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Donald J. Barrett has received the Colorado Library Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 1990. Barrett has served the U.S. Air Force Academy Library since 1955, first as chief of reference and since 1959 as assistant direc- tor for public services. He was project officer for the transfer of the library from Lowry AFB to Colorado Springs in 1958 and later was proj- ect manager for a $4.5 million Academic Li- brary expansion project. He currently serves as a resource person for the Colorado Library Association, sharing his expertise on strategic planning, buildings, accreditation and academic libraries. He was the first chairman of the College Section of CLA and has been Academic Library Representa- tive on the Governing Board for over 10 years. He has also served on various committees of the Plains and Peaks Regional Library System.

Donald J. Barrett

Robert A. Drescher has been named executive director of CLASS (Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services), headquartered in San Jose, California. He previously served as manager of the Library Development Bureau at the New Jersey State Library, which is the library consultation, library extension and library grant management agency of New Jersey. CLASS is a membership-based organization dedicated to promoting library cooperation, automation, and resource sharing among all types of libraries and information centers.

Dorothy-Ellen Gross has been promoted to associate dean for academic support at North Park College and Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois. As associate dean, Gross will assist the provost by providing oversight of various academic departments which serve both the college and the seminary. She will continue as director of the consoli- dated libraries and of media services, and will also have oversight of the Covenant Archives, the Cen- ter for Scandinavian Studies, and academic com- puting. Furthermore, Gross has been appointed coordinator of faculty development for the college, a new position created in connection with a Lilly Foundation grant. The librarians at North Park are particularly pleased by Gross’s promotion because they regard it as evidence of their success in pursu- ing the model of the teaching library and evidence that the library is completely integrated into the matrix of the college.

Raul Antonio Huerta, head of learning re- sources at Mohawk Valley Community College, has been appointed by the New York State Board of Regents to a three-year term on the Library Services and Construction Act Advisory Council. The 12-member council meets four times annually and advises the state library agency on develop- ment of the LSCA plan for New York and related policy matters, assists in the evaluation of activities supported by the Act, and advises on other matters such as preparation of long-range plans and annual program statements for Titles I, II, and III.

Jay H. Lambrecht, catalog librarian at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Chicago, has received a 1990-1991 Robert Vosper fellowship from the International Federation of Library Associations andlnstitutions. It is one of two fellowships awarded annually to “outstanding librarians with an interest in and commitment to the in- ternational aspects of library service” and pro- vides $10,000 to enable a recipient to carry out research connected with issues deemed important by the federation. Dur- ing a 3-month leave provided by UIC, Lambrecht will study the implica- tions of cost-cutting measures on bibliographic control. Lambrecht chairs ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and recently completed 4 years of service on ALA’s Committee on Cataloging.

Jay H. Lambrecht

Ritva Launo was elected president of the International Federation for Information and Documentation at its general assembly meeting in Havana, Cuba. Launo is currently manager of information services at Alko Ltd., the Finnish state alcohol company, and chairman of the advisory board to the course on information services and information resources management at the Helsinki University of Technology. Trained as both a chemist and an information specialist, she has worked in the chemical industry in the U.S. as well as Finland.

Charles Sargent, formerly director of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Library, is the project director on a federal grant awarded to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Sargent will manage the daily activities of the two-year grant, a project designed to develop a strategic plan for the future development of the Georgetown University’s automated Library Information System (LIS). The San Antonio center is one of more than 25 medical libraries using the LIS system.

Ruth Seidman, head of the science and engineering library at MIT, has been appointed to the Massachusetts delegation to the White House Conference on Libraries. Assistant librarian Mark Scott will be first alternate delegate.

Dorothy Swanson, Tamiment Librarian at New York University Libraries, New York City, was presented the Commerford Award by the New York Labor History Association on November 30, 1990, for her exemplary efforts to further labor history and education.

Profiles

Clara M. Chu has joined the faculty of UCLA’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) as an assistant professor. Chu will receive her Ph.D. this year from the University of Western Ontario, where she also studied for her MLS. Chu has worked in special libraries and was technical editor for a major bibliography project at the University of Western Ontario which indexed all pre-1914 Canadian and foreign material published on Canadian science and technology. She has published extensively. At GSLIS, Chu teaches research methodology, library service to special population groups and subject access to information. Not surprisingly, her research interests include multicultural librarianship: Chu was bom in Peru and lived there until she was 10, then emigrated to Canada, and holds dual citizenship in Canada and Peru while she teaches in California.

Carol K. DiPrete has been appointed to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for a term expiring on July 19, 1991. She is dean of academic services and director of the library at Roger Williams College in Bristol, Rhode Island. Currently DiPrete is serving a 1989-1991 term as president of the Consortium of Rhode Island Academic and Research Libraries and has just finished a term as president of the Rhode Island Library Association. She is on the ALA standing committee on chapter relations. Her MLS is from the University of Maryland at College Park, and she has an MS from Oklahoma State University at Stillwater.

Peter Goy has assumed the post of vice-presi- dent of the Ukrainische Freie Universitat in Mu- nich after serving on the library faculty at City College, New York from 1961 to 1989. Goy com- pleted his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the Ukrainische Freie Universitat before taking his MLS at Columbia University, where he was a member of the library staff from 1955 to 1961. At the City College Library Goy served in acquisi- tions, cataloging, science, and reference. He worked as a bibliographer, expanding the Library’s collections in Russian Area studies, ethnicity, an- thropology, and sociology. He organized and was an instructor in and advisor to the City College Slavic-American Studies Program from 1972 to 1982. In addition, Goy has taught courses in Mu- nich, London, Zagreb, Belgrade, and Skopie on bibliographic control of Slavic materials, the his- tory of eastern Europe, and Slavic culture and civilization. His many books include Bibliography of Reference Materials for Russian Area Studies (1962), Russian Area Studies at the City College (1964), Diccionario Tecnico de Bihlioteconomia, Espanol-Ingles: Technical Dictionary of Librarian- ship, English-Spanish, lst-5th eds. (1964-1980), Slavs in America: a Selected Bibliography (1981), and Ukrainian-Muscoυite Relations During Prepa- ration of New War with Poland: End of1650 Till the Treaty of Bila Tserkva (1984).

Kriza A. Jennings has joined the staff of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Office of Management Services (OMS) as trainer. In addition to her training and staff development du- ties, Jennings will be responsible for the de- sign and development of OMS institutes on man- aging diversity in the workplace. These insti- tutes are being devel- oped through ARL’s new initiative, “Meeting the Chllenges of a Cul- turally Diverse Environ- ment,” which is funded by the H.W. Wilson Foundation. Jennings comes to OMS from United Theological Seminary Library in Dayton, Ohio, where she served as reference librarian. Her previous professional positions include acting division chief and library administrator at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wil- berforce, Ohio, as well as coordinator of public services and librarian for resource development at Wright State University’s Fordham Health Sciences Library in Dayton. Jennings has also worked as a freelance librarian and has directed her own consulting firm. In addition, she served as an adjunct instructor for Wright State University’s School of Education in Dayton and for Kent State University’s School of Library Science in Kent, Ohio. Jennings received her bachelor’s from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, a master’s in education from Wright State University, and an MLS from Kent State University. In 1988 she was selected Distinguished Alumna of the Year for the Kent State University School of Libraiy Science.

Kriza A. Jennings

Susan F. Saul received the 1990 LITA/CLSI scholarship for $2,500. The award is made to a student enrolled in an ALA-accredited program in library and information science with an emphasis on library automation. Saul has completed two- thirds of her course work for the MLS at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston, Massachusetts. A Wellesley College graduate, she worked as a systems engineer for several years at IBM. Then, while her children were young, she was a volunteer in a school library and a synagogue libraiy. She then reentered the workplace, first as a library assistant at her local library, which participates in a CLSI automated network and later at the network offices, where she continues to work on the consortium’s retrospective database conversion for 24 member libraries.

Appointments

John P. Abbott has been appointed associate head of the collection management program at the North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh.

Carol Ahmad, formerly assistant director for public services at the University of Miami Library, has been named assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Christine Avery has been appointed business reference librarian and cataloger on the University Park campus of Penn State.

Rebecca Banfield has been appointed assistant Schaffner Project librarian at the Northwestern University Libraries, Evanston, Illinois..

Donald Barclay has been appointed reference librarian with a specialty in bibliographic instruction at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces,

Betty Bengtson, formerly associate director of bibliographic control at the University of Washington Libraries, is now director of the libraries.

Bobray Bordelon has been named reference librarian with a specialty in business at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces.

Ellen Broidy is now publications coordinator at the University of California, Irvine library.

Kathleen R. Brown is the new head of the acquisitions department at the North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh.

Angela Carreno has been promoted to social science bibliographer at New York University's Bobst Library in New York City.

Hui-Yee Chang has been appointed to the general cataloging unit at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces.

Elaine Clement has been appointed the earth and mineral sciences reference librarian and cata- loger at the University Park campus of Penn State.

Ruth Cochran has been selected for the temporary reference position at the University of Idaho Library in Moscow, Idaho.

L. Mark Conrad has been appointed data archivist at Penn State, University Park campus.

Nikie Cotter is the new assistant reference librarian at the Information Science Building Libraries, University of North Texas, Denton.

Leonora Crema is the new head of the circulation division at the University of British Columbia.

Karen S. Croneis has been appointed to the new position of head of departmental libraries at Washington University in St. Louis.

Mark Dolive has assumed his duties as interlibrary loan librarian at the University of North Texas, Denton.

Lise Dyckman has joined the staff of New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City as reference librarian for instructional services.

Kim Fisher is now humanities reference librarian at Penn State, University Park campus.

Collette Ford is the new education services coordinator at the University of California, Irvine library.

Marlayna Gates has joined the staff at Bobst Library, New York University, New York City as reference librarian for interlibrary loan.

Tania Gottschalk has been named to fill a reference position in the instructional centers at the University of Idaho Library, Moscow.

Laura Green has been appointed visiting assistant librarian, music cataloger, in the music library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Peggy Green has been appointed acting director of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for the current academic year.

Kevin Harwell has been appointed documents librarian at Penn State, University Park campus.

Pat Hawthorne has joined the staff of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as administrative projects librarian.

Leonoor Ingraham-Swets is the new library and media services director at Clark College’s Cannell Library in Vancouver, Washington.

Joanna Katsune has been promoted to the position of bibliographic control coordinator at Brown University Library.

Rhonda Rios Kravitz is the new head of access services at the California State University Library, Sacramento.

Elaine R. Martin has been appointed associate director for education, clinical and research services at the Health Sciences Library and Information Center at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Patricia Masson has been promoted to the position of head of the acquisitions department at Brown University.

Gary Mayhood has been appointed to the serials record unit at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces.

Tim McKimmie has been named reference librarian with a specialty in agriculture at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces.

Catherine J. McKinney has been appointed Brady-Green information services librarian at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

W. Bede Mitchell has moved to Appalachian State University, in Boone, North Carolina, to be associate librarian for public services.

Locke Morrisey has been appointed general science librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Suad M. Muhammad-Gamal has joined the staff of the Olin Library System, Washington University in St. Louis as Islamic Studies librarian.

Linda Musser has been named head of the earth and mineral sciences library at Penn State, University Park campus.

Richard Noble has been appointed rare book cataloger at Brown University Library.

Brian Owen has been appointed senior librarian and analyst at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Kevin “Will” Owen has been appointed microcomputer systems librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Catherine Palmer has been named humanities librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Joan Parsons is the new assistant head of the biology library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Thomas H. Patterson is the new associate director at theWalter Clinton Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Lynne Redenbach has been appointed circulation and extension librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Loretta J. Rielly was recently appointed to the new position of library instruction coordinator at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

David Reimer has been named music cataloger at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Jacqueline M. Sellers has joined the staff of the Charles W. Chesnutt Library of Fayetteville State University, North Carolina as head of public services.

John Sisson is now biological science librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Jean M. Smith has been appointed library director and assistant dean for instruction at Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington.

Douglas Stewart has joined the staff of the library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as serials cataloger.

Diane Stine has been appointed catalog librarian at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.

Connie Salyers Stoner has been promoted to associate director of public services at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Karen Storin Summerhill has been selected to fill the humanities reference position at the University of Idaho Libraiy.

Robin Summers is now supervisor of bibliographic searching in the acquisitions department at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City.

Floyd Thomas Sweeting III has been appointed head of circulation and reserves in Hilles Library of Harvard University.

Anne Tanguay has been appointed Supervisor, Hayden Circulation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.

F. Nell Thomas has assumed her duties as head of circulation services at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.

Linda Terhune has assumed the new position of systems librarian at Washington University in St. Louis.

James Terry has been head of access services at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City since October 15.

Amy Underhill has assumed the position of reference services librarian at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City.

Betty Waynick, formerly monographic series cataloger, has been named microforms cataloger at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Suzanne Weiner has been named assistant librarian in the Engineering and Science Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ellen R. Westling has been appointed associate director of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.

Carol Womack has been appointed business librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

William Wong has been selected to fill a new position as East Asian librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Miles Yoshimura was appointed reference and collection development librarian at Brown University effective October 15, 1990.

Retirements

VirA C.Hinds has retired after 30 years with City College, New York. She joined that library in 1970 as chief of the education and psychology division. Among the achievements of her career were chairing a committee on reference service for the education and behavioral science section of ACRL and serving on a Middle States evaluation team that visited the Crecibo Technical College of the University of Puerto Rico. From 1983 to 1989 Hinds served City College as affirmative action officer while continuing some library duties. She continues to serve City College in her retirement through her involvement with the faculty development program and remains active as a member of the Board of the Foundling Hospital of New York and a member of the board of managers of the Lincoln Hall Home for Boys.

Helga Moody has retired from the City College Library, New York after 25 years of service concluded as chief of the circulation division, reserve and interlibrary loan. Born in Vienna, Austria, Moody attended the Philosophische Fakultaet of the University of Vienna before receiving her B.A. from the University of Nebraska. Her MLS is from Pratt, and she did additional graduate work at CCNY in Germanic literature and languages. Before joining the CCNY staff she was a junior librarian at the University of Nebraska, an assistant librarian at Colorado College, and a fellow in the serials department of the Cohen Library. She received a New York Library Club and a Pratt Institute scholarship. She can look forward to enjoying her homes in the Berkshires, Vienna, and the upper west side of New York City, according to the newsletter of the City College Library.

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Eldo Neufeld retired September 30 after being music cataloger at the University of British Columbia since 1970. Eldo was active in the Music Library Association which he served both as secretary/treasurer and as president of the Pacific Northwest Chapter. Eldo’s friends are planning to keep up with him through his music, running and cycling.

Timothy Tung has retired from the City College Library, New York after 25 years in various posts: chief of the circulation division, deputy chief of the reference division, and cataloger. A subject specialist in Asian and Chinese materials, Tung worked closely with the Asian Studies Department to build the Library’s collection. He has had numerous books and magazine articles in Chinese published in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and has translated books into English for publication here. His articles and book reviews appear frequently in such magazines as Paris Review and New Leader. In addition, he has lectured on American literature and American libraries in several Chinese cities.

Deaths

Helen Wentworth Azhderian, longtime head of the reference department at the University of Southern California, died in October. A graduate of the University of California (Berkeley) Library School, she came to UCLA in 1933 and retired in 1975. She was a lifelong member of ALA, ACRL, and the Music Library Association.

Isabelle F. Grant, rare book room librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana for many years, died in October at the age of 94. She was instrumental in building the rare book collection and was an expert in the study of books as physical objects, the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, especially Milton and Miltoniana, and recusant literature. She came to the U of I as a student in 1927.

Clayton A. Shepherd, professor of library and information science at Indiana University, died November 23 in Bloomington. A native of Washington, D.C., Shepherd had been an associate professor at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science since 1967. Before that, he worked as systems and operations manager and systems analyst for the American Society of Metals and for the UNIVAC division of Speriy Rand. At Indiana, his research centered on computer applications in all aspects of libraries and information centers, particularly the development of microcomputer-based models for automation activities. Shepherd earned his A.B. and master’s degrees from the University of Maryland and did postmaster’s work at both the University of Pennsylvania and the American University.