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Hiram L. Davis

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Richard De Gennaro

Hiram L. Davis has been named dean of library services at New Mexico State University, Las Cru- ces, effective January 1. He was formerly dean of libraries at the University of the Pacific.

Davis had been in his position at UOP since 1979. His prior positions include head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of California, Los Angeles (1976-79), and associate director of University Libraries at the University of Oklahoma (1973-76). Davis has held other professional positions at Northwestern University, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and the University of Kansas. He earned a bachelor’s degree a Missouri Valley College (1966) and his MLS from Emporia State University (1969), receiving a doctorate from the School of Li- brary and Information Studies of the University of Michigan in 1984.

While at UOP, Davis was involved in the plan- ning and development of the recently completed William Knox Holt Memorial Library. He assisted in the organization of the California Private Aca- demic Libraries under the auspices of the Associa- tion of Independent California Colleges and Uni- versities, and has served as a member of the Planning Committee for the California Confer- ence on Networking and subsequently as a member of the Networking Task Force. Davis has served as a member of the ACRL Planning Committee and on the C&B.L News Editorial Board.

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Richard De Gennaro, director of libraries at the University of Pennsylvania and former associ- ate university librarian at Harvard University, has been named director of the New York Public Library, effective February 1.

De Gennaro started his professional career in the Reference Department of the New York Public Library in 1956.

He went to Harvard in 1958 where, for the next 12 years, he held increasingly responsible positions, including assistant librarian, associate university librarian for systems development, and senior associate university librarian. He established Harvard’s automation program and initiated and directed the computer-based Widener Library shelflist conversion and publication project. During a leave from Harvard in 1967-68 he was visiting professor at the University of Southern California. He assumed the directorship at Pennsylvania in 1970.

De Gennaro has participated in a wide variety of professional activities, including membership in the Board of Governors of the Research Libraries Group, Inc., of which he was chairman (1984-85). He was president of the Association of Research Libraries (1975), president of ALA’s Information Science and Automation Division, and chairman of the ASIS Special Interest Group on Library Automation and Networks. He has served on numerous other committees, councils, and advisory boards. De Gennaro is an internationally recognized authority on library and information technology and library management, and is the author of more than 40 papers in addition to having completed more than sixty consulting assignments. A book of his selected papers, Libraries, Technology, and the Information Marketplace, will be published this year. De Gennaro was awarded ALA’s Melvil Dewey Medal in 1986.

After serving four years in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II, De Gennaro earned bachelor’s (1951) and master’s (1960) degrees from Wesleyan University. He received his MLS from Columbia University in 1956. De Gennaro has also studied at the Universities of Paris (Sorbonne), Poitiers, Barcelona, Madrid, and Perugia and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (1971).

Barbara M. Jones

Barbara M. Jones was named director of library services at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, effective October 1, 1986.

Jones served most recently as director of the library at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology, a College of the State University of New York. Prior to that she was head of cataloging at New York University, and head of bibliographic control at the Teachers College Library of Columbia University. Jones began her career in the catalog department at the University of Cincinnati. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Jones earned her MLS, with honors, from Columbia, and her bachelor’s degree, with high honors, from the University of Illinois. In 1986 she received a master’s in history from New York University and will soon complete a certificate in archival management and historical editing.

Jones has served on the editorial board of the F.I.T. Review and as chair of the Preservation Committee which prepared the Library Disaster Plan Workbook at NYU. She is co-author of “Duplicate Becords in the Bibliographic Utilities: A Historical Review of the Printing Versus Editing Problem,” which appeared in Library Resources and Technical Services. Jones is chair of the ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table for 1986-87.

Robert Maloy

Robert Maloy, director of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in Washington, D.C., since 1979, has been appointed professor of church history and director of the library at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Maloy will assume his new position during the 1987-88 academic year.

Prior to his position with the Smithsonian, Maloy was director of the library and a professor of history at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton, a master’s from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from the University of Freiburg in Switzerland. He is also an ordained priest of the Catholic Diocese of Basel in Switzerland. A specialist in Western Church History with expertise in Late Antiquity, Maloy has edited Latin manuscripts.

Joseph J. Mika was named director of the graduate library science program at Wayne State University, Detroit, effective August 1986.

Mika had served as assistant dean of the School of Library Science at the University of Southern Mississippi since 1983. He was previously on the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh, Johnson State College and Ohio State University. Mika holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and has published widely in professional library journals.

People in the News

Charlene Baldwin, science librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson, spent three months late last year in Niamey in the Republic of Niger working as a consulting librarian to establish a functional documentation center for the Ministry of Planning. Baldwin helped train the documentalist at the center in computer use and advised in the development of policies and procedures for all aspects of the center’s operation.

Susan Klimley, geological sciences librarian at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, New York, was awarded the Geoscience Information Society’s Best Paper Award at a November 11 luncheon in San Antonio. The paper, entitled “Saving Geology Libraries: What’s Available,” addressed the problems of preserving large, often colored and folded, maps which accompany geoscience texts. The paper was particularly recommended for the wealth of technical detail presented and for tackling a longstanding, difficult problem in the geoscience literature.

Eleanor Pinkham, director of library and media services at Kalamazoo College, received the Librarian of the Year Award from the Michigan Library Association during its annual conference in October, 1986. Pinkham has been at Kalamazoo since 1971 and was president of the Michigan Library Association in 1983-84. She was instrumental in the planning and establishment of the Michigan Library Consortium and served on its Executive Council for eight years. She is an active member of ACRL and is currently serving on the ALA Awards Committee.

Appointments

(Appointments 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.)

Ralph Alberico has been appointed head of reference at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Duncan Aldrich is now assistant government publications librarian at the University of Nevada- Reno.

Christina Young Allen has been appointed head of the Cataloging Department at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina.

Susan Andrews has been appointed European languages cataloger at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Virginia Andrews is now automation coordinator at Texas Technical University, Lubbock.

Oleta Armstrong has been appointed general reference coordinator at Texas Technical University, Lubbock.

Brian Aveney has been appointed systems librarian at San Francisco State University, California.

Marcia E. Baker has joined the reference staff of the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin.

Debabrata Basu is now head of circulation services in the Cabot Science Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stella Bentley has been appointed assistant director for public services and collection management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

James L. Bingham has been named director of the Dykes Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.

Joann Stewart Bissell is now reference librarian at the Ogontz Campus of Pennsylvania State University, Abington.

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

Joseph Branin has been named director of the Humanities/Social Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Donald M. Buchwald has been appointed to the reference staff at Corpus Christi State University, Texas.

Margaret N. Buckholz has been appointed assistant serials librarian in the Serials Division at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Mary Burchill is now associate director for administration and public services at the University of Kansas School of Law Library, Lawrence.

Paul Cairns has been named deputy university librarian at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Jennifer Cargill is now associate director of libraries for information access and systems at Texas Technical University, Lubbock.

Lewis Cartee is the new systems librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Susan Chickering has been appointed serials librarian at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Dan Clark has been appointed music librarian at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Jeffery Clark has been appointed director of the Media Resources Center at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Cynthia Crooker has been appointed catalog librarian in the Rare Book Division of the Catalog Department at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Emerita Cuesta has been appointed circulation librarian at the University of Miami Law Library, Florida.

Robert Curtis is the new music librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Darien Daries is the new head of bibliographic records at the University of California, Riverside.

Frieda Davison is now assistant health sciences librarian for access and technical services at Columbia University, New York City.

Vera Dear has been appointed music cataloger at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Deborah DeCorso is now social sciences librarian and head of computer services at Manhattan- ville College, Purchase, New York.

Paula DeStefano is now a preservation intern at Columbia University, New York City.

Amy L. DiBartolo has joined the staff of the Information Services Department at the State University of New York College at Buffalo.

Eugene H. Dickerson has been appointed serials cataloger at Villanova University, Pennsylvania.

Martha Dragich has been named associate director of the Law Library at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

John R. Druesedow Jr. has been named director of the Music Library at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Stewart W. Dyess has been appointed assistant director of libraries for physical facilities and support services at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Terry Fahy is now head acquisitions librarian at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Donald Fork has joined the staff of the Public Library Support Unit in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Library Programs, of the U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.

Gary Fouty has been appointed science/ref- erence librarian in the Science/Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

James Fox has been appointed catalog librarian in the Rare Book Division of the Catalog Department at Yale University.

Richard Fyffe has been appointed librarian/cu- rator of books and printed materials at the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts.

Ray Gerke is now branch librarian at the Yonkers Branch Campus of Mercy College, New York.

Carolyn Gray has been appointed associate director for reader and technical services at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Roderick Gregory is now network coordinator for the Western North Carolina Library Network.

David Gunn is the new reserve librarian at the Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas at Austin.

Beth Gwynn has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Miami Law Library, Florida.

Connie H. Holland has been appointed assistant director of libraries for development at Texas Technical University, Lubbock.

Dianne T. McAfee Hopkins has joined the faculty of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Fang-Lan Hsieh has been appointed music cata- loger at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Dorothy Jacobs is now reference librarian at CBN University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

John M. Kelly has been appointed university bibliographer at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Arlene Klair is now head of the Catalog Management Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mary Layman has been appointed Desert Research Institute Librarian at the University of Nevada–Reno.

Robert Lockard has been appointed public services librarian at the Moon Township Campus of Robert Morris College, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

Lyonette Louis-Jacques has joined the reference staff of the University of Minnesota Law Library, Minneapolis.

Mon Yin Lung has been appointed head of technical services at the University of Kansas Law Library, Lawrence.

Tim McAdam is now serials librarian at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

Katherine McCain has been appointed assistant professor in the College of Information Studies at Drexel University, Philadelphia.

Brenda McCallum is the new head of the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Larry D. Marquardt has been named director of the library at the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa.

Thomas Mikolzyk has been appointed assistant librarian at Lake Forest College, Illinois.

Sandra N. Milevski has been appointed program, planning, and research officer in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.

Emily Miller has been appointed assistant librarian at Lake Forest College, Illinois.

Isamu Miura has been appointed Japanese cata- loger in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University, New York City.

Ellie Munn has been appointed head of bibliographic control at the State University of New York College at Buffalo.

Chere Negaard has been appointed reference librarian in the Public Affairs Reference Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Catherine Nelson has been appointed serials cataloger at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Deborah A. Nolan has been appointed college director of educational support services at Montgomery Community College, Rockville, Maryland.

Marilyn Parrish is now a half-time reference librarian in Information Services at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Faye Phillips has been appointed head of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Historical Collections at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Alan P. Pollard has been appointed Slavic bibliographer at Princeton University, New Jersey.

Bruge Preslan has been named associate director of the OCLC Pacific Network, Claremont, California.

Janet Pursel is now coordinator of Library User Education at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Leslie Arden Reicher has been appointed preservation coordinator at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Steven D. Robertson has been appointed assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Marlyn Robinson is the new serials/acquisitions librarian at the Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas at Austin.

Pamela Rost is now head of circulation at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Donna Rubens has been appointed science reference librarian in the Science/Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

R. Neil Scott is now a management consultant in university libraries at the National Office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Washington, D.C.

Jacqueline Sellers has joined the staff of the McKeldin Reference Library at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Kathy A. Shelby has been appointed science librarian at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Cynthia Shelton has been appointed special collections cataloger in the Technical Services Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kathryn Showers has been appointed coordinator at the OCLC Pacific Network, Claremont, California.

Ronald SImmer has been appointed patents librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Jean Simmons has been appointed assistant head of catalog management at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Alan Solomon has been appointed head of the Reference Department at Yale University.

Ramona J. Steffey has been appointed automation project librarian at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Kenneth Tanaka has joined the staff of the East Asia Collection at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Sonya Thelin has been appointed coordinator at the OCLC Pacific Network, Claremont, California.

Paul Thompson has been appointed assistant professor in the College of Information Studies at Drexel University, Philadelphia.

Suzanne Tronier has been appointed cataloging librarian at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Theresa K. Trost has been appointed user instruction coordinator at Texas Technical University, Lubbock.

Rebecca Van Campen has been appointed library instruction coordinator at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Eric Welsh has been appointed law reference librarian in the Law Library at CRN University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Nevenka West has been appointed original cataloger at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Harvey Wheeler has been named Martha Boaz Research Professor in Academic Information Systems at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

George White has been named director of the library at Marymount College, Salina, Kansas.

Wayne A. Wiegand has been appointed associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Martin Wisneski is now head of technical services at the Washburn University Law School Library, Topeka, Kansas.

Chien–Cheng (Charles) Wu has been appointed head of technical services in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University, New York City.

Jacqueline Wulff is the new head of the Biomedical Information Service at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Retirements

Elizabeth G. Ellis, assistant to the head of the reference and instructional services division at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 1984, has retired with the rank of librarian emeritus after 17 years of service. Appointed initially as undergraduate librarian, Ellis was promoted to coordinator of instructional programs and head, library studies, in 1977. She came to Penn State in 1969 after serving as head of the Documents Department of the State Library of Pennsylvania and adjunct professor of library science at Drexel University. Ellis was also chief of the serials department at North Carolina Central State University and head of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Library. An active member of ALA, Ellis served as chair of the GODORT State Task Force on Education, and was named Librarian of the Year by the North Carolina Library Association. She began her career as a high school librarian in High Point, North Carolina, after earning BA, BS and MLS degrees from North Carolina Central University.

Hallie Perry, supervisor of the Interlibrary Loan Unit at Stanford University, California, for the past five years, retired at the end of November 1986. Prior to then she served in the Cubberley Education Library and in the Department of Special Collections.

Elvin E. Strowd, special projects librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, retired December 31 after 31 years of service.

Irene J. Wernstedt, head of the receiving unit of the Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ bibliographic and resource services division, University Park, has retired after 13 years of service. Wernstedt edited the PSU Serial Headings List, used at Penn State and elsewhere in the state, and has served on ALA and Pennsylvania Library Association committees.

Erma P. Whittington, librarian in the Manuscript Department of the J.B. Hubbell Center of the Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina, will retire February 28 following 38 years of service.

Matthew R. Wilt, executive director of the Catholic Library Association, Haverford, Pennsylvania, has announced his retirement effective June 30, 1987, completing 26 years of service.

Maria Woodman, technical services librarian and cataloger in the library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, will retire February 1 after 29 years of service. Woodman joined Harvard in 1958 as a cataloger in the Gordon McKay Library and was named acting librarian there in 1965, remaining until 1968. From 1968 to 1970 she was a part-time cataloger in the Widener library, becoming editor of the catalog at the Fine Arts Library (1970-72), and serving as cataloger in the Geological Sciences Library (1971-74). From 1974 to 1978 Woodman was cataloger in the Manpower and Industrial Relations Collection at the Littauer Library.

Deaths

Frederick Henrich, associate librarian emeritus of the State University of New York at Buffalo, died November 10, 1986, at the age of 74. Prior to his retirement in 1982, Henrich was head of the Documents and Microforms Department. He joined the staff in 1964 as a reference librarian for history, economics, and business administration, following a career in accountancy. Henrich held a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. and MLS from SUNY-Buffalo.

Emily Olson, head of the Cubberly Library of Stanford University from 1954 to 1976, died late last year in Osceola, Wisconsin. Olson earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and taught in Wisconsin public schools for several years before receiving her MLS from the University of Southern California. She worked in the USC Library before coming to Stanford. Following her retirement Olson returned to her hometown where she became the town’s unofficial archivist and secretary of the Historical Society.

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