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David A. Baldwin has been appointed associate director of libraries for public services at the University of Wyoming, effective September 3.

He was formerly curriculum librarian and assistant to the university librarian at Boise State University, a post he held since 1977. Prior to his work at Boise he was media consultant for the Grant Wood Area Education Agency in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for eight years.

Baldwin received his MLS from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa in 1974. He has had extensive experience in the management of educational media and curriculum materials and with library microcomputer applications.

David A. Baldwin

Dennis Reynolds is now executive director of CAPCON, a library network headquartered in Washington, D.C., that provides OCLC and other tehcnology-related services to libraries in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

After receiving his MLS from the University of Chicago, Reynolds was appointed reader services librarian at Knox College in 1977. He joined the staff of the Bibliographical Center for Research in 1979, where he successively held the positions of Systems Specialist in the Resource Sharing Division, head of the OCLC Services Department, and manager of the Bibliographic Systems and Services Program.

Reynolds is the author of Library Automation: Issues and Applications‚ published earlier this year by the R.R. Bowker Co. He currently chairs the ACRL Continuing Education Courses Advisory Committee.

Catherine W. Chen has been named director of libraries for the Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan. Head librarian for the college’s Midland campus since 1974, her new responsibilities include operations of the libraries on the other campuses in Florida and Texas.

Chen holds both a master’s and Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Northwood in 1971, Chen was an instructor at the University of Minnesota and a lecturer for the University of Michigan.

Originally from Taiwan, Chen has designed courses and edited textbooks at the National Taiwan University, and assisted in the compilation of an English-Chinese dictionary.

Marguerite Rey Florent has been named director of the Xavier University of Louisiana Library, New Orleans. She had served as acting director of the same library in 1983-84, and started her career as a cataloger there in the mid-1960s.

Florent’s most recent position was with the U.S. Agricultural Research Service’s Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans.

She has also held various positions with the Loyola Law Library (1977-1983), the Bell Aerospace Textron

Technical Library (1974-1976), the University of New Orleans (1973-1974), Tulane University (1971-1973), the Baltimore County Public Library (1968-1970), and the New Orleans Public Library (1965-1968).

She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Xavier University of Louisiana and an MLS from Catholic University. She currently serves on the Louisiana Library Association Literary Award Committee and the Board of Directors of the

Catherine Chen

Marguerite Rey Florent

Friends of the Archives of Louisiana.

Dorothy Gregor has been appointed university librarian at the University of California, San Diego, effective August 19. Prior to her arrival at

UCSD, Gregor was chief of the Shared Cataloging Division, Processing Services, at the Library of Congress. Before holding the LC post, Gregor’s library career included many years at the various campuses of the University of California. Her positions with UC have included associate university librarian for technical services at the university’s Berkeley campus (1980-84), head of the serials department, also at Berkeley (1976-80), and reference librarian at the university’s Medical Center Library in San Francisco (1968-69).

Dorothy Gregor

Gregor’s professional activities have included teaching positions in the areas of library technical services and bibliography of the health sciences, as well as numerous publications. In addition, Gregor has been chair of the Panel Subcommittee of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Conference Program Committee (1983), and chair of the ALA Committee on Representation in Machine-Readable Form of Bibliographic Information (1981-82).

Gregor holds an MLS from the University of Texas at Austin and an undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaii. She participated in the Senior Fellows Program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and holds a certificate in library management from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Barbara von Wahlde has been named director of university libraries at the State University of New York at Buffalo, effective January 15. Her most recent position has been as associate director for technical services at the University of Michigan.

Prior to her 1980 appointment there, von Wahlde served as staff development coordinator at Yale University. She has also held technical services positions at the University of West Florida, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Maine.

Barbara von Wahlde

Von Wahlde obtained both her undergraduate degree in education and her MLS at Indiana University. In 1974-75 she interned at the University of Tennessee with Richard W. Boss as a Council on Library Resources management intern, and in 1983-84 she took part in the ARL/OMS Consultant Training Program.

Currently a member of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division’s Legislative Committee, she has also served on ACRL’s Continuing Education Committee and the Staff Development Officers of Large Academic Libraries Discussion Group.

Jerome Yavarkovsky has been named director of the New York State Library, Albany. He comes to the State Library from Adelphi University, where he has served as dean of libraries since 1983. At Adelphi he managed the implementation of online services and coordinated the move of major collections and service components into a building extension.

Yavarkovsky was assistant university librarian for planning at Columbia University from 1977 to 1983. Earlier at Columbia, he was chief of the Library Systems Office and had other systems analysis responsibility.

He currently is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board of Money Management for Libraries, and is the author of several papers in the field of library management.

Jerome Yavarkovsky

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.)

Kurt Adamson has been appointed senior reference librarian at the Underwood Law Library of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Jean P. Altschuler has been appointed managing librarian for bibliographic services at the George Washington University Law Library, Washington, D.C.

Paul Anderson has been promoted to director of the Division of Archives and History of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Evelyn Apterbach has been appointed reference librarian at Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York.

Nancy Amour has been appointed coordinator of online services at California State University, Chico.

Carol Levitt Axelrod has been appointed reference librarian at the Pepperdine University Law Library, Malibu, California.

Philip C. Bantin has been appointed university archivist at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Geetali Basu has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Kay Beaudrie has been named cataloger and terminal operator supervisor at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jacqueline Bellows has been appointed librarian of the Francis Bacon Foundation, an affiliate of Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.

Robert A. Berk has been named director of the Medical Library at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield.

Christian Boissonnas has been appointed systems librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Beth Bojack has been appointed reference librarian at De Paul University, Loop Campus, Chicago.

Judith Bonig has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Daryl A. Boone has been appointed cataloger at the Harvard University College Library.

Sally Bowdoin is the new social science and education cataloger at Brooklyn College Library, New York.

Hope E. Breeze has been promoted to head of technical services at the Duke University Law Library, Durham, North Carolina.

Charlotte D. Brown is now director of the Professional Resource Center in the School of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Teresa Brown has joined the staff of the Reference Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Anne Caiger is the new head of the Manuscript Section of the Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Caroline S. Carlton has been appointed head of the Harrye B. Lyons Design Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Anna Cherry has been appointed reference librarian at the William Mitchell College of Law Library, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Victoria Clayton has been appointed education librarian at Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing.

J. Wesley Cochran has been appointed law librarian at the University of Mississippi, University.

Jill Young Coelho has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the Harvard University College Library.

Merle L. Colglazier has been appointed technical services librarian at Virginia Union University, Richmond.

John William Collins III has been appointed librarian at the Monroe C. Gutman Library at Harvard University.

Janice Contini is the new online training and services coordinator of the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Colleen Cosgrove has been appointed LC cataloger at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Joseph Crotts is now head of access services and coordinator of the Maps Collection at California State University, Chico.

Claudia Dansby has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Eleanor H. DeLashmitt has been appointed associate librarian for research at George Washington University Law Library, Washington.

Mary P. Dillon has been appointed associate director for database creation and facilities planning at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables, Florida.

Noor F. Din has been appointed Urdu Language Specialist at the Harvard University College Library.

Gladys Dratch has been appointed circulation and collection development librarian at the Gutman Library at Harvard University.

Paula F. Ebbit has been appointed head of public services in the Museum of Comparative Zoology Library at Harvard University.

Shirley Edwards has been appointed head of the Indexing Branch at the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.

Elizabeth E. Eggleston has been appointed cataloger at the Harvard University Medical Library.

G. Edward Evans has been appointed librarian at the Tozzer Library at Harvard University.

Jonquil D. Feldman has been appointed reference librarian at the Harvard University Medical Library.

Dale P. Flecker has been appointed associate director for planning and systems at the Harvard University Library.

Janet E. Fletcher has been appointed cataloger in the Union Catalog Services Office at the Harvard University Library.

Donna Giampa has been appointed medical reference librarian at the George Washington University Medical Center, Washington.

David S. Ginn has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables.

Carol Godt has been appointed reference librarian, Division of Information Services, at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Betty Glass has been appointed serials cataloger at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Alice Gormley is now serials librarian at Marquette University, Milwaukee.

Elaine Graham has been appointed associate director of the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mary Bess Halford has been appointed assistant humanities bibliographer at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Margaret Hambrick has been appointed information services librarian and bibliographer at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Eileen Hardy has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

Jon H. Harrison has been appointed coordinator of documents and technical services at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Diane K. Harvey is now collection development librarian for the Hopkins-Nanjing Project at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns

Michael J. Higgins has been appointed cataloger at New York Law School Library, New York.

Doris M. Hinson has been appointed cataloger at the Duke University Law Library, Durham.

Heidi L. Hoerman has been appointed director of technical services at Montana State University Libraries, Bozeman.

Joan S. Howland has been appointed assistant director of the Law Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mary Colin Hyder has been appointed instructor and online search analyst at the Quillen-Dishner College of Medicine Library at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City.

Elizabeth Icenhower has been appointed cataloger at the Biomedical Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Laurel Jizba has been appointed head of original cataloging at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Godlind Johnson has been appointed information services librarian/bibliographer at the Vanderbilt University Science Library, Nashville.

Flora Jones has been appointed head of general reference services at the University of Maryland, College Park.

William Jones is now head of special resources and coordinator of special collections at California State University, Chico.

Bernice Jones-Trent has been appointed head of reference at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Claire B. Joseph has been appointed chief medical librarian at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine at the New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury.

Lawrence R. Keating II has been appointed Serials Department head at the University of Houston-University Park Libraries, Texas.

Cynthia Kepley has been appointed public services librarian in the Government Publications Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Eric A. Kidwell has been appointed periodicals/reference librarian at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama.

Susan Kiefer has been named director of the Hamline University Law Library, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Gay Toltl Kinman has been named director of law libraries for the University of La Verne, La Verne, California.

Donna Koepp has been appointed head of the Map Library at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

JamesM. Kyedhas been appointed assistant director for public services at the Georgia Institute of Technology Library, Atlanta, Georgia.

Lee Ann Lannom has been appointed reference librarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk.

John Lawrence has been appointed reference librarian in the interlibrary loan section of the Reference Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ruth E. Lewis has been appointed biology librarian at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Laurel J. Light has been appointed manuscripts cataloger at the Houghton Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Harvard University.

Clara Prioleau McLeod has been appointed science/engineering librarian at Washington University, St. Louis.

Nancy Macomber has been appointed government documents and reference librarian at Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing.

Elaine Russo Martin has been appointed chief of facilities and instructional media systems at the George Washington University Medical Center, Washington.

Dorian E. Martyn has been appointed head of the Learning Resources Center at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables.

Douglas C. Moring has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Oklahoma Law Center Library, Norman.

Catherine Murray-Rust has been appointed training librarian in the Systems Office at Cornell University, Ithaca.

Katherine Nachod has been appointed government documents librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Virginia Nordstrom has been appointed reference librarian at the Education Library of Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing.

Nancy Norris has been appointed art and theater arts cataloger in the Technical Services Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Patricia Nuzzaci has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Charlotte Palmer has been appointed head of technical services at the Rosary College Library, River Forest, Illinois.

Barbara Pease is now head of General Reference at California State University, Chico.

Jean Marie Peet has been appointed serials cataloging librarian at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Mark Plaiss has been appointed head of reference services at Rush University Library, Chicago.

Barbara Preece has been appointed special collections cataloger at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Roy Rada has been named head of the MeSH section at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.

Shari S. Regen has been appointed special collections librarian at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Andras Riedlmayer has been appointed bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture in the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University.

Warren Rosmarin has been appointed assistant librarian for public services at the University of Miami Law Library, Coral Gables, Florida.

Halina Rusak has been appointed head of the Rutgers Art Library, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Theresa Ryan has been appointed ORION user services librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Marion N. Sabella has been appointed reference librarian at the Harvard University Medical Library.

Manuel Sanudo has been appointed education librarian at Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing.

Martha Scheel has joined the staff of the catalog maintenance department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Madelaine Schmitt has been appointed cataloger and science bibliographer at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville.

Janet Sinder has been appointed reference librarian at the Duke University Law Library, Durham, North Carolina.

Karen Smith has been appointed head of circulation at the George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Timothy Smith has been appointed instructional librarian at Ohio University, Athens.

Helen H. Spalding has been appointed associate director of libraries at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Louise Spear has been appointed director of the Ethnomusicology Archives at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Cecilia Staffordhas been appointed reference librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Diana Stephenshas been appointed online specialist for the Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service at the University of Calfornia, Los Angeles.

Marcia Stephens has been appointed director of library services at Northwestern College of Chiropractic, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Roger E. Stoddard has been appointed curator of rare books at the Harvard University College Library.

Roberta Studwell has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Miami Law Library, Coral Gables.

William E. Sudduth III has been appointed documents librarian and cataloger at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Mark Sullivan has been appointed reference librarian at the Boston College Law School Library, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Michael Sullivan has been appointed head of the Physical Sciences and Technology Libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Susan Taraba has been appointed catalog librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Anne D. Thacher has been appointed assistant librarian for studies in landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington.

Robert E. Thurston is now audiovisual sciences librarian at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.

Linda Watson has been appointed director of information services at the Houston Academy of Medicine’s Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, Texas.

Bernice O. Weiss has been appointed cataloger at the Harvard University Medical Library.

Thomas Weissinger has been appointed librarian at the Africana Studies and Research Center Library at Cornell University, Ithaca.

Thomas L. Williams has been appointed associate director for education and information services at the University of Miami School of Medicine Library, Miami.

Clifford S. Wunderlich has been appointed cataloger at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Retirements

Miriam E. Bright, head of the Serials Unit at Michigan State University, East Lansing, retired on November 1 after 22 years of service.

Winifred Campbell, cataloger at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, retired last summer.

Erika Chadbourn, curator of manuscripts and archives in the Harvard University Law School Library, retired in September after 19 years of service.

Jose D. Coutin, librarian and professor of law at Antioch School of Law, Washington, D.C., retired August 31.

David W. Heron, head of readers’ services in the Western Languages Collections of the Hoover Institution Library at Stanford University, retired in December. Heron is university librarian emeritus of the University of California at Santa Cruz and former director of libraries at the University of Kansas and the University of Nevada. His professional affiliations have included membership on the Executive Board of the American Library Association and on the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries. He had been at the Hoover Institution since 1980.

Barbara Hostetler, head of technical services at the University of California at Berkeley Library, retired June 1.

Celia Leyte-Vidal, catalog librarian at the Duke University Library, Durham, N.C., retired December 31 after 19 years of service.

Jesus Leyte-Vidal, manuscript cataloger and librarian for Ibero and Latin American Materials at the Duke University Library, retired December 31 after 19 years of service.

Deaths

Harold Bloomquist, former librarian at Harvard University’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, died April 20 after a long illness.

Eli Hareide, former bibliographer at the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland, died recently in Oslo, Norway. She had retired from the library in 1970.

Margaret Kahn, former head of the Reference Department at the University of California, Irvine, died October 7. She had retired in 1979 after 13 years of service, and had also held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Eastern Illinois University, and Ohio State University.

Phyllis Rubinton, former chief librarian of the Payne Whitney Clinic at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College, died August 26. She had headed the library for 10 years before retiring in May, and had previously been head librarian at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. While at Payne Whitney she founded a mental health resources library for clinic patients, one of the first of its kind in the country, and was co-editor of Core Readings in Psychiatry: An Annotated Guide to the Literature, published in 1984. She was past chair of the Mental Health Section of the Medical Library Association.

Mildred E. Walter, medical librarian at the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester, New York, died August 29. She had retired, in 1963 after 34 years of service. ■ ■