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JohnG. Hall, director of Southern Meth- odist University’s Fondren Library for the past four years, has been named director of SMU’s Central University Libraries.

The appointment consolidates administrative responsibility for Fondren Library and its de- partmental collections, the Science/Engineer- ing Library, and the processing services division of the Central Libraries.

Only Bridwell Library of Perkins School of Theology and the SMU Law School’s Under- wood Library remain separate.

“This action puts us in a better position to plan and to employ all our resources more ef- fectively,” Hall said.

Devertt Bickston, director of SMU Indus- trial Information Services (IIS) ‚ has assumed the additional duties of Science/Engineering librarian.

“The IIS director’s intensive use of the Sci- ence/Engineering Library to serve the needs of North Texas business and industry during the past eight years has prepared him well to serve SMU students and faculty,” Hall added.

“We intend our emphasis to be on service and access to library materials—wherever found,” he said.

HaRry Boonstra,Ph.D., has been named director of libraries and associate professor of library science at Hope College, according to David G. Marker, Hope College Provost.

Harry Boonstra

Boonstra, 41, was bom in The Nether- lands and is a Cana- dian citizen with per- manent U.S. residence status.

He is a graduate of Calvin College, where he majored in Eng- lish. He received the M.A. degree in Eng- lish from Northwest- ern University in 1963 and the M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1967.

Boonstra holds the Ph.D. in English from Loyola University, Chicago (1973). His dissertation topic was “T. S. Eliot and The Netherlands; The Critical Reception, A Dutch Parallel and the Translations.”

Prior to his appointment at Hope, Boonstra served as associate professor of English at Cov- enant College, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee (1975-77); staff writer/editor for the Summer Institute of Linguistics (Wycliffe Bible Trans- lators), Peru (1973-75); director of library and English instructor at Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois (1963-71), and as librari- an and English teacher at South Christian High School, Cutlerville, Michigan (1960-63). He also served in a part-time position teaching English as a foreign language in The Hague, The Netherlands, from 1971-73.

Boonstra has published articles in The Re- formed Journal, Christian Scholar’s Review, and The Wittenburg Door.

He and his wife Thelma Jean have three daughters: Jeanne 16, Anne 14, and Sarah 11.

DonL. Bosseau has been named as the new university librarian at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. The appointment, effective in September, was an- nounced by Chancel- lor Douglas S. Yama- mura following action by the board of re- gents.

Don L. Bosseau

Bosseau has been, for the past four years, director of li- braries at Emory Uni- versity in Atlanta. He has held several other positions in academ- ic libraries, including the directorship at the University of Texas at El Paso. At the University of California, San Diego, he was head of the systems group from 1966 through 1969 and was promoted in 1970 to assistant university librarian for public ser- vices (Central University Library) and budget- ing, a position he held until moving to UTEP in the fall of 1972.

Holding undergraduate and graduate degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University and the University of Kansas, Bosseau worked for seven years in the areas of experimental and theoretical reactor physics. In 1965 he took an assignment in the Technical Information Center of General Atomic Nuclear Labs in San Diego before attending the University of Hawaii and earning his MLS degree in 1966. He was a recipient of an Atomic Energy Commission Graduate Fellowship in Radiological Physics in 1960.

Bosseau, active in a number of library associations, has been a member of the American Library Association, ASIS, the Border Regional Library Association, the Georgia Library Association, and the Southeastern Library Association and has served in various capacities on a number of committees in these organizations. Since 1972 he has served as editor of the Journal of Library Automation—Technical Communications. He currently serves on the Association of Research Libraries Task Force on Membership Criteria. Bosseau has written and lectured on automated serials systems and, more recently, on COM applications.

Bosseau succeeds Stan West, who has retired as head of the 1.6 million-volume library, which supports more than 20,000 students and varied academic and research programs.

William J. Kirwan,director of library services at the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies, has been named librarian of Hunter Memorial Library at Western Carolina University (WCU).

The appointment, effective August 1, 1977, has been announced by WCU Chancellor H. F. Robinson.

Kirwan is the former director of Loyola- Notre Dame Library Inc., in Baltimore, where he supervised the merger of separate libraries at the two institutions and helped plan a new facility for the combined library.

His duties will include directing all functions of the WCU library, which contains some 254,000 bound volumes and more than 100,000 additional microfilm reels, microform units, and government documents. The library staff includes eleven faculty members and twenty-four other employees.

Kirwan is a member of the steering committee of the West Virginia Library Resources Advisory Board, the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Southeastern Library Association, and the West Virginia Library Association.

He holds the bachelor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University and the master’s degree in library science from Drexel University and is a graduate of the library administrators development program at the University of Maryland.

The appointment of A. John Linford of the State University of New York as director of the New England Library Information Network ( NELINET ) was announced on June 15, 1977, by Alan Ferguson, executive director of the New England Board of Higher Education. NELINET, established by NEBHE in 1968, is the first multistate library network specifically organized to provide computerized services on a cooperative basis. The membership includes state library agencies, public and private academic libraries, public libraries, and special research libraries and institutions. Sixty-seven New England libraries participate in the NELINET program, which serves, including consortia and branch affiliations, 117 libraries.

Before assuming the NELINET directorship, Linford served as assistant director for Library Systems Development at the State University of New York at Albany, where he was instrumental in replicating an automated library circulation system modeled upon the one he had helped develop at the Ohio State University. Linford is a graduate of Utah State University and received a master’s degree in library science from Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.—MIT Library Notes

APPOINTMENTS

Richard G. Akeroyd—program planning team—National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Washington, D.C.

Samuel L. Atmore—audio-visual librarian —Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

Billie Aul—interlibrary loan librarian— State University College, Geneseo, New York.

John Berling—dean of learning resources and library and audiovisual education—St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.

WilliamF. Birdsall— associate director for public services—University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Elaine Chaffin—head of circulation— State University College, Geneseo, New York.

PeterK. Clark—humanities bibliographer —University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Robert A. Daugherty—circulation librarian—University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

JamieK. Harrison—head serials librarian—

University of South Florida,Tampa.

Deane W. Hill—director of the library— Arya-Mehr University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

Cynthia W. LaGon—assistant reference librarian—University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Hugh C. Larimer—reference librarian— University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Stephen MacLeod—reference librarian and bibliographer—Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.

William D. Mathews—staff associate for information technology—National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Washington, D.C.

Laurel Minott—assistant reference librarian—Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Linda Murphy—assistant law librarian— University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Daniel Frank Phelan—reference librarian —University of Manγγoha, Winnipeg.

Linda L. Phillips—head undergraduate reference librarian—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

RichardC. Pollard—associate director of libraries for technical services—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Daniel L. Ream—undergraduate reference librarian—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Reddy Rodda—reference and special projects librarian, Sears Library—Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

RorertG. Skinner—music librarian—

Southern Methodist University,Dallas, Texas.

Carol Steer—original cataloger—University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Suzanne Striedieck—head serials librarian —Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

StephenE. Wiherley—assistant reference librarian—University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Bardie C. Wolfe—head law librarian— University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Marna Jo Young—administrative services librarian—Wichita State University, Kansas.

Joan Zenan—medical librarian—University of Nevada, Reno.