in Beirut. In the United States, Dunin worked as a librarian at Columbia University before beginning his career at the Library of Congress. He earned his MLS from Columbia in 1964, and also studied at the Ecole Su- périeure des Lettres in Beirut, the University of Paris, and the University of Massachusetts.

Gussie Gaskill, original curator of the Wason Collection of Chinese manuscripts and literature at Cornell University, died earlier this year at the age of 90. She was curator of the pioneering collection for more than 40 years prior to her retirement in 1963. Gaskill arrived at Cornell in 1919 to study history, at the same time as a gift of 9,000 books about China and the Chinese were donated to the library by alumnus Charles William Wason. Over the years Gaskill transformed the Wason collection into a multi-language resource center containing more the 40,000 volumes in Chinese alone. She studied Chinese language and history with leading sinologists in New York and Paris, and went to China on collecting trips in 1929 and in 1948. The annual preparer of the bibliography of the Far Eastern Association, Gaskill was active in research and teaching. In 1934 she instituted a course in Chinese history at Cornell, and later helped to obtain a grant for a full-time professor in that discipline.

Mildred L. Iddins, librarian emeritus of Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee, died March 24 after an extended illness. Iddins was librarian at Carson-Newman from 1944 to 1988, and oversaw the growth of the collection from 23,000 to 141,000 volumes. The department of special collections has been named in her honor, and a scholarship in her name has been established.

Marion Schrader, classics cataloger during the 1970s at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, died April 26.