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Oscar Handlin, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, will succeed Douglas W. Bryant as director of the Harvard University Library upon Bryant’s retirement in June. Handlin will assume his duties on July 1.

Oscar Handlin

Douglas W. Bryant

In announcing the appointment, President Derek Bok praised Bryant for his “invaluable contribution” in maintaining “the quality of our library system by providing effective leadership at a time of rapid change and severe financial pressure. We are all greatly in his debt.”

Douglas Bryant joined the university library system in 1952 as administrative assistant librarian, following two and a half years as attache in the American Embassy in London as director of libraries in the U.S. Information Service. He became university librarian in 1964 and library director and professor of bibliography in 1972. Under his supervision, the university library (consisting of roughly 100 subdivisions) grew from 7.25 million volumes in 1964 to nearly 10 million volumes, comprising the world’s largest university library.

Author of several articles on the role of libraries in modern research, Bryant belongs to five professional associations, including the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a past president of the Association of Research Libraries (1969) and has also worked extensively in international library affairs. After studies at the University of Munich (1932-33), he earned his A.B. from Stanford in 1935 and his A.M.L.S. from the University of Michigan in 1938.

Oscar Handlin has taught at Harvard since 1939 and has held the Pforzheimer Chair since 1972. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Uprooted, 1951), he has written and edited widely in American history and education and the social dynamics of immigration. He has received two other prizes for his books: the 1941 Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association for Bostons Immigrants and the 1958 Christopher Award for Al Smith and His America.

A past director of the Harvard University Press, Handlin serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library. He is a native New Yorker who graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934 and received his A.M. (1935) and Ph.D. (1940) degrees from Harvard. Seven institutions have conferred honorary degrees upon him since 1962.

Maria Grossmann, librarian for collection development in the Harvard University Library since 1974, has been appointed librarian of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library and member of the Faculty of Divinity, effective February 1, 1979.

A graduate of Smith College with a master’s degree from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard, Grossmann also holds a library degree from Simmons College. She went to Harvard in 1956 as acquisitions librarian at the Andover- Harvard Theological Library; from 1961 to 1965 she was assistant librarian for cataloging at Andover-Harvard; and in 1965 she became librarian of the library, a post she held until 1973.

Grossmann has published many articles and book reviews on theological librarianship and on German scholarship in the sixteenth century, her special area of interest. Her book, Humanism in Wittenberg, 1486-1517, was published by De Graaf, Nieuwkoop, Holland, in the series Bib- liotheca Humanistica et Reformatorica.

Photo by Cary Feuerman

Jean C. Pelletiere

Jean C. Pelletiere has joined Union College, Schenectady, New York, as associate professor and director of Schaffer Library.

Pelletiere previously had been acting executive director of library/ learning resources at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, having originally joined the University of Wisconsin in 1976 as assistant professor and head of public services. She has taught at the School of Librarianship, University of California- Berkeley, and in 1975- 76 was director of special projects for the San Bruno Public Library.

She holds a B.A. in anthropology from Syracuse University, and she earned an M.A. in Near East studies and an M.L.S. from the University of Califomia-Berkeley.

She has been a television reporter for KQED in San Francisco, providing news analysis from Arabic-speaking countries; a photographer for the Milwaukee Journal, covering the Kurdish War in Iraq from 1964 to 1965; copy editor for Current Anthropology; assistant to the director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in New York; and an editor for several publishing firms.

Pelletiere is the representative of the Schenec- tady District on the ALA membership commit- tee. She is a consultant on the membership committee of ACRL; a member of the steering committee of the ALA Women Administrators’ Discussion Group; a member of the LAMA/PAS Economic Status, Welfare, and Fringe Benefits Committee; and a participant in the American Council on Education National Identification Program.

Norman D. Alexander

Dr. Norman D. Alexander, library director at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and long-time member of ACRL, was shot on January 15 and died on January 18, 1979. Dr. Alexander was active in ACRL on the Standards Commit- tee and in ALA, having just been appointed to the Accreditation Com- mittee.

Dr. Alexander re- ceived his MLS from the University of Den- ver and was employed from 1957 to his death in academic libraries from Centralia (Washington) Community College, Montana State Uni- versity, University of Minnesota, Portland State University, Southern Oregon State College, and Cal Poly.

He was past president of the Oregon Library Association; past treasurer and president of the

Pacific Northwest Library Association, where he received an honorary life award in 1976; ALA Councilor and on the ALA ad hoc Committee on California State University Academic Status of Librarians (R. B. Down, chairperson) in 1970; chairman of the Oregon State System of Higher Education Library Council; and recently elected chairman of the California State University Library Director’s Council.

He was active, concerned, and approachable. His leadership will be missed.—Richard E. Moore.

Edward B. Stanford has retired after thirty- one years of service at the University of Minnesota, including twenty years as director of libraries (1951-71) and six years as professor in the Library School. As director of libraries, he was responsible for the planning of the O. Meredith Wilson Library building and for the founding of MINITEX. Dr. Stanford has been active in the American Library Association, having served as chairman of the Board on Personnel Administration and as a member of the Council. He has also served on the boards of directors of the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Center for Research Libraries. He has acted as consultant to the Office of Education in its Higher Education Facilities Grant Program.

APPOINTMENTS

Leslie E. Abrams has joined the professional staff of the Robert Scott Small Library, College of Charleston, South Carolina, as assistant reference librarian.

Nicholos Achee, formerly head of the science and technology department, is now assistant director of Contract and Grant Development at Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries.

Glen Anderson is humanities reference librarian, Auburn (Alabama) University.

Mary E. Bailey has assumed her duties as assistant cataloger, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater.

Miranda Beaven has been appointed Slavic bibliographer, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Florence E. Blakely, head of the reference department, has been appointed assistant university librarian for collection development, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Sharon Bonk has been named head of procurement at the University Libraries, State University of New York at Albany.

Anindya Bose has joined the faculty of the University of Denver (Colorado) Graduate School of Librarianship as associate professor and director of the Computer Access Laboratory. He had previously been associate professor at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Donna Breyfogle has been appointed reference librarian, University of Manitoba at Winnipeg.

Elizabeth H. Bridcer is head reference librarian, Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

Richard Brodsky has been named serials librarian, University Libraries, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Rexford R. Bross has been appointed senior assistant librarian and senior serials cataloger, University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo. His former position was serials cataloger at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Patricia Smith Butcher, reader’s advisor in education at Trenton State College Library, New Jersey, is exchange professor/librarian at Worcester College of Higher Education, Worcester, England, for the academic year 1978—79.

Marie Byers is reference librarian, David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tennessee.

Robert L. Byrd has been appointed assistant curator of manuscripts for readers services, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

William E. Carter, professor of anthropology at the University of Florida and former director of the university’s Center for Latin American Studies, has been named chief of the Hispanic Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Carol Chilk is modern languages bibliographer, Boston (Massachusetts) University Libraries. She had been catalog librarian, Quincy (Massachusetts) Junior College.

Sherman Clarke has been named senior assistant librarian, humanities and cataloging section, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

John Cohn is now the director of library services, Sherman H. Masten Learning Resource Center, County College of Morris, Randolph, New Jersey. He had served as principal acquisitions librarian, Brooklyn (New York) College Library.

Patricia A. Court has been appointed assistant reference librarian, Karrmann Library, University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Rita Craven has been named head of the cataloging department, University of Manitoba at Winnipeg.

Joy V. Davis, formerly music cataloger, Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries, is now assistant training coordinator for SOLINET, Atlanta, Georgia.

Sherida Downer has been named head, circulation department, Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries. She was formerly head librarian, Lewis University, Lemont, Illinois.

Mary Dudman has been appointed order librarian, acquisitions department, Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries.

Carolina Eisenstein has been appointed assistant serials librarian, University of South Carolina Libraries, Columbia.

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has been named the first resident consultant to Library of Congress Center for the Book.

Mary L. Elder has been named rare book cataloger, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

John Finzi has been named director of the new Collections Development Office in the Office of The Librarian, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Jack L. Gotlobe, associate director of public services, has been appointed acting director of the Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Peter S. Graham, formerly senior systems analyst for the Research Libraries Group, has been appointed bibliographic systems analyst for the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.

Nancy E. Gwinn has been appointed to the position of program officer by the Council on Library Resources. She will continue to supervise the publication and public information activities of the foundation.

Karen Hagberc, formerly head of cataloging, the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, is now editor of the New Women’s Times.

Susan B. Hamrell has been named engineering librarian, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Aaron Hause has been appointed acting director of library and instructional media services at Eastern Montana College, Billings.

Sherrida Jassmann is science and technology reference librarian, Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries.

Jean M. Johnson, formerly coordinator of public services, has been named associate director for administrative services, University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie.

Richard Kaplan is assistant librarian in the cataloging department of the Health Sciences Library, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Sherry Kelley has been named assistant librarian, Catalog Department, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Barbara Mary Kerfoot is now reference librarian, Education Library, University of Manitoba at Winnipeg.

Ik-Sam Kim has been named head of the Oriental Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, after having served as acting head for more than two years.

Evelyn King, formerly assistant director for special collections, Texas A & M University, College Station, has now accepted appointment as assistant director for collection interpretation.

Elaine E. T. Lauria has accepted the position of assistant librarian in the information dissemination service of the Health Sciences Library, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Rebecca Linton is an assistant reference librarian, Robert Scott Small Library, College of Charleston, South Carolina.

Denis S. Marshall is now head of the Law Library, University of Manitoba at Winnipeg.

Julia McCartney has been appointed to the newly created position of psychology and biology reference librarian, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York City.

Joseph McDonald has been named assistant director, access services, University Libraries, State University of New York at Albany.

Judith Morton is serials cataloger at the Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries.

Barbara Nelson has been appointed gifts and exchange librarian at Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries.

Mary A. Owings is assistant serials librarian, University of South Carolina Libraries, Columbia.

Lynne Partington has been appointed cataloguer at the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg.

Diane Perushek has assumed the position of curator, Wason Collection, Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, New York.

Sandra Pfahler, formerly head of the MARC department, has been appointed personnel officer, University Libraries, University of Wis- consin-Madison.

Judith B. Quinlan has been named reference librarian, Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Margaret L. Rogal is reference librarian, Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

Margaret T. Schenk has been named head of collection development for the Science and Engineering Library, State University of New York at Buffalo.

James G. Schoenunc has accepted appointment as executive director of PALINET and Union Library Catalogue of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is currently instructional services supervisor at OCLC, Inc.

Kathleen Schweitzrerger has been appointed serials catalog librarian at the Stanford (California) University Libraries.

Thomas C. Storck joined the staff of Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, as assistant documents cataloger.

John H. Sulzer has been appointed assistant librarian, Documents Section, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Elaine Svenonius has joined the faculty of the University of Denver (Colorado) Graduate School of Librarianship as associate professor. She had been assistant dean and associate professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Doris Ann Sweet, formerly head librarian, New England Historical Genealogical Society, is now assistant head for Reference Services, Bibliographic Services Department, Boston (Massachusetts) University Libraries.

Paula J. Swope is assistant reference librarian, University of South Carolina Libraries, Columbia.

Yoram Szekely has been appointed librarian, Uris Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Linda Teather is the head of the serials department, University of Manitoba at Winnipeg:

Ellen L. Tillet has been appointed assistant reference librarian, University of South Carolina Libraries, Columbia.

Beverly Toy, associate university librarian, University of California, Irvine, has been appointed acting university librarian.

Andrew H. Uszak, formerly vice-president and publisher of the Data Services Division, has been named vice-president for systems development at the R. R. Bowker Company, New York City.

Nancy Whitman has been named mining and mineral resources librarian, Engineering Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. She will continue to hold the position of Department of Transportation librarian in the Science Library.

Lenore Rae Wilkas has been named head of the Order Department at the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Karen Wittenrorg has been named associate librarian, General Reference Department, Stanford (California) University Libraries.

Bonnie Lou Woollet has been appointed head media center librarian at the University of Arizona Library, Tucson.

RETIREMENTS

Myrtle L. Carpenter, assistant professor and reference coordinator, Karrmann Library, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, has retired after more than thirteen years of service there.

Farley G. Fish, assistant head of the acquisitions department, Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries, retired after ten years of service there.

Arthur T. Hamlin, director of libraries at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has retired after ten years of service there.

DEATHS

Frederick Anderson, literary editor of the Mark Twain estate, General Library, University of California, Berkeley, died on January 7, 1979.

Sonya Sasuta, head of the technical services department, Law Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, died on January 13, 1979, in an automobile accident.

Carole Sorczyk, died on October 17, 1978. She was head of the microforms and documents department, Auburn (Alabama) University Libraries. ■■

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

SECOND EDITION

Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler, editors

A joint publication of the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Library Association

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One innovation is of particular importance: the rules for Description are presented in an integrated structure that provides a uniform basis for recording not only every known category of print and nonprint material, but those still unknown and uninvented.

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