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Kenneth CorYhas been appointed assistant professor in the Wayne State University library science program. Prior to joining the WSU faculty, Cory was head academic librarian at Western Montana College for 14 years. In 1985, while pursuing his Ph.D. in information studies at the University of Michigan, he was acting head of the University of Michigan’s Fine Arts Library, and for the past two years he has been involved in marketing document storage, retrieval, and transmission systems. His research interests include information control and cultural consequences of implementing new technology.

Kathleen Eisenbeishas been appointed assistant professor in the Wayne State University library science program, where she will be teaching Master’s Essay and Research Methods and Government Information Policy and Resources. Eisenbeis is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin. For her dissertation she is using the Land Remote Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 as an example of how turning data over to the private sector affects academic research. Her preliminary findings indicate that geographers in remote sensing are no longer able to afford data from the federal government’s Landsat satellite and have changed their research interests as well as the data they use in remote sensing courses. Academic geography departments are greatly reducing their purchases and have switched to alternative types of data. Eisenbeis’s study is unique in that it attempts to measure qualitative and quantitative impacts on users of information which was previously available from the federal government.

Mary Berchaus Leveringwas recently named executive director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee after serving 20 months as acting executive director. Levering has held increasingly responsible positions at the Library of Congress since 1966, when she was se- lected for the Special Recruit (now Intern) Pro- gram in the Program for Outstanding Library School Graduates. She has a B.A. in English and education from the University of Portland, an MLS from the University of Washington Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, and a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was senior editor of the law journal, Law and Policy in International Business. She is active in professional organizations and has chaired several ALA committees and ALA’s Na- tional Library Week National Partnership Task Force.

On May 1, Richard Hume Werking joined the United States Naval Academy as librarian, associ- ate dean, and professor of history. He succeeded Richard A. Evans, who retired after twenty-four years of service as the Academy’s librarian.

Werking came to the Academy after ten years at Trinity University in San Antonio, where he served the last eight years as director of li- braries and previously as associate director for collection development. From 1977-81 he was head of reference, assis- tant director for reference and collection development, and acting di- rector at the University of Mississippi Library, and from 1975-77 was a reference librarian at Law- rence University. Earlier he spent two summers at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, taught history at Northland College in Wisconsin, and worked as a Personnel Staffing Specialist for the U.S. Civil Service Commission. He received his B.A. from the University of Evansville, his M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin, and his M.A. in librarianship from the University of Chicago on a postdoctoral program sponsored by the Council on Library Resources.

Richard H. Werking

An active member of ACRL, Werktag served as chair of the College Libraries Section for 1987-88, as the first editor of the CLS Newsletter, as chair of ACRL’s continuing education committee during 1977-79, and as a member of ACRL’s Publications in Libraríanship editorial board, the doctoral dissertation fellowship committee, and the appointments and nominations committee. He has been a member of the board of consultants of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and of advisory boards for the Library Quarterly and the Texas Woman’s University Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. He was a UCLA Senior Fellow in 1989 and is the incoming chair of OCLC’s Advisory Committee on College and University Libraries.

Werktag is the author of The Master Architects: Building the United States Foreign Service, of “Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft,” in the William and Mary Quarterly, and of articles and essays on the history of U.S. foreign relations in Pacific Historical Review, Business History Review, Diplomatic History, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Reviews in American History. His interests in bibliographic instruction, collection development, library administration, and higher education are reflected in pieces that have appeared in Library Trends, Journal of Academic Libraríanship, The Library Quarterly, Library Hi Tech, and College and Research Libraries.

Lawrence A. Woods, formerly at the universities of Notre Dame and Purdue and Dartmouth College and, most recently, with RMG Consultants as vice president and senior consultant, has been named director of Information Systems and Tech- nology at the University of Iowa Libraries in Iowa City. He will have administrative responsibility for all aspects of library computing. In addition, he will have administrative responsibility for the University Libraries’ Science Division, which includes eight science branch libraries. Woods has held leadership positions in ALA and the American Society for Information Science and has several publications on the topic of library systems.

People in the news

Deana L. Astle and Charles A. Hamaker will receive the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Serials Section Bowker/Ulrich’s Serials Libraríanship Award at the ALA conference in Atlanta. Astle, head of technical services at Clemson (S.C.) University, and Hamaker, assistant director for collection development at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, will each receive $1,500 and a citation donated by the R.R. Bowker Company in recognition of their contributions to serials libraríanship. They are credited with focusing international attention on the pricing policies of serial publishers.

Lenore Coral, music librarian at Cornell University, is the youngest person to have received a citation, the highest honor bestowed by the Music Library Association. Presented at the MLA meeting in February, the citation honors Coral for “distinguished service to music libraríanship,” “vigorous, timely, far-reaching achievements in music bibliography and descriptive cataloging,” “highest standards of intelligence, skill, courage, and integrity,” and “persistent encouragement of associations, colleagues and students.”

Joanne R. Euster, vice president for Information Services and University Librarian at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, was named the 1990 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the U niversity of Washington’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Sr. Deborah Harmeling received the Distinguished Service Award from the Academic Library Association of Ohio, an ACRL chapter, for her years of service to ALAO and other professional organizations. Under her editorship, the ALAO Newsletter grew into a quarterly publication with consistent deadlines and a professional character.

H. G. Jones, curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was the 1990 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service in Documentary Preservation and Publication from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Artemis G. Kirk, director of libraries at Simmons College in Boston, has been selected as an ALA Library/Book Fellow. Her three-month appointment at the Hong Kong Urban Council Public Libraries will begin in June. She will provide assistance and recommendations for reference services; advise on building and staffing for the new Central Reference Library in Hong Kong; advise and train staff in the use, selection, and procurement of American reference tools; and train staff in the use of microcomputer technology to upgrade reference services.

Janice Koyama, head of the Moffitt Undergraduate Library at the University of California at Berkeley, has been elected president of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American Library in San Francisco. Janice is past president of the California Library Association and chair of the University Libraries Section of ACRL.

Carol Leong, principal serials cataloger at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is on leave of absence, having been invited to set up the serials unit in the library of a newly created university in Hong Kong.

Margaret Maxwell, professor at the Graduate Library School of the University of Arizona, was feted at a reception in Tucson after receiving this year’s Margaret Mann Award, given by ALA for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging and classification.

Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island was honored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) at its February Board of Directors meeting for his many accomplishments on behalf of the libraiy and education communities. Pell played a significant role in the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Library Services and Construction Act, the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, and subsequent reauthorization of each of these pieces of legislation. His efforts to establish a national policy on permanent paper are unparalleled. Libraries and scholars have Pell to thank for increased access to individual tides in research libraries, acquisition and preservation of specialized and rare materials to enhance library collections, creation of machine-readable records as a result of Title II-C of the Higher Education Act, and many other programs that significantly benefit research and scholarship as well as projects in the arts and the humanities.

John V. Richardson Jr., associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UCLA, has won two prizes for his writing. He received the 1990 Justin Winsor Prize, the highest award granted by ALA for historical writing, for his paper, “Teaching General Reference Work: The Essential Paradigm, 1890-1990.” He also won the 1991 Research Paper Competition sponsored by the Association for Libraiy and Information Science Education, for his paper, “The Architectural Logic of General Reference Work: Basic and Subordinate Level Knowledge.” Both prizes included certificates and cash awards.

Thomas A. Tollman, reference librarian at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, spent February and March in Quito, Ecuador, as a Fulbright Lecturer in library science. He reports enthusiastically that the experience was “fascinating and worthwhile.”

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, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

Rebecca Albitz has assumed the position of media services librarian in the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.

Josephine C. Anemaet has joined the staff of Oregon State University Libraries as a catalog librarian.

Craig W. Beard has been appointed head of reference services at the Mervyn H. Sterne Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Patricia Berntsen has been named assistant director of public services at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Shirley Black has been appointed lecturer in the Wayne State University library science program.

Susan F. Blaine has been named head of the Preservation Services Department at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Barbara Dewey is now director of the new Administrative and Access Services division at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Sally Dockter has been appointed humanities and social science reference librarian and bibliographer at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Steve Gass has been promoted to head of the Engineering Library and bibliographer for engineering at Stanford University.

Rodney K. Goins is now head of the Acquisitions Division at Oregon State University Libraries.

B. Faye Green has joined the staff of the Medical Center Library at Vanderbilt University as a reference librarian.

Karen Greig is the new assistant engineering librarian at Stanford University.

Anthony Hardy is now Indonesian language bibliographic associate at the University of British Columbia Libraries.

Alexander Hartmann has been appointed temporary reference librarian and instructor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.

Janet Heekin has been appointed temporary reference librarian in Woodward Library at the University of British Columbia.

Carol Hudson has joined the technical services staff of the University of Cincinnati.

Gary W. Ives has been named head of access services at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Johan Koren has been appointed lecturer in the Wayne State University library science program.

Leyla Lau Lamb is the new library conservator at the University of Michigan Conservation Lab in Ann Arbor.

Janis Leath has been promoted to assistant collection development officer at the University of Wyoming Libraries.

Sam Lee has been appointed a technical services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Douglas Lonowski has joined the staff of the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, as their first systems analyst.

Tim McAdam has been named head of acquisitions at the University of California, Irvine library.

Regina McBride has been named head of the Catalog Department of Pius XII Memorial Library of St. Louis University in Missouri.

Joyce A. Miller has been appointed public services librarian at Trinity College of Vermont in Burlington.

Michael Miller has been promoted to head of Meyer Library at Stanford University.

Roberta Pilette has joined the staff of the New York Historical Society Library as the senior book conservator.

John B. Pitcher has been appointed assistant director of automation and technical operations at BloomsburgUniversityin Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

Edward Biedinger has accepted a position as bibliographer for Latin America and Iberia at Ohio State University.

Alice Bhoades has been appointed a technical services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Ms. Dale B. Riordan is the new reference librarian for the life sciences at the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Ruth Rogers has been appointed librarian of Special Collections at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

Marianne Ryan has been named a government publications librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries in Iowa City.

Louise Saul has joined the Information Services staff at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and Information Center, Seattle.

Frank L. Slater has been named assistant director of administration and operations at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Mohamed Taleb is temporary systems librarian at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

David Tambo is now head of special collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ruth A. Thomas has been appointed field director of the Library of Congress office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Lynne Toribarahas been appointed head of the Cataloging Department at the Orradre Library, Santa Clara University.

Carl Patrick Ventorne has been named director of the Cincinnati Technical College Learning Resources Center.

Hungsen Weng has been appointed a technical services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Melanie Wilson is now health science librarian for collection management at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Lydia Wong has joined the Reference Department at North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh.

Retirements

Maxyne M. Grimes, assistant director for technical services at the Health Sciences Center Library, University of South Florida, retired on Valentine’s Day. Grimes, whose MLS is from Louisiana State University, began her career in 1947 as catalog librarian at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. After holding several positions in Mississippi, she joined the staff of the newly established medical library at the University of South Florida, where she has been the first cataloged the first head of technical services, the only assistant director for technical services, and acting director twice. She claims, in fact, to hold the world’s record for the position of acting director, having held the position February 1984-February 1985 and November 1987-November 1989. Challengers are welcome to report in.

Sara Dunlap Jackson has retired after a long and distinguished career at the National Archives and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. She began 46 years of unbroken employment with the National Archives in June 1944, when she accepted a position with the Military Records Division of the Archives.

Deaths

Wilmer H. Baatz, former assistant director of Indiana University Libraries, died in February at the age of 75. Since his retirement in 1985, Baatz had been working part-time in the IU Black Culture Center library, which he was instrumental in establishing. He was tireless in his efforts to build IU’s Afro-American collections. The author of several books and many articles, Baatz played a key role in initiating the Cooperative Four State University Project, which allowed faculty of participating institutions to use each other’s library resources. He was a native of Indiana and a graduate of IU, where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English. He subsequently earned a degree in library science at the University of Chicago, after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps and Air Force. Before returning to Indiana he headed libraries at the Federal Aviation Agency and the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C., was chief of technical services in the Milwaukee Public Library, and worked at Beloit College and the University of Rochester.

Josiah Quincy Bennett also died in Bloomington, Indiana, in February. He had come to Indiana University in 1965 to work with David Randall at the Lilly Library, technically as a cataloger, but in practice also as an authority on early printed books, Latin and Greek texts, Renaissance church history, the history of science, and bibliography. For many years he also taught analytical bibliography in the School of Library and Information Science. He held no university degree, having come to IU after a long career in the rare book trade which began in 1939 with Hamer’s Book Service in Detroit, Michigan, and ended in 1965 when he left the book department at Parke Bernet Auction Galleries. After less than two years at Lilly Library he published two books, one of them an important contribution to the study of incunabula: The First Twenty-five Years of Printing, 1455-1480. He subsequently wrote The Cataloguing Requirements of the Book Division of a Rare Book Library and collaborated on Exotic Printing and the Expansion of Europe, 1492-1840. After his retirement in 1984 he remained active as an emeritus librarian.

Gertrude M. Shaw, a mainstay of the Resources and Acquisitions Department in Widener Library at Harvard University for nearly four decades, died in February after a brief illness. She was a graduate of Cambridge Latin School and of Radcliffe College, where she took the A.B. cum laude in English in 1915. In 1917, she received the B.S. in secretarial science from Simmons College. Her first position was with the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission, located at the Medical School, but in 1918 she started work in what was then called the Order Department in Widener. Eventually she became responsible for most selection of English and American books, worked closely with faculty members concerning their recommendations, and was given the title of chief bibliographer. She retired in 1957, but for several years thereafter continued to work part-time on the Foreign Newspaper Microfilm Project. She was secretary of the Radcliffe Class of 1915, a director of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association from 1955 to 1958, and a member of the Cambridge Musical Club. She lived her entire life in Cambridge, in the Victorian house in which she was bom on May 1, 1892, according to retired associate university librarian Foster Palmer.

♦ Bibliographic Instruction in a Multi-Cultural Environment

June 28, 1991

Bibliographic Instruction Section

♦ Excellence Through Cultural Diversity Accreditation Workshop

Friday, June 28, 1991

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June 25 - 28,1991

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♦ Professional Development Courses

Friday, June 28,1991

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• Financial and Cost Accounting for Librarians

• New Technologies, New Services: Communicating Our Needs to the University Community