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Personnel

Dr. Charles Darrett Churchwell,formerly assistant director of the University of Houston libraries, became director of libraries at Miami University on September 1, as announced by Dr. Phillip R. Shriver, Miami University president. He succeeded Leland S. Dutton, who has headed the Miami University libraries since 1956 and has been on the university library’s staff since his graduation from Miami U. in 1929. Dutton, who will reach administrative retirement age during the coming academic year, will remain on the library staff as Research Resources librarian, with special responsibilities in the reference division, in relation to graduate students and in interlibrary loan arrangements with other institutions. His title is a new one.

Dr. Churchwell’s work at Houston included coordination of all personnel activities of a university libraries staff of approximately 250 professional librarians, clerks, and student assistants. His library experience over the past twenty years covered a wide range of responsibilities in teaching and personnel-training as well as administrative duties. Graduated from Morehouse College in 1952, he received the Master of Science degree from the Atlanta University School of Library Science in 1953 and the PhD degree from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Sciences in 1966. He was in part-time library work throughout his school years. Dr. Churchwell was a student assistant in the library reference department at Atlanta University and Alabama State College. He was instructor of library science at Prairie View A & M College, 1953-59, and was with the New York Public Library’s Circulation Department as head of reference sections in various centers, 1959-61. He then was with the University of Illinois libraries as circulation department graduate assistant, 1963-64, as bookstacks librarian, 1964-65, and as assistant circulation librarian, 1965-67. He participated in the General Studies Program at City College, New York University, and Hunter College; and the Great Books Discussion Leader Seminar while in New York, serving as co-leader of a Great Books discussion group at the Fordham Branch in 1961.

He has been on the University of Houston’s Human Relations Committee and the American Library Association’s Committee on Organization of the Library Administration. He has been a member of the advisory committee to the Atlanta University School of Library Service, which has a Ford Foundation grant for improvement of library services in predominantly Negro colleges. He recently was invited to serve on a visiting committee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. His memberships include the NAACP the National Urban League, the American, Texas and Southwestern Library Association, the American Association of University Professors, and the Texas Association of College Teachers.

Mr. Rodgers

Formerly assistant director of libraries for public services at Pennsylvania State University, Frank Rodgers, on October 1, 1969, became director of the library at Portland State University. Dr. Jean Black, who had been librarian since the first days of the university, when it began as Vanport College in the 1940s, retired at that time.

Mr. Rodgers, born in 1927 in Darlington, County Durham, England, earned a BA with Honours in

English at the University of Durham and a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship at the University of London (similar to an MS degree in Library Science at American universities). Immediately following, he was elected Associate and then Fellow of the Library Association of Great Britain. Mr. Rodgers began his work as librarian at the Poplar Technical College and at St. Martin’s School of Art in London. At these colleges he was entirely responsible, as the only librarian, for developing collections and providing library service for students and faculty. He left England to become senior librarian, Adult Service Division, Akron Public Library, for two years and was assistant reference librarian, University of Illinois library at Urbana, for six years. He then became chief reference librarian, Pennsylvania State University libraries, where he later became assistant director for Public Services. The Pennsylvania State University libraries have been the scene of dynamic development, for their director feels strongly that “a university cannot be just a custodian of books.” Mr. Rodgers has been responsible for many areas in the library, among them innovative programs in making the resources of other research libraries available to his own users and recruiting new staff.

In the area of publications, Mr. Rodgers collaborated with Rose Phelps in writing “A Guide to British Parliamentary Papers,” published as a University of Illinois Library School Occasional Paper. The American Library Association will soon publish another of his projects, a bibliography of serial publications in twentieth-century British Parliamentary Papers. He is in the process of writing a book on British government documents, which when finished will be a companion volume to Boyd and Bips’ standard work on U.S. government publications. Mr. Rodgers has also compiled an index to the National Diet Library’s directory of Japanese learned periodicals.

APPOINTMENTS

Mbs. Lofton Abramswas appointed instructor and cataloger in the Iowa State University Library effective September 1.

DorisJ. Ackerman joined the University of South Florida library staff August 1, 1969, as assistant librarian in reference.

CharlesM. Adams assumed his duties as director of Sinclair Undergraduate library and Professor of Library Studies at the University of Hawaii on September 1.

Mrs. AdrienneH. Adan has assumed the position of librarian I in the Technical Information Service, Stanford University libraries.

Barbara Arois now business and economics librarian at Colorado State University libraries.

Mrs. Dorothy Axelis now catalog maintenance librarian at the Princeton University library.

Harriet Belljoined the Iowa State University library staff as instructor and cataloger on July 14.

Mrs. Myrtle Bennettwas appointed instructor and cataloger at the Iowa State University library on September 1.

JeanP. Black assumed the position of acting librarian for Reed College effective September 1. The appointment is for one year.

Elizabeth Boxassumed the position of assistant professor and head, humanities reference, at the Mississippi State University library effective September 1969.

Benna Brodskyhas joined the staff of the University of California at Berkeley as librarian I in the catalog department.

Ching Cheng Chaotook up her duties as an instructor in library science and junior cataloger in the Texas A&M library on September

CharlieC. Chiang has joined the staff of the Stanford University libraries catalog division as librarian I.

Lee–Hua Chinis now a descriptive cataloger on the staff of the Princeton University library.

Eloise Clinehas joined the library staff of the Illinois State University at Normal as assistant reclassification librarian.

FrancesN. Coleman has accepted a position as instructor and interlibrary loan librarian with the Mississippi State University library.

ClaudeA. Cowan has been appointed head of technical services and assistant professor at Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama.

Francis James Dalletthas accepted a position as university archivist with the Princeton University library.

Daniel Davilais now audiovisual specialist at Nassau Community College.

Mrs. JaneB. Davis began her duties on September 1, 1969, as instructor in library science and assistant circulation librarian in the Texas A&M library.

Mrs. Dorothy Dayis an assistant reference librarian with the Princeton University library.

Mark Dayis now librarian of the population research library of the Princeton University library.

Mrs. Neysa Eberhardjoined the library staff at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, as head of the curriculum materials laboratory on September 1, 1969.

Joyce Eggertjoined the professional staff of the Texas A&M library on September 1, 1969, as an instructor in library science and junior cataloger.

Jo Ellen Flagg has accepted appointment as librarian, Forest Park Community College, Junior College District of St. Louis.

AshbyJ. Fristoe has recently been appointed associate university librarian and head of technical services at the University of Hawaii library.

Bela Gallohas joined the staff of the Colorado State University libraries as social sciences librarian.

Miss H. Tyler Gemmell, retired director of the Sweet Briar College library, will join the staff of Washington and Lee University’s McCormick library as visiting cataloger during the 1969-70 year.

CurtisL. Gifford has assumed the position of forestry and agricultural sciences librarian at the Colorado State University libraries.

Mrs. AudreyR. Graham has been named head librarian at The College of Saint Rose.

AnnE. Hale has joined the staff of the Oberlin College library as conservatory music librarian.

F. N. Hogg, principal of the College of Librarianship, Wales, has accepted a position as international visiting professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Mrs. Betty Wilke Hudmanhas been appointed instructor in library science and junior cataloger in the Texas A&M University library, effective September 1.

Harold Hutchinsonjoined the University of South Florida library staff September 1, 1969, as assistant librarian in reference.

MilesM. Jackson, Jr., a former Fulbright lecturer at the University of Tehran, has been named an associate professor, school of library science, State University College of Arts and Science at Geneseo.

ElizabethS. Johnson is now circulation librarian with the Mississippi State University library.

RobbieN. Jones is now instructor and assistant serials librarian at the Mississippi State University library.

WalterA. Kee has been named chief librarian for the Atomic Energy Commission. He will direct operations of the main library at AEC’s Germantown, Maryland, headquarters and the branch library at Bethesda.

Anne Kellyis now assistant professor of library and information science at Pratt Institute.

DonaldL. Lanier joined the library staff at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, on September 1, 1969, as acquisitions librarian.

Mrs. CarolynT. Leonard is serials cataloger at Illinois State University at Normal.

JIANN I. Lin has joined the staff of the Oberlin College library as Chinese specialist librarian.

Ann McGreahamjoined the Iowa State University library staff as instructor and serials librarian effective September 1.

Sister Kathrine McPeakhas been named assistant librarian at The College of Saint Rose.

DavidH. Michener has assumed the position of cataloger at the Northwestern University library.

John Millerhas been appointed chief of the American history division in the research libraries of The New York Public library.

JudithA. Moomaw has joined the staff of the catalog division of Stanford University libraries as librarian II.

Willard Moonanhas been appointed periodicals librarian at Illinois State University at Normal.

Mrs. EsterC. Nelson is now reference librarian at the Oberlin College library.

George Palmerhas been appointed business and economics reference librarian at Illinois State University at Normal.

LeliaM. Payne has been appointed instructor in library science and junior cataloger in the Texas A&M University library, effective September 1.

GailA. Porter commenced a new appointment as reference librarian in the Northwestern University library on July 1, 1969.

PaulJ. Pugliese has been appointed university librarian at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, following the retirement of Eleanor McCann on August 29. Mr. Pugliese was formerly assistant university librarian.

Mrs. LouiseW. Reese has been named assistant librarian at The College of Saint Rose.

Mrs. MaryA. Sepanik accepted a position as assistant librarian in the reference department of the University of South Florida library September 1, 1969.

Mrs. Kathleen Shermanhas been appointed acting social sciences reference librarian at Illinois State University at Normal.

Robert Sokanis now special collections librarian at Illinois State University at Normal.

RichardF. Staar has assumed the position of associate director for library operations at the Hoover Institution.

Mrs. Lucille Strauss,chemistry/physics librarian at Pennsylvania State University, has been invited to become a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists.

Marjorie Stuartjoined the staff of the Colorado State University libraries as engineering sciences librarian.

Carol Turnerwas appointed instructor in library science and assistant serials acquisitions librarian in the Texas A&M University library, effective September 1, 1969.

BarbaraL. Wagner has joined the staff of the Colorado State University libraries as circulation librarian.

CarolB. Walker assumed the position of instructor and special projects librarian at Mississippi State University library.

PattieE. Walker is now instructor and catalog librarian at Mississippi State University library.

Mrs. Frances Wanghas been appointed as the first curator of the Asian Studies Collection at the Honnold Library in Claremont, California, effective October 1, 1969. The Honnold Library is the central library serving the six Claremont Colleges.

Dennis Wendellwas appointed instructor and cataloger at the Iowa State University library on September 1.

OliverJ. Werner of Seattle, Washington, has joined the staff of Tarlton Law library, The University of Texas, as assistant law librarian and instructor of law effective September 1, 1969.

MildredF. White is now reference specialist at Nassau Community College.

Valerie Wilfordhas been appointed instructor in library science at the Illinois State University library.

Donald Williamshas been appointed librarian II with the general reference interlibrary borrowing service at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mrs. Sue Wilsonhas been appointed instructor in library science and assistant separates acquisitions librarian in the Texas A&M library, effective September 1, 1969.

WyllisE. Wright has assumed the position of librarian III in the catalog division of Stanford University libraries.

Mrs. Marjorie Zipserhas joined the staff of the Oberlin College library as catalog librarian.

RETIREMENTS

Lelia Holloway,reference librarian at Oberlin College library, has retired.

Eleanor McCannretired August 29 as university librarian at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

VirginiaC. Smith, catalog librarian, has retired from the staff of Oberlin College library.

Opal Williams,head librarian at the East Texas State University library, retired as director August 31, 1969, after forty-one years of service.