ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

People

PROFILES

The trustees and president of Teachers Col- lege/Columbia University take pleasure in announcing the appointment of Jane P. Franck as director of the Teachers College Library. Since 1968, Franck has been librarian and administrative officer at the Ford Foundation, planning, projecting, developing, and maintaining the services of its library.

Franck’s appointment comes at a time when the Teachers College Library—which contains the largest collections in the world of books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials concerning education—is planning to renovate and expand its facilities.

Franck is no stranger to such challenges, having established new organization for the Ford Foundation Library and library services for a growing staff when the foundation moved into its new building several years ago.

At Teachers College, her work will be intimately involved with the major collections which constitute the library’s strength and which—together with such special collections as the archives of the New York City Board of Education—have made it an invaluable research tool for students and faculty, not only within the college itself, but for scholars from all over the United States and abroad.

“It is our goal to polish this jewel of a Library to a fine luster,” says Franck, “to develop it for maximum usage and make its services readily available to the community at large— locally, nationally, and internationally.”

Another important goal, according to Franck, is the “networking of the Teachers College Library with other collections, thus making it a coordinating center interrelating with other libraries all over the world.”

As a first step in this direction, the library will shortly join the Research Libraries Group, a major, established research group through which it will share acquisitions, information, and services with the libraries of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Universities, and with the New York Public Library Research Collection.

Still another goal is that of building programs, seminars, and special services around the library.

Franck’s strong international background at the Ford Foundation makes her uniquely qualified to take on her new responsibilities. She has, in addition, been serving since 1976 as a member of the presidentially appointed Ford Foundation’s Women’s Coordinating Committee, which reviews periodically the progress made on the needs, rights, and opportunities of women, particularly in the United States, but also around the world. She has just been appointed to the American Library Association’s International Relations Committee.

Franck is also consulting archivist to the New York Philharmonic; founder, member, and past chairperson of the Consortium of Foundation Libraries; chairperson of the Queens College Advisory Committee on the Post-Master’s Program for the Library Department; member of the American National Standards Institute (Z39.7 Statistics); and member of the Administrative Services Committee of METRO, the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency.

Carolyn Snyder

Susan Brynteson

The dean of University Libraries, W. Carl Jackson, has announced the appointment of Carolyn Snyder and Susan Brynteson to the Indiana University (IU) Libraries management staff. Snyder, appointed assistant director for public services, was formerly personnel librarian at IU since 1973; Brynteson, appointed assistant director for technical services, was previously employed by the University of Tennessee as associate director for technical services.

Both Snyder and Brynteson have extensive library experience, Brynteson having held the positions of head of serials and head of acquisitions at the University of Massachusetts, catalog librarian at Skidmore College, and librarian in the Acquisitions Department at San Diego State University Library. Snyder, before coming to Indiana University, served in several progressively more responsible positions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, including assistant director for reader services. She also was an administrative army librarian (Germany) for approximately two years.

Both have been active in numerous professional organizations as members and as speakers and panelists. Snyder has participated- as a panel member in numerous discussions on IU’s flexible work week and staff development pro- grams, and has led discussions on personnel- related and other issues at both the state and national level. She has been an active member of the Nebraska Library Association and vari- ous American Library Association committees. Brynteson’s professional activities have included membership on the CONSER Advisory Com- mittee, the Universal Serials and Book Ex- change Board of Directors, and the editorial board for Serials Librarian. She has also spoken at numerous professional meetings.

In addition to her professional activities, Brynteson is active with the League of Women Voters and served in both elective and appoint- ive public offices while in Amherst. Snyder was a member of the Bloomington Monroe County United Way Budget and Review Panel and the Monroe County Public Health Association.

Snyder’s appointment was effective January 1 and Brynteson’s February 15.

MichaelB. Pateis the new director of library and media services at Concord College in Athens, West Virginia. Pate is the former director of library ser- vices at the University of Wisconsin Center- Waukesha County. He was the first librarian for the Waukesha campus when it was formed as a two-year branch campus in 1966. Prior to 1966 Pate was on the reference department staff of the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Public Li- brary. He has a BA in History and MA in Librarianship from Western Michigan University.

Michael B. Pate

In 1970-71 Pate spent a one-year exchange appointment at the University of York in York, England. While in England he visited many college and university libraries throughout the British Isles and was engaged in survey work relating to interlibrary lending and special services to research students.

In Wisconsin Pate served as president of the Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, an inter-type library cooperative.

After sixteen years as director of libraries at the University of Washington, professor Marion A. Milczewski retired at the close of February.

Professor Milczewski was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1936 from the University of Michigan. He received his Bachelor of Science in Library Science degree in 1938 and his Master of Sci- ence degree in 1940 from the University of Illinois.

Following his graduation from Illinois, Milczewski worked with the American Library Association until 1947, when he became the director of the Southeastern States Cooperative Library Survey.

He joined the ALA as assistant to the executive secretary, became executive assistant to the Books for Latin America Project, was assistant to the director of international relations, and served as director of international relations before leaving.

Professor Milczewski’s interests have also rested with Central and Latin America. In 1942 he assisted in the establishment of the Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico, and in 1945 he was the official ALA representative to the Third Congress of Librarians, the First Congress of Archivists, and the First Book Fair, all held in Mexico. Milczewski has also served as a consultant to libraries in Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.

Professor and Mrs. Anabel Robb Milczewski have three children and five grandchildren. Following his retirement, Milczçwski plans to pursue his Latin American library interests. He will also be teaching this summer at the university’s School of Librarianship.

APPOINTMENTS

Riaz Ahmad —head of the Oriental Studies Collection—University of Arizona, Tucson.

David Akanbi —instructional designer in learning resources service—Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Debra Ames —acting assistant serials librarian—State University of New York at Brockport.

MeredithA. Butler—head of public services—State University of New York at Brockport.

DavidT. Buxton—circulation librarian, Firestone Library—Princeton University, New Jersey.

Anne Ciliberti —head, reference services— William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey.

Karen Edge —head of the Educational Services Department—University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis.

Mary Ann Fox —science cataloger—Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

PatriciaA. Gangi—media resource specialist—Urbana College, Ohio.

Elizabeth Ann Gillmeister —reference librarian—State University of New York at Brockport.

William Hafner —humanities liaison librarian—Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Fae Hamilton —head, OCLC cataloging section—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Khan Hassan —head of audiovisual services —Idaho State University, Pocatello.

Gay Henderson —head, bibliographic search division—Ohio State University, Columbus.

Gail Herndon —reference librarian—Ohio State University, Columbus.

HaroldV. Hosel—reference librarian— University of California, Riverside.

Charity Kamoche —readers’ services librarian—William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey.

Elizabeth Kelly —reference librarian, Health Sciences Library—Ohio State University, Columbus.

Adrienne Korman —technical services librarian—William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey.

Jay Lambrecht —Africana cataloger— Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Barry Lash—library director—Ag/Tech College, State University of New York at Alfred.

Martha Lawry —cataloger—Ohio State University, Columbus.

James Lockwood —affiliate librarian, law— Indiana University, Bloomington.

Rosalee McReynolds —cataloger—Boston University, Massachusetts.

AnnL. Maiara—readers’ services/technical services librarian—William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey.

EleanorR. Mathews—reference librarian —Iowa State University, Ames.

Margaret Metcalf Howie —head of technical services—Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri.

Ronald Miller —executive director—California Library Authority for Systems and Services (CLASS).

William James Montgomery —cataloger— Boston University, Massachusetts.

Karen Muller —monographic cataloger— Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

WilliamJ. Murdock—librarian-in-charge, Pleasantville campus—Pace University, New York.

EvelynS. Murphy—serials librarian—-Iowa State University, Ames.

David Norden —media librarian, West Campus Learning Resource Center—Ohio State University, Columbus.

Penelope Pearson —reference librarian, West Campus Learning Resource Center— Ohio State University, Columbus.

Marion Peters —head of the Chemistry Library—University of California, Los Angeles.

Nancy Pruett —head of the Geology-Geophysics Library—University of California, Los Angeles.

Marjorie Roth —instructional designer in learning resources service—Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

NancyC. Schrock—assistant librarian for visual collections—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Helen Willa Slotkin —institute archivist— Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

William Snyder —head, Newark Regional Campus Library—Ohio State University, Columbus.

Sandra Spurlock —assistant science librarian—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Marcia Stevenson —reference librarian, Newark Regional Campus Library—Ohio State University, Columbus.

Jennifer Tillis —collection development librarian—University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

Amnon Zipin —Middle East and Jewish studies librarian—Ohio State University, Columbus.

RETIREMENT

Julia Smith, head acquisitions librarian at Long Island University, Brooklyn Center, retired in January 1977.

DEATHS

Kate Kolish, associate professor emeritus at University of Pittsburgh and former head of adult services at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, died on January 14, 1977.

WilliamH. Kurth,university librarian at Washington University, died on February 27, 1977, at the age of fifty-nine. To honor his memory a W. H. Kurth Memorial Book Fund has been established at Washington University Libraries. ■ ■