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EARLE C. FERGUSONhas been appointed director of libraries for the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, effective July 1. Since July 1983 he has been director pro tern; during the previous year he was appointed associate director and three months later, acting director.

Ferguson first came to the University in 1970 when he was appointed cataloger for the Law Library. He is a graduate of the Universities of Windsor and Toronto, where he earned his bachelor of arts and bachelor of library science degrees respectively. He has served on a number of professional committees in the Canadian Association of University Teachers, the Canadian Library Association, the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, and the American Association of Law Libraries.

Ferguson chaired the Law Libraries Cooperative Cataloguing Group from 1972 until his appointment as associate director in 1982.

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THOMAS J. GALVIN, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA). He will serve as one of three representatives of the Assembly of Specialized Accrediting Bodies, the 37-member group that includes ALA, the American Bar Association, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. COPA is the national non-governmental self- regulatory organization that works to foster and facilitate the role of accrediting agencies in promoting and ensuring the quality and diversity of American post-secondary education.

MARTIN LEWIS, assistant librarian at the Medical and Dental Library at the University of Leeds, England, has joined the Barker Engineering Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year as an exchange program participant. Earlier, Lewis had been assistant librarian at the Leeds Science and Engineering Library, and at MIT he will be responsible for collection development activities in mechanical engineering.

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.)

AMIRA LEFTKOWITZ AARONis now systems librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

ALICJA ALTENBERGERhas been appointed cata- loger in Harvard’s Solidarity Bibliographic Center, Houghton Library.

SALLY J. ARMISTEADis now head of cataloging services at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

DANIEL R. ARRIGONAis the new reference librarian at Iowa State University, Ames.

LAWRENCE ASHMUNhas been appointed Thai language cataloger at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

CHERYL HIGHAM BEATTYis now head of public services at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut.

JOHN W. BERRYhas been appointed systems development librarian at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

ANN BIRNEYis now reference librarian for humanities at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

ALISON BUNTINGis the new biomedical librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles.

GENEVA BUSHhas been appointed head of library branch operations at the University of South Alabama, Baldwin County.

JAMES CARSONhas been appointed project archivist at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

JANET CARTERhas been appointed reference librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, Biomedical Library.

PATRICIA CLOUDhas been appointed assistant university archivist at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

MARJORIE DOYLEhas been appointed business, economics, and government publications librarian at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

BRADLEY ECKOLShas been appointed reference and government documents librarian at Wayne State College, Nebraska.

MARY ENGEBRETSONhas been appointed head of reference services at the University of South Alabama, Mobile.

BRUCE ENTZis now librarian at Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas.

JANET ERICKSONhas been appointed reference librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, Biomedical Library.

VERA L. FINLEYis now serials/audiovisuals cataloger at the University of South Alabama, Mobile.

KAARINA FLINThas assumed new duties as head of interlibrary services at the University of California, Los Angeles.

JOSEPH GABRIELis now serials librarian at the University of Lowell, Massachusetts.

JAMES GARRETTis the new cataloger at the Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago.

SUSAN GRIGGhas been named director of the college archives and the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

CLAUDETTE S. HAGLEis now head reference librarian at the University of Dallas, Irving, Texas.

FRANK HOUDEKhas been named director of the Law Library at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

MARILYN HOYEhas been appointed government documents librarian at East Texas State University, Commerce.

LAI-YING HSIUNGhas been appointed head of cataloging at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

ROGER F. JACOBShas been named director of the Notre Dame Law School Library, Indiana.

SUSAN JORDANhas been appointed director of library development at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

DEBRA S. KETCHELLhas been appointed coordinator of the Washington Health Information Service, University of Washington Health Sciences Library, Seattle.

RONNIE KLEINhas been appointed assistant reference librarian at Framingham State College, Massachusetts.

GLORY KOSMATKAis a new reference librarian at Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago.

A. DEAN LARSENhas assumed new duties as associate university librarian at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

THERESA LEEhas been appointed assistant librarian at the University of Michigan Engi- neering/Transportation Library, Ann Arbor.

JOY LILJEGRENhas been appointed Africana Project archivist at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

ABIGAIL LOOMIShas been appointed general reference and information desk services librarian at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

ELLEN MCCRADYhas been appointed preservation librarian at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

OLIVIA M. A. MADISONis now head of the Monographics Department at Iowa State University, Ames.

NEILL MEANYhas been appointed archivist for the Oregon Province of Jesuits, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

PHYLLIS S. MIRSKYhas been appointed acting university librarian at the University of California, San Diego.

DILYS E. MORRIShas been promoted to assistant director for technical services at Iowa State University, Ames.

BRUCE MORTONhas been appointed head of reference at Montana State University, Bozeman.

LARRY OSTLERhas been appointed assistant librarian for information at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

JOHN BRUCE PITCHERhas been appointed head of the Serials Department at the University of California, Irvine.

MARY ALICE POWERShas been appointed reference librarian at Harvard University’s Baker Library.

SHARON PROPAShas been appointed reference/in- terlibrary loan librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

PATRICIA G. RAMAGEhas been named automation librarian at the University of South Alabama, Mobile.

KEVIN RANDALLhas been appointed serials cata- loger at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

GORDON S. ROWLEYhas been appointed acting associate director for research services at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

CATHERINE SANBORNhas been appointed assistant catalog librarian at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

STEPHANIE SHANEhas been appointed catalog librarian at Framingham State College, Massachusetts.

JAMES SHEDLOCKis now head of public services at the Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago.

ROBERT SORGENFREIhas been named assistant acquisitions librarian at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

JEAN STEFANCICis now acquisitions and serials librarian at the University of San Francisco Law Library.

ROBERT STIVERShas been appointed associate law librarian for research at the George Washington University Law Library.

EDWARD TAWYEAhas been appointed associate director of the Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago.

EARL TAYLORhas been appointed director of library systems and operations at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

SUZANNE M. TEUTEBERGhas been appointed media specialist at Harvard University’s Gutman Library.

ROGER K. THOMASis now serials cataloger at Indiana University, Bloomington.

ELIZABETH A. TITUShas been named assistant director for public services at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

JOHN E. ULMSCHNEIDERis now library automation systems manager at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

PHILIP VAN DE VOORDEhas been appointed head of the Information Services Department, Iowa State University, Ames.

CARROLL H. VARNERhas been named assistant director for technical services at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

G. GARRY WARRENhas been named library director at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas.

J. WHALEYhas been appointed head of collection development at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

SWARNA WICKREMERATNEhas been appointed Africana Project indexer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

DAWN WILLIAMShas been appointed monographic cataloger at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

KARYL WINNhas been appointed head of the Manuscripts and University Archives Division at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Retirements

MELVA DWYER, head of the Fine Arts Division at the University of British Columbia, retired in December after 31 years of service.

MARC GITTELSOHN, undergraduate librarian at the University of California, San Diego, retired on December 28.

ESTHER JOHNSON, head of the Forestry Library at the University of California, Berkeley, retired on January 3 after over 32 years of service.

MARTHA MOORE, senior cataloger in the Library of Congress Serial Record Division, retired August 31 with over 15 years of Federal service.

RENATA ROTKOWITZ, director of public services and collection development for the libraries of Washington University, St. Louis, retired on November 30.

Rotkowitz began her career at Washington University in 1966 as a Slavic and West Euro- pean bibliographer, then rose to the rank of principal bibliographer. She served in this capac- ity before being pro- moted to assistant uni- versity librarian, then acting university librar- ian from February 1977 to September 1978, at which time she was ap- pointed to her most recent position.

Renata Rotkowitz

She has also taught courses in the University’s library science program and courses in Polish history. After retirement she will continue teaching at Washington University in the Western European Studies Program.

ELISABETH SCITOVSKY, an original cataloger at Stanford University since 1970, retired on November 30. She had received her first library degree in Budapest, then received a second MLS at Rutgers after coming to this country in 1956.

DOROTHY SHIELDS, West European bibliographer at the University of British Columbia, retired in December after 23 years of service.

HARRY TARLIN, director of Utica College Library, New York, for 15 years, retired in December. He had previously served for 15 years at Bran- deis University.

Deaths

BARBARA BEGG, reference librarian at the Science & Engineering Library, University of California, San Diego, passed away on October 13.

FLORENCE HILDEBRANDT, rare book cataloger at the University of California, Davis, from 1964 to 1967, died in Massachusetts a few months ago. She had earlier served as head of the Loan Department at Davis.

CONRAD C. REINING, former head of the African Section at the Library of Congress, died on October 30 after a long illness. An internationally recognized anthropologist, Reining served as head of the Section from 1960 to 1966.