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Russell Shank

DR. Russell Shank,director of libraries of the Smithsonian Institution, will be the new librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, it was an- nounced by Chancel- lor Charles E. Young following action by the board of regents.

Dr. Shank, who will succeed Librarian Page Ackerman on July 1, is a former president of the As- sociation of College and Research Librar- ies and of the Infor- mation Science and Automation Division of the American Li- brary Association.

Libranan Ackerman will retire at tne end ot June after four years as one of the few women to be head librarian at a major university.

In announcing her successor, Chancellor Young said, “UCLA has one of the great research collections in the nation with more than 3,500,000 volumes, and we have found a librarian to match its stature.”

Dr. Shank, a specialist in reader services offered by large research libraries, is also well known for his work in library automation and in cooperative library services, particularly for his 1968 study, “Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information: A Program for Action in the New York Metropolitan Area.”

He has been director of libraries at the Smithsonian Institution since 1967. Previously he had been a senior lecturer and associate professor in the Columbia University School of Library Service, an assistant university librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, and a supervising librarian for engineering and physical sciences at Columbia, as well as serving in other library posts at the Milwaukee Public Library and the Universities of Wisconsin and Washington.

A graduate of the University of Washington, he earned a master of business administration degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1952 and a doctor of library science degree at Columbia University in 1966.

He is a member of the executive board of the American Library Association and of the board of directors of the Association of Research Libraries.

He has also served on numerous other professional committees, including the Task Force on a National Periodicals System of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

In 1968 he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Washington School of Librarianship.

Eleanor Montague,who helped form a western states library network to help libraries of all types share their resources, has been named university librarian at the University of California, Riverside, Chancellor Ivan Hinderaker has announced.

The new UCR librarian spent the past year as director of the Western Interstate Library Coordinating Organization (WILCO) at Boulder, Colorado. WILCO facilitated cooperative network development in the West, consistent with national network planning, and provided a clearinghouse and information exchange on continuing education in library and information science.

Prior to joining WILCO, Montague spent seven years at Stanford University, Stanford, California, where she served as assistant manager of Project BALLOTS (Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations Using a Time-Sharing System).

She has served as head of the chemistry library at the University of Chicago, Illinois, law cataloger for the University of Chicago Law School Library, and lecturer in the Department of Librarianship, San Jose State College, San Jose, California.

Montague participated in two projects initiated by the California State Library—PLAN (Public Library Automation Network) and the CLASS (California Library Authority for Systems and Services) Planning Committee.

“I hope to make the UCR campus and the general community more aware of the library and its resources and services,” Montague said. “We must emphasize the need for personal contact with the library user as a means to this end.”

A 1964 anthropology graduate from the University of Chicago, she earned her M.A. at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in 1967 and her M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara, California, in 1974.

APPOINTMENTS

Robert T. Bruns—acquisitions librarian— Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Leigh A. Chatterton—chief serials librarian—Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Alice Cotten—reference historian, North Carolina Collection—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Murlin Croucher—Slavic bibliographer— University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dana C. Ellingen—cataloger—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Douglas Freeman—head, automated processing department—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

David Gleim—science cataloger—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Laurel A. Gregory—information retrieval specialist—University of Idaho, Moscow.

Mary Jane Goldthorpe—serials liaison officer—State University of New York, Albany.

Janice Holliday—librarian, Science and Engineering Libraries—University of Rochester, New York.

Dennis R. Hyatt—assistant professor, associate law librarian—University of Oregon, Eugene.

Steven L. Ifshin—instructor and head reference librarian, Health Sciences Library— University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville.

Pat Kane—serials librarian, School of Medicine Library—Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Laura Levy—cataloger—Montclair State College, New Jersey.

William B. Massa—acting archivist, School of Medicine Library—Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Katherine C. Montgomery—cataloger— University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha.

Patrick FinbarrO’Dwyer—serials cataloger—Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Barbara O’Neill—visiting instructor, general cataloger—University of Oregon, Eugene.

Karol Pekar—cataloger—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Henrietta G. Pew—cataloger—University of Idaho, Moscow.

Celia Poe—map librarian—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Virginia Reeves—reference librarian—University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

William Z. Schenck—head, acquisitions department—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Eleanor Viviani—cataloger—Montclair State College, New Jersey.

Martha Woltz—reference librarian—University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha.

RETIREMENTS

Alice Taylor Moynahanhas retired as business librarian of the John L. Firmage Library, University of Utah libraries, Salt Lake City.

Minnie P. Schaberg—head acquisitions librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, retired on June 30, 1976.

Margaret Umberger—head reference librarian at the State University of New York, Oneonta, has retired after thirteen years of service.

DEATH

Louise Mullins—retired acquisitions librarian at Boston University libraries died on December 25, 1976. ■■