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Bernice R. Jones-Trent, formerly university librarian at Norfolk State University, has been named director of library services at Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, effective July 1989.

She held previous positions as head of reference at Old Dominion University and as business librarian at Newark Public Library. At Rutgers University, Jones-Trent served as business librarian for the Newark campus, acting director of the Professional Development Studies program at the School of Library and Information Studies, staff development librarian, and public services librarian at the Rutgers-Kilmer Library.

Jones-Trent holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Jackson State University, an MLS from Rutgers, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. She currently serves as chair of the LAMA Women Administrators Discussion Group and the LAMA Library Organization and Management Section’s Leadership Committee.

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Richard Lyders, executive director of the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, has been elected president of the Medical Library Association for 1991-92.

Hudwell Mwacalimra, university librarian at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, is conducting a six-month study of the NOTIS database implementation process at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Mwacalimba is a recent recipient of a Short-Term Six Months Postgraduate Award administered by the African American Institute under phase III of the African American Graduate

Fellowship Program. The program is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States in cooperation with other participating governments. During his visit to Alabama, Mwacalimba is working with the systems office to get an overview of how the system relates to the teaching and research programs of the university.

Hudwell Mwacalimba

He holds an MLS from Syracuse University and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and is chair of the ISBN Management Committee for Zambia. He also coordinates the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) program for Zambia. PADIS is a regional information system for Africa and operates under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

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.)

Sheryl Adam is now information and orientation librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Dawn Ady has been appointed campus librarian of the St. Johns River Community College, Orange Park Center.

Cheryl AlBrecht has been appointed head of reference, research and instruction services at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gary Allen has been appointed humanities resource development librarian at Texas A&M University, College Station.

John Andrus has been appointed bibliographer and cataloger for the RISM Libretto Project, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Laura Bayard has been appointed head of the catalog and database maintenance section at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

William Benemann has been appointed head of cataloging at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.

DeBorah Bernhardt has been appointed head of archival collections at New York University.

Jeanne Bohlen has been named director of the Jeannette Rankin Library Program of the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.

Lee Ann Bryant has been appointed reference librarian at the Curriculum Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Jill G. Carraway has been appointed automation librarian at Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem, North Carolina.

Sydney Chambers is now cataloging librarian at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Vielka Chang-Yau has been named chief librarian of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Branch in Panama City, Panama.

Elaine M. Cheng has been appointed interlibrary loan/reader services librarian at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ann E. Churakian has been appointed assistant music librarian at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York.

Helena Clark-Vonville is the new reference librarian for instructional services at New York University.

Sherman Clarke has been appointed catalog/ reference librarian at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

John R. Coblentz is now head of readers services, Marietta College, Ohio.

Karen Desaulniers has been appointed campus librarian of the St. Johns River Community College, St. Augustine Center.

Rachel Doggett has been appointed Andrew W. Mellon curator of books at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Mary Jo Dwyer is now circuit rider librarian for the Clinical Library Health Information Network of South Texas, San Antonio.

Ian Fairclough has been appointed librarian and music specialist at East Carolina University, Greenville.

Anita Farber has been promoted to assistant head librarian of the Acquisitions and Serials Department, University of Texas, Austin.

Louis Forgethas been appointed director of information technology services at the National Library of Canada, Ottawa.

Sandra Fraser has been appointed world history reference librarian at New York University.

Marianne I. Gaunt has been appointed associate university librarian for research and undergraduate services at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.

Barbara S. Griffith is now coordinator of the Oral History Program at the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas, Austin.

Earl M. Griffith has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Denison University, Granville, Ohio.

Ingrid Hendrix has been appointed information and instructional services librarian at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

Inger Hoby has been appointed library conservator at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

Chandler Jackson has been appointed fine arts librarian and bibliographer at the University of Texas, Arlington.

Kriza A. Jennings is now reference librarian at the United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio.

Jane Jurgens has been appointed reference librarian at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.

Jody Kabel has been appointed supervisor of the Music and Fine Arts Library, Jacksonville University, Florida.

Stacey Kimmel is now automated services librarian at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Debra Kruse has been appointed coordinator of media collections at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

Shuk-fong Lau has been appointed reference/ information retrieval librarian at Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Suzanne J. LeBarron has been named Wyoming state librarian, Cheyenne.

D. Steven McCartneyhas been appointed acquisitions librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Michael McKay has been named director of administrative services at New York University Library.

Jim McKinney has been appointed assistant systems librarian at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

Danielle Mihram has been appointed head of reference at the Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Cathy Moore-Jensen is now special projects cataloger at Wichita State University, Kansas.

Jane Mulvihill-Jones has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Denison University, Granville, Ohio.

Sandra B. Newman has been named college librarian at Marietta College, Ohio.

Taras Pavlovsky has been appointed head of technical services at the Juilliard School, New York.

Mary Petty has joined the technical services staff at the Crosby Library, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Rita Penco is now librarian of the Pulp and Paper Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

J. Drew Racinehas been appointed deputy assistant director at the University of Texas, Austin.

Marion T. Reid has been appointed interim library director at California State University, San Marcos.

Ruth R. Rogers has been appointed bibliographer for foreign and international law at the Harvard Law School Library.

Bonnie Ryan is now head of the Access Services Department at Syracuse University, New York.

Ron Ryan has been appointed head of integrated library systems at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Lisa Sepa has joined the staff of the U niversity of Hawaii Library, Maui.

Rorert G. Sewell has been appointed associate university librarian for collection development and management at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick.

Jean Sexton has been promoted to coordinator of technical services at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

John Shields is now serials/reference librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Ann G. Sitkni has been promoted to cataloging services librarian at the Harvard Law School Library.

Sharon E. Snow has been appointed curator of rare books and manuscripts at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Ann Snyder has joined the Catalog Department at the Sibley Music Library, University of Rochester, New York.

Laura Stevenson has been appointed head of reference at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Nancy Szofran has joined the library staff at Eastern Montana College, Billings.

Lorelei Tanji is now reference librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Leslie A. Troutman has been appointed music user services coordinator at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Raymond Van De Moortell has been named curator of the Frank V. de Beilis Collection at San Francisco State University.

Paul Vash has been appointed evening reference librarian at Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash, Ohio.

Elinor Folger Vaughan Bridges has been named director of library services at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Dario Villa has been appointed reference librarian at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.

Patricia Wallace has been appointed head of the Serials Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Virginia A. Walter has been appointed assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Laurie Whitehill has been appointed readers’ services librarian at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

Bruce Alan Wilson has been named director of public services at Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Anthony G. Yankus has been named director of the Public Library Development Division of the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond.

Retirements

Eleanor Garvey, Philip Hofer curator of printing and graphic arts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, retired in January. Garvey, who came to Harvard in 1953, has successively been the assistant, assistant curator, associate curator, and curator of printing and graphic arts before being named in 1983 to the Hofer curatorship, which was recently endowed. Before coming to Harvard she worked in the Education Department at the Worcester Art Museum and served as art librarian and museum curator at Wellesley College and as curator of painting and sculpture at the Newark Museum. In 1988 she received the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award, which cited her as “a foremost authority on the book as an art form.”

Che-Hwei Lin, collection development librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, retired in December after more than 37 years of service.

Geri Scalzo, head of the Humanities/Social Science Libraries at the University of California, Berkeley, retired in December.

Harold N. Wiren, head of the Engineering Library and Information Services at the University of Washington since 1969, retired on June 30, 1989. His career began as a reference librarian in the Engineering Library at the University of Illinois in 1956. From 1957 to 1962 he was a reference librarian in the Science and Technology Department of the Rochester (N.Y.) Public Library. Subsequent positions held were assistant director of libraries for science and technology, University of Nebraska, and head of Engineering Libraries at Ohio State University. At the University of Washington he established a Patent Depository Library as part of the Engineering collection and saw the installation of CD-ROMs in the Engineering Library.

Deaths

Herbert B. Anstaett, librarian emeritus at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, died on November 5. He had served as head librarian at Franklin and Marshall from 1927 to 1967, when he retired and became librarian emeritus and bibliographer. He served as acquisitions librarian at the Millersville University Library from 1969 until his second retirement in 1976. In 1940 he was appointed curator of the Historical Society of the Reformed Church and in recent years he worked as a genealogist at the Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society, where he served as executive secretary. Anstaett was editor of Books in Print from 1953 to 1957, and he co-edited the first edition of the Subject Guide to Books in Print in 1957. He served on the first ACRL Board of Directors in 1939-1940, as president of the Pennsylvania Library Association from 1945 to 1946, and for many years on the Board of Directors of the Lancaster Free Public Library. Anstaett was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, Ohio, in 1924. He received a bachelor’s degree in library science from Columbia University in 1927 and an MLS from Columbia in 1932.

ALA Minority Fellowship

The American Library Association is inviting applications from racial and ethnic minority professional librarians interested in acquiring association management experience and analyzing current library issues. Applicants will be asked to indicate the ALA division(s) in which they would be most interested in working as part of the fellowship program. All ALA divisions, including ACRL, are interested in hosting a fellow.

ALA’s goal is to help eliminate the barriers that prevent minority librarians and information scientists from participating fully in the profession. The Association recognizes that one institution or professional association alone cannot eliminate the barriers, but strongly believes that professional associations have a significant role to play and must provide leadership by example.

The objectives of the ALA Minority Program fellowship are:

• To provide an opportunity for minority librarians to gain an in-depth understanding of association management, ALA’s structure and operations, and ALA policy formulation and implementation.

• To develop a cadre of minority librarian leaders by providing opportunities for minority librarians to gain an in-depth understanding of national professional issues.

• To provide an opportunity for minority librarians to increase their visibility in the profession by developing working relationships with staff leaders and member leaders in the American Library Association.

• To improve the upward mobility potential of minority librarians by providing another type of administrative experience.

• To make the American Library Association better known and more visible to minorities and minority librarians, and affect the perceptions and recruitment of more minorities into both the profession and the American Library Association.

Fellowship applicants must be librarians or information professionals and hold a master’s degree either from an ALA-accredited library science program or from a program that meets the ALA/ AASL curriculum guidelines within a unit accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Applicants must have a minimum of three years of professional working experience in a library or information science environment, and must be an ALA member at the start of the fellowship.

The 1990-1991 stipend for the ALA Minority Fellow is $30,000, plus medical, dental, and retirement benefits. To obtain more information about the program, or to apply for a fellowship, contact the ALA Office for Library Outreach Services (OLOS), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611- 2795; (800) 545-2433; in Illinois, (800) 545-2444; in Canada, (800) 545-2455.

The deadline for applications is March 23,1990.

David Bishop, university librarian at the University of California, San Francisco, since 1977, died November 30. Bishop had directed his efforts the past few years in planning for a new library that is scheduled for completion late this year. Since 1968 he had served as a consultant to the National Library of Medicine, and in 1986 he was invited to serve as an expert consultant for the national planning guidelines for U.S. academic health science libraries and for the National Library of Medicine’s long-range plan. Bishop graduated from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, with a bachelor’s degree in economics and earned an MLS from Columbia University.

His interest in health science libraries began at the Los Angeles County Medical Association, where he got his first job as a junior librarian and later became head reference librarian. He later joined the UCLA Biomedical Library, where he designed and acquired the collection for the new UCLA School of Dentistry. Bishop’s later positions included librarian for the University of Arizona Medical School (1965-1971), medical librarian at McGill University (1971-1973), and director of the Library of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (1973-1977). He had been active for more than 30 years in the Medical Library Association, which honored him with its President’s Award for editorship of the Handbook of Medical Library Practice (1989) and a Janet Doe Lectureship (1976). He also received the distinguished service award of the Group on Public Relations of the Association of American Medical Colleges (1976) and was named librarian of the year in 1970 by the Arizona State Library Association.

William R. Brandt, library director emeritus of Ripon College, Wisconsin, died November 18 after a long illness. After receiving an MLS from Columbia University, Brandt worked in the Reference Division of the New York Public Library until 1949, when he took a position as cataloger at the New York University Club Library. In 1952 he was appointed librarian at Ripon College, where he helped Wisconsin academic librarians form a division of the Wisconsin Library Association.

Dale E. Casper, director of the Newton Gresham Library at Sam Houston State University, died November 25. He had held that position since April 1988. Prior to that he had served as social science collection coordinator at Michigan State University, beginning in 1982. Casper was the author of bibliographies on urban America, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon Johnson, and most recently wrote Historic Houses: Architects’ Records of Past Accomplishments, 1983-1988. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, a master’s and Ph.D. in history and an MLS from the University of Minnesota.

George Kosman, head of government documents at Case Western Reserve University, died suddenly on September 22. He had been with Case Western since 1966 and had been government documents librarian since 1967. In 1981 he accepted the additional responsibility of serving as collection development librarian for the Department of Theatre and Dance. Kosman served on both the ALA Public Documents Committee and the Constitution Committee of the Government Documents Round Table.

Lucy Lee Lancaster, retired assistant science librarian at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, died December 14 after an illness of several months. Lancaster was one of the first women to enroll at the university when it was opened to women in 1921. A member of the Class of 1925, she was one of five women in a student body of 975. Lancaster began working in the library as a student assistant in 1923. Following her graduation, she spent a year at the New York State Library School, returned to Blacksburg for three years, and then took a oneyear leave of absence to receive an MLS in 1931 from Columbia University. She returned to Virginia Tech where she worked until her retirement in 1975 at the age of 70.

Melissa Landers, assistant librarian for public services at the Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington, died on August 21.

WILLIAM F. MAYLES,librarian in the Science and Engineering Library at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, from 1966 to 1988, died on December 3.

Marilyn Potts-Guin, librarian of the Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, died on December 2. A leader in marine science librarianship, she had recently returned from Chile where she had been consulting with libraries on automation projects.

Robert Rosenthal

Rorert Rosenthal, an authority on the use of books for scholarship and on antiquarian book collecting, died December 27 in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the age of 63. He had built the rare book collections at the University of Chicago Library into a major research facility. Rosenthal, curator of special collections at the university’s Regenstein Library, suffered a heart attack on a train he had boarded as he and his wife were traveling to Manchester, England, en route back to Chicago. They had been in Scotland to see friends and visit booksellers.

A member of the library staff since 1950, Rosenthal had overseen the Department of Special Collections since 1954. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1949 from Indiana University and an MLS in 1955 from the University of Chicago. He began working as an assistant curator at the University Library in 1950. He was offered the job after expressing an interest in the university’s historical book collection while a student at the Graduate Library School. He became a lecturer in the library school in 1958.

Rosenthal spoke widely around the country on the role of books in scholarship. He was an author of numerous articles on that subject, including “The Scholar’s Right to Know Versus the Individual’s Right to Privacy,” based on a talk he gave that was published by Rockefeller Press in 1976. As a researcher, he was interested in social movements and the distribution of books in 19thand early 20th-century America.

Warren Allen Sawyer, director of libraries and learning resource centers at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, died at his home on November 23 after a long illness. He had held that post since June 1968. His earlier positions included director of the library at the College of Charleston (1966-1968) and librarian at the Augusta Military Academy, Fort Defiance, Virginia. He received a bachelor’s degree from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and an MLS from the University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sawyer was founder of the Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries and served on the Biomedical Library Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine from 1976 to 1980 and on the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Regional Medical Library Program from 1968 to 1982.

He planned the Medical University’s new library in 1970, its learning resource center in 1977, developed satellite library learning resource centers in the Area Health Education Centers statewide, and coordinated installation of an integrated library system in 1984.

KATHARINE M. STOKES,retired consultant to college libraries for the U.S. Office of Education, died October 21 at Baltimore County Hospital at the age of 83. A native of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Stokes attended Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and was a graduate of Simmons College Library School in Boston. She received her doctorate from the University of Michigan.

Stokes’s distinguished career began with the Harrisburg Public Library and continued at Swarthmore College and the University of Illinois. She was named director of the library at Western Michigan University and later joined the U.S. Office of Education as college specialist.

After retirement she consulted for the U.S. Equal Rights Commission and served as generalsecretary for the International Federation of Library Associations when it met in Washington. She was an active participant in professional associations, serving for a number of years as a leader in the Midwest Academic Librarians Conference and as president of ACRL in 1962-63.

Diana D. Woodward, assistant professor in the College of Information Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, died on November 24. She had been at Drexel since 1983 and taught courses in database management, information systems analysis, and ethical issues of information distribution.