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Richard A. Matzek

RichardA. Matzek, librarian at Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for the past eleven years, assumed the position of librarian and di- rector of Nazareth College’s rapidly ex- panding Learning Re- sources Center on September 1.

Nazareth President Robert A. Kidera said Matzek was chosen primarily because of his “long and distin- guished service in all areas of library opera- tions and his involve- ment in planning and constructing a library building comparable in size to the enlarged fa- cility now under construction at Nazareth.” Matzek, a professor on the Sacred Heart facul- ty, was recommended by a search committee composed of representatives of the Nazareth faculty, staff, and student body.

Matzek succeeds Charles L. Higgins, who has served as director of the Nazareth Learning Resources Center since February 1964. Currently, the center’s resources include 160,000 volumes and 1,100 periodicals and serials, the third largest collection of any liberal arts college in the Rochester area.

Kidera said Higgins will assume the duties of assistant to the president for library development. In that capacity, he will assist in the total planning and fund raising effort involved in the expansion of the Learning Resources Center and its programs.

Nazareth officials broke ground August 1 for a $700,000 addition to the present Learning Resources Center, which will double the present size of the facility and make possible a major expansion of services, particularly in the audiovisual area. The addition also will provide shelf space for a collection expected to reach 200,000 volumes within the next seven years, and incorporate additional study, typing, and meeting areas.

Matzek is a graduate of Marquette University and received his M.A. degree in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin.

Among other professional activities, Matzek serves as associate editor of Religious Book Review and Connecticut delegate and vice-president of the New England Library Board’s panel of counselors. In 1973, he completed a major study, Academic Library Cooperation in Fairfield County, commissioned by the Higher Edu- cation Center for Urban Studies, an area con- sortium of institutions of higher education.

He is a frequent contributor to professional journals and reviews books for the New York Times Book Review.

Conrad H. Rawski,information specialist and Petrarchan scholar, has been named dean of the School of Library Science at Case West- ern Reserve Univer- sity (CWRU).

Conrad H. Rawski

His appointment, approved by the board of trustees and announced by Presi- dent Louis A. Toep- fer, became effective July 1, 1977.

His selection fol- lowed an extensive nationwide search conducted with the advice of faculty, stu- dents, and alumni. He replaces William Goff- man, who became dean in 1971 and will re- main as a member of the faculty.

Dean Rawski, who joined the faculty of the School of Library Science in 1962, has been coordinator of the doctoral programs in library and information science and has been active in the development of the school as a center for research in information science, knowledge communication, and related systems. He served as acting dean during the spring semester of 1975.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Dean Rawski earned the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Vienna, and a Certificate in Librarianship at the Austrian Institute for Historical Research.

In 1939 he came to the United States where he pursued postdoctoral studies at Harvard and Cornell universities. In 1950 he joined the faculty of Ithaca College where he became director of Graduate Studies and, later, dean of the School of Music, a post he held from 1953 to 1957.

He earned the M.S. in Library Science at CWRU and was head of the Fine Arts Department of the Cleveland Public Library from 1957 to 1962. He is the author of numerous publications concerning the scientific study of subject literatures, their properties and structures, and of an English translation of Petrarch’s De remediis utriusque fortunae of 1366.

Dean Rawski lives with his wife in Chagrin Falls.

Y. T. Feng,assistant director (for research library services) of the Boston Public Library, has been appointed librarian at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, it was announced by the col- lege’s president, Bar- bara W. Newell.

Y. T. Feng

Feng assumed her new post on Decem- ber 1, succeeding Helen Brown, who is retiring after twenty- four years as college librarian. Before join- ing the Boston Public Library staff, Feng was affiliated with the Harvard College Li- brary, first as reference assistant, then as spe- cialist in book selection, and finally as assistant librarian. Feng has also served as a library trainee in the New York Public Library and as a library assistant at the University of Denver.

Yen-Tsai Feng, who was born in Peking, China, received the A.B. degree from the University of Shanghai and studied law at the Uni- versité de L’Aurore in Shanghai. She holds the A.M. degree in English literature from Colorado State College, the Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Denver (including eighteen months of special fellowship in Paris, France), and the M.S.L.S. from the Columbia University School of Library Science.

Some of Feng’s professional activities include life membership in the American Library Association (ALA) and serving on many ALA committees, including the (ALA) Select Group to Visit the Library of Congress. She is a member of the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer.

Feng has been a visiting lecturer at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library Science. She is also a visitor, Museum of Fine Arts, Department of Public Education, and a fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Feng’s civic and cultural activities have included membership on the Ad Hoc Task Force on Ethnicity in New England, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Governor’s Task Force on Ethnic Heritage, the Board of Directors of the Boston YWCA, and the Massachusetts Bicentennial Ethnic Task Force.

At Wellesley College, Feng will administer the Margaret Clapp Library, which has a collection of approximately 600,000 volumes and more than 2,400 periodicals. Two new wings, completed in 1975, provide space for approximately 325,000 more volumes and accommodate new developments in library technology. The library is a selective government document depository and a full member of the Greater Boston Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries that includes the Boston Public Library, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Brandeis, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wellesley is a 2,000-student women’s liberal arts college, located on a 500-acre campus, twelve miles west of Boston.

Wilson Luquirehas been appointed associ- ate director of library services at East Carolina University’s Joyner Library.

Wilson Luquire

A native of Green- wood, South Carolina, Luquire is an alum- nus of Furman Uni- versity with advanced degrees from Indiana University.

Before joining the ECU library staff, he was a staff librarian at Indiana University and held an academic library management internship at the Joint University Libraries in Nashville, Tennes- see, which was sponsored by the Council on Library Resources.

In addition to his degrees in library science, Luquire holds music degrees from Furman and Indiana universities and is an accomplished organist.

His professional memberships include the

American Library Association, the Tennessee Library Association, and the American Guild of Organists.

Transylvania University, Lexington, Ken- tucky, has appointed John SheRidan head li- brarian of Frances Carrick Thomas Library.

John Sheridan

Before coming to Translyvania, Sheri- dan was technical ser- vices librarian at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. In that supervisory posi- tion, he planned and implemented the in- stallation of the Ohio College Library Cen- ter (OCLC), a com- puterized network that provides infor- mation on and loca- tion of books and periodicals in any one of the 1,200 libraries that are members. In addition, he managed a pilot utilization study, taught a library skills course, and served on several steering committees.

He also served two years at Kearney (Nebraska) State College as coordinator of technical services and as librarian of acquisitions and cataloging.

For one year, Sheridan became a volunteer librarian for the Model Cities Neighborhood Information Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He holds two master’s degrees, one in library science from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and the other in Greek studies from Indiana University in Bloomington. His bachelor’s degree is from City College of New York with major studies in classics.

He and his wife Dindy have one child.

KeithM. Cottam is the new assistant director for public services and employee relations at the Joint University Libraries in Nashville. He was previously the assistant director of libraries for the undergraduate library and associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK).

Cottam began his library career as a library intern in the Brooklyn Public Library in 1963. He served briefly as a librarian there in 1965 before moving to Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, as the assistant social science librarian and instructor. In 1967 he accepted the post of head of the Social Sciences Library at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah, where he achieved the rank of assistant professor.

As an educator he has taught in the Brooklyn Public Library Reading Improvement Program, and from 1969-72 he held a joint appointment at BYU as supervisor of the Library Technician Program. From 1972-77 he was a visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Li- brary and Information Science at UTK.

He has been active in state library associa- tions, having served as editor of Utah Libraries and in numerous convention, program, com- mittee, and section assignments for the Utah Library Association and the Tennessee Library Association. In 1975 he was named the Mary U. Rothrock Lecturer by the East Tennessee Library Association. He is also active in ALA program and committee work, including the ACRL/ULS Steering Committee and the ACRL Undergraduate Librarians Discussion Group.

Cottam is the co-author of Writer s Research Handbook (A. S. Barnes, 1977) and since 1968 has published more than twenty articles and re- ports in the fields of library service and higher education, as well as in his avocational interest, bicycling. He is a regular book reviewer for Choice and has reviewed for ARBA.

During the summer of 1971 he worked as an advisor to the National Institute of Administra- tion in Saigon, Vietnam. In 1972 he was select- ed as a BYU faculty member to the honor so- ciety of Phi Kappa Phi. In 1975 he was award- ed a CLR fellowship for a cooperative study, with the Association of Research Libraries, Of- fice of Management Studies, of the role of man- agerial and technical specialists in academic re- search libraries.

WillisM. Hubbard has been appointed di- rector of the Hugh Stephens Library at Ste- phens College, Columbia, Missouri. He comes to Stephens from Eu- reka College, Eureka, Illinois.

Willis M. Hubbard

While at Eureka, he served for four years as head librar- ian while also direct- ing the audiovisual department and doing some teaching in po- litical science. In 1972 he was appoint- ed to a part-time posi- tion as assistant to the Eureka College president, with re- sponsibilities for institutional research and plan- ning as well as remaining head librarian. His institutional research and planning position was supported by a U.S. Office of Education Title III grant.

While at Eureka College, Hubbard held a research grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study management information needs of small academic libraries. A report of this research is forthcoming. He also is a member of the National Consulting Network for Liberal Arts Colleges, funded by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation. Both of the grants are administered through the Council for the Ad- vancement of Small Colleges.

Hubbard served on the Advisory Council of the Illinois Valley Library System and chaired the system’s Personnel Development Commit- tee. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Library Technical Assistant program of Illinois Central College.

Prior to his association with Eureka College in 1968, he served as assistant science librarian (1963-67) and assistant social sciences librar- ian (1967-68) at Southern Illinois University— Carbondale.

He has a B.A. degree from Monmouth Col- lege, M.S.L.S. from the University of Illinois, and an M.A. in political science from Southern Illinois University. He is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha national political science honorary fra- ternity. He has also received a number of civic awards and has served on various public boards. He is listed in the three latest editions of Who’s Who in the Midwest.

He is a member of the Missouri Library As- sociation and the American Library Association and serves on the LAD Library Organization and Management Section (LOMS) Statistics Committee for College and University Librar- ies. He has presented programs at the 1975 and 1976 Annual Forums of the Association for In- stitutional Research and at the 1976 Annual Conference of CAUSE (College And University Systems Exchange).

At Stephens, Hubbard’s primary responsibil- ities will include developing better use of the library by students, expanding interlibrary co- operation, and the evaluation and development of the library collection.

RonaldD. Frederick has been named di- rector of the College of Saint Benedict Library in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Frederick comes to Minnesota from Indi- ana State University, Terre Haute, where from 1972 to 1977 he was a reference librar- ian and history bib- liographer. Prior to this position he was a library associate at the University of Michigan and a junior officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Ronald D. Frederick

Frederick has an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Oklahoma and an A.M.L.S. from the University of Michigan. He has been in- volved in national, state, and local archival ac- tivities. Frederick is a member of the American Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, and the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Alan R. Taylorof Johns Hopkins Univer- sity has been appointed director of the Univer- sity of Rochester (UR) Libraries, effective Jan- uary 1, 1978.

Alan R. Taylor

Taylor has been as- sociate librarian at Johns Hopkins since 1974.

A native of Eng- land, he came to the United States in 1963 as librarian for Afri- can studies at Indiana University. He also served as bibliogra- pher and instructor in the African Studies Program and as visit- ing lecturer at Indi- ana’s Graduate Library School until 1973, when he became assistant director of libraries for reader services at the University of Maryland.

After completing library studies in England in 1953, he became assistant librarian of the National Archives of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. He was chief librarian from 1956 to 1963.

Taylor founded and was first secretary of the Library Association of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1959 and was a delegate to the International Conference on Cataloging Principles in Paris in 1961. He was honorary librarian of the Central African Journal of Medicine from 1955 to 1963, a member of the founding committee of the Cooperative African Microform Project in 1964, and a member of the Association of Research Libraries’ Farmington Plan Sub-Committee on Africa from 1964 to 1969.

“We are very pleased that after a careful search we have found a librarian of Mr. Taylor’s caliber and experience to direct the university’s libraries,” said UR President Robert L. Sproull. “He has had a distinguished career in library service. We are fortunate to have his expertise as we strive for further improvements in our university library system.”

Among his many professional activities, Taylor has served as chairman of the African Studies Association’s Archives-Libraries Committee from 1965 to 1967, as president of Indiana University’s Librarians’ Association in 1970-71, and as chairman of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Asian and African Section in 1975-76. He is currently a member of the advisory committee to the Association of Research Libraries’ Collection Analysis Project.

He has received several travel grants for special research, including a grant from the government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1961 to study government libraries in Britain and France; a grant from Indiana University in 1963 to study library and archival resources in South, Central, and East Africa and Europe; a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Fellowship from the U.S. Office of Education in 1967 to study li- brary and archival resources in English- and French-speaking West Africa; and a grant from the Midwest Universities’ Consortium for Inter- national Activities in 1967 to carry out a library acquisitions program in the Cameroons region, the Ivory Coast, and The Gambia.

Taylor is a member of the Library Associa- tion and the American Library Association and is the author of numerous articles in profession- al and scholarly journals and bibliographies dealing with Africa. He also has been active as a library consultant and lecturer.

He studied at the Ealing Technical College’s School of Librarianship, the Northwestern Poly- technic School of Librarianship, the Harrow Technical College, and the University of South Africa. He was a library assistant at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1951 to 1953. He holds the professional rating of British Chartered Librarian.

Milimir Drazic,director of the library at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont, for the past three years, has been named the new director of the Victoria College-Uni- versity of Houston Victoria Campus Li- brary.

Milimir Drazic

Roland Bing, Vic- toria College presi- dent, and George C. Taulbee, Sr., act- ing chancellor of UHVC, who made the announcement, said Drazic’s appoint- ment is subject to ap- proval by the board of regents of the Uni- versity of Houston system and the board of trustees of the local college.

The new director’s library positions in the United States also have included associations with Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut; Glencoe Public Library in Glencoe, Illinois; Northwestern University Library; and the University of Kentucky Library.

Taulbee said Drazic’s extensive experience in large and small state-supported institutions as well as community libraries made him particularly qualified for the library directorship here.

In addition to his work in this country, Drazic was head librarian at the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia from 1948 to 1953. He also has been a foreign-language teacher in Strangnas, Sweden.

As part of his education, he spent five years at the University of Belgrade, receiving his master’s diploma in 1950. He attended graduate school at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Kentucky and has completed course requirements toward a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

Bing, in commenting on Drazic’s appointment, said he was “particularly impressed with the librarian’s experience abroad.” Drazic speaks English, German, French, Danish, and Serbocroat and reads English, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, and Norwegian. He also studied piano in Vienna for ten years.

Drazic was selected from more than fifty applicants replying to a national search. He is married and has one child.

Ron Naylor, who had been serving as acting librarian for UHVC, has taken a position as personnel officer for the library at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Billy Rayford Wilkinsonbecame the associate university librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle on August 15, 1977. He will be responsible for assisting Beverly P. Lynch, the university librarian, in all managerial, budgetary, and personnel matters for all areas of the university library.

A native of North Carolina, Wilkinson did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received an A.B. in English in 1955 and an M.S.L.S. from the university’s School of Library Science in 1960; in 1971 he received the D.L.S. from the School of Library Science at Columbia University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Phi Mu. His dissertation, subsequently published, was a study of undergraduate student use of the reference departments of four institutions: Swarthmore College, Earlham College, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Wilkinson began his career in librarianship during his student days, working from 1951- 56 both in part-time and in full-time positions in the reference and circulation departments of the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina. In 1959, he moved to Cornell University where he held a number of positions in the public service area, including that of assistant reference librarian and that of librarian of the Goldwin Smith Library, before becoming the first Librarian of the Uris Undergraduate Library in 1962. The success of the Uris Library was in great part due to the organizational and planning skills of Wilkinson. He stayed at Cornell until 1967 when he began his doctoral studies at Columbia University. Upon completion of his doctorate in library science, he joined the staff of the New York Public Library. Wilkinson comes to Chicago Circle from the position of staff relations officer for the New York Public Library, with responsibility for the personnel and staff development programs of the entire system, including the research libraries, the central circulating library, and all the branches, a position he has held since 1971.

Wilkinson has wide and varied experience that will be of great benefit to Chicago Circle as it develops and expands its services. He has a strong publications background that includes, in addition to his dissertation, several articles on service to undergraduates, a reader in undergraduate libraries now on press, and articles on staffing needs and personnel problems in libraries.

APPOINTMENTS

Cheryl Alexander—clinical medical librarian, School of Medicine Library—Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Esther Bloch—reference librarian, School of Medicine Library—-Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Christine Britsch—associate librarian, special collections—Florida State University, Tallahassee.

John D. Burlington—reference librarian— University of Texas at Austin.

Karen Cilli—serials cataloger, Hillman Library—University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

BartonM. Clark—education and social sciences librarian—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

R. Alan Clark—reference librarian, Robert W. Woodruff Library—Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Christine Clements—reference librarian— California State College, Bakersfield.

PaulM. Cousins— acting director of libraries—Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert J. Coxe—assistant coordinator of library programs—Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, District of Columbia.

Christine Crutsinger—assistant catalog librarian—Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Barbara Doloughty—serials librarian, Falk Medical Library—University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jerry J. Donovan—reference librarian, Robert W. Woodruff Library—Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Dennis Elder—assistant social sciences librarian—Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Cyril C. H. Feng—director of the health sciences library—University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Robert Fikes Jr.—assistant reference librarian—San Diego State University, California.

Thomas M. Gaughan—assistant to the director of personnel—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sarah C. Gillespie—acting head of reference department—Robert W. Woodruff Library —Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Edward J. Goodman—education, sociology, health, and physical education bibliographer— Syracuse University, New York.

Michael Gorman—director of technical services—University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Miriam D. Guido—catalog librarian— Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

Thomas H. Gunn—library director—Jacksonville University, Florida.

Candace Hall—assistant humanities librarian—Florida State University, Tallahassee.

AliceW. Hobson—assistant librarian, Legal Staff Library—General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan.

Jane L. Howell—engineering librarian— University of Texas at Austin.

Ray L. Howes—circulation librarian—Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

CeliaS. Huston— head of Asa Griggs Candler undergraduate library—Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jeffrey Jackson—Afro-American librarian, Hillman Library—University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

JaneA. Kerber—assistant professor and resource librarian, Medical Sciences Library— Texas A&M University, College Station.

Leonard Klein—law librarian—University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

David Kosakowski—reference librarian— California State College, Bakersfield.

Orlyn B. LaBrake—associate director— Florida Technological University, Orlando.

Ron Naylor—personnel officer—University of Maryland, College Park.

Gerald D. Palsson—sciences reference librarian—San Diego State University, California.

Maureen Pastine—undergraduate librarian —University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Richard H. Peiser—assistant acquisitions librarian, Robert W. Woodruff Library— Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Emma B. Perry—assistant professor and head of the circulation division—Texas A&M University, College Station.

Patricia Polentz—cataloger—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jane Riss—director of the library/media center—Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California.

Mary Seng—head of the special services department-—Universityof Texas at Austin.

Linda Shorh—assistant social sciences librarian—Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Joan Shreve—librarian, Buhl Library of Social Work—University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Judith A. Thompson—reference librarian— California State College, Stanislaus.

RobertL. Volz—custodian of the Chapin Library—Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

SusanC. Wagner— library services manager, Pittsburgh Regional Library Center-— Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Bruce Warr—humanities bibliographer, Archibald Stevens Alexander Library—Rutgers University, New Jersey.

ArlanH. Wipf—director of library/media services—Dawson College, Glendive, Montana.

RichardC. Wood— catalog librarian—Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

RETIREMENTS

H. Richard Archer,librarian of the Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, retired June 30, 1977, after twenty years of service.

Audrey A. Broward,library director at Jacksonville University, retired August 31, 1977.

MaryE. Cowles, special collections librarian at Oberlin College, Ohio, retired August 31, 1977.

RobertL. Talmadge, director of technical services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, retired August 31, 1977.

Ruth Walling,head of the reference department in the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, retired August 31, 1977. ■ ■