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M. Frances Jones, interim library director since September 1985, has been appointed university li- brarian at Cornette Library, West Texas State University, Canyon.

Jones had served as as- sociate librarian for technical and computer services since 1972.

From 1967 to 1972 she was acquisitions librar- ian at East Texas State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Oklahoma State Univer- sity, and an MLS from East Texas State Univer- sity.

Jones guided West Texas State’s participation in the Harrington Library Consortium, a mix of college, public, and school libraries in the Texas Panhandle sharing a common bibliographic database and an integrated library system. She has served in a wide variety of offices in the Texas Library Association and in community service organizations.

Linda K. Rambler has been named associate director of libraries for technical services and systems at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, effective in July.

Prior to coming to IUP, Rambler served as the state automation coordinator for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, library liaison officer with the SUNY/OCLC Network, and a variety of capacities at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries and Lehigh University.

Rambler holds a doctorate in library administration from Simmons College, a master’s degree in English from Lehigh University, an MLS from Case Western Reserve University, and a bachelor’s degree in education from Millersville State College. She has published articles in the Journal for Academic Librarianship, Serials Review, and Women’s Studies Abstracts.

M. Frances Jones

People in the news

James Donald Craig, director of the Todd Library at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has been named president of the Tennessee Library Association at the group’s annual convention in Knoxville.

Yen-Tsai Feng, the Roy E. Larsen librarian at Harvard College since 1982, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Library Science degree from Simmons College at the College’s 81st commencement exercises on May 18. Yen-Tsai Feng has also served as librarian of Harvard College (1980–1982), librarian of Wellesley College (1977–1980), and assistant director of research library service at Boston Public Library (1966–1977). Born in Peking, China, Yen-Tsai Feng holds degrees from the University of Shanghai, Colorado State College, the University of Denver, and the Columbia University School of Library Service. At the Simmons College ceremony Feng was cited for her achievements as an accomplished librarian, an effective teacher, and a valued advisor to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston on ethnic heritage affairs.

Samuel Hitt, director of the University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library, Chapel Hill, was named a Fellow of the Medical Library Association at MLA’s annual meeting in Minneapolis. Hitt has served as president of MLA, chaired its Publications Panel, and helped found the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors.

David Kaser has been named to the rank of Distinguished Professor at the all-Indiana University Founders Day cerenonies on April 16. Kaser joined Indiana’s School of Library and Information Science faculty in 1973. He served as president of ACRL in 1968–1969.

Sul H. Lee, dean of university libraries at the University of Oklahoma, was appointed academic consultnt for the Oxford/Oklahoma Library Seminar at Oxford University in England, held May

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, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

Yoko Akiba is a new catalog librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Whitney Bagnall has been appointed head of special collections at the Columbia University Law Library, New York.

Mary Alice Ball is now support services librarian for NOTIS, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Kimberly Banks-Iszard is the new reference/ collection develeopment librarian for psychology at Columbia University, New York.

Barbara Baxter has been appointed law librarian at CBN University, Virginia Beach.

SusanI. Bellois the new assistant acquisitions librarian for exchange, gifts and serials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Dee M. Best has been appointed director of library services at Davidson County Community College, Lexington, North Carolina.

Terrence A. Brooks has been appointed assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Heather Cameron has been appointed director of acquisitions and editorial development at ABC- CLIO’s Denver office.

Renee D. Chapman has been appointed head of technical services in the Law Library, State University of New York at Buffalo.

James Cheng has been appointed head of the Oriental Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ellen Cordes has been appointed assistant circulation librarian at Yale University.

Martha Dell Cooney has been appointed business librarian at Hofstra University Library, Hempstead, New York.

J.M. Edelstein has been appointed senior bibliographer and resource coordinator for the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California, effective in September.

Hal Espo has been appointed senior consultant for Information Systems Consultants, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland.

Patricia B. Farris has been appointed information services librarian at the Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama, Mobile.

Gregory Finnegan is now humanities and social sciences reference/bibliographer at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Robin Gault has been appointed head of public services at the College of Law Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Steven R. Goldberg is now technical services librarian at Williams Colege, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Gary Golden has been named director of the Camden Arts and Sciences Library, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.

Rebecca J. Gomez has been appointed head of the Interlibrary Loan Department at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

R. Ellen Greenblatt has been appointed catalog editor in Central Technical Services, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Sam Hammond has been appointed assistant curator of rare books at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Rae M. Haws has been appointed acting coordinator for library instruction at Iowa State University, Ames.

Geneva Holliday has been appointed reference/interlibrary loan librarian in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University.

John B. Howard has been appointed assistant librarian at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.

Priscilla Howe has been appointed Slavic cataloger at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Gary A. Hunt has been appointed associate director of libraries for subject and special collections at Ohio University, Athens.

Robert D. Ibach Jr. has been named director of the Mosher Library at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Chacona W. Johnson has been appointed director of grants and development for Wayne State University Libraries, Detroit.

E.J. Josey has been appointed professor in the Department of Library Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science.

Jane P. Kleiner has been appointed head of reference services at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Blake Landor is a new catalog librarian at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Louise M. Langdon is now ORION user services librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Irene M. Lovas is the new resource development coordinator at the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service in the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael Lynch has been named assistant director of the College of Law Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Theresa McDevitt has been appointed government publications/reference librarian at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Mary Beth Meredith is a new cataloger at the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago.

Salvador Miranda has been appointed assistant director for collection development at Florida International University, Tamiami Campus, Miami.

Marilyn K. Moody has been appointed head of the Access Services Department at Iowa State University Library, Ames.

Glenda Morris has been appointed reference librarian at St. Johns River Community College, Palatka, Florida.

Susan M. Mueller has been appointed health sciences cataloger at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Michael M. Noga has been appointed head of the Geology-Geophysics Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Terrence D. Nollen has been appointed education bibliographer at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Larry R. Oberg has been named director of the library at Albion College, Michigan.

Scott Pagel has been appointed assistant law librarian for public services at Columbia University, New York.

Isabel M. Pinto has been appointed information services librarian at the Health Sciences Library, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Victoria Reich is now head of the Acquisitions Branch of the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.

Suzanne Remusat has been appointed reference librarian at Marymount Manhattan College, New York City.

Martha K. Renick has been appointed assistant law librarian for public services at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Jan L. Rice has been appointed science librarian at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Ruth A. Riley has been appointed information services librarian at the Health Sciences Library, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Theresa Ryan has been promoted to head of ORION user services at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Lily G. Schwartz has been appointed archivist of the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center at the Balch Institute, Philadelphia.

S. Diane Shaw is the new catalog librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Dorothy S. Tao has joined the Information Dissemination Department of the Health Science Library at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

M. Susan Taraba has been appointed catalog librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Michel Theriault has been appointed assistant professor on the Faculty of Canon Law, Saint Paul University, Ottawa.

Polly Thistlethwaite has been appointed head of the Circulation Unit, New York University.

Bo-Gay Tong is now associate ORION user services librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Daniel Tsang is now reference librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Katherine L. Walter has been appointed chair of the Serials Department at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Keith E. Washburn has been named executive director of the Central New York Library Resources Council, Syracuse.

Beth Weil has been appointed biology librarian at the University of California, Berkeley.

Margaret R. Wells has been appointed head of bibliographic instruction at the Undergraduate Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Joyce L. Wemer is the new cataloger at Eastern Washington University, Cheney.

Virginia Wise has been appointed associate reference librarian in the University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor.

Brian Zaccaria has been appointed real estate librarian at the Jack Brause Real Estate Institute Library, New York University.

Retirements

Ann M. Carper has retired as director of the Elizabethtown College Library, Pennsylvania.

Jesús and Celia Leyte-Vidal retired from the staff of Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina, on December 20 after 20 years of service. Jesús was librarian for Ibero and Latin American materials and his wife Celia was responsible for processing Duke’s Guido Mazzoni collection. The couple obtained their MLS degrees at Emporia State University after emigrating from Cuba in 1961.

John Liu, Oriental studies librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson, retired on June 30 after 20 years of service. Liu obtained an MLS from Columbia University and a master’s degree in sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York.

Robert Lockard, documents librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene, retired April 30 after 25 years of service. He had also held positions as social science librarian and reference librarian. He received his MLS from the University of Denver in 1956 and a master’s degree in political science at the University of Oregon.

Donald O. Rod, director of library services at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, retired June 30 after 33 years of service. He had earlier served as head librarian at Augustana College for 10 years and as assistant librarian at Luther College for 3 years. He received his ABLS degree from the University of Michigan in 1940 and pursued additional graduate work in library science at the University of Chicago and Rutgers University.

Rod has been active in ALA and ACRL, serving terms on the ALA Council and on the standards committees that prepared the first college and community college library standards. He has been a library building consultant to more than 40 colleges and universities throughout the United States. In honor of his services to the University of Northern Iowa, the State Board of Regents has named the library building the Donald O. Rod Library.

John A. Witmer will retire in August as director of the Mosher Library at Dallas Theological Seminary, a post he has held since 1963. Witmer joined the Seminary faculty in 1947, teaching in the Systematic Theology department along with his library responsibilities.

Death

Fred Carrington Cole, president of the Council on Library Resources from 1967 to 1977 and a member of its board of directors since 1962, died on May 6 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. While serving as a special consultant for the Ford Foundation’s education program in 1954–1955, Cole began inquiring into the problems facing the nation’s libraries. It was in part his awareness of these problems that contributed to the establishment of the Council on Library Resources by the Foundation in 1956.