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ACRL Officers for 1973/74

Norman E. Tanis,director of university libraries at California State University in North- ridge, is president of the Association of College and Research Libraries for 1973/74. As president of ACRL, Tanis serves as chairman of the ACRL Executive Committee, of the ACRL Board of Directors, and of the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1974 Annual Conference in New York. He also serves as a member of the Choice Editorial Board and as an ex-officio member of the ACRL Planning Committee and of all units of ACRL.

Norman Tanis

Tanis has been active in ACRL affairs for many years. In the past, he has served as chairman of the Committee on Standards and Accreditation and as chairman of the Junior College Libraries Section. He has been a member of the ACRL/ARL Joint Committee on University Library Standards and of the CRL Editorial Board. He has also served on several ALA committees and as an ALA representative to other educational and professional organizations.

The newly elected vice-president and president-elect of ACRL is H. William Axford, University of Oregon librarian. In the elections held late this spring, Axford received a total of 1,567 votes. Jane G. Flener, associate university librarian for public services at the University of California in Berkeley, received 1,524 votes.

William Axford

Axford’s service to ACRL and ALA has also been long and varied. This has included chairmanship of the ACRL Committee on Standards and Accreditation, and membership on the CRL Editorial Board and on the University Libraries Section Urban Universities Library Committee. In ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division, Axford has served as a member of the Committee on Preservation of Library Materials, as a member of the Policy and Research Committee of the Acquisitions Section, and as a member-at-large on the Executive Committee of the Reproduction of Library Materials Section.

As vice-president of ACRL, Axford serves as a member of the ACRL Executive Committee and as an officer on the ACRL Board of Directors. He will chair the ACRL Planning Committee and the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1975 Annual Conference in San Francisco. Axford will represent ACRL on the ALA Budget Assembly and on the ALA San Francisco Conference Planning Committee. At the close of the 1974 conference in New York, Axford will become ACRL’s thirty-sixth president.

To fill the two openings for director-at-large on the ACRL Board of Directors, ACRL members elected C. Donald Cook, associated instructor on the faculty of library science at the University of Toronto (1,736 votes), and George S. Bobinski, dean and professor in the School of Information and Library Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1,477 votes). Cook and Bobinski will each serve a four-year term as director-at-large. The two remaining candidates for director-at-large, Bernard Kreissman, chief librarian at the City College in New York, and R. Dean Galloway, director of the library at California State College in Stanislaus, received 1,358 votes and 1,336 votes respectively.

The results of the section elections follow. For each position, the elected candidate is listed first.

AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Ann E. Kerker, Professor of Library Science and Veterinary Medical Librańan, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana (144);Lyle R. Schreiner, Assistant Director of Libraries for Science and Technology, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska (43). Secretary: Barbara B. Gordon, Librarian, Forest Resources Library, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (105); Michele A. Huntley, Serials Librarian, Love Library, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska (78).

ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION

Chairman: Hans E. Panofsky, Curator, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (54); Antonio M. Rodriguez-Buckingham, Associate Librarian, Peabody Museum Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (40). Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Elizabeth Krakauer, Head Librarian, Goddard College Library, Plainfield, Vermont (49); Lee Ash, Library Consultant, 31 Alden Road, New Haven, Connecticut (47). Secretary: Robert E. Pfeiffer, Head, Graduate Social Science Libraries, University of California, Berkeley, California (49); Barton M. Clark, Head, Social Studies and Humanities Division, University of Nebraska Library, Lincoln, Nebraska (42). Member-at-Large (1 year): Carol V. Ruppé, Reference Librarian, Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (59); Ruby V. Martz, Subject Specialist, Learning Resources Center, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois (21). Member-at-Large (2 years): Marilyn L. Haas, Reference Librarian, Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York (54); Rinehart S. Potts, Assistant Professor, Department of Library Science, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey (27).

ART SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Alice N. Loranth, Head, John G. White Department of Folklore, Orientalia and Chess, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio (146);Lucija Skuja, Art Librarian, Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan (80). Secretary: Mary Ivy Bayard, Fine Arts Librarian, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (133); Susan V. Craig, Indexer, Art Index, H. W. Wilson Company, Bronx, New York (96).

ASIAN AND AFRICAN SECTION*

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Henry Schol- berg, Librarian, Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (80); Lee S. Dutton, Librarian, Southeast Asia Collection, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois (50). Secretary: Elizabeth A. Widenmann, Cataloger and African Bibliographer, Columbia University Libraries, New York, New York (84); Adrian Jones, Director of Libraries, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois (46). Member-at-Large: Frank M. McGowan, Chief, Overseas Operations Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (96); David Wilder, Executive Director, Long Island Library Resources Council, Bellport, New York (36).

* On Thursday, June 28, by action of the ACRL Board of Directors, the name of the Asian and North African Section was changed to “Asian and African Section.”

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Sister Lauretta McCusker, Dean, Graduate School of Library Science, Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois (455);James A. Riddles, Director of Libraries, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California (344). Secretary: Mary Louise B. Cobb, Head, Cataloging Department, E. G. Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (538); Virginia N. Cesario, Assistant Chief Librarian, Public Services, City College Library, City University of New York, New York, New York (241).

COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION* *

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Anabel R. Sproat, Head Librarian, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Illinois (180);Marjorie C. Dennin, Director, Learning Resources, Northern Virginia Community College, Central Campus, Annandale, Virginia (157). Secretary: Leah K. Nekritz, Director of Learning Resources, Prince George's Community College, Largo, Maryland (223); Hubert E. Davis, Director, Learning Resource Center, Southwest College, Chicago, Illinois (114).

EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Toyo S. Kawakami, Assistant Head, Education Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (207);Phyllis L. Rearden, Assistant Cataloger, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois (125). Secretary: Victoria E. Hargrave, Librarian, Henry Pfeiffer Library, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois (193); Carolyn S. Tyler, Librarian, Education Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (136).

LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCE SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Dan F. Henke, Professor of Law and Law Librarian, University of California, Hastings, San Francisco, California (132);Margaret A. Otto, Assistant Director for Library Services, The Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (87). Secretary: Joan L. Chambers, Government Publications Librarian, University of Nevada Library, Reno, Nevada (122); Frances B. Woods, Head, Catalog Department, Yale Law Library, New Haven, Connecticut (96). Member-at-Large: Silvia A. Gonzalez, Head, Documents Department, University of California Law Library, Davis, California (133); Ann K. Randall, Lecturer and D.L.S. Fellow, School of Library Service, Columbia University, New York, New York (87).

** On Thursday, June 28, by action of the ACRL Board of Directors, the name of the Junior College Libraries Section was changed to “Community and Junior College Libraries Section.”

RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Hendrik Ed- elman, Assistant Director for Development of Collections, Cornell University Libraries, Ithaca, New York (244);Willis Van Devanter, Oak Spring, Upperville, Virginia (174). Secretary: Gloria A. Francis, Chief, Gifts and Rare Books Division, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan (224); Clive E. Driver, Director, The Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (193). Member-at-Large: Clyde C. Walton, Director of Libraries, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois (216); Alexander P. Clark, Curator of Manuscripts, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (202).

SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Katherine Cveljo, Associate Professor, College of Librari- anship, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (61);Andrew Turchyn, Librarian for Slavic Studies, Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Indiana (55). Member- at-Large: Gary D. Wiggins, Slavic Acquisitions Librarian, University of Illinois Library, Ur- bana, Illinois (88); Keith Westover, Assistant Acquisitions Librarian, Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Indiana (24).

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Eidred R. Smith, Director of University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York (832);Donald E. Oehlerts, Director of Libraries, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (682). Secretary: Margaret K. Norden, Acquisitions Librarian, Falk Library of the Health Professions, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (833); Donald L. Bosseau, Director of Libraries, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas (662).