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Sheila Creth

Profiles

Sheila Creth, former assistant director for ad- ministrative services at the University of Michigan, has been named university librarian at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Creth joined the staff at Michigan in 1982 with primary responsibility for budget, personnel, planning and building facilities. From 1975 to 1984 she was assistant director for personnel at the University of Connecticut, and was staff development coordinator at Columbia University (1973-1975) after serving as assistant to the director at the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities (1967-1973). She holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia and a master’s from the University of Connecticut.

Creth’s recent publications include a book, Ef– fective On-The-Job Training: Developing Library Human Resources, newly published by ALA. She is co-editor of Personnel Administration in Libraries, and has written numerous articles for such publications as Advances in Librarianship, Southeastern Librarian, College & Research Libraries, Drexel Library Quarterly, Library Journal, and the Journal of Academic Librarianship, as well as chapters in other books. She has served on the JAL editorial board for the past five years. Active in several professional associations, Creth has received two research grants from the Council on Library Re- sources, and in 1985 was one of 15 administrators selected to participate in the UCLA Senior Fellows Program sponsored by CLR. In addition to ACRL, for which she has taught continuing education courses, she is a member of the Library Adminis- tration and Management Association and the Li- brary and Information Technology Association, and is a frequent speaker at library conferences.

Paul Fasana

Paul Fasana, associate director for preparation services at the New York Public Library since 1971, has been appointed Andrew W. Mellon Director of Research Libraries. Fasana had most recently served as acting director of the NYPL.

In his new capacity, Fasana will have overall responsibility for the management and administration of NYPL’s four research libraries, including public service, collection development, cataloging and conservation, fiscal planning and related functions. He was responsible for the establishment of a comprehensive Conservation Division at the Library, which now preserves nearly 70,000 items a year, and was active in the formation of the Research Libraries Group. Fasana has been involved in the publication of an 800- volume book catalog that has replaced the ten million cards in the old card catalog, and in designing an online cataloging system that supplements the retrospective book catalog. He has published more than thirty books and articles and has lectured at several schools. A recipient of the Award of Merit from the New York Technical Services Librarians, Fasana is active in ALA, in which he served as pres- ident of the Resources and Technical Services Divi- sion (1976-1977), and several other professional as- sociations including the American Society for Information Sciences and the American National Standards Institute.

Fasana holds a bachelor’s degree (1959) and an MLS (1960) from the University of California at Berkeley. He began his career at NYPL in 1960 as a reference librarian at the Fordham Branch in the Bronx, working later at Itek Corporation and then as assistant coordinator of cataloging and later as- sistant director of library automation at Columbia University (1964-1971). From 1968 to 1971 he was also secretary to the Planning Council of the Coop- erative Library Systems Development (CLSI).

ThomasW. Leonhardt

Thomas W. Leonhardt has been named dean of libraries at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. He was formerly assistant university librarian for technical services at the University of Oregon, where he has served since 1982.

Leonhardt received bachelor’s (1970) and MLS (1973) degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career as gifts and exchange librarian at Stanford University, and later held positions as head of acquisitions at Boise State University and Duke University.

An active member of ALA, Leonhardt currently serves on the publications committees of the Resources and Technical Services Division and the Library and Information Technology Association, and is on RTSD’s Membership Committee and Board of Directors. He is editor of the R TSD Newsletter and serves on the editorial board of Information Technology and Libraries and Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory. Leonhardt is the author of numerous articles and speeches on acquisitions and collection development.

People in the News

Margaret Harbaugh, assistant librarian at McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas, was elected vice president of the Texas Junior College Teachers Association on February 20 at the organization’s annual meeting in Houston. Harbaugh was treasurer of the organization, the second largest of two-year college educators, in 1985-86, and is secretary this year. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston, an MLS from the University of Texas, and is a doctoral candidate at North Texas State University. Harbaugh is also active in the Texas Library Association.

William P. Timlake, director of technical programs at the Systems Group of IBM, has been named president of the Research Libraries Group, Stanford, California. A research specialist in numerical mathematics, Timlake was involved with the establishment of BITNET, was a trustee of EDUCOM, and has been responsible for the shared university research program for the Systems and Technology Groups during a 27-year career with the corporation.

Alan K. Virta of the Special Materials Cataloging Division of the Library of Congress has been selected for a fellowship in archival administration sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Virta will study archival administration at the McCain Library and Archives of the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

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.)

Jennifer Abramson has been appointed associate librarian (half-time) in the University Elementary School Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jean O. Allen is now public services librarian in the Law Library at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Mary Gay Anderson has been appointed foreign and international documents librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

George Bain is now head of the Archives and Special Collections department and university archivist at Ohio University, Athens.

Stephanie Baldwin is now acquisitions librarian for social sciences at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Christopher Barbour has been appointed assistant collection development librarian at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Mitchell Bobrick is now adjunct lecturer in reference at Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York.

Stewart Bodner is now adjunct assistant professor, reference, at Baruch College, New York City.

Cecilia Botero is now Latin American serials cataloger at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Elaine Boychuk has been appointed associate university librarian for technical services at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sandra E. Boyd has been appointed assistant archivist at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Vickie J. Bozarth has joined the staff of the Documents Department at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Heather J. E. Braithwaite is now reference/ database librarian in the Law Library at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Lisa Brehm has been appointed coordinator of access services at the University of Houston, Texas.

Carol Brueggemeier has been appointed assistant reference librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Karyle S. Butcher has been appointed assistant director of libraries for research and reference services at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Paul Carnahan has been appointed reference librarian at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Jeri W. Charleston is now student services librarian at Newberry College, South Carolina.

Ian A. Colford is now reference librarian in Information Services at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Priscilla Conoway–Thompson has joined the staff of Prince George’s Community College, Largo, Maryland.

Stephen Corrsin is now deputy associate librarian for technical services at Brooklyn College, New York.

Luanne Corsetti is the new government publications librarian at the University of California, Irvine.

Bill Covey is now head of the Systems Office at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Harry Davis has been appointed map/assistant science librarian at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Diane DiMartino is now reference librarian at Baruch College, New York City.

Frank DiTrolio has been appointed humanities bibliographer at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Carol Drum is now head of the Central Science Library at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

John J. Elliott has been appointed catalog librarian at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

Robert Evensen is the new collection development officer and creative arts librarian at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth E. Fuller has been appointed manuscript cataloger at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia.

Doris Geoghegan has been appointed catalog librarian in the Library Processing Center at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Steven R. Goldberg has been appointed technical services librarian at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

William D. Gooch has been named Texas State Librarian, Austin.

(Washington Hotline, cont’d)

Education Subcommittee. Other witnesses at the hearing included National Endowment for the Humanities Chair Lynne Cheney, Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, New York Public Library President Vartan Gregorian, New York Deputy Commissioner for Cultural Education Carole Huxley, and Council on Library Resources President Warren J. Haas.

Florence Agreement. In addition, ALA filed a statement in support of implementation of the Nairobi Protocol to the Florence Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials. The Protocol extends duty–free treatment to audio, visual and microform materials.

COGI Newsletter. The first issue of the COALITION ON GOVERNMENT INFORMATION NEWSLETTER was published in January. Planned as a quarterly, the newsletter will include articles and news items contributed by members and compiled by the ALA Washington Office. Individual subscriptions to the newsletter are $10 prepaid to the ALA Washington Office, 110 Maryland Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. The coalition developed as a result of an ALA Council resolution; it serves as a clearinghouse for 30 member-organizations united in their concern about citizens’ rights to be well informed about the activities of their federal government. Nancy Kranich of New York University Libraries chairs the coalition steering committee.

Patrick Grace is now government documents librarian at Brooklyn College, New York.

Kimberly M. Granath is now assistant biological sciences librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Alexandra S. Gressitt has been appointed to the dual position of city archivist and assistant archivist at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Dawn L. Hale is now head of cataloging at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Roland C. Hall has been appointed science/en- gineering librarian at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Sue Hemmerick is now periodicals librarian at the College of Staten Island, New York.

Yael Herbsman is now social sciences monographic cataloger at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Monteria Hightower has been appointed associate commissioner for libraries and Missouri state librarian, Jefferson City.

Emerson W. Hilker is now head of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Division at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Nancy Hori has been appointed assistant librarian, Forest Information Network-Northwest (FS- INFO–NW), at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Mel Isaacson is now head of cataloging in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Richard P. Jasper is the new coordinator of collection development in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dolores B. Jones has been appointed curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Patricia Kearns has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Christopher Newport College, Newport News, Virginia.

Terrance Keenan has been appointed adult education manuscripts librarian at Syracuse University, New York.

Anne Kenny has been appointed conservation liaison librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Kathleen Knox is now reference librarian at the College of Staten Island, New York.

Teresa L. Koch has been appointed reference librarian at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

Nick Koltun is the new coordinator of instructional technology at Christopher Newport College, Newport News, Virginia.

Joan Korsmeyer has been named director of the library at Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Wilfred Lancaster has joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Catherine A. Larson has been appointed media bibliographer at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Terry S. Latour has been appointed director of special collections and university archivist at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Carol Lawrence has been appointed head of technical services for the Medical Library of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Thomas Lee is the new East Asian area studies specialist at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Harold Leich has been appointed Russian/Soviet specialist in the European Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Nina Kriz Leneman has been appointed chief of the Reader’s Services and Documentation Section of the United Nations Library in Geneva, Switzerland.

Linda P. Lerman has been appointed Judaica bibliographer at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Lina Lowry has been named chief librarian of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York.

Anne Lundin has been appointed assistant curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Carol Maus is now education librarian at Queens College, New York.

Elaine N. Miller has been appointed head of the Reference Department at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Susan Newman is now readers services and deputy chief librarian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Holly E. Oberle has been appointed head of the Music/Dance Library of Ohio University, Athens.

Judith Opatow has been appointed reference librarian in the Art Library at Queens College, New York.

Carol Parke has been appointed associate university librarian for public services at Syracuse University, New York.

Lesley Pease has been appointed reference librarian at Syracuse University, New York.

Emma B. Perry has been appointed associate librarian for administration in the Baker Library of Harvard University.

Paul Evan Peters has been appointed library systems coordinator at the New York Public Library, New York City.

Trudy Huskamp Peterson has been named assistant archivist for the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Bente Loj Polites has been appointed reference librarian at Villanova University, Pennsylvania.

Bonnie Postlethwaite is now manager of LINX Services at the Faxon Company, Westwood, Massachusetts.

Barbara Quintiliano has been appointed reference librarian at Villanova University, Pennsylvania.

Linda D. Ranson is the new architecture and planning librarian at the Auraria Library, Denver, Colorado.

Honora Raphael-Weinstein has been appointed music librarian at Brooklyn College, New York.

Saralinda Rhodes has been appointed reference librarian and U.S. history bibliographer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Lorraine Ricigliano has been appointed head of reference at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.

Jack Robertson has joined the staff of the Art Library at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Luz Rodriguez–Nunez is now librarian for collection management at Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York.

Roman Rome has been appointed gifts librarian (part-time) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Galina Sassian has been appointed reference librarian at Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York.

Keith S. Schmiedl has been appointed president of the Coutts Library Service, Lewiston, New York.

Suzanne Schreiner has been appointed assistant reference librarian at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.

Cynthia H. Shabb has been appointed science librarian in the Science Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Sally Sims is now historic preservation officer at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Timothy M. Skeers has been appointed serials librarian at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

Pamela A. Skinner has been appointed associate reference librarian at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Margery N. Sly is now college archivist at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Jay Starratt has been appointed assistant director of library services at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Peter A. Stern has been appointed assistant collection development librarian at the University of Alabama, University.

Hannah M. Stevens has been appointed assistant to the associate university librarian for technical services at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Achara Stone is now cataloger at Baruch College, New York City.

Tamara Szarka has been appointed catalog librarian at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Albert Talero is now associate professor at LaGuardia Community College, New York.

Olga I. Torres-Seda has been appointed reference librarian at Lehman College, New York City.

Clement Tremblay is now catalog librarian at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Carol Turner has been appointed assistant director for administrative services at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Richard Vaughn has been appointed assistant technical services librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Carol Walton has been appointed social sciences cataloger for Latin American Monographs at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Lisa Webb is now photoarchivist at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Wanda Weinberg is now assistant reference librarian at Ohio University, Athens.

Etsuko Wilson is now catalog librarian at Syracuse University, New York.

Thomas C. Wilson is now social sciences reference librarian at the University of Houston, Texas.

Linda R. ZELLMERhas been appointed assistant physical sciences and engineering librarian at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

Carol A. Zoppel has been appointed assistant humanities librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Retirements

Greg Bullard, associate university librarian for technical and automated services at Syracuse University, New York, retired December 31, 1986, after 12 years of service. Prior to coming to Syracuse, Bullard was assistant director for technical services at the State University of New York at Binghamton (1960-1974). From 1954 to 1960 he was acquisi- tions librarian at that institution, then known as Harpur College. Bullard earned a bachelor’s de- gree from Champlain College and an MLS from Syracuse University.

Robert A. Colby, professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Queens College, New York, retired February 1.

Jack W. Dickey, head of the Biology Library at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, retired Decem- ber 31,1986, following 25 years of service. A native of Oklahoma, Dickey received a bachelor of sci- ence degree, a master’s degree in education, and an MLS from the University of Oklahoma, and worked as an assistant reference librarian at Okla- homa State University. He was assistant acquisi- tions librarian at New Mexico University before be- coming a reference librarian in the Main Library at Iowa. Dickey became librarian of the then- combined Mathematics-Physics Library in 1962, and later also assumed responsibility for the Zool- ogy Library (now part of the Biology Library).

Mary Louise Gladish, biomedical research ser- vices librarian at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, retired January 31, following a five-year disability leave. She had joined the staff in 1964.

Warren S. Owens, dean of library services at the University of Idaho, has announced his retirement effective May 15. Prior to coming to Idaho, Owens served as director of libraries at Temple University (1961-1968). He earned his MLS from the Univer- sity of Michigan and worked there in various ad- ministrative positions from 1952 to 1961.

Barbara Rollock

Barbara Rollock, coordinator of children’s ser- vices at the New York Public Library since 1974, retired at the end of February after more than 30 years of service.

Rollock, who provided the initial leadership in the planning and formation of the NYPL’s Early Childhood Resource and Information Center, has been responsible for managing all services provided for children throughout the 81 branches of the NYPL system. An active member of ALA, she was president of the Association for Library

Service to Children, and is also active in the New York Library Association, whose children’s division she has headed. A frequent lecturer on children’s literature, she is also the author and editor of numerous articles and publications, including three recent editions of The Black Experience in Children's Literature. For nearly a decade she was the moderator of WNYC Radio’s weekly show, “World of Children’s Literature,” for which she received the International Reading Association’s Media Award in 1982.

Rollock joined NYPL in 1945, serving first as a clerk at the Aguilar Branch Library in Harlem, and then later at other branches as a children’s librarian. In 1965 she was named Bronx Borough Children’s Specialist and became assistant coordinator of Children’s Services in 1971. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and an MLS from Columbia University.

Vera Carlson Snapko, acquisitions librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library, Minneapolis, retired September 30, 1986. Snapko began her law library career in 1950 as a cataloger and later became documents librarian.

Deaths

HELEN Eaton, former librarian at Southeastern Massachusetts University, died October 1986 in Somerset, Massachusetts. Eaton had retired in 1972. She was on the staff of the Central Library of Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1953 and later was librarian at the former Bradford Durfey Technical College.

Albert L. Remley, director of advertising and promotion at the H. W. Wilson Company from 1963 until his retirement in 1980, died January 31 in Nyack, New York. A 1938 graduate of Hiram College, Remley received a bachelor’s in library science from the University of Illinois and worked in the Government Documents Division of Northwestern University until 1941. After serving in the U.S. Army for five years he joined the printing firm of R. R. Donnelly and Sons in 1946 as special librarian. Remley served as advertising and business manager for the ALA Bulletin from 1952 to 1958, and was also exhibits manager. He later joined the Combined Book Exhibit in New York.

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