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Henriette D. Aυram

Henriette D. Avram has been appointed assistant librarian for processing services at the Library of Congress, effective November 7. She will oversee the Library’s operations in the areas of acquisitions, cataloging, cataloging products, and the development of related automated systems.

Avram has served since August 1980 as that department’s director for processing systems, networks, and automation planning. She succeeds Joseph H. Howard, who became director of the National Agricultural Library in July.

Avram joined the Library staff in 1965 as assistant coordinator of information systems. Her work on the MARC Pilot Project led to the establishment in 1969 of the LC distribution service for machinereadable cataloging records. In 1970 she was named chief of the MARC Development Office, which was responsible for the design and implementation of automation systems for technical processing operations.

In 1976 she was made head of a new office, LC’s Network Development Office, which has played a leading role in the design of a computer-based nationwide library network and the development of library network standards in cooperation with NCLIS, CLR, and other organizations. Four years later she became the Library’s first director for processing systems.

For her performance and achievements Avram has received LC’s Superior Service Award (1968), the Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification (1971), the Federal Women’s Award (1974), and an honorary doctor of science degree from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (1977). She received the 1979 Academic Librarian of the Year Award from ACRL, the 1980 Award for Achievement from LITA, and the 1981 Melvil Dewey Medal from ALA.

Wendall A. Barbour

Wendell A. Barbour has been appointed director of the Captain John Smith Library at Christopher Newport College, Newport News, Virginia, effective August 1983.

Barbour was formerly associate director of libraries at Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, from 1977 to 1983 and head of readers’ services from 1975 to 1977. He was head of reference at Indiana University Library, South Bend, from 1974 to 1975 and held the positions of newspaper librarian and assistant archivist (1970-1971) and bookstacks librarian (1971-1974) at the University of Illinois Library, Champaign. He was the recipient of an HEA Title II Fellowship in Library Science from the University of Illinois.

Barbour holds an MLS from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from John Marshall Law School. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Florida.

He has made presentations on legal issues in library administration and has organized and presented a program on “Building Libraries for Bibliographic Instruction and User Accessibility” through the ALA Library Administration and Management Association’s College and University Libraries Buildings and Equipment Committee at Annual Conference in Philadelphia in 1982. While at Georgia Southern College, Barbour wrote the library’s portion of a 5-year renewable Title III grant proposal that has been funded $235,000 by the U.S. Department of Education for its first two years. The grant will be used to automate the library’s catalog and circulation systems and to convert its computerized acquisitions and serials operations to this system’s hardware.

Barbour currently serves on the ACRL Legislation Committee and the Copyright Committee, and was chair of the Georgia ACRL Chapter in 1981-1983.

Don L. Tolliver

Don L. Tolliver, assistant director for planning and budget at the University of Michigan Libraries, has been named director of university libraries at Kent State University, effective June 1. At that time he will replace Dean H. Keller, who has been appointed interim director.

Tolliver has been at the University of Michigan since August 1980. Previously he was dean of library and learning resources at the University of Wisconsinwĥitewater (1974— 1980) and director of the Library Planning Study of the University of Wisconsin System Libraries (1978-1979). He has also headed the Instructional Media Research Unit and was instructor of educational media at Purdue University (1965-1974).

A graduate of Eastern Illinois University (B.S.E., M.S.), the University of Illinois (MLS), and Purdue University (Ph.D. in administration and educational psychology), Tolliver has directed several research projects. These have included strengthening university research library resources, planning and cooperation, library budgeting, and the use of minicourses to improve undergraduate instruction.

He is also a member of the Executive Council and a trustee of the Michigan Library Consortium, and currently serves on the LAMA/LOMS Budgeting, Accounting, Costs and Financing Committee.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Toni Carbo BEarman, executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, has been awarded the 1983 Watson Davis Award by the American Society for Information Science. She and a co-winner of the award, Margaret T. Fischer, principal consultant for Management Decisions in Greenwich, Connecticut, were cited for their “continuous and dedicated service to ASIS membership” at local and national levels for many years.

Judith A. Hoffberg, art librarian, archivist, and editor and publisher of Umbrella, an art review magazine published in Glendale, California, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to New Zealand to work on the archives of famed kinetic sculptor and animated filmmaker Len Lye. After Hoffberg processes the papers and records, a microfiche copy will be available to researchers, scholars, and art and film historians. The grant is for a period of three months from February-April, 1984.

Suzine Har Nicolescu, director of information systems and services, Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, has been awarded a Fulbright grant as senior researcher from March 1 to July 15, 1984. Nicolescu will conduct research on the cataloging and classification systems of library systems employed by three major Korean University libraries—Ewha, Yonsei, and Sogang—in relation to international standards. The study will determine the feasibility and/or the modifications required for computerizing Korean cataloging information in local and international resource-sharing networks. Nicolescu holds an English degree from Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, as well as a Ph.D. from Simmons College, and an MLS and a master’s degree in Romance languages and literature from the University of Denver.

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.)

John Abbott has been appointed reference librarian for science and technology at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Patricia Anderson is the new head of public services at St. Louis University Law Library.

Penny Bertrang has been appointed library applications programmer at the University of California, Berkelev.

Susan P. Besemer has been appointed associate director of the E.H. Butler Library, State University College at Buffalo, New York.

Paul Birkel has been named dean of the university library, University of San Francisco.

Roberta Blitz is now reference librarian and bibliographer for fine arts at Columbia University.

Sandra Brandt is the new interlibrary services librarian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

J. Thomas Brown has been appointed university archivist (temporary NHPRC position) at the Indiana State University Libraries, Terre Haute.

Sue Burkholder is now cataloging librarian at Washington University Law Library, St. Louis.

Ann Cuthbertson has been named head of the Circulation Services Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Mary Karen Delmont has been appointed assistant to the director at the E.H. Butler Library, State University College at Buffalo, New York.

Mary S. des Bordes has been appointed catalog librarian at Loyola University Law Library, New Orleans.

Michele DeYoe joined the University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library as a research associate in reference.

Jerome Earley has assumed the duties of coordinator of learning systems, State University College at Buffalo, New York.

Kristy Elam is now assistant librarian in charge of bibliographic services and computer instruction at St. Louis University Law Library.

John Emerson has been appointed Persian specialist in the Harvard College Library.

Richard H. Engeman has been appointed assistant librarian for the Pacific Northwest Collection at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Patricia Ensor has been appointed coordinator of database searching, Indiana State University Libraries, Terre Haute.

Linda Fariss has been promoted to associate director at the Indiana University School of Law Library, Bloomington.

Connie Fennewald is the new acquisitions librarian at the University of Missouri Law Library, Columbia.

Patricia A. FitzGerald is now head of engineering and science libraries at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

David Gay is now documents reference librarian at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Marilyn S. Geller is now serials librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Malcolm Getz has been appointed director of the Vanderbilt University Library, Nashville, effective January 3.

Ava Nell Harris has been appointed original cataloger for audio-visual materials at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Patricia Higgins is now head of public services at the California Western School of Law Library, San Diego.

Margaret Hinshaw has been named assistant head of the Bio-Agricultural Library, University of California, Riverside.

Aletha Honsowitz has been appointed audiovisual librarian in reader services at the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law, Lansing, Michigan.

Heidi Hutchinson has been appointed cataloger at the University of California, Riverside.

Mel Isaacson has been promoted to head of the Cataloging Department at Columbia University.

Joni Jackson is the new documents librarian at the Vanderbilt Law Library, Nashville.

Marilyn Kihl has taken on additional duties as curriculum lab librarian at the State University College at Buffalo, New York.

Nancy Koller has been appointed bibliographer for social sciences at the University of California, Riverside.

Michael J. McGill has been named director for technical planning at OCLC, Dublin, Ohio.

Pamela Reekes McKirdy has joined the faculty of the Simmons College School of Library and Information Science, Boston.

Teresa Malinowski has been appointed coordinator of the Periodical Section at California State University, Fullerton.

Ann N. Meronet has been appointed head of the periodicals division in the Hunter College Library, City University of New York.

James Milles has been appointed bibliographer at the St. Louis University Law Library.

Pierrette Moreno is the new reserve librarian at the Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas, Austin.

Judith Morgan has been appointed assistant director of the Oklahoma City University Law Library.

Kenji Niki has been appointed cataloger for Japanese in the East Asian Library, Columbia University.

Hugh O’Connor has been appointed assistant librarian in the Science Department, University of Washington, Seattle.

Tai-Er Ooiis now cataloger in the Columbia University Law Library.

Stephen Edward Ostrow has been named chief of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, effective in June.

W. David Penniman has been named director of libraries and information systems at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Jerry B. Post has been appointed library coordinator in the Office of Work with Adults and Young Adults, Free Library of Philadelphia.

Leslie Prepon has been appointed assistant librarian for public services at the New York University Law Library.

John Drew Racine has been named assistant director for technical services at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

William M. Roberts has been appointed university archivist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Edward L. Rosenfeld has been appointed associate director for collection services at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Rosemary Rousseau has been appointed reference librarian for science and technology at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Beverly Rubenstein is now reference/cataloging librarian at the University of Maryland Law Library, Baltimore.

Robert Saudek has been appointed chief of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.

Benjamin F. Speller has been named acting dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Library Science, Durham.

Phyllis Bova Spies has been named director of the Local Systems Division, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio.

Michael Welch has been appointed cataloger of East Asian and non-book materials at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Bonita Wright has been appointed African studies specialist at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Elva K. Yanez has been appointed reference librarian at the Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Carl Yirka is now acquisitions librarian at the Indiana University School of Law Library, Bloomington.

RETIREMENTS

Robert Gross, head of the Microform Reading Room at the Library of Congress, retired on September 30 after more than 33 years of service.

George J. Guidry Jr., director of the Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, retired on December 31.

Mary Anne Kernan, reference librarian and bibliographer at Vanderbilt University Library, retired on December 31.

Nathalie Krueger, subject cataloger at the Library of Congress, retired on September 2 after 25 years of Federal service.

Hyman W. Kritzer, director of university libraries at Kent State University, retired December 30 after 17 years of service. He has been named director of university libraries emeritus.

DEATHS

Martha Evangeline Connor, technical services librarian at Swarthmore College Library from 1945 to 1974 and acting librarian on several occasions, died on November 18.

John William Cronin, former director of the Library of Congress Processing Department, died in Washington on November 24. He had joined the staff in 1925 and retired in 1968.

Frederick Haver-Droeze, former cataloger at the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, died on October 30.

Layton B. Murphy, associate professor of library and information science at the University of Texas at Austin, died on December 19 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

Leo Natanson, head of reference services at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, died on December 3.

Jane Pulis, librarian for Germanic Collections at the University of California, Berkeley, died on November 20 after a long illness. She had been a member of the Collection Development/ Reference Services Department since 1971.

, Elizabeth Woodville, former senior descriptive cataloger in the Library of Congress, died on September 17.

automated instruction

During the 1983 ALA Conference in Los Angeles, the ACRL/BIS Computer Concerns Committee identified a variety of topics which represent major areas of interest and activity relating to the integration of computers into bibliographic instruction. These topics are:

1. Instruction in the use of online public access catalogs;

2. Computer-assisted instruction in library use;

3. End-user searching of computerized bibliographic databases;

4. Computer-mediated online searching;

5. Human-computer interaction.

If you are involved with or interested in integrating computers into bibliographic instruction, we would like to hear from you. The Committee hopes to prepare for distribution a list or directory of librarian contacts in computer concerns relating to bibliographic instruction. The list will be available through LOEX. The information provided will also help us plan future committee studies and programming activities.

Please send the following information to: Joann H. Lee, Chair, ACRL/BIS Computer Concerns Committee, Lake Forest College Library, Lake Forest, IL 60045, by March 20, 1984.

1. Your name, institutional mailing address, and phone number.

2. Your ALA division memberships in section, discussion groups, committees, etc.

3. A brief description of the areas of interest or activity you are: a. presently engaged in (e.g., “provide workshops for end-user searching to chemistry graduate students”); b. planning to incorporate into your bibliographic instruction program (e.g., “working on CAI module for Apple II micro-computer to teach the use of periodical indexes”); c. interested in (e.g., “would like to hear more about using computers to teach patrons to use online catalogs”).

4. Additional computer concerns not listed above.

5. Personal expertise relating to the above issues.

6. Publications relating to your project (any journal articles or other publications you have written concerning your work).

Thank you for your cooperation. The results of this call for information will be made available as soon as possible.

The preliminary draft of the directory was distributed before Midwinter Conference. Additional copies are available for $1 from Joann H. Lee at the above address.