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JosephF. Boykin, Jr., has been appointed director of the library at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. Boykin has been director of the library and associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, since 1970.

Joseph F. Boykin

He earned a bacnelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in library science from Florida State University and has received specialized training in library automation.

A former board chairman of Southeastern Library Network, Inc., and past president of the Users Council of OCLC, Inc., Boykin currently serves on the OCLC Board of Trustees. He is also secretary of the Southeastern Library Association.

Arthur E. Jones

ArthurE. Jones, director of Rose Memorial Library and Professor of English, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, has received the 1980 Distinguished Service Award of the New Jersey ACRL Chapter. This award is intended to honor persons who have directly enriched the librarianship of higher education through their distinguished service or achievement in the profession, especially within the New Jersey academic community. Previous recipients have included Miriam Grosh, Felix E. Hirsh, William S. Dix, John Beard, James F. McCoy, Marian Siegeltuch, Grace Schut and Jay K. Lucker.

Jones has worked with determination, energy and care to improve the library’s collection and services. When he assumed the directorship in 1956, the library was staffed with three professional librarans; at the present time there is a staff of fifteen professionals, including two subject specialists. An addition to the library complex, consisting of two inter-connected new buildings for archives and a learning center, will soon be under construction with occupancy expected in summer 1982.

Jones has served as president of the American Theological Library Association; trustee and president of the Madison Public Library; trustee of the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; member of the Morris Union Federation of Libraries Executive Board; and on numerous evaluation teams of the Middle States Association. He has written several articles on the history of American methodism and a Ph.D. dissertation on Early American Literary Criticism 1741-1820, and has contributed reviews to the American literature section of Choice, Library Journal, and Religion and Life. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Rochester, Jones received an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Syracuse University, and his MLS from Rutgers University.—Michael B. Binder, Director of Library, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey.

HelenH. Britton has been appointed assistant director for reference and instructional services of the University Library at California State University, Long Beach, effective January 12.

Helen H. Britton

Prior to this assignment, Britton served as head of the Processing and Cataloging Department of the University of Houston Libraries, and in various capacities at the libraries of Texas A & M University, Ohio State University, and the Louisiana State Library. She holds an MLS from the University of Michigan and a graduate degree in English from the University of Iowa.

Britton is an active member of ALA and ACRL. She has published articles on government publications, cataloging and classification, and personnel management in such journals as Government Publications Review and Texas Libraries.

Ronald L. Fingersonhas been named dean of library and learning resources at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, effective June 1. Fingerson has been a faculty member of the School of Library Science at Emporia State University, Kansas, since 1971. Prior to that time he served on the professional staff of the University of Iowa Library.

Ronald Fingerson

Fingerson received a Ph.D. in education from Kansas State University in 1979. He also holds master’s degrees in library science from the University of Minnesota and in English from the University of Iowa.

Active in national and regional professional associations, Fingerson is a reviewer for grant proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities and has served on the Convention Intern Selection Committee for the Association of Educational Communications and Technology. He was also director of the Heart of America Chapter of the Special Libraries Association in 1977-78.

Fingerson has been regional editor for The Library Binder (1969-71) and The Library Scene (1972-78) and has published articles in the Journal of Education for Librarianship and the Library School Review Newsletter.

Ross Stephen has been named librarian of Rider College, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Stephen joined the Rider staff as associate librarian in September 1980, and he succeeds Theodore Epstein who retired in December.

Ross Stephen

Before coming to Rider, Stephen served as associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Library for three years. He holds a doctorate in library administration from Simmons College, an MLS from the University of Illinois, and a master’s degree in theatre/communications from Ohio University.

For the past two years he has served as editor of the LAMA Newsletter, the official publication of the Library Administration and Management Association, a division of ALA.

Among his many activities, Stephen has been instructor of dramatic arts and speech at the State University of New York at Albany; lecturer in speech at Northeastern Illinois University; director of college theatre and instructor of speech/ theatre at Wright College in Chicago; and acquisitions librarian at W.R. Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.

Fay Zipkowitzhas been appointed director of the Rhode Island Department of State Library Services, effective January 5. Prior to her appointment Zipkowitz served as coordinator of library systems for the Worcester (Massachusetts) Area Cooperating Libraries, a consortium of fourteen academic, special, and public libraries.

Fay Zipkowitz

Zipkowitz served on the staff of the library of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst from 1966 to 1977; as archivist at the Abba Hillel Silver Memorial Archives and Library, the Temple, Cleveland, from 1964 to 1966; and as librarian at the Cleveland Public Library, 1959-1963. She has also taught courses at the University of Massachusetts extension program for the University of Rhode Island Graduate Library School.

Active in the New England Chapter of ACRL, Zipkowitz has served as 1980-81 president of that chapter, conference program chair, 1979-80, and chair of the Nominating Committee, 1977-78.

She holds a Doctor of Arts degree from the School of Library Science at Simmons College, a master’s degree in English from the University of Massachusetts, and a master’s degree in library science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. In 1973 she was the recipient of a fellowship from the Council on Library Resources.

Zipkowitz was also active in the Worcester Area Cooperating Libraries, the Five College Library Lecture Series, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of NELINET, Inc.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

John Yung-hsianc Laiis the new executive editor of the Journal of Library & Information Science, a bilingual semiannual published jointly by the Chinese-American Librarians Association and the Department of Social Education, National Taiwan Normal University. He was formerly professor of library science at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, and is now associate librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University. Lai also serves as vice president of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.

Louis A. Martin has been named the first Carl A. Kroch University Librarian of Cornell University. The new endowment, amounting to $1 million, is one of only a few endowed librarian’s chairs in the country. The donor, Carl Kroch, graduated from Cornell with a B.A. in 1935 and entered his father’s bookstore business, Kroch s and Brentano’s, in Chicago.

APPOINTMENTS

ElaineP. Adams has been appointed supervisor of library services for the Getty Oil Company Exploration and Production Research Center, Houston.

Barbara J. Allenis now technical services librarian at the University of Alaska Library, Juneau.

Celia Jill Althagejoined the Northeastern Illinois University Library faculty on September 1.

Jane Armstronghas been appointed applied life studies librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Bruce Barneshas been appointed instruction librarian for collection development. Southeastern Massachusetts University Library, North Dartmouth.

Shalene Barneshas been appointed instruction librarian at Southeastern Massachusetts University Library, North Dartmouth.

Kathryn Battillohas been appointed instruction librarian for audiovisual materials, Southeastern Massachusetts University Library, North Dartmouth.

Anne K. Beaubien,formerly reference librarian and bibliographic instructor at the University of Michigan Graduate Library, has been appointed manager/coordinator of the university’s Michigan Information Transfer Source, Ann Arbor.

KatherineA. Black has been appointed documents librarian at the Getty Oil Company Exploration and Production Research Center, Houston.

John Chalmershas been named librarian of the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.

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

Daniel Elliotthas been named assistant librarian of the Department of Special Collections, University of California at Davis, effective April 1.

Monica Englehas joined the staff of the University of Idaho Library, Moscow, as assistant science librarian.

Candice Feldthas been appointed music cataloger at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Frances Flynn,formerly manager of Harvard’s Countway Library Bibliographic Service (CLIMBS), has become principal librarian of the Health Services Libraries, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Patricia Gaspari-Bridcesis now geology map librarian and assistant geology librarian at Princeton University Library.

Linda Gersteinis the new reference librarian at the James R. Dickinson Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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

Betsy L. Humphreyshas been named chief of the Technical Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, after serving as deputy chief for one year.

Diane L. Johnson,formerly assistant cataloger, is now head of serials at the Milne Library, State University of New York College at Geneseo.

Darcy Kirkhas been appointed assistant law librarian for technical services at the Boston College Law Library, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Charles Kovacshas been appointed librarian of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, Harvard University Libraries.

Sally Leach,acting librarian of the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, since 1978, was appointed assistant to the director in charge of special projects.

MoniqueF. Lowd has been appointed reference librarian at the Bapst Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Colin McKirdyis the new systems librarian at Boston College Libraries, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Charles McNeilhas been appointed instruction librarian, Southeastern Massachusetts University Library, North Dartmouth.

Karen Mokrzyckihas been appointed head of acquisitions at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Susan Nutterhas been appointed assistant director for collection management in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge.

Randal Owenhas been appointed reference librarian at St. Mary’s Dominican College, New Orleans.

Albert Perdueis now assistant director for collection development, State University of New York at Binghamton Library.

Marshall Pfieferhas been appointed associate librarian for original cataloging at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Catherine Pollarihas been appointed assistant textiles librarian, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Katherine Poolehas been appointed learning resources librarian in the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University.

Patricia Proscinohas been appointed reference/acquisitions librarian at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia.

JohnA. Richardson has been appointed cataloging supervisor at Dowling College Library, Oakdale, New York.

JOYCE Rumeryis now Eastern regional librarian at the Institute for Personal and Career Development, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant.

MaryE. Sauer is the new assistant director for processing systems, networks, and automation planning in the Processing Services Department, Library of Congress.

Eileen Sheahanhas been appointed staff development librarian at Columbia University, New York.

JosephN. Srednicki has been appointed library systems analyst at Inforonics, Inc., Littleton, Massachusetts.

JohnC. Stalker is now head of reference at the Bapst Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Patricia Stenstromis the new library science librarian at the University of Illinois Library, Urbana.

Frederick J. Stielow.has been appointed curator of archives and special collections at the University of Southwestern Louisiana Libraries, Lafayette.

R. James Tobinhas been appointed reference librarian at Bapst Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

John Weinreichis now assistant librarian in the Systems and Automation Department, University of California at Davis.

CeciliaG. Wetzbarger has joined the Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., as assistant acquisitions librarian.

REMARC DATABASE

VOLUME I, NUMBER I FEBRUARY, 1981

NEGOTIATIONS ADVANCE TOWARD NETWORK DISTRIBUTION PACTS

But Individual Libraries that Sign-up Now Get the Guaranteed Low-Price-per Hit plus a ’’Most Favored Nation“ Clause

Proposed online and offline distribution agreements between Carrollton Press and major library systems, utilities, and database vendors are in various stages of negotiation.

Meanwhile, individual library systems are negotiating directly with Carrollton for custom retrospective conversion projects. (Details of how these will work are described in the “Question & Answer” column on page 2 of this issue.) The advantages to libraries that sign these four or five-year contracts are that the low price of 50 cents per hit will remain firm during the life of the contract and that, in case the records are later made available for less per hit by one of the organizations with whom Carrollton signs an agreement, Carrollton will match that price (this is the “most favored nation” clause).

Meanwhile, these libraries would be under no restrictions against transferring their records to any network or utiTily that signs a distribution agreement with Carrollton. This means that they can begin their retrospective conversion projects now and not be concerned that they will conflict with future arrangements that might be negotiated between Carrollton and their networks.

Proposed distribution agreements are now in the most advanced stages with UTLAS, WLN, and Lockheed. Carrollton has also offered to make REMARC records available to OCLC and some of its brokers under different plans which are still under discussion.

On the Inside Pages

Q&A — Answers to Questions

Most Asked by Librarians Page 2

The REMARC Project at a

Glance Page 2

6 Ways to Match Holdings to the

REMARC Database Page 3

Illustration: of REMARC Record and its LC Card Page 3

Summary of the REMARC

Record Production Cycle Page 4

MARCRONYM Contest Winners Page 4

Data entry at the Carrollton Press office in Irvine, Scotland.

THE DON’T-BELIEVE- EVERYTHING-YOU- HEAR DEPARTMENT

Six Rejects from the REMARC Rumor Factory

Have you heard that 1) the REMARC project is being fully funded by the Library of Congress, 2) the REMARC records are in the public domain and will eventually be distributed by the MARC Distribution Service, 3) the RFMARC records have truncated titles, 4) almost all of the REMARC records are already in the OCLC Database, 5) REMARC records contain a 35% error rate introduced by LC’s format recognition programs, or that 6) Carrollton Press and REMARC have been acquired by (a) Chrysler (b) the CIA (c) Pravda (d) The Tehran University Press?

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DELIVERIES TO LC INCREASE STEADILY AFTER EARLY DELAYS

A shallow learning curve plus additions to the REMARC entry itself combined with delays in equipment deliveries to put Carrollton several months behind schedule in delivering records to the Library of Congress.

In December, however, 51 thousand records were delivered to LC and this rate increased to 62 thousand during the month of January as they approached their full production goal of 100,000 records per month. In all, some 200,000 records have been delivered to LC on magnetic tape since the project began.

THE EEMARC RECORD — AND HOW IT GREW

Coverage Now Includes All Major MARC Fields Except Dewey Numbers and Notes. Collation Data Latest Added.

The REMARC records which are available to libraries online and offline contain imporant items which are called for in the Carrollton Press contract to supply copies of these records to the Library of Congress.

Longer titles, edition statements, full imprints, and most recently, collation data, have been added to the content of the original REMARC records. These enhancements, are being supplied to LC at no additional charge.

Addition of the collation data was announced following conversion with a large number of libraries attending ALA Midwinter meeting in Washington. These additions however, apply only to the estimated 5 million records that have not yet been added to the system at that time (96% of the collection).

In the beginning …

… the original machine language record was to be limited to the information appearing in the entries of the 132-volume Cumulative Title Index to the Classified Collections of the Library of Congress. (TLC): namely; title, author, date of publication, LC Class Number, LC Card Number, and indications as to whether or not the record was in MARC and had been transliterated.

Gradually, Carrollton accumulated suggestions of items that should be added

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REMARC RECORDS ONLINE AT ALA MIDWINTERWorkshop Set for San Francisco

Librarians attending ALA’s Midwinter meeting in Washington were able to inspect REMARC records displayed online at a terminal connected to UCLA’s Technical Processing Center.

Because of the fact that the REMARC project was discussed in various retrospective-conversion workshops at the meeting, a large and steady flow of interested librarians visited the Carrollton Press booths in the Exhibit Area.

Meanwhile, Carrollton has scheduled a REMARC workshop during the ALA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. It will be held on Monday afternoon, June 29th from 4:15 until 5:30 and will be immediately followed by the semi-annual Carrollton/HDI cocktail reception.

Representatives from libraries, networks, vendors, and consulting firms are expected to appear on the program or in panel discussions. Space will be limited, so interested librarians should call or write Carrollton Press for invitations.

COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION PACKAGES OFFERED TO LIBRARIES

MARC and Non-LC Records Can Now Be Acquired Along with REMARC

In spite of the impression that “everybody and his brother” offers MARC records, those libraries which have not yet acquired them in machine language can buy them along with REMARC records as part of the same retrospective conversion project for only 20 cents per hit (even less for large projects). Carrollton acquired the MARC tapes in order to merge them with REMARC records to produce its Title Index.

Meanwhile, for those non-MARC records which also register as non-hits when matched against REMARC, Carrollton on will create new REMARC records

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UCLA & ENOCH PRATT NEGOTIATING CUSTOM CONVERSION PROJECTS

Probably the first two major libraries to contract for retrospective conversion projects using REMARC will be one of the nation’s largest university research libraries and one of its major public library systems.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, Maryland has signed a letter of intent to purchase REMARC records for its system-wide retrospective conversion program, while UCLA and Carrollton are in advance stages of negotiating an agreement which would make REMARC

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Note:

This is a slightly reduced copy of page one of the first issue of our new newsletter. It will appear irregularly and will attempt to keep you informed on developments related to the massive REMARC Database Project. If you have not received a copy by mail, or would like to make certain that you’re on our mailing list for this free publication, please call or write Carrollton Press, Inc., 1911 Ft. Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22209, (703) 525-5940.

Robert Whitehas been appointed assistant university librarian for planning and budget at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Clifford Wunderlichhas been appointed cataloger in the joint library of the Episcopal Divinity School and Western School of Theology, Harvard University.

RETIREMENTS

James W. Barry,deputy associate director for library operations at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, has retired from government service. He had held that post since July 1977. Barry also worked at the National Library of Medicine from 1955 to 1963 before becoming librarian of science and medicine at Rutgers University, a post he held until 1971. In 1968 he served as a visiting librarian and consultant at the Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. He also served as head librarian at the Medical Center of the University of Arizona.

Ruth Berryhas retired after 32 years in the Reference Department of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Theodore Epstein,librarian of Rider College, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, retired on December 31 after 29 years in that position. Epstein started his career at Rider in 1951 as assistant librarian but became head librarian a year later. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brooklyn College and a master’s degree in library science from Syracuse University.

Theodore Epstein

Epstein is a member of Beta Phi Mu, the national library science honorary fraternity, the New Jersey Library Association, and the American Library Association. During his tenure at Rider he presided over the transition and move of the library from downtown Trenton to the Lawrenceville campus.

Dorothy Harmonretired from the University of California at Los Angeles Library System in December after 32 years of service. Her most recent position had been as African studies bibliographer.

Ulysses Jones,cataloger in the Library Services Division of the Library of Congress, retired on October 31 after 36 years of Federal service.

ArthurC. Kulp, associate personnel officer and coordinator of facilities at Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, New York, retired on February 1 after 35 years of service.

Sarah Dowlin Jonesis retiring as librarian of Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, March 15 after twenty-nine years of service. Before coming to Goucher she held positions as head of reference at the University of Pennsylvania and librarian of the Mathematics-Physics Library there, reference librarian at the American Library in London, and reference assistant at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where she took her library degree.

Sarah Jones

Holding a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania where she had also obtained her master’s degree, she frequently taught freshman composition and Elizabethan and Restoration drama at Goucher.

Jones, a life member of ALA, was a member of the ALA Council from 1967-1971. She served on the ACRL executive board as representative of the College Section, and worked on various ACRL regular and ad hoc committees, especially the Committee on Standards, the editorial board of Choice, and the advisory committee on the CORE collection. She was a member of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee of both ALA and the Maryland Library Association (MLA).

For MLA she has been chair of the College and Reference Libraries Section, second vice president, and editor of its journal Maryland Libraries. She also has represented private colleges on the Library Advisory Committee to the Maryland Council on Higher Education and the advisory Library Technical Committee of the Baltimore Regional Planning Council; and she has been chair of the librarians of Maryland Independent Colleges.

Jones has been a consultant to half a dozen college libraries, to the Library Services Branch of the U.S. Office of Education and the Maryland Department of Education, and has been the librarian member of over twenty evaluation teams of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

For five months after her retirement as librarian, Jones will work on the Goucher College archives in preparation for the college’s centenary in 1985.

Kathryn Renfro Lundyretired on December 31 after 35 years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. She was very active in ACRL, her most recent achievement being the publication in 1980 of Women View Librarianship: Nine Perspectives, number 41 in ACRL’s Publications in Librarianship series.

Evelyn Noblinretired as assistant cataloging librarian at the D. H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, on December 31. She had served as cataloger for 30 years.

Russell M. Smith,manuscript historian and specialist in microfilm publications in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, retired in November after more than 24 years of Federal service.

DEATHS

Marion Cobb,lecturer and librarian of the laboratory collection at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles, died suddenly on December 25 while visiting his family for the holidays. He had served the UCLA library school since 1969 and was a noted expert on Afro-American bibliography.

Peggy Fackre,librarian of the Engineering, Mathematics and Science Library at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, died in December.

Mollie Thomson,deputy librarian of Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia, died October 21 after a long illness. Thomson was New York Liaison Officer of the National Library of Australia in 1960-63 and obtained an MLS at Columbia University at that time.