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ANNE M. BUCK, a former director of the library network at Bellcore, has been appointed university librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Buck has worked as a group supervisor and reference librarian at the Technical Library at Bell Laboratories, and was director of the Dunbar Public Library in West Virginia. She has taught at Rutgers University and at the University of Wis- consin-Madison. The au- thor of numerous publi- cations, Buck is listed in Who’s Who of American Women—1991-92, and she received the Bellcore Tribute to Women and Industry Award in 1989. She earned her bachelor’s degree in geology at Wellesley College and her MLS at the University of Kentucky.

Anne M. Buck

People in the news

TERRY BIRDWHISTELL, university archivist and director of the University of Kentucky’s oral history program, has been named president of the national Oral History Association, a society of students, scholars, local historians, and other individuals concerned with the application of professional standards to the collection, preservation, dissemination, and use of oral testimony. Birdwhistell was installed as president at the association’s annual meeting in October.

MEREDITH BUTLER, director of University Libraries and dean of library faculty at the University at Albany, State University of New York, has been appointed by the New York State Board of Regents to the Regents Advisory Council on Libraries. The nine-member council advises the Regents on state policy regarding the New York State Library, libraiy development, legislation, and library aid programs.

BLAISE CRONIN, dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, has been elected vice-president (US A) of the Association for Information Management (AsLib), a London-based group with almost 2,000 corporate members worldwide.

SUL H. LEE, dean of University Libraries at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Lee was elected with two others at ARL’s 119th membership meeting in Washington, D.C. and will serve a three-year term.

ROBERT D. THOMAS, coordinator of the Learning Resource Center at Sauk Valley Community College, Dixon, Illinois, has been elected chairperson of Region 20 of the Illinois Education Associa- tion-NEA. He is the first IEA higher education member elected to such a position which has the dual responsibility of membership on the IEA Board of Directors. Thomas is a member of the Illinois Library Association, the American Library Trustee Association, and ALA. He is vice-chairperson of the Board of the Dixon Public Libraiy.

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, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

NUBI ACHEBO has been appointed computer- based instruction librarian at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames.

MARTY ADAMSON has been promoted to assistant director for systems and technology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Library.

MARY BETH ALLEN has been appointed applied life studies librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

KARI J. ANDERSON has been appointed natural sciences reference/user education librarian in the Natural Sciences Library at the University of Washington, Seattle.

PHILIP H. ARNY has been appointed Teaching Learning Center coordinator, Health Sciences Library and Information Center, University of Washington, Seattle.

JANIS M. BANDELIN is now head of public services at Mercer University’s Main Library, Macon, Georgia.

PENNY BEILE has been named reference librar- ian/bibliographerinthe Humanities/Social Science Department of King Library at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

LISA BIBLO has been named preservation information librarian at the Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

YILDIZ BARLAS BINKLEY has been appointed director of libraries and media centers at Tennessee State University‘s Brown Daniel Library, Nashville.

WILLIAM K. BLACK has been named development and projects officer for the Iowa State University Library, Ames.

JODY CALDWELL is now head of reference at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

ADRIENNE CANNON has been appointed reference specialist in special collections at the University of Virginia‘s Alderman Library, Charlottesville.

TIMOTHY CARR has been named librarian at the Smithsonian Institution‘s Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C.

PAUL CAUTHEN has been appointed music cata- loger at the College-Conservatory of Music Library at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

SUN-YEONG CHO is now visiting assistant librarian in the East Asia Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

ULRIKE DIETERLE has been appointed reference coordinator at the University of Wisconsin- Platteville.

SHERRY DODSON is now clinical librarian at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and Information Center, Seattle.

RAEANN DOSSETT has been appointed documents librarian/federal technology specialist in the Documents Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

SHERRE H. DRYDEN has been named assistant director for public services at the Central and Science Libraries of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

DIANA EWELL has been named bibliographic instruction librarian at the Iris Holt McEwen Library, Elon College, North Carolina.

KATHY FAHEY has been appointed science librarian at Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

XIU-HUA FANG is now visiting associate librarian in the East Asian Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

M.ANNE FOX is now agriculture/international programs librarian at Oregon State University Libraries, Corvallis.

SALLY A. FRY has been appointed head of the Veterinary Medical Library at Iowa State University, Ames.

JEANNIE L. GEX has been named reference/ instruction librarian at the Undergraduate Library, State University of New York at Buffalo.

JEAN M. GNAT has been named associate director of University Libraries at Indiana University- Purdue University, Indianapolis.

CAROLYN GOTTNEID has been named science section head in the Catalog Department of the University of California-Irvine Library.

CAROLYN HAMILTON has been selected as cata- loger for the Smithsonian Institution Libraries‘ Original Cataloging and Indexing Department, Washington, D.C.

MARY E. HELMS has been named associate director for technical services at the McGoogan Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.

CYNTHIA HENDERSON has been appointed special collections/collection development librarian at the Iowa State University Library, Ames.

ROXANNA D. HERRICK has been named head of the Preservation Unit in the Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Missouri.

ROBERT HINTON has joined the Public Services Department at the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, as a reference librarian.

ANDREA HORNE has joined the University Library Services at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, as a medical reference librarian.

MARY ELLEN HULS has been named head of reference at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota.

MAYMANAT JAFARI has been appointed to a reference position in the Public Services Department at the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.

GEORGE JOHNSTON has been appointed classics cataloger at the University Libraries of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

ANN KOOPMAN has been named reference librarian in the Science/Engineering Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

BONNIE MACEWAN has joined the University Libraries at Penn State University as coordinator for collection development.

OLIVIA M. A. MADISON has been named assistant director for public services at Iowa State University Library, Ames.

SUSAN A. MASSEY has been appointed manuscripts cataloger at the Historic New Orleans Collection, Louisiana.

FRANCIS O. MATTSON has been appointed curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library.

SARA ANN MEMMOTT has been named reference librarian/bibliographer at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

PRISCILLA NEILL has been named assistant university librarian for personnel at the University Libraries of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

GARET NELSON has been appointed public services librarian at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont.

DARLENE PATRICK has bee named acquisitions librarian at Northeastern Illinois University Library, Chicago.

MARGARET JEAN REESE has been named head of information services in the Education Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

JUDITH REIKE has been named special projects librarian at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

ANNE REULAND has been appointed head of reference at the Central Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

CHARLES REYNOLDS has joined the University Library Services at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, as a reference librarian.

MARGARET F. RILEY is now head of circulation at the George C. Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts.

JAMES M. ROSINIA has been named information services director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill‘s Center for Early Adolescence.

THYRA RUSSELL has been named order librarian at Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

MARILYN RUSSELL-BOGLE has been appointed fine arts librarian at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

THOMAS SCHNEITER has been named assistant librarian and assistant head of the Access Services Department in the Main Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

MARY LOU STARK has been named assistant head of the Braille Development Section at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

NANCY TRASK is the new information services librarian at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Library.

PHYLLIS VAN ORDEN has joined the Library Science Program faculty at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

CAROL SUE WHITEHOUSE has been appointed administrative conservator at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Retirements

ROBERT ECKERT, librarian in the URL Acquisitions Department at the University of California- Los Angeles, has retired after more than 34 years of service.

ANTHONY HALL, librarian in the Bibliographers Group at the University of California-Los Angeles, has retired after more than 31 years of service.

RALPH JOHNSON, librarian in the URL Cataloging Department at the University of California-Los Angeles, has retired after more than 31 years of service.

MARY RYAN, librarian in the Bibliographers Group at the University of California-Los Angeles, has retired after more than 38 years of service.

BRUCE E. THOMAS, head reader services librarian for 28 years at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, retired in late December. Thomas also served as chairman of the Library Department. During his tenure the Stevenson Library moved into a new building and brought its card catalog online.

MARY ELLEN THOMAS retired in October after more than 25 years as a reference librarian with University Library Services at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

STANLEY YATES retired from the Iowa State University (ISU) Library on October 31, 1991. He joined ISU in 1969 as head of the newly formed Department of Special Collections. During his tenure in that role he built manuscript collections in agriculture and veterinary medicine, and established the American Archives of the Factual Film.

Deaths

DORCAS M. BISHOP, former librarian of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education who retired in 1967, died in Concord, New Hampshire, in September. Bom in 1900, Bishop began work in the Harvard Libraries in 1918 in the Widener Library Catalog Department. She transferred to the Education Library in 1922, where she was librarian until her retirement 55 years later.