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• Glenn H. JOHNSON JR., has been named director of the John D. Churchill Memorial Library at Western New England College, according to an announcement made by academic vice-president Allan W. Bosch.

Johnson previously directed libraries at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs center, and St. Mary’s College in Maryland. He began his career as library director at the Colorado State Historical Society in Denver and also served in several capacities at the Boulder campus library of the University of Colorado.

Johnson earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Colorado and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Denver.

He is a member of the Special Libraries Association, the Society of American Archivists, and a life member of the American Library Association.

Johnson, his wife Connie, and their son Samuel reside in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

• MERLE N. BOYLAN, former director of General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named director of libraries at the University of Washington, Seattle. He succeeds Marion A. Milczewski, who is retiring after seventeen years as head librarian.

As director of General Libraries at the University of Texas, Boylan was responsible for the Main Library, Undergraduate Library, Latin American Collection, Barker Texas History Collection, Asian Collection, Middle East Collection, and sixteen branch libraries. The General Libraries has a staff of 420 and a collection in excess of 4 million volumes. A major activity was the planning and construction of a new main library building, the Perry-Castaneda Library, and four branch libraries. During his tenure both the 3 millionth and 4 millionth volumes were added to the collections. In 1975, the University of Texas Library moved into the top ten largest academic libraries in the United States. Boylan was active in the implementation of automation in the libraries and served on the board that founded the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council.

At Washington, he has assumed responsibility for the Main Library, Health Sciences Library, Undergraduate Library, East Asia Collection, and sixteen branch libraries, with a staff of 430 and a collection of 3,236,944.

Boylan has served as director of libraries at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, library manager for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory of the University of California, and chief librarian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Ames Research Center. In addition, he has held library positions at the General Dynamics Corporation, University of Arizona, and University of California, Berkeley.

He received his bachelor s degree from Youngstown State University and his master s degree in library science from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has done graduate study in biological sciences at Indiana University and the University of Arizona.

Boylan is a member of the American Library Association, Special Libraries Association, American Society for Information Sciences, and the Committee on Legislation of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Until his resignation at Texas he was a member of the executive board of the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, the Southwestern Library Interstate Cooperative Endeavor (SLICE)-Bibliographic Networking and Resource Sharing Advisory Group, Texas Library Association, and Southwestern Library Association.

• Stephen R. Salmon has been appointed assistant vice/president-library plans and policies for the University of California (UC).

Salmon, who reports to academic vice-president Donald C. Swain, is responsible for university-wide library planning, development of university-wide library policies, library automation, intercampus library cooperation, liaison with the UC Library Council, and analysis of legislation affecting libraries. In addition, he is responsible for carrying out the recommendations of the University Library Policy Steering Committee, which is composed of chancellors, vice-chancellors, faculty, and librarians from various UC campuses.

Salmon has been UC’s executive director of university-wide library planning since January 1, 1976. In that position, his duties were similar to those in his new position, but with less direct responsibility.

Prior to joining the UC staff, he was director of libraries for the University of Houston, a position he held for four years. Before that, he was with Xerox Corporation where he was president of Xerox Bibliographies, a subsidiary company providing computerized library products and services. He has also been on the staff of the Library of Congress; Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

An honors graduate of the University of California Berkeley campus, Salmon also earned his masters degree of library science there. He is the author of a recently published book entitled Library Automation Systems as well as numerous articles in professional journals.

• Thomas Hilton Gunn, formerly of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, has been appointed director of the Carl S. Swisher Library at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida. He succeeds Audrey A. Broward, who has retired after eleven years of service, first as reference librarian and then as director.

At Appalachian State, Gunn was director of the program for educating community college librarians on the graduate level. Before that he served as music librarian. He previously was assistant librarian at Rockingham Community College in Wentworth, North Carolina. He has also taught music and humanities in secondary schools for six years.

A native of Coswell County, North Carolina, Gunn received his bachelor’s degree from High Point College and his master’s degree in education from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. He was awarded the master of library science degree from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1972. Currently he is working on a doctorate in library science from the University of Michigan.

Gunn is a member of the American Library Association, the Music Library Association, and Beta Phi Mu. In North Carolina he was a member of the state’s Learning Resources Association.

The Swisher Library has 225,000 cataloged accessions and seats 850 patrons. It is named for Carl S. Swisher, a Florida businessman and philanthropist. Initially constructed in 1954, the library has completed two additions. Current projects include a complete reclassification from Dewey Decimal to Library of Congress. The library has recently become a member of SOL- INET.

• DONALD E. Riggs, director of libraries at University of Colorado at Denver, Metropolitan State College, and Community College of Denver, was recently named director of the Central Colorado Library System (CCLS). He will continue his regular duties as chief library administrator of the three institutions of higher education along with his new responsibilities as director of the multi-type library system until a new director is appointed for CCLS. CCLS, a regional cooperative library agency, is composed of forty-seven academic, public, school, and special libraries serving 1.6 million citizens in the eight-county area of greater metropolitan Denver. Six million book volumes are available for interlibrary loan and resource-sharing purposes in the central system. Daily courier service is provided for the member libraries.

Donald E. Riggs

Riggs’ background equips him well to head CCLS. Prior to his present academic position, he was director of libraries and media services for three autonomous colleges at the same time. The three colleges were Bluefield State College, Concord College, and Southern West Virginia College of Graduate Studies. Since early 1976 he has been director of libraries for University of Colorado at Denver, Metropolitan State College, and Community College of Denver. The three urban institutions in Denver have a combined enrollment of 28,000 students. His experience also includes directorships of media centers and school and public libraries.

He has taken an active interest in professional activities by serving as president of the West Virginia Library Association, president of the Tri-State (Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia) Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries, editor of West Virginia Libraries, and associate editor of Southeastern Librarian. Currently he is chairman of the Colorado Council of Librarians whose membership is made up of directors of Colorado’s state-supported academic libraries.

• CLYDE C. Walton, former director of libraries at Northern Illinois University, is the new libraries director at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Walton comes to the university after ten years as libraries director at Northern Illinois where he participated in planning a new library buidling that would have seating for about 2,500 students, shelving for a million volumes, and a design that would make the collection more accessible to users. That library, the five-story, $13-million Founders Memorial Library, opened last January.

Clyde C. Walton

Other developments during Walton s tenure at Northern Illinois included reclassification of the library’s collection from the Dewey Decimal System to the more adaptable Library of Congress system, increased use of data processing, expansion of the rare books collection, and the first steps in setting up a Northern Illinois Regional History Center.

Walton, 52, began his library career in 1950 at the State University of Iowa where he served as curator of rare books, archivist, and reference department head. He earned a master’s degree in library science in 1950 from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.

He was Illinois State Historian from 1956 to 1967, the same period he was executive director of the Illinois State Historical Society.

APPOINTMENTS

CAROLYN Adams—bibliographer/reference librarian, Fine Arts Library—COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York.

ANNE Amaral—director, Life and Health Sciences Library—UNIVERSITY OF Nevada, Reno.

Sharon Arnold—assistant acquisitions librarian—California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

LUGENE BAILEY—reference/serials librarian—Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio.

Robert Blesse—assistant collection development librarian—CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC State University, San Luis Obispo.

Jacqueline F. Bridges—head cataloger—Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

DONNA Burns—manuscript librarian— Syracuse University, New York.

Karen L. Carlson—cataloger, Harvard College Library—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

F. William Chickering—media services librarian, Health Services Library—COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York.

MARGARET A. COULSON—librarian for the Center for European Studies—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

DOREEN S. Dudley—head of access services, Lehman Library—COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York.

SUZANNE Fedunok—mathematics/physics librarian—Columbia University, New York, New York.

ARTHUR L. Friedman—media librarian— Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York.

Mary Katharine Gillette—reference librarian, Sears Library—Case WESTERN Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

MELINDA V. Golub—senior reference librarian, Harvard Law Library—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

CYNTHIA Gozzi—serials librarian— Syracuse University, New York.

ROBIN Gratz—humanities reference librarian—Indiana University—Purdue University at Fort Wayne.

Michaela Harnick—Cyrillic cataloger— Columbia University, New York, New York.

Virginia B. Harris—head of public services—OBERLIN COLLEGE OHIO.

Barbra Higgenbotham—assistant to the head original cataloger—COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York.

Eva S. JONAS—librarian of the Museum of Comparative Zoology—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gloria A. Kelley—acquisitions librarian—Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

MARK KIBBEY—chemistry librarian—COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, New York.

DAVID J. Knapp—conservatory librarian for technical services—OBERLIN COLLEGE, Ohio.

Betsy COXE KYSELY—chief, reference branch—U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colorado.

ROBIN LeSueur—librarian of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rodger Lewis—head of cataloging— CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, San Luis Obispo.

CAROLE R. McIver—catalog librarian— Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Francine H. McNulty—Middle Eastern cataloger, Harvard College Library—HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

THOMAS A. MarCIL—head circulation librarian—UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia.

Georgeanne O’Riordan—biology librarian—Columbia University, New York, New York.

MOLLY Ostwald—personnel and budget librarian—Syracuse University, New York.

Patricia O. Rice—head acquisitions librarian—WINTHROP COLLEGE, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Charles P. Roth—book collection librarian—La Salle COLLEGE, Philadephia, Pennsylvania.

BRUCE T. Sajdak—reference librarian/library instruction coordinator, Undergraduate Library—University of Maryland, College Park.

DALE R. SchrAg—curator of special collections—WICHITA State University, Kansas.

ROBERTA Selleck—specialist in book selection, Harvard College Library—Harvard UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Caryl L. Shields—assistant librarian—U.S. Bureau of Mines Library, Denver, Colorado.

Patricia Silvernail—head of access services, Humanistic and Historical Center— Columbia University, New York, New York.

Dan STABE—librarian for the Union Bibliographic Center, Freiberger Library—CASE Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Jennifer Stephenson—principal cataloger/ catalog editor—UNIVERITY OF WISCONSIN, Madison.

Marion C. SZIEGETHY—head, serials acquisitions—Columbia University, New York, New York.

Nancy URTZ—catalog librarian—SYRACUSE University, New York.

Jo S. WANG—chief cataloger, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine—Harvard UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MARK F. Weimer—rare book bibliographer—Syracuse University, New York.

Ed Wilk—head of circulation—CALIFORNIA Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Ann M. Wilkinson—senior staff specialist, technical processing—American Hospital Association Library, Chicago, Illinois

RETIREMENTS

Harriet dyer Adams, rare book librarian, State University of New York at Albany, retired December 21, 1977.