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Shirley Echelmanhas been appointed executive director of the Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C., effective May 15. Echelman has been executive director of the Medical Library Association since 1979 and was president of the Special Libraries Association in 1977-78. She has also served in many other capacities for SLA, including chair of the Division Cabinet, division liaison officer, John Cotton Dana lecturer, and chair of the Special Committee on Copyright Law Practice and Implementation.

Shirley Echelman

From 1966 to 1978 Echelman was assistant vice-president and chief librarian of the Chemical Bank in New York City. She participated in the White H ouse Conference on Library and Information Services as a member of the Advisory Committee and has written a chapter on the conference for the 1980 ALA Yearbook.

Eleanor Adams Gustafson,associate college librarian at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has been appointed librarian of the college. A 1946 graduate of Simmons College, Gustafson received her MLS in 1964 from Columbia University’s School of Library Service.

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Eleanor Gustafson

Alter graduating from Simmons, Gustafson was a cataloger at the Bryn Mawr College Library until 1948 when she came to Wellesley in the same capacity. Since that time she has served as senior cataloger, associate librarian for technical services, and associate college librarian. She actively participated in the 1956 and 1975 renovation projects of the library and planned and trained personnel for the online cataloging system in the library in 1973.

Gustafson served a three-vear term as memberat-large of the Cataloging and Classification Section of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division, and has also been president of the New England Technical Services Librarians. She was recently a member of the Boston Library Consortium Program Committee and a member of the Visiting Committee of the Boston Public Library Research Library Catalog Project.

Redmond Kathleen Molz,has been named Melvil Dewey professor of library service at Columbia University. The Dewey professorship, the first endowed chair of librarianship in an American university, was established by Columbia in 1938 with an endowment fund from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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R.K. Molz

Molz has been professor of library service at Columbia’s School oí Library Service since 1976. She has master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University in English and from the University of Michigan in library science, and she received a doctorate in library science from Columbia. From 1962 to 1968 Molz edited the Wilson Library Bulletin, and later she was chief of planning staff at the Bureau of Libraries and Learning Resources of the U.S. Office of Education.

Long active in ALA, Molz recently completed a four-year term as a member of the ALA Executive Board. She was chair of the Intellectual Freedom Committee in 1973-75 and president of the Freedom to Read Foundation in 1977-79.

Her book, Federal Policy and Library Support, published by MIT, won the Ralph R. Shaw Award in 1977 as the year’s most distinguished contribution to the literature of the profession. She has served on the staff of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, the Denver Public Library, and the Free Library of Philadelphia.

OHIO UNIVERSITY HOSTS ASIAN LIBRARIANS

Since 1979 Ohio University Library, Athens, has sponsored a number of librarian-interns from Asia for short-term training in American librarianship. Under the Southeast Asia Librarian-Intern Program, Pampimon Koonlaboon, a library science faculty member from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, spent three months interning in the Southeast Asia Collection of Ohio University Library from August to October, 1979.

She was followed by Neena Swasdison, circulation librarian of the Central Library, Chulalongkorn University, who spent six months from May to October, 1980. Both interns were given the opportunity to learn modern management concepts, library automation and networking, OCLC systems, online data base searching and other library operations, services and procedures.

At the request of Feng Chia University in Taiwan, Republic of China, a new internship for senior librarians from that country has been inaugurated. The first intern, King-Shan Ling, associate university librarian of Feng Chia University was at Ohio University in the fall. Two other librarians from Tamkang University Library are scheduled to arrive in March.

Because of the reputation of Ohio University’s internship program and its real value to Asian librarians, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has expressed an interest in funding two interns from Southeast Asia in 1981. According to Hwa-Wei Lee, director of libraries at Ohio University, this will be the first such program in the United States to receive international support and recognition.

Eugene Neelyhas been appointed head librarian of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Neely has been head of public services at the General Library of the University of Missouri at Kansas City for the past six years.

Eugene Neely

Neely has a masters in library science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and he received a certificate in advanced librarianship from Columbia University in 1972. He has served as librarian for Pogan Productions in New York City, and head of reference at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

Neely is currently president of the Heart of America Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. He has chaired various committees of the Statistics Section of ALA’s Library Administration and Management Association, and has authored a section of the 1980 Bowker Annual of Library & Book Trade Information dealing with library statistical activities.

Besides library organization and administration, Neely lists the following areas of interest and experience: collection development; reference services; document delivery systems; library services to the handicapped; and library services designed to enhance the recruitment and retention of minority and low-income students.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Josette Boisseand Barbara Van Nortwick have recently been awarded U.S. Department of Education HEA Title II-B Fellowships for study in the Doctor of Arts degree program at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston. The fellowships are granted to encourage minorities and women to pursue upper-level management careers. Boisse has just completed a five-year term as a council member of the American Library Association, and Van Nortwick is library director for the New York State Nurses Association.

Judith McQueen,principal librarian in the National Library of Australia, has been appointed chief liaison librarian in North America for the National Library. She succeeds Colin Freeman, who has held that post since January, 1978, at the Australian Embassy offices in Washington, D.C.

Russell J. Rowlett, Jr.,editor of Chemical Abstracts since 1967, has been selected to receive the Miles Conrad Award for excellence in abstracting and indexing. Rowlett will present the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture at the 1981 Annual Conference of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, March 2-4, at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

Raymond B. Means,library director at Creighton University, Omaha, has been appointed executive secretary of the Nebraska Library Association. Means has served as president of NLA and is currently a member of ALA’s Standing Committee on Library Education.

John L. Sharpe III,curator of rare books at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, has been working on a project in the library of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian on the Greek island of Patmos in the Aegean. Sharpe has been studying the early medieval incunabula which have retained their original Byzantine binding structures so that a systematic record of their manufacture may be made. Already the project has brought to light a thirteenth-century catalogue with descriptions of the bindings within the collection. The Monastery of St. John was founded in the eleventh century by Christodulous, whose books formed the basis of the present library. Sharpe, who has a Ph.D in religion with emphasis in Byzantine manuscript studies from Duke University, will return to Patmos this summer to complete research for a publication on Bvzantine bindings which is scheduled to appear in 1982.

APPOINTMENTS

Ross W. Atkinson has been appointed humanities bibliographer at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Mary Ellen Baasis the new reference librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee.

MaryS. Barnard was appointed reference librarian in the Baker Library, Harvard University.

SeanM. Barnett has been appointed cataloger in the Law School Library, Harvard University.

Ann Bierstekeris now Africana bibliographer in the Area Studies Department, Bird Library, Syracuse University, New York.

Craig Booherhas been appointed chemistry bibliographer at Syracuse University Library, New York.

AliceB. Brendel has been appointed bibliographer and reference librarian for business and economics at Boston University.

Sue Burkholderhas been named associate director of libraries, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Katharine Calhounis now reference librarian at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Loretta Carenhas been appointed science librarian, Science and Engineering Library, University of Rochester, New York.

Ann Carsonis now rare book cataloger at Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island.

Susan J. Copelandis the new bibliographer and reference librarian for biology and chemistry at Boston University.

Charlotte Corneilhas been appointed head of public services at the law library of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

EdithS. Crockett is now chief of the User Communications Section at BIOSIS, Philadelphia. Crockett was formerly head of the geology and psychology libraries, Columbia University.

Deborah Dawsonhas been appointed reference librarian and bibliographer for the physical sciences, University of Houston, Texas.

Gemma DeVinneyhas assumed responsibilities as reference/public services librarian at the law librarv of the State Universitv of New York at Buffalo.

Melanie Dodsonhas been appointed reference librarian at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Earnstein Dukesis the new assistant head of the catalog department, Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee.

Martha Eberharthas been appointed interlibrary loan librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee.

John Elsweilerhas been appointed reference librarian and head of the Interlibrary Loan Unit, University of Houston, Texas.

Sharon Endelmanis the new serials records librarian at the University of Houston, Texas.

Victoria K. Evaldshas been appointed reference librarian in the African Studies Librarv, Boston University.

Meryle Gastonhas been appointed Near East cataloger at New York University Libraries.

Jackie Glickhas been appointed reference librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee.

Stuart Glogoff,formerly of Pennsylvania State University Library, is now associate librarian and head of the Circulation Department at the Universitv of Delaware Librarv, Newark.

Joan Granthas been appointed director of collection management, New York University Libraries.

AnnD. Greene has been appointed associate librarian for technical services, Wellesley College Library, Massachusetts.

Marsha Grossis the new geology librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

JudyS. Henson has been appointed associate director for public services at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne.

Pam J. Hobsonhas been appointed associate director for technical services at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne.

Annelle Hugginshas been named assistant professor and coordinator of technical services, Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee.

Edward Kasinechas been appointed librarian for Slavic Collections at the University of California, Berkeley.

Karen Kinneyis now head of reference, New York University Libraries.

RobertaF. Kirby has been appointed assistant librarian and cataloger at the University of South Alabama Library, Mobile.

Nancy Kranichhas been appointed director of administrative services, New York University Libraries.

Joan K. Lippincottis the new chief reference librarian of the Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

StephenE. MacLeod has been appointed reference librarian, Cubberley Library, Stanford University, California.

Joy McPhersonhas been appointed librarian for reference and collection development in the Kennedy School of Government Library, Harvard University.

Guy Thomas Mendinajoined the Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee, as assistant professor and head of the circulation department.

Joanna Mitchellhas been appointed technical services librarian in the Science-Engineering Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Patricia Morandhas been appointed reference librarian at the University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville.

Carolyn Morganis now instructor and bibliographer/data base development manager, Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee.

Lee Murraywas appointed public services librarianfor the Engineering and Life Sciences Librarv, Svracuse Universitv, New York.

Karen Nagyis the new music cataloger and head of recorded sound services at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

David Nayloris now the associate law librarian for public services, Syracuse University, New York.

Connie Nisbethas been promoted to the position of assistant music librarian for technical services, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Linda Oddanhas been appointed associate director for information services, Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee.

RichardD. Olson has been named art librarian at Northwestern University. Olson was formerly humanities bibliographer there.

MarianF. Parker has been appointed associate director and head of public services in the law library of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Jonathan Pennhas been appointed assistant librarian in the reference department with responsibility for interlibrary loan, University of Delaware, Newark.

Lance Queryhas been appointed personnel librarian at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Mary Reichelis now reference librarian, Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Shirley Richardsonis serials project supervisor at the University of Houston, Texas.

Darel Jay Robbhas been appointed associate director for collection development at the Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee.

Bruce T. Sajdakhas been appointed assistant reference librarian, Smith College Library, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Linda Searcyis the new reference librarian and bibliographer for the social sciences at the University of Houston, Texas.

Donna Serafinhas been appointed assistant librarian in the Serials Department, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Joseph H. Simpsonhas joined the staff of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, as head of technical services.

SharronA. Snyder is now an administrative analyst for the Universal Serials and Book Exchange, Washington, D.C.

Theresa Tobinhas been appointed assistant humanities librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Katherine Topuloshas been appointed cataloger at Wellesley College Library, Massachusetts.

BarbaraA. von Wahlde has been appointed associate director for technical services at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor.

Robert Watkinsis the new serials project cataloger at the University of Houston, Texas.

Shawn Weldonhas been appointed archivist at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia.

Bill Willmeringis now head of the Serials Records Section at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Isabel Wingerterhas been appointed cataloger at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

JamesW. Woods has been named director of the National Medical Audiovisual Center at the National Librarv of Medicine, Bethesda, Marvland.

Steven D. Zinkhas been named government publications librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno.