ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Personnel

PROFILES

Dr. H. William Axfordbecomes Univer- sity of Oregon librarian July 1, 1973. Dr. Ax- ford is a graduate of Reed College in Portland, where he received his Bachelor of Arts de- gree in 1950. He has pursued studies in history and political science at the Univer- sity of Washington and received his Mas- ter of Arts degree in librarianship from the University of Denver, which in 1969 also awarded him the Doctor of Philosophy degree in history.

Dr. H. William Axford

His professional li- brary career includes the posts of head librari- an at the Denver Post, assistant director and di- rector of libraries at the University of Denver, director of libraries at Florida Atlantic Univer- sity, and Arizona State University librarian. He has been active, serving as an officer and on committees, in the American Library Associa- tion, the Special Libraries Association, the Col- orado Library Association, and the Mountain Plains Library Association. In 1971, he served as president of the Library Automation, Re- search and Consulting Association. He current- ly is chairman of the executive board of that as- sociation. Dr. Axford was elected vice-president of ACRL this past June.

Dr. Axford is the author of Gilpin County Gold published in the summer of 1972, and of numerous articles for professional journals.

Hal B. Schelltook over as dean of library administration and director of libraries at the University of Cincinnati on January 15 of this year. Mr. Schell comes to Cincinnati after four years as associate director of libraries at Southern Methodist. Prior to this he worked at Cornell and the Universities of Maryland and Pittsburgh. In each position he was heavily involved in planning for the construction of major library facilities, including the Olin Library at Cornell and Hillman Library at Pittsburgh.

Mr. Schell has been very active professionally, including several ALA assignments, and has two articles in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. He is currently working on a reader on library buildings, to be published this year. He has recently received a Council on Library Resources Fellowship for 1973-74 to analyze the facilities planning process for academic libraries. Mr. Schell is married to Joan Schell, also a librarian.

APPOINTMENTS

J. Robert Adams—associate university librarian for administration—University of Arizona, Tucson.

John W. Aubry—coordinator of library systems—Five Associated University Libraries.

Barbara M. Batchelder—assistant catalog- er and instructor—Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Warren N. Boes—director of libraries— University of Georgia, Athens.

Judith A. Bourgeois—librarian—Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.

Merle Boylan—director of general libraries —University of Texas, Austin.

Julia E. Bugge—assistant professor, School of Library Science—Simmons College, Boston.

Melvin Carlson—cataloger—University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Katharine Cipolla—media services librarian, Barker Engineering Library—Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kathryn Crawford—serials cataloger— Syracuse University, New York.

David H. Doerrer—assistant professor and head, catalog department—Iowa State University library, Ames.

Hilma Ebanks—reference librarian—Syracuse University, New York.

Glyn T. Evans—director for library services —State University of New York, Albany.

Morris A. Gelfand—president—New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency.

Karlye Gill—assistant reference librarian —State University of New York, Binghamton.

Bessie Hahn—bibliographer of the sciences —Syracuse University, New York.

Mary Hamil—assistant librarian, Learning Resources Center—Davidson County Community College, Lexington, North Carolina.

Linda A. Habmon—reference librarian— University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

William R. Harden—reference librarian— Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Morrigene Holcomb—federal women’s program coordinator—Library of Congress.

Edla K. Holm—reference librarian—University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Harold Hutchinson—documents librarian, Cabell Library—•Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Leonooh Ingraham—acquisitions librarian, instructor—University of Oregon Medical School, Portland.

Gail Jones—assistant librarian—Middle Georgia College, Cochran.

Shiela Keil—assistant professor and catalog librarian—University of Oregon Medical School, Portland.

Margaret M. Kimmel—assistant professor, School of Library Science—Simmons College, Boston.

Jack B. King—associate professor and university librarian—Hamline University, St. Paul.

James M. Kyed—head, engineering libraries —Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nancy Lambert—art librarian—State University of New York, Binghamton.

Sul H. Lee—associate director—University of Rochester libraries, New York.

Shirley Leung—assistant librarian, acquisitions department—State University of New York, Binghamton.

Mary A. Madden—systems analyst/pro- grammer and librarian—University of Massachusetts library, Amherst.

Gordon Manning—social science librarian— University of Idaho library, Moscow.

Agnes A. Masterson—librarian, School of Library Science—Simmons College, Boston.

Gary L. Menges—assistant director for public services—University of Texas library, Austin.

Metod M. Milac—assistant director of libraries—Syracuse University, New York.

Mollie Ostwald—head, catalog coordination—Syracuse University, New York.

Robert L. Patterson—systems librarian— University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Rev. Jasper G. Pennington—librarian—St. Bernard’s Seminary, Rochester, New York.

John B. Phillips—assistant documents cata- loger and instructor—Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Janice J. Powell—staff assistant to the university librarian—University of California, Berkeley.

Jean Scanlan—reference librarian—University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Patricia Shannon—cataloger—University of Massachusetts library, Amherst.

Claud G. Sparks—dean, graduate school of library science—University of Texas, Austin.

Elizabeth F. Stroup—chief of congressional reference division—Library of Congress.

Jeffrey Tenenbaum—reference librarian— University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Vera Troitsky—Slavic bibliographer/cata- loger—State University of New York, Binghamton.

Joseph T. Wehlacz—assistant professor and engineering librarian—Memphis State University, Tennessee.

Joyce C. Werner—head, reference department, McKissik Memorial Library—University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Juliana E. Wessling—interlibrary loan librarian—Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Louise S. Zipp—assistant serials bibliographer—Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri.

RETIREMENT

Norman A. Pierce,chief of the Congressional Reference Division, Congressional Research Service, retired recently after thirty- four years of federal service, all at the Library of Congress.

NECROLOGY

Assistant professor Leverett Morton Norman of the City College Library, City University of New York, died recently after a short illness. A document specialist, he had been at the college for twenty-five years.

Millicent Palmer,associate professor of library instruction at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, died recently. Mrs. Palmer had been library instruction librarian at SIUE since 1965. Contributions to the Millicent C. Palmer Memorial Fund will be welcome. The fund is planned to provide awards for work and service in the library and information service field.