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Mary J. Cronin, formerly director of university libraries at Loyola University of Chicago, was named university librarian at Boston College, Massachusetts, effective September 8.

Holder of a bachelor’s degree in modern languages from Emmanuel College in 1969, Cronin received master’s and doctoral degrees in German literature from Brown University in 1971 and 1974 respectivelv, and an MLS from Simmons College in 1973.

Cronin was coordinator of the Boston Library Consortium and worked at the Boston Public Library from 1974 to 1976. Prior to her position at Loyola she served as assistant director for public services at Marquette University and on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Library and Information Science. Cronin has developed workshops, seminars and training programs for organizations including the Office of Management Studies, the State Library of Wyoming, the University of Maryland Libraries, and the Division of Library Services of the State of Wisconsin.

Adele S. Dendy has been named director of li- braries and satellite centers at Hampton Univer- sity, Virginia, effective July 1.

Dendy received her doctorate in higher edu- cation administration from Indiana University in 1985 and holds a mas- ter’s in education from Indiana (1980), an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh (1970) and a bachelor’s degree from Temple University (1963). From 1982–86 Dendy was education li- brarian and head of the education library at In- diana, serving previously as head of the media center, where she had responsibility for nonprint media collection devel- opment.

Dendy is immediate past chair of the ACRL Educational and Behavioral Sciences Section, and chaired two EBSS committees: Problems of Access and Control of Education Materials (1982–84), and Curriculum Materials (1984–85). She has served on the ACRL Audiovisual Committee, the LITA Membership Committee, and the ALA Pres- ident’s Committee on Library Services to Minori- ties (1984-86). Dendy currently serves on the ACRL Appointments (1986) and Nominations (1987) committees.

Adele S. Dendy

Jo Anne Hawkins,head librarian in the circula- tion services department at the University of Texas at Austin, has been promoted to head librarian.

Associated with the UT-Austin Libraries for 19 years, first as a refer- ence librarian and later as head of Inter-Library Service, Hawkins will continue her library- wide responsibilities in circulation services. She is credited with a num- ber of improvements in General Libraries ser- vices, including helping to develop and imple- ment the computer- based Interactive Circulation System and a mail-renewal service for faculty members.

In 1983, Hawkins received a $1,000 Librarian Excellence award from the university and was named an outstanding alumna of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She also holds a B.A. in studio art from UT-Austin and is enrolled in a master’s program at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

Jo Anne Hawkins

Mary Reichel, formerly head of reference at Georgia State University, assumed duties Septem- ber 1 as assistant university librarian for central services at the Univer- sity of Arizona, Tucson.

Reichel is a graduate of Grinnell College and holds an M.Sc.Econ from the University of Wales and an MLS from the University of Den- ver. She is currently working toward a Ph. D. in educational adminis- tration at Georgia State.

Active in ACRL, Rei- chel is past chair of the Bibliographic Instruc- tion Section, has served on the Appointments (1984) and Nominations (1985) committees and has served on the Academic Status Committee for four years. She has published several journal articles and given papers and pre- sentations on topics related to bibliographic instruction, including papers at the 1981 Second International Conference and the 1982 12th Annual Library Instruction Conference at Ypsilanti, Michigan. Reichel has also given papers on the impact of online searching for research and teaching to the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association.

Mary Reichel

Ada M. Seltzer has been named director of the Rowland Medical Library at the University of Mis- sissippi Medical Center, Jackson, effective December 1.

Seltzer is currently di- rector of public services at the University of South Florida Medical Center Library, and succeeds Irene Graham, who retired June 30 af- ter 31 years as the Missis- sippi Medical Center’s first director. Holder of a bachelor’s degree from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (1964) and master’s degrees from Florida State University

(1965) and USF (1971), Seltzer was assistant librar- ian at that institution from 1965 to 1968 and associ- ate librarian from 1969 to 1971. In 1971 she be- came university librarian in the reference department of the Medical Center Library and be- came director of public services in 1974.

Seltzer is a life member of ALA and is past president of the Florida Health Sciences Library Association and of the Florida Library Association. She is former chairperson of the Medical Library Association’s Florida Chapter, and has served as a consultant to several libraries in the state. Seltzer has also developed and implemented a federally funded project to compile a statewide listing of journals and periodicals received by Florida libraries.

Ada M. Seltzer

Alain Seznec, former dean of Cornell Univer- sity’s College of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, New York, and a professor of French at Cornell, has been named the new

Carl A. Kroch Univer- sity Librarian, effective November 5.

Seznec joined Cor- nell’s Department of Ro- mance Studies in 1958 after five years as an in- structor at Harvard Uni- versity. He spent five years as associate dean of arts and sciences prior to being named dean and is credited with helping improve the col- lege’s budget, facilities, and hiring of women faculty.

Alain Seznec

An expert in 17th-century French literature, Seznec succeeds Louis E. Martin, who left the post in 1985, and J. Gormley Miller, a former libraries director who served as acting university librarian during 1985–86.

George V. Summers has been named library director at East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania.

From 1964 to 1978, Summers worked at Loma Linda University in California as university library director, professor and lecturer in health education, and supervised the installation of the On-Line Information Retrieval Service and OCLC at Loma Linda. He was also responsible for the interior design and layout of a $2.5 million academic research library and a $5 million academic health sciences library there. Later Summers became visiting professor in the School of Library Science at the University of Southern California, and spent the past five years as a medical librarian at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is experienced in grants administration and has compiled an index to Hong Kong Taxation by David Flux, published in 1981 by the Chinese University Press.

Summers holds a doctorate in library science from the University of Southern California and an MLS from Drexel University. He completed additional graduate work in English at the University of Maryland and Lehigh University and received a bachelor’s degree in English from Columbia Union College.

People in the News

Lynnette Anderson, director of the Casper College Library, took office as president of the Wyoming Library Association at the organization’s annual conference in Jackson Hole. Although the association has been in existence for more than 70 years, this is the first time that a community college librarian has held that office.

John J. Jax was honored as Librarian of the Year at the Wisconsin Library Association’s annual conference in Green Bay October 29. As director of the Library Learning Center of the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Jax was commended for his innovative leadership in advancing new technology in libraries. Jax served as president of WLA in 1981, has been a member of the Council of Wisconsin Libraries for nine years, and is chairman of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries.

Vicki W. Phillips, head of the Documents Department at the Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, has been appointed by the Public Printer to a three-year term on the Depository Library Council of the United States Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. The Council, which advises the Public Printer on a broad spectrum of national policy and procedural matters, consists of 15 members from libraries of various types and sizes and meets twice a year.

Arleen Somerville, head of the Science & Engineering Libraries at the University of Rochester, New York, has been elected vice-chair and chairelect of the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society.

Zhao Jianying, representing the Patent Office of the People’s Republic of China (Beijing), and Wang Lianhai, research officer at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (IS- TIC), have been appointed as adjunct research assistant professors by the School of Information Science and Policy of the State University of New York at Albany. Zhao is a search strategist and database manager who will observe patent collection management and access systems including optical disk storage. Wang, who is in charge of foreign serial acquisitions at ISTIC, will study information systems development, serials management and selection and acquisitions procedures and policies. Both are being sponsored by the Chinese government during the 1986–87 academic year.

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.)

Elizabeth S. Banov is now assistant librarian in Reference Services at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Boston.

Nathan Baum has been appointed head of reference at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Molly Bernard has been appointed reference librarian in the Medical Library of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

David Bilyeu has been appointed assistant director of the library for collections and development at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California.

Betty Blackman has been named dean of the library at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Bridget Blagbrough is now an archival/manuscript processor with the Mellon Foundation Project Studies of Modern Documentation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Ann Shell Blakely is now library user education librarian at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Daniel Blewett has been appointed humanities/social sciences reference librarian at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Lisa Bodenheimer has been appointed assistant cataloger at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Patricia Bozeman is now head of Special Collections at the University of Houston-University Park, Texas.

Jackie Byrd has been appointed Slavic cataloger at Indiana University, Bloomington.

John Mark Califf is the new Methodist cataloger at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

Frances J. Caplan is now head of the Public Services Department of Robert Morris College, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

Alan F. Carr has been appointed circulation librarian at the Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago.

Ann Wenz Chase has been named the first director of library services at Lamar University, Orange, Texas.

Camille S. Clark has been appointed reference librarian/engineering-physical sciences bibliographer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Kerry Cochrane has been appointed assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mary Robinson Cross has been appointed head of technical services at Columbia College, South Carolina.

Prudence Dalrymple is now health sciences librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Library of the Health Sciences, Rockford.

Carol Doyle has been appointed public services librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Doreen Duff is now reference librarian at the District of Columbia Reference Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.

Charles Early has been appointed head of collection development and bibliographer for science/ engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Ann H. Eastman has been appointed public relations officer at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.

Caroll Davis Eckroat is now public services librarian at the Coraopolis and Pittsburgh campuses of Robert Morris College, Pennsylvania.

James Estrada has been appointed systems analyst in the Medical Library of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Annette Fern has been appointed assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Gavin Ferriby is the new theological cataloger at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

Collette Ford has been appointed medical reference librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Barbara Ford-Foster has been appointed engineering librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Lynne Fox has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.

Beth Freeman is now coordinator of public services at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tamara Frost is now library science bibliographer at Stanford University, California.

Marilyn K. Gage has been appointed assistant biological sciences librarian at Oklahoma State Universitv, Stillwater.

Helen Gbala has been appointed head of the Monographs Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Valerie Gondek is the new assistant health sciences librarian at the Health Sciences Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Eleanor Goodchild has been appointed chief librarian of the Science Department and curator of the science collections at Stanford University, California.

Will Goodwin is now rare book cataloger and French-Italian bibliographer at the University of Texas at Austin.

Jennilou Grotevant has been named assistant library director at Christopher Newport College, Newport News, Virginia.

Elizareth Hansen is now reference librarian at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois.

Ann Hartmere has been appointed head of the Architecture and Urban Planning Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Martha Henderson has been appointed reference librarian at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Ann Henriksson has been appointed reference and documents librarian at Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Nancy Henry has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Peter B. Hirtle has been appointed curator of modern manuscripts in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Donna Hitchings has been appointed coordinator of user education at the University of Houston- University Park, Texas.

Michael Ho has been appointed head of the Cataloging Department at East Texas State University, Commerce.

Laura L. Holland is now public services librarian at the Pittsburgh Center of Robert Morris College, Pennsylvania.

Paul F. Hosman has been appointed senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach.

Linda Joachim has been named head of the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

William Johnson has been appointed manager of the New England Deposit Library of Harvard University.

Ann Leslie Jones has been appointed serials librarian for Special Purchases and Gifts and Exchanges at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Curtis L. Kendrick has been appointed head of circulation at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Ann Klavano is now reference and library instruction librarian at Mercy College, Westchester County, New York.

Suzanne Klinger has been appointed assistant documents librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Rosemary Krolhas been appointed specialprojects librarian at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois.

Michael Lackey has been appointed assistant librarian for reference and periodicals at the Baptist College at Charleston, South Carolina.

Maureen Lamrert is now humanities/social sciences reference librarian at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Jay Lamrrecht has been appointed catalog librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Page Lane has been appointed reference librarian at the Countway Library of Medicine of Harvard University, Boston.

David Langenrerg has been appointed Jewish studies bibliographer at Stanford University, California.

Millicent Lenz has been appointed assistant professor in the School of Information Science and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany.

David Lewallen is now business librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Alice C. Littlejohn has been appointed senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach.

Molly Mahoney has been appointed reference librarian at Keene State College, New Hampshire.

Sandra Maxfield has been appointed coordinator of Computerized Information Retrieval Services at the University of Houston-University Park, Texas.

Stuart Milligan has been appointed head of circulation at the State University of New York at Brockport.

Jane mills is now coordinator of technical services at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

P. M. Mitchell has been appointed curator of the Fiske Icelandic Collection at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Renee D. Nesritt has been appointed senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach.

Ann Paietta is the new facilities manager at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Jyoti Pandit has been appointed head of Government Documents at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Taemin Park has been appointed serials cataloger at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Joan M. Parker has been appointed senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach.

Susan E. Parker has been appointed circulation services librarian in the Law School Library at Harvard University.

Gretchen Pearson is now senior assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Earle Perkins has been appointed information retrieval/reference librarian at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Laurie Potter is now information specialist for the Engineering, Life and Health Sciences, and Mines Libraries of the University of Nevada, Reno.

Cheryl A. Price has been appointed reference librarian/bibliographic instruction coordinator at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Lois Olcott Price has been appointed senior conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia.

John C. Pritchett has been named director of the library at Columbia College, South Carolina.

Timothy Pyatt is now rare books/special collections librarian at the University of Oregon at Eugene.

Sharon E. Quinn has been appointed assistant librarian in the Cataloging Department, State University College, Oneonta, New York.

Alan M. Rees has been appointed visiting professor at the School of Information Science and Policy of the State University of New York at Albany.

Cynthia Requardt has been appointed manuscripts librarian at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Ellen Richardson has been appointed assistant librarian at Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas.

Anne Rimmer has been appointed library personnel director at the University of California, Irvine.

Mary June Roggenbuck has been named acting associate dean of the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Carlen M. Ruschoff has been appointed head of cataloging at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Cindy E. Schatz is now online search specialist at Harvard University’s Countway Library of Medicine, Boston.

Janette H. Schueller has been appointed directory project librarian (half-time) at the Pacific Northwest Regional Health Sciences Library Service, the University of Washington, Seattle.

Elizabeth Kaiser Schulte has been appointed senior conservator at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia.

Robert G. Sewell has been appointed coordinator of collection management and development at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Ruth Shipley has been appointed clinical medical librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

LauraSIMIC has been appointed coordinator of library development at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Charles Simpson is now assistant director for technical services at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Alan Solomon has been appointed head of the Reference Department at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Darwin H. Stapleton has been named director of the Rockefeller Archive Center of Rockefeller University, Pocantico Hills, New York.

Janet Steins has been appointed head of the Chemistry Library at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Lisa Stevens is now head of acquisitions at the University of California, Riverside.

Julie Stielstra has been appointed assistant documents librarian at the University of Ilinois at Chicago.

Charles Ten Brink has been appointed head of reference services at the University of Chicago Law Library.

Danila Terpanjian is now cataloger in the Littauer Library of Harvard University.

Linda Thompson has been appointed acting assistant director for bibliographic services at the University of Houston-University Park, Texas.

Daniel Tsang has been appointed social sciences librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Jeri L. Vargo has been named head librarian at Wells College, Aurora, New York.

Robin Wagner has been appointed reference librarian at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Hsiao-Guang Wang has been appointed Orientalia catalog librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Lee Weston has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Northern Colorado, Greelev.

Paige Weston is now assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Jan Wingenroth has joined the Public Services staff at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Steve Wooldridge has been appointed media librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Bonita Wright has been appointed social sciences librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Debra Wynn has been appointed catalog librarian at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Retirements

Marie byrne, assistant head of the Manuscripts Division at the University of California, Berkeley, retired August 31 after more than 30 years of service. Byrne joined the Serials Department in 1955, moving to the Manuscripts Division in 1960, where she assumed principal responsibility for the processing and cataloging of foreign-language manuscripts, principally those in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. The translator of two children’s books into French for the Parnassus Press, Byrne translated into English the letterbook of Jean N. Perlot, a Belgian ’49er, included as an appendix to the biography of Perlot published by the UC Press. She was a charter member of the So- ciety of California Archivists and a longtime mem- ber of the Society of American Archivists as well as a member of the Sierra Club and the organizer of its archives at the Bancroft Library.

Richard G. Elliott retired July 1 after 28 years as librarian of The College of Idaho, Caldwell. Af- ter earning his MLS at Syracuse University, Elliott began his career as social science librarian at the State College of Washington, Pullman. Later he was reference librarian at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, becoming head librarian at Fairmont State College, West Virginia.

Thomas F. O’connell, university librarian at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, since 1975, retired June 1. He had previously been director of libraries at York University in Toronto.

Roscoe Rouse, university librarian and dean of library services at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, has announced his retirement effective July 1, 1987. Rouse has been at the post since coming to OSU in 1967, serving previously as the first director of libraries at SUNY-Stony Brook, where he established the library from the ground up in a process that took four years. He has been university librarian and chairman of the Depart- ment of Library Science at Baylor University and acting librarian at Northeastern Oklahoma State College, now Northeastern Oklahoma State University in Talequah. Rouse has also been visit- ing professor at North Texas State University and the University of Oklahoma. An expert in library planning and operation, in 1969 Rouse conducted a survey of academic libraries in New Mexico that later served as the basis for a $10 million bond is- sue. During a term as president of the Oklahoma Library Association, he was successful in pressing for legislation requiring libraries in all Oklahoma schools. He organized a now-regular meeting of state academic librarians to bring important mat- ters to the attention of the State Regents for Higher Education, and has been active in fund-raising ef- forts and in the establishment of numerous endow- ments. Under Rouse’s leadership Oklahoma State is in the first stages of a computerization project scheduled for completion late next year. The Uni- versity was the first Oklahoma academic library to become a member of OCLC, in 1975. Rouse is a member of numerous professional associations ineluding ALA, the International Federation of Library Associations, and the Association of Research Libraries.

Roscoe Rouse

Edward J. Sweny retired September 12 after 18 years of service as manager of the New England Deposit Library at Harvard University.

Phillip Wesley, dean of the library at California State University, Dominguez Hills, retired effective November 1 after seventeen years of service.

Deaths

Edward J. Bachus, senior assistant librarian at California State University, Long Beach, died September 13.

Paul Parham, university librarian at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, died August 31 after a lengthy illness.