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Nancy Magnuson, assistant librarian for reader services at Haverford College since 1984, has been named director of the library at Goucher Col- lege, Baltimore, Mary- land.

Magnuson joined the staff at Haverford in 1981 as administrative services librarian. She has also worked as a re- search assistant at the Free Library of Phila- delphia (1980) and as home services librarian in the King County Li- brary System in Seattle, Washington (1978-1980). Magnuson holds a bachelor’s degree in history (1977) and an MLS (1978) from the University of Washington.

A former editor of the ACRL College Libraries Section Newsletter, Magnuson presently serves on the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Li- brarianship and on the steering committee of the CLS National Advisory Council. At Haverford, she was chair of the Three-College Library Automation Committee, encompassing Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore colleges.

Magnuson has contributed to the ALA bibliography Pay Equity and the publication The Free Library and the Revitalization of Philadelphia.

People in the news

Dwight F. Burlingame, vice president of university relations at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, was among four distinguished alumni honored at Moorhead State University’s centennial year homecoming October 9 in Minnesota. Burlingame, a 1956 business and political science graduate, went on to earn an MLS from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. at Florida State University. He worked at the University of Iowa, served in the U.S. Army, and was on the library faculty at St. Cloud State University before being named dean of library and learning resources at the University of Evansville. He later became dean at Bowling Green State before being named vice president in 1984. An active member of ACRL, Burlingame has also served as a consultant and volunteer director of several community organizations.

Donald D. Hendricks, dean of library services at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana, was presented with the Distinguished Faculty Service Award at the fall meeting of the Honors Council. Hendricks was recognized for his support of the various projects of the University Honors Program.

Mark E. Rorvig, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin, won the 1987 Doctoral Forum Award, presented annually by the American Society for Information Science. At an October 7 ceremony is Boston, Rorvig was honored for his dissertation, “An Experiment in Human Preference for Documents in a Simulated Information System.” It explores the long-standing problem of inconsistent document judgements, and how they can be fitted to two mathematical models. Rorvig’s findings are applicable to a number of measurement problems in retrieval system evaluation and also shed additional light on what many consider the elusive notion of “recall” or comprehensiveness in document data retrieval.

Appointments

(Appointments 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.)

Eileen Allen has been appointed circulation librarian in the Law Library at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Bent K. Andersen is the new marketing director for academic libraries at Baker and Taylor, Inc., Bridgewater, New Jersey.

Charles W. Bailey Jr. has been appointed assistant director for systems at the University of Houston, Texas.

Doug Bates has been appointed information access librarian for documents and cataloging at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Walter Bauman is now cataloger/reference librarian in the Law Library at DePaul University, Chicago.

Earl Bean has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Hampton University, Virginia.

Susan Beck has been named director of library services at City University, Bellevue, Washington.

Nona K. Beisenherz has been appointed circulation librarian in the Law Library at Loyola University, Chicago.

Brent Bernau has been appointed public services librarian in the Law Library at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California.

Cheryl Blackwell has been appointed bibliographic instruction/reference librarian at Albion College, Michigan.

John Bloomrerg–Rissman has been appointed cataloger for the ESTC/NA project at the University of California, Riverside.

Paul Bobo is now in charge of database searching at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Fran Brahmi has been appointed director of information services at Indiana University-Pur due University at Indianapolis.

Philip Braverman has been appointed serials and reference librarian at Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas.

Deborah H. Broadwater has been appointed catalog librarian in the Medical Center Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Nelda Burroughs has been appointed librarian of the Stollerman Library at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.

John C. Calhoun has been appointed acquisitions librarian in charge of monographs and serials at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Chang-Nan Chen has been appointed assistant catalog librarian at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

Diana Chlebek has been appointed literature and language bibliographer at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Doris H. Christo has been appointed special projects coordinator in the Gutman Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ellen Cooper has been appointed serials/ac- quisitions librarian at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.

Lori Curtis is now assistant curator of special collections at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Cary Daniel has been appointed cataloger in the College Library of Harvard University.

Jennifer D. Denlinger has been appointed reference librarian and archivist at Fairfield University, Connecticut.

Everett J. Dennis has been named director of library services at Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia.

Barbara I. Dewey is the new assistant to the university librarian at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Rebecca Dixon has been named director of the university library at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mark J. Duffy has been appointed records management officer in the University Archives at Harvard University.

Carol Ebbinghouse is the new head of public services in the Law Library at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Karen Foti has been appointed reference librarian in the Law Library at York University, North York, Ontario.

Judy Garrison has been appointed cataloger (part-time) at San Antonio College, Texas.

Carol A. Gruman has been appointed reference librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Ann H. Hamilton has been appointed head of the Circulation Department at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Carol A. Harper has been appointed reference librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Kenneth J. Harper has been appointed information specialist in the Vollum Institute Library of Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.

Merri Hartse is the new head loan librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Pam Hayes is now reference librarian in the Government Documents and Microforms Division of the College Library at Harvard University.

Nancy Henry is now information education management librarian at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Kate Herzog has been appointed head of the Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Frances Hoffmann has been appointed head of technical services and automated systems at Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas.

Eddy Hogan has been appointed data and information services librarian at Stanford University, California.

Richard A. Holland is now head special collections librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

Edwin A. Holtum has been appointed assistant health sciences librarian at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Janice Honeyman has been appointed assistent professor in the College of Information Studies at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sara Hook has been named director of the School of Dentistry Library at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Lee Jaffe has been appointed reference librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Catherine J. Johnson has been appointed assistant curator in the Theatre Collection at Harvard University.

William Lee Kingery has been appointed head of branch and external services and assistant to the director of libraries at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Kathleen E. Knox has been appointed ref- erence/documents librarian at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

Lynne Kraus is now reference librarian at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tom Kuykendall has been appointed general reference librarian at San Antonio College, Texas.

Michael M. Lee has been named dean of libraries and learning resources at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas.

Robin Leech has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

JOSEFINA P. Lim has been named director of the Cornell’s Medical Library/Tishman Learning Center at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.

Sherry Kay Little is now cataloger in the Law Library at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Salvatore M. Meringolo has been appointed chief of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Amy V. Morrison is now head of cataloging at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.

Marguerite Most has joined the reference staff (half-time) at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Scott Muir has been appointed systems officer at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Deborah Murphy has been appointed reference/ data archives librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Yukino Nakashima has been appointed East Asian law librarian in the Law Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Betty Y. Newsom has been appointed curator of the Waring Historical Library at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

Donna Nicholson has been appointed assistant librarian of cooperative access services at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Richard Nollan has been appointed reference librarian of the Stollerman Library at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.

Terri L. Pedersen has been appointed reference librarian at Emporia State University, Kansas.

Randy Penninger has been appointed archival administration fellow in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Robert Pisciotta is the new assistant director for technical services at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.

Richard Pollard has been appointed assistant professor in the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Frederick Pond is now head of reference at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.

Eric Pumroy is the new head of archives and special collections at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Keitha Y. Ramsey has been appointed manager of automated cataloging at the University of Houston, Texas.

Kathleen Reed is now assistant professor in the College of Information Studies at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gene Rollins has been appointed head of acquisitions at the University of Houston, Texas.

Lois I. Rowell has been appointed music librarian at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

David Rudman has joined the staff of the Law Library at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Gordon Russell has been appointed reference librarian in the E.K. Williams Law Library at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Margaret Schaus has been appointed reference librarian at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

Tom Scott has been appointed reference librarian in the Scott Library at York University, North York, Ontario.

Fred R. Shapiro has been appointed assistant librarian for public services in the Law Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Marilyn Shaver is the new personnel officer at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Jeff Siddons has been appointed reference librarian (part-time) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tom W. Sloan has been appointed assistant librarian dealing with microforms in the Media Services Department at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Jean V. Smolka is now reference librarian at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

Ray Soto is now public services librarian in the Theater Arts Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Lisa Spillers has been appointed information access librarian for reference and documents at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Laura Stalker is now assistant director of the ESTC/NA project at the University of California, Riverside.

Stephen Tabor has been appointed cataloger for the ESTC/NA project at the University of California, Riverside.

Carol S. Terry has been named director of library services at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

Bridget Toledo has been appointed librarian for Pre-Columbian studies in the Dumbarton Oaks Library of Harvard University, Washington, D.C.

Susie Trisler is now assistant head of the Interlibrary Services Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Felix Eme Unaeze has been appointed business/ economics subject specialist at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Rozanne Veeser has been appointed information access librarian for reference and cataloging at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

John Wagstaff has been named director of the University Media Production Department at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Hanna M. Walker has been appointed systems librarian in the ORION User Services Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Marjorie Wazeka is now circulation librarian in the Law Library at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Anita L. Werling has been named president of Cinebooks, Inc., Evanston, Illinois.

Mary Whisner has been appointed reference librarian in the Law Library at the University of Washington, Seattle, effective January 4, 1988.

Myra White has been appointed head of collection management at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Patricia Cannon Willis has been appointed curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, New Plaven, Connecticut.

John Peter Wilson has been appointed serials librarian in General Technical Services at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Yvonne Wulff is the new assistant director for collection management at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Linda Yau has been appointed medical reference librarian in the Medical Center Library at the University of California, Irvine.

Retirements

Emi Akiyama, associate director of the library at Cornell University Medical College, New York City, has retired after 32 years of service.

Robert W. Cryder, assistant health sciences librarian at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, has retired after 22 years of service.

Anne K. Donato, curator of the Waring Historical Library at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, has retired after nearly 20 years of service.

Lois Lindberg, head of cataloging at Oberlin College, Ohio, retired August 31 after 24 years of service. Lindberg was a cataloger at Carleton College from 1955 to 1963 and has been in the U.S. Army Library Service in Japan, France, and Germany.

Rinaldo Porcella, literature cataloger at Stanford University, California, retired August 31 after 35 years of service. Born in Italy, Porcella also lived in Chile before enrolling at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned bachelor’s and BLS degrees. He spent most of his career at Stanford as a rare book cataloger and became literature cataloger, chiefly of English, French, and Italian works, in 1983.

Val Poska, periodicals librarian at San Antonio College, Texas, retired August 21.

Norma J. Reger, assistant law librarian (documents) in the Law Library at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, has taken early retirement.

Deaths

Doralyn Joanne Hickey, a member of the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at North Texas State University and former dean of the library school at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, died March 18 in Denton, Texas. Hickey earned a bachelor’s degree from Rice University (1951), a master’s degree from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education (1953), an MLS from Rutgers University (1957) and a Ph.D. in religion from Duke University (1962). She was on the faculty of the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina for 12 years before coming to Wisconsin, where she was dean from 1974 to 1977. During that time she was instrumental in helping the School obtain ALA accreditation for its MLS program. Hickey served on many ALA and IFLA committees and was awarded RTSD’s Margaret Mann Award in 1973.

Elizabeth Huff, founder and head of the East Asiatic Library at the University of California, Berkeley, died September 19 at the age of 75. Huff, a 1932 graduate in English from the University of Illinois, received a master’s degree in art history from Mills College in 1935 and subsequently studied Chinese and Japanese at Harvard University. She then travelled to Japan and China, where she was detained and interned following the outbreak of World War II. In 1947, at the point of completing her dissertation at Harvard following her return to the United States, Huff was asked to reorganize and build the East Asian Collection at Berkeley, which then consisted of some 80,000 scattered Japanese and Chinese books. In the intervening years Huff oversaw the consolidation of the collection and the acquisition of numerous important items, some without parallel outside East Asia, as well as the hiring of a staff that eventually totalled 14. She retired in 1968 to resume her scholarly career.

Dorothy Long, former director of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, died June 20, 1987.

Mary Strangways Stevens, assistant director of library systems at York University, North York, Ontario, died September 5 in Toronto at the age of 57. Born in Toronto, Stevens graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy in 1952. After raising a family, she returned to the University, earning bachelor’s (1966) and master’s (1967) degrees in library science, and later teaching library automation and documentation as a member of the library science faculty. From 1971 to 1973 Stevens was visiting librarian at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, India. On her return to Canada she joined the staff at York University and was appointed assistant director of library systems in 1981, earning a master’s degree in business administration in 1983.

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