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Joan L. Chambershas been named university librarian at the University of California, Riverside. From 1979 to 1981 she served as assistant university librarian for public services at the University of California, San Diego, and prior to that she held various professional positions, including that of government publications librarian, at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 1978-79 she was selected by the Council on Library Resources to be an academic library management intern at Duke University.

Joan L. Chambers

Chambers obtained a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, and an MLS at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970. She was the first library faculty member at Reno to be elected to the faculty senate (1976) and was subsequently elected chairman.

She has presented papers and conducted workshops at many conferences, most notably a paper on “Federal Documents in Microform” at the Third Annual Microforms Conference, 1977, and a legal reference workshop at the University of Nevada in 1975.

Chambers currently serves on ACRL’s Planning Committee and in 1973-78 she was secretary of the Law and Political Science Section. Her other ALA activities have included a term as chapter councilor, 1977-78, various offices on the Government Documents Round Table, 1972-79, and member of the ad hoc Committee on the Depository Library System, 1974-77.

Chambers is also active in the California Library Authority for Systems and Services (CLASS), the Special Interest Croup on Numeric Data Bases of the American Society for Information Science, the California Library Association, and the Southern California Technical Processes Group. She is currently chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Index to U.S. Government Periodicals.

Wendell Leonard Wray,professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, has been appointed chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City, effective August 1.

As chief of the Schomburg Center, Wray will be responsible for its staffing, budgets, acquisitions and services as well as community relations. He succeeds John Miller who has served as acting chief of the center for the past year, and Jean Blackwell Hutson, curator of the collection and later chief of the center from 1948 to 1980.

Wray served as acting curator of the Schomburg Collection from 1964 to 1965, after which he was named director of the New York Public Library’s North Manhattan Project, a pilot program which demonstrated the potential effectiveness of library services for the disadvantaged.

For the past eight years Wray has been a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Library and Information Science. He has written for a number of publications, including the Film Library Quarterly, the Catholic Library Journal, and the New Fork Amsterdam News. He has lectured extensively on oral history and is a contract interviewer for the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University.

Bessie K. Hahnwas appointed director of library services at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, effective February 1. Since 1978 she had been assistant director for reader services at Johns Hopkins University Library, and prior to that held a succession of library appointments at Syracuse Universitv.

Bessie K. Hahn

Her professional interests focus on the areas of public services and collection development. She has devoted special attention to building a closer relationship between the library and its users through library orientation and instruction programs. For her outstanding contribution in this area at Johns Hopkins, she was awarded the Gold Cup by the Class of 1980. She has presented workshops on library management and communications skills under the sponsorship of the Syracuse University School of Management and the ARL Office of Management Studies.

Born in Shanghai, Hahn moved to Hong Kong at the age of eight. She has a bachelor’s degree from Mount Marty College, Yankton, South Dakota, and an MLS from Syracuse University. At Brandeis she will assume responsibility for a library building project which will include a 45,000 square foot addition and extensive renovation of the existing library.

APPOINTMENTS

Florence Bartosheskyhas been appointed librarian in the Baker Library, Harvard University Libraries.

StephenC. Bloom has been appointed assistant to the university librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Katherine Branchis now assistant librarian in the Science Department, San Diego State University Library, California.

Mary Ada Burnsis the new senior assistant librarian, Media and Curriculum Center, San Diego State University Library, California.

BarbaraA. Callahan has been appointed librarian of the Gray Herbarium and Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University Libraries.

CharlesE. Chamberlin has joined the staff of the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, as head of personnel and administrative services.

Mary Jane Cochranehas been appointed reference librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

MartinP. Courtois has been appointed assistant reference librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

MaryH. Daniel is the new agriculture/veterinary medicine librarian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Jinnie Davishas been appointed assistant serials librarian at the D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Betty Dayis now associate librarian at Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park.

Rick Dilleyis the new technical services librarian at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Library, Springfield.

Cynthia Dobsonhas been appointed social sciences bibliographer, Iowa State University Library, Ames.

John Edward Evanshas been appointed head of the reference department, Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee.

Nancy Hill Evanshas joined the reference staff of the Hunt Library, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

M. Keith Ewing has been appointed assistant reference librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Jane Finkjoined the staff of the Biological and Agricultural Sciences Department as assistant librarian, University of California, Davis.

Charlene Grass,formerly serials cataloger at Kansas State University Library, Manhattan, has been promoted to OCLC librarian.

Barbara Hedgeshas been appointed reference librarian at the D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Kent Hendricksonhas been appointed associate university librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Russell Hermanhas been appointed assistant systems librarian at the D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Maryann Hugheshas been appointed reference and instruction librarian in life sciences at Penfield Library, State University of New York, Oswego.

Frank Immleris the new bibliographer for the humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Susan Klingberghas been appointed assistant education and psychology reference librarian at California State University, Sacramento.

BrendaL. Kuchinsky has accepted a position as cataloger at Warner Edison Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was formerly cataloger in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library.

Mary Lee Kvhtzis now library instruction librarian and assistant head of reference, Mercy College Libraries, Westchester County, New York.

Tina Lesnikhas been appointed South Asian bibliographer at Columbia University, New York.

Sharon Linhas been appointed serials cataloger at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

JohnG. Lorenz, executive director of the Association of Research Libraries, is serving as library consultant and interim director on the improvement and expansion of services and facilities of the Learning Resources Center, Southeastern University, Washington, D.C.

Nancy Margolinhas been appointed reference librarian at the Bailey Library at the University of Vermont, Burlington.

Nancy Masterhas joined the staff of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Library as education bibliographer.

MarciaJ. Myers has been appointed associate director of administrative services, University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville.

Gerald Notarohas been appointed to the staff of Franklin College Library, Franklin, Indiana, as instructional media specialist.

Keith Pattersonis now government publications librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Rachel Pleuthnerhas been appointed assistant reference librarian at the Milne Library, State University of New York at Geneseo.

Cathy Pollarihas been appointed assistant textiles librarian at the D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Janet Prenticeis the new reference librarian at the University of Rochester, New York.

Lynn Randallhas been appointed reference librarian at the Sherman H. Masten Learning Resource Center, County College of Morris, Randolph, New Jersey.

Ted Sheldonhas been appointed associate director of libraries at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

IlianaL. Sonntag has been appointed reference librarian at San Diego State University Library, California.

N. Kristine Stahly is now assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Robert Staleyhas been appointed associate librarian at Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park.

John Stalkerhas been appointed head reference librarian at Bapst Library, Boston College.

Natalie Oakes Sturris the new reference and instruction librarian in physical sciences at the Penfield Library, State University of New York at Oswego.

JaniceL. Thompson has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Southern California Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles.

ThomasA. Townsend is now head of the Serials Processing Section, Iowa State University, Ames.

John Vasihas been named assistant university librarian for administrative services and planning at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Vera Warrickhas been appointed serials cataloger at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

CaroleF. Wilson has been appointed senior assistant librarian of the Media and Curriculum Center, San Diego State University Library, California.

Phil Zorichhas accepted an appointment as special collections librarian, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa.

RETIREMENTS

VirginiaA. Fox retired on December 31 after 23 years of service with the University of California, Berkeley, Library. She had been head librarian of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library since 1967.

Rod Hardieswill retire in June from his position as head of the Science Division of the University of Idaho Library, Moscow.

Charles Webbert,special collections and archives librarian at the University of Idaho, will retire in June after 33 years of service.

Estelle Brodmanwill retire as librarian and professor of medical history at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, on June 30, after serving in that capacity for 20 years. Earlier she was assistant librarian for public services at the National Library of Medicine, Washington, for 11 years, and in various positions at the Medical Library of Columbia University, New York.

Estelle Brodman

In addition to her work as a practicing medical librarian, Brodman taught librarianship at Columbia University, Catholic University, the University of Missouri, and Keio University in Tokyo, and medical history at Washington University. She was consultant to a number of biomedical libraries in the United States and was technical expert for the World Health Organization and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in India and Thailand.

Among her honors were an honorary doctorate from the University of Illinois Medical School, the Marcia C. Noyes Award of the Medical Library Association, the John Cotton Dana Award of the Special Libraries Association, the Woman of the Year Award of the St. Louis Chapter of the American Association for University Women, and the Murray Gottlieb Award for historical writing.

For ten years she edited the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and was president of that group in 1964-65. She was a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Libraries, and Chairman of the Biomedical Communication Study Section of the National Institutes of Health. In her honor the Washington University School of Medicine has set up an Estelle Brodman Lectureship Fund.

CHINESE LIBRARY AUTOMATION WORKSHOP

The International Workshop on Chinese Library Automation, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Library Association of China (at Taipei), and the Republic of China Committee for Scientific and Scholarly Cooperation with the United States, was held in Taipei, February 14-19, 1981. Librarians, philologists, computer and information scientists from eight countries attended the conference.

Thirty papers on the automation of Chinese characters and language were read, and fourteen computer manufacturers presented online demonstrations of several Chinese library automated systems. Another highlight was a discussion of the formation and preparation of the comprehensive Chinese Character Code for Information Exchange and the Chinese MARC Format for Books. Information on the latter monograph may be obtained by writing to the Library Association of China (at Taipei), 43 Nan Hai Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

DEATHS

PhillipE. Greer, assistant librarian in the Undergraduate Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, died on October 9, 1980. He had been a member of the library faculty since 1978.

Helen More,former head of the Continuations Section of the Cataloging Department, University of California, Los Angeles, died January 14. She had retired in December, 1965, after 22 years of service.

WayneS. Yenawine, professor emeritus of the College of Librarianship, University of South Carolina, died on February 21 at his home in Columbia. He was the first dean of the College of Librarianship and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1976. From 1965 to 1970 he had been director of libraries at the University of Louisville.

Wayne S. Yenawine

Yenawine graduated from Washington University with a bachelor’s in business and public administration and from the University of Illinois with an MLS and Ph.D. in library science. He was director of libraries at the Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, and dean of the School of Library Science and director of libraries at Syracuse University, New York.