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VIRGINIA M. BOWDEN has been named library director of the Dolph Briscoe Library of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, effective March 8. Bowden joined the Briscoe Library in 1970 as a library systems analyst and has worked in various capacities there including serving as associate library director from 1978 and as acting director since September 1984.

Bowden received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1960 and worked as a computer programmer before receiving an MLS from the University of Kentucky in 1970. She received a Council on Library Resources fellowship in 1978 for a comparative analysis of current monograph acquisitions, and was principal investigator of a 1982-1983 National Library of Medicine grant to evaluate the impact of the TALON Cooperative Acquisitions Program. In 1984 she received a grant from the Council on Library Resources to investigate nursing collections in the Southwest.

A member of both ALA and the Medical Library Association, Bowden served as president of MLA’s South Central Regional Group in 1979-1980. She is treasurer of the Council of Research and Academic Libraries and a member of the Board of Directors of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation.

SUSAN ULRICH GOLDEN has been appointed assistant director of libraries for technical services at the University of Delaware, Newark.

Golden received her bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Marietta College, Ohio. She holds an MLS from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in linguistics from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Golden comes to Delaware from the University of Illinois where she held the position of assistant director of general services for automated systems. She currently is ACRL representative on the LC Cataloging in Publication Advisory Group and was vice-president/president-elect of the ACRL Illinois Chapter.

KENT HENDRICKSON, associate university librar- ian at the University of Arizona, has been ap- pointed dean of libraries at the University of Ne- braska, Lincoln, effective in June.

Hendrickson began his library career as associate director of library technical services at UNL in 1964. He held his most recent post since 1981. Prior to joining the Arizona faculty he worked in the pri- vate sector as vice president of Blackwell North America, Inc., and as manager of West Coast oper- ations for the Richard Able Corporation, a firm specializing in books and bibliographic support ser- vices to academic and research libraries.

Hendrickson holds a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and an MLS from the Uni- versity of Michigan.

RODNEY HENSHAW has been appointed associate librarian and chief of the new Access Services De- partment of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. In this position he will administer the lending services and interlibrary loan divisions and plan for system- wide circulation and document delivery activities.

Rodney Henshaw

Henshaw received his bachelor’s degree in history in 1974 and an MLS in 1975 from North Texas State University. He was media consultant and head of interlibrary services at San Antonio Public Library and since 1981 has been head of interlibrary services at Iowa State University.

Henshaw currently serves on the ASCLA Re- search Committee and the RASD Interlibrary Loan Committee.

JOAN KUNSELMAN has been appointed head of the Fine Arts Libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles, effective April 8. She was formerly coordinator of the Periodicals Section and chair of the Technical Services Department at Califor- nia State University, Fullerton.

Joan Kunselman

Kunselman received her bachelor’s degree in music from Vassar and earned her MLS at Loui- siana State University in 1974. She also holds a master’s degree in music from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in music history and literature from Louisiana State University.

Since settling in California in 1976, Kunselman has been active in professional associations, in par- ticular the Southern California chapter of the Mu- sic Library Association, which she chaired in 1983-1984. She is currently a member of the ACRL Publications Committee.

CAROL PARKE has been appointed assistant direc- tor of libraries for public services at the University of Delaware. She holds a bachelor’s in English from Connecticut College and an MLS from Co- lumbia University.

She was previously administrative services li- brarian at Virginia Commonwealth University Li- brary in Richmond and head of government docu- ments at Yale.

KAREN WITTENBORG has been appointed assis- tant university librarian for collection develop- ment at the University of California, Los Angeles, effective March 4. Prior to this appointment she was coordinator of the collection development activities of the social science bibliographers, curator of the Social Sciences Collections, and most recently, chief librarian in the General Reference Department at Stanford University. She spent the 1981–1982 academic year as a Council on Library Resources academic library management intern at the MIT Libraries.

Karen Wittenborg

Wittenborg holds a master’s degree in anthropology from Brown University and an MLS from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Currently serving on ACRL’s Planning Committee and the RASD/MARS Nonbibliographic Databases and Data Files Committee, Wittenborg has also chaired the ACRL Anthropology and Sociology Section’s Nominating Committee (1979) and the Constitution and Bylaws Committee (1982-1984).

People in the news

SUSAN V. CRAIG, art librarian at the University of Kansas, has been elected vice chairman/chair-elect of the Art Libraries Society of North America. She assumed her office at the 13th annual ARLIS/NA conference in Los Angeles, February 8-14.

JEAN-JACQUES LEVIVE, librarian with the Library of the University of Paris North, joined the Ohio University Libraries, Athens, on January 7 for a seven-month stay as an exchange librarian. Levive, who is working in the Reference Department until July, is sponsored by the National Directorate of Libraries of the French Ministry of Education and the Franco–American Commission for Educational Exchanges.

LINDA RESNICK has been appointed executive director of the American Society for Information Science, effective March 1. Most recently Resnick was with the Public Broadcasting Service in Washington where she directed a planning effort toward the creation of the National Narrowcast Service, a multi-channel television programming service for the distribution of professional and continuing education courses and programs to workplaces.

DAVID STAM, Andrew W. Mellon director of the New York Public Research Libraries, and MILDRED O’CONNELL, field service director for the Northeast Document Conservation Center, were elected chairperson and vice chairperson of the New York State Advisory Council on Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials. The five-member committee, which held its first meeting in February, will advise on the development of the Statewide Conservation/Preservation Program authorized by the New York Legislature in 1984.

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.)

ANN B. ABID has been named head librarian at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

VAN B. AFES has been appointed archivist and assistant cataloger of the Medical-Dental Center Libraries, New York University Medical Center.

TERESA ANDERSON is now circulation/informa- tion technology librarian at Steenbock Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

SUSAN S. BAUGHMAN has been named university librarian at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.

ROSANN BAZIRJIAN has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of West Florida, Pensacola.

RITA BERK has been appointed catalog librarian at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

BARRARA BEST-NICHOLS has been appointed head of the School of Textiles Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

MICHAEL BILHORN has been appointed librarian at the Yorktown Heights Branch Campus of the Mercy College Libraries, Westchester County, New York.

ANN CAMPRELL has been appointed project librarian for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin’s U.S. Newspaper Project.

GABRIELLE CARR is now reference librarian at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany.

PAMELA CARVER has been appointed coordinator of copy cataloging at the University of Delaware Library, Newark.

JOSEPH I–HSIUNG CHANG is a new reference librarian at the East Asian Library, Columbia University, New York.

LUCIE CHEN has joined the staff of the National Library of Medicine’s Bibliographic Services Division, Bethesda, Maryland.

STEPHEN CLARK has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Winthrop College, Bock Hill, South Carolina.

MARIAN DAVIS is the new technical services librarian at St. Louis University Medical Library, Missouri.

NOOR F. DIN is now Urdu language specialist at the Harvard College Library.

BARRARA DOYLE has been appointed director of the Loretto Heights College Library/Learning Re- source Center, Denver, Colorado.

GORMAN L. DUFFETT has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Hiram College, Ohio.

MARIE KATHRYN ERICKSON is now associate librarian at Loyola Law School Library, Los Angeles.

SUZANNE FEDUNOK has been promoted to assistant director for resources at Columbia University, New York.

TERESA A. FEHLIG has been appointed architecture librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

JONQUIL FELDMAN is now reference librarian in Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine.

MARILYN P. FLETCHER has been appointed head of the Serial Department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

JEANNE FONDRIE has been appointed project librarian for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin’s U.S. Newspaper Project.

SHARON D. GALPERIN has been appointed archivist in the Special Collections Department at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

BARBARA GLENDENNING has been appointed reference librarian in the Biology Library, University of California, Berkeley.

ROBERT GOEHLERT has been appointed acting head of the Interlibrary Services Department, Indiana University, Bloomington.

PETER GRAHAM has been promoted to assistant director for bibliographic control at Columbia University, New York.

PATRICIA GREIG has been named associate director at York University Library, Downsview, Ontario.

KAREN K. GRIFFITH has been appointed personnel librarian at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

ALICE HALL has been appointed reference librarian in the Marine Studies Library, University of Delaware, Newark.

BONNIE S. HARDWICK has been appointed head of the Manuscripts Division of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

SANDRA HOFFMAN has been appointed librarian at the Hazleton Laboratories, Madison, Wisconsin.

LISA JOHNSON has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Hiram College, Ohio.

MARALYN JONES has been appointed conservation education project coordinator at the University of California, Berkeley.

RON KARR has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Lowell, Massachusetts.

RICHARD MCELROY is now art librarian at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

ELLEN MCGRATH has been promoted to head of cataloging at the New York Law School Library.

ROBERT MALINOWSKY has been appointed science and engineering bibliographer at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

H. SPENCER MEANS has been named coordinator of reference services at Baruch College, City University of New York.

NADINE MILLER has been appointed assistant public services and reference librarian at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

MARILYN K. MOODY has been promoted to head of interlibrary loan at Iowa State University, Ames.

ARLENE E. MOORE has been appointed government documents librarian at Wichita State University, Kansas.

RITA NERI has been appointed cataloger at Baruch College, City University of New York.

SUSAN NEWTON has been appointed fine arts and humanities reference librarian at Lamar Unives- rity, Beaumont, Texas.

LORI L. OSMUS has been promoted to head of serials cataloging at Iowa State University, Ames.

ROBERTA PIKE has been appointed cataloger at Baruch College, City University of New York.

TIMOTHY D. PYATT has been named conservator at the Moravian Music Foundation, Winston- Salem, North Carolina.

ELIZABETH QUINN is now public services librarian at the George Washington University Law Library, Washington, D.C.

LYNN RANDALL has been appointed director of the Library/Learning Resources Center at the Berkeley School, Garret Mountain Campus, Little Falls, New Jeresy.

PATRICIA GLUECK REELING has been named chair of the Department of Library and Information Studies at the Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.

JUDITH RIEKE has been appointed serials librarian at the Vanderbilt Medical Center Library, Nashville.

RASMA RUGELIS has been named associate director at York University Libraries, Downsview, Ontario.

MARION N. SABELLA has been appointed reference librarian at Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine.

LORRAINE SEBO has been appointed head of the Public Affairs Service at the University of California, Los Angeles.

VIRGINIA SEISER has been appointed reference librarian at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

MICHAEL IAN STEVENSON has been appointed business information analyst in the Baker Library, Harvard University.

BARBARA SULLIVAN is now librarian of the Bronx Extension Center of the Mercy College Libraries, New York.

R. CHRISTOPHER TEMPLETON has been appointed media librarian at Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Connecticut.

VICTORIA K. TROTTA is now assistant director and head of public services at the University of Southern California Law Library, Los Angeles.

ALISON VERBECK has been appointed science/ engineering librarian at Washington University, St. Louis.

JEFFERY WANSER has been appointed reference librarian at Hiram College, Ohio.

JENNIFER WARE has been appointed head of card catalog reference at California State University, Sacramento.

SUSAN WAY has been appointed outreach and user education librarian at the Vanderbilt Medical Center Library, Nashville.

R. CHARLES WITTENBERG is now Southeastern regional sales manager for Blackwell North America, Atlanta.

ROSS WOOD has been appointed music librarian at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

GREG WOOL has been appointed serials cataloger at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

DANIEL ZOLL has joined the staff of the Technical Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Retirements

WINIFRED CAMPBELL, cataloger at the Andover- Harvard Theological Library, will retire early this summer. She has also held positions at the Harvard College Library and Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges.

ROBERT E. MCCOLLUM, section head of the Physical Sciences Section in the Subject Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress, retired on January 9 after more than 35 years of Federal service.

RICHARD OLSON, conservation officer at Northwestern University, retired on January 31 after 26 years of service. Olson came to Northwestern in 1958 as a reference librarian after receiving an MLS at the University of Chicago. In 1962 he became rare book librarian and in 1969 humanities bibliographer. In 1980 he was asked to become the library’s first art librarian, and in 1982 he became the first conservation officer.

ELEANOR PEDERSEN, assistant circulation librarian at Northwestern University, retired on January 31. She had been at Northwestern since 1956.

EMIKO SAMARD, associate librarian at the University of California, Irvine, retired March 31.

Deaths

RUTH G. FOURIER, head of the Humanities Department at the Auburn University Library until 1981, died on November 5.

SEID KARIC, Slavic cataloger in the Main Library at Indiana University, died after, a short illness on March 13. He had been a member of the library faculty since 1963.

MIRIAM HAWKINS LIBBEY, former director of the A.W. Calhoun Medical Library at Emory University, died on December 5. Libbey had served as director of the Southeastern Regional Medical Library Program from 1969 to 1982.

GLADYS J. ROHDE, associate university librarian emerita at California State University, Fullerton, died on January 2.

MARY TRILLICH, librarian emerita at the University of Kansas, died in February in the state of Washington. She had been a fine arts cataloger at the university from 1961 until her retirement in 1978.

Office of Preservation established

The National Endowment for the Humanities has established an Office of Preservation to provide national leadership and grant support for efforts to preserve rapidly deteriorating research materials. The announcement was made March 27 by NEH acting chairman John Agresto, who called for a national partnership of government and the private sector “to halt the deterioration of our irreplaceable research materials in the humanities.”

The new office will support grants for problem solving, humanities documentation, cooperative efforts, the preparation of informational materials, institutional preservation needs, and research and development. Formal guidelines, including application forms, are available from NEH. The first deadline for grant applications is June 1, 1985; a second annual deadline of December 1,1985, is anticipated. Potential applicants should first contact the Office of Preservation for further information on eligibility and the preparation of a proposal.

Over $900,000 in grants to six national humanities organizations were also announced. The recipient institutions are:

• The Research Libraries Group, which will receive $625,011 for the second phase of a project to preserve on microfilm approximately 45,000 titles, including books and periodicals published between 1870 and 1920, essential to the study of American history and literature. Five institutions that participated in the project’s first phase, funded by NEH in 1983, will continue their participation in phase two. These institutions are Columbia University, New York Public Library, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and Yale University. New participants will be Cornell University, New York Historical Society, Princeton University, and Stanford University.

• The Northeast Document Conservation Center will receive $27,000 for a conference on regional conservation centers to be held in Andover, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1985.

• The University of Delaware, Newark, will receive $49,181 to fund that state’s participation in the NEH–supported U.S. Newspaper Program, which aims to catalog over 300,000 newspaper titles and preserve a significant portion of them.

For further information, contact the Office of Preservation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 802, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506; (202) 786- 0570.

New ACRL journal

The Association of College & Research Libraries will soon be publishing a new journal devoted to special collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship. Each issue will contain three or four articles totaling approximately 30 pages, 10 pages of book reviews and books received, and two to three pages of news notes. The emphasis will be on the theory and practice of special collections librarianship.

Among the topics to be included are: acquisition and collection development of rare books and manuscripts; security, access and use of special collections; conservation; cataloging of special materials; computer applications; fund raising, donor relations and friends groups; exhibits; and the historical development of various special collections.

Two trial issues of the journal will be published in 1985-86. Articles to be included in the second issue, scheduled for June 1986, should be submitted no later than December 2, 1985, to the Editorial Board, c/o Ann Gwyn, Editor, RBML, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218.

Information about subscriptions may be obtained from Sandy Whiteley, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.

RBMS Exhibition Catalogue Awards

Three annual awards for the best catalogue published by American or Canadian institutions in conjunction with exhibitions of books and/or manuscripts will be granted for the first time in the Spring of 1986. Catalogues published between January 1, 1983, and August 31, 1985, are eligible and must be submitted by September 30, 1985, to the ACRL Rare Rooks and Manuscripts Section’s Committee for Awards for Exhibition Catalogues.

The entries will be divided into three budget categories: expensive, moderately expensive, and inexpensive, based upon the production costs of the catalogue, thereby allowing institutions of similar publishing resources to compete within the same category.

Catalogues may be of varying formats, styles, and scope, but each must represent, either comprehensively or selectively, an exhibition which has taken place. Criteria for selecting the winners will include the level of accuracy and consistency of presentation in the catalogue, its clarity, quality of design and usefulness to the intended audience. The awards will take the form of printed citations to the institutions organizing the exhibitions.

For further information and entry forms, contact Sally Leach, Chair of the RRMS Committee for Awards for Exhibition Catalogues, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713.