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PAUL BUCHANANhas been appointed director of computing and telecommunications at the Wash- ington University Libraries, St. Louis, Missouri. Buchanan was most recently library systems analyst at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland and, before that, systems librarian at the Texas College of Osteo- pathic Medicine in Fort Worth. His corporate ex- perience includes man- aging support systems and technical services for computer operations at Fairchild Semiconductor Corp, in Puyallup, Washington, and supervising computer operations for a facility of Texas Instruments in Dallas, where he also designed and implemented applications for automated semiconductor manufacturing systems. He also developed office automation systems for North Texas State University in Denton. Buchanan holds abachelor’s in mathematical science from the University ofTexas, Dallas, andan MLS from North Texas State University.

Paul Buchanan

JEFFREY HORRELL, assistant university librarian for personnel, budget, and planning at Syracuse University, has been named librarian of the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University effective in April 1992. Horrell is a former head of the Sherman Art Library at Dartmouth College and a past-president of the Art Libraries Society of North America. He went to Syracuse in 1986 as a participant in the Library Management Intern Program sponsored by the Council on Library Resources and served one year under university librarian David Stam. He stayed on as assistant to the university librarian for planning, then was appointed to the position he currently holds. He received a bachelor’s in philosophy from Miami University of Ohio, and a master’s in history of art and an MLS from the University of Michigan. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in humanities from Syracuse University.

IMRE MESZAROShas been appointed director of the I. D. Weeks Library at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion. Meszaros, who most recently was director of the library at Sul Ross State Univer- sity in Alpine, Texas, has also been director of the library at Villa Julie Col- lege in Stevenson, Mary- land, and of the Witt- enberg University Li- brary in Springfield, Ohio. Other positions he’s held include head of humanities services at the Washington University Libraries in St. Louis, Missouri; head librarian of the Art and Architecture Library at Washington University; and lecturer at the University of Maryland where he was also an associate librarian. Meszaros received a B.S. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1964; a master’s degree in English from the University of Maryland in 1966; an MLS in 1969 from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; and a B.S. in systems and data processing in 1982 and a master’s of information management in 1984 from Washington University.

Imre Meszaros

People in the news

JANICE KOYAMA, assistant university librarian for public services at the University of California, Los Angeles, was the recipient of the California Academic and Research Librarians (CARL) Member of the Year Award for 1991 in recognition of her “distinguished and varied contributions to CARL and to academic librarianship, the cause of libraries in California, and the academic community.”

LINDA LANDIS, dean of educational resources at Columbus State Community College (CSCC), has been awarded the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Distinguished Service Award for 1991. Landis began her career as a Slavic cataloger at Ohio State University, then became assistant librarian at CSCC. She has been very active in the Association of Educational Communications Technology and has been ALAO’s representative to ACRL.

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, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

RICHARD AMRHEINhas been appointed music librarian at the James R. Dickinson Library of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

ELIZABETH ARMITAGEhas been appointed engineering-science reference/collection management librarian at the Case Western Reserve University Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

CLIFF BISHOPhas been named assistant undergraduate librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

JEAN BISHOPis now head of reference at the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Butte.

MARYANNE P. BLAKEis now outreach services coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Region/Na- tional Network of Libraries of Medicine at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and Information Center, Seattle.

MICHAEL J. BONNARDhas been appointed assistant catalog librarian at Smith Library, Christopher Newport College, Newport News, Virginia.

DONALD BORKhas been appointed deputy chief librarian at Queensborough Community College Library, New York.

PATRICIAL. CAREY has been named natural sciences reference/user education librarian at the Natural Sciences Library, University of Washington, Seattle.

RALPH L. DALTONhas been appointed refer- ence/microform periodicals librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.

GREG FILTERjoined the staff of Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, as half-time audio-video specialist.

D. KAYE GAPENhas been named director of the Case Western Reserve University Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

VICTOR GORODINSKYhas been named assistant Slavic librarian (cataloging) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

ROBERTA B. GWILTis now head of the Monograph Unit in the Bibliographic Services Department at Syracuse University, New York.

CLAIRE HAMASUhas been named associate librarian in the Biomedical Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

PHIL HOEHNhas been named head of the Earth Sciences and Maps Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

CHRISTINE JOHNSONis now head of circulation at the Joseph M. Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

GEORGE JOHNSTONis now a cataloger at the University of Cincinnati Library, Ohio.

FREDERICK KOTAShas been appointed cataloger and public services librarian in the East Asia Library at the University of Washington, Seattle.

XIA LIhas been appointed reference librarian at the Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington.

JUDY LOWMANhas been named personnel librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

DEBORAH MCCARTHYis the new technical services librarian atXavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

PRISCILLA NEILis now assistant university librarian for personnel at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

SUSAN T. NEWMANhas been named chief librarian at the Grad Center of the City University of New York.

JANET BUTANhas been promoted to catalog librarian at the Countway Libraiy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

JOHN H. SANDYhas been appointed library director at the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Butte.

KRYSTAL SLIVKAhas been named chemical sciences reference/collection management librarian at the Case Western Reserve University Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

JOANN SWITZERhas been appointed head of the Reference Department in the Ruth Lilly Medical Library at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.

ELIZABETH J. TAYLORhas been appointed catalog librarian at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Mardigian Library.

RICK TORGERSONhas joined the cataloging staff of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.

DOREEN TURPENhas been named Library Services and Construction Act program manager for the Washington State Library, Olympia.

LINDA VOZELis now cataloger for bibliographic database management and authority control at the Case Western Reserve University Library, Cleveland, Ohio.

MARY ANNE WALTZhas been named head of the Maps/Govemment Information Unit at Syracuse University Library, New York.

MARK WATSONhas been named assistant to the dean at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Library.

ALICIA WILLSON-METZGERis now assistant reference librarian at the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Butte.

YUAN YAOhas been named principal cataloging librarian at the Joseph M. Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Retirements

JEAN G. COOK, head of the Acquisitions Depart- ment at Iowa State University Library, retired in November 1991 aftermore than 22 years of service.

A graduate of the University of Iowa in 1949, Cook earned an MLS in 1969 from the University of Oklahoma. She began her career working as a serials cataloger at Iowa State University Library in 1969 and later was pro- moted to head of the Se- rials Cataloging Section. In 1976 Cook moved to Duke University as head of the Serials Depart- ment. Four years later she returned to Iowa State as head of the Serials Department and served in that capacity until 1990, when she became head of the Acquisitions Department. Cook has served as ALA’s representative to the CONSER Advisory Group, was elected to the RTSD Board of Directors and to the chairmanship of the Serials Section, winning in 1990 the section’s Bowker/Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. She served on the OCLC Serials Control Advisory Committee, co-edited with Marcia Tuttle Advances in Serials Management (JAI Press), and served on the editorial boards of The Serials Review and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.

Jean G. Cook

MARJORIE KARLSONretired at the end of 1991 from her position as head of the Reference Department at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst Library. Uponherretirement, Karlson was awarded the University Chancellor’s Medal in recognition of her national reputation as a reference librarian and her more than 44 years in the field, including 20 at UMass/Amherst.

BERNICE WEISS, catalog librarian in the Collections Development and Management Department of the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University, retired recently from that position.

Deaths

JAMES W. BARRY, deputy associate director for library operations at the National Library of Medicine from 1977 until his retirement in 1980, died in December 1991. Barry graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1947, then received his bachelor’s in library science from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1948, and an MEd from the University of Pittsburgh in 1952. He began his career at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and subsequently worked at the Purdue University libraries, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Library, and the University of Pittsburgh Library, before joining the staff of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in 1955. At NLM Barry became head of acquisitions before leaving in 1963 to become the first librarian of the newly established Library of Science and Medicine at Rutgers University. During 1968-69 he was visiting librarian to the faculty of science at Mahidol University in Bangkok, then spenmt 1971-76 as librarian of the Arizona Medical Center Library. In 1976 he returned to Washington, D.C., where, after a brief stint as director of the Learning Resource Center/Library of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, he rejoined the NLM in the position he held until his retirement. Barry was active in the District of Columbia Library Association, the Medical Library Association, and ALA.

JOHN P. COMAROMI, editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) since 1980, died in Novemebr 1991 at the age of54. Before his appointment at DDC, Comaromi taught at the library schools of the University of California at Los Angeles, Western Michigan University, and the University of Oregon. He received his doctorate in library science from the University of Michigan in 1969 and was honored as a distinguished alumnus there in 1990. He was the author of numerous journal articles and several books on the DDC including The Eighteen Editions of the Dewey Decimal Classification (1976); Exercises in the 20th Edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (with M. P. Satija, 1990); and Dewey Decimal Classification, 20th Edition: A Study Manual (with Jeanne Osborn, 1991).

MARION DOYLE, former chief cataloger in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, died December 11, 1991. She started work at Harvard in 1958 and retired in 1961.

AARON HAUSE, head of the Government Documents Department at the University of Arizona from 1976-78, died in June 1991. He had been a librarian at Eastern Montana College in Billings since 1978.