ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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P e r s o n n e l
When Lawrence E. Wikander becomes 

librarian of Williams College on Sept. 1, he 
will be returning to his alma mater after an 
absence of thirty-one 
y e a rs. H e h a s  n o t 
been idle in the in­
te r im . G r a d u a tio n  
from Columbia Uni­
versity school of libra­
ry service in 1939 was 
followed by stints at 
the Pittsburgh and 
District of Columbia 
p u b lic  libraries. H e 
served from 1942 to 
1946 as a Captain in 
military intelligence. Mr. W ikander
He picked up his ca­
reer at Temple University, first as supervisor 
of technical processes and then as assistant 
librarian. While in Philadelphia, he also ac­
quired a master’s degree in medieval history 
from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1950, 
Larry moved to the Forbes library in North­
ampton, Mass., where he has been since.

With the position at Williams, he reenters 
an academic phase of his career, but his pub­
lic experience will not be lost. The deftness

with which he handled relationships with 
trustees and town officials will find full scope 
with academic administration, faculty, and 
students. Larry is fortunate to succeed an 
excellent librarian (Wyllis E. Wright) in an 
excellent college library. There will be, how­
ever, developing problems of space, service, 
and collection building to test his talents.

A fortunate aspect of the change of jobs is 
that Mr. Wikander will not be lost to his 
friends and associates in the process. He has 
contributed greatly to the effectiveness of pro­
fessional and public service organizations in 
Massachusetts and New England. He is past 
president of the Western Massachusetts Library 
Club and the Massachusetts Library Associa­
tion, and is currently president of the New 
England Library Association. He has been a 
moving force in the cooperative developments 
of Western Massachusetts. In addition to the 
more local professional participation, he is on 
the ALA Council and serves on sundry ALA 
committees. We trust there will be no diminu­
tion of his contributions to the library life of 
New England.

We can neither welcome him to Massa­
chusetts nor are we forced to say farewell. We 
can, however, confidently wish Lawrence E.

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Wikander—motorcyclist, medievalist, bookman, 
local historian, and raconteur—every success at 
Williams.—Tilton M. Barron, Clark University.

A P P O IN T M E N T S
Ruth Jane Buzby has been appointed as­

sistant serials catalog librarian at the Pattee 
library, Pennsylvania State University.

Joseph J. Costa has recently been appointed 
to the position of librarian at the Schuylkill 
campus of the Pennsylvania State University 
libraries.

Nancy Gross has been appointed to the 
staff of the catalog division of Smithsonian 
Institution libraries.

Wilfred Danielson has been appointed to 
the professional staff of the documents depart­
ment of Northwestern University libraries.

Mrs. Deva R. Howard is now in charge 
of the university archives, a unit of reference 
and special services of Northwestern University 
libraries.

Mary A. Huffer has been named assistant 
director of libraries, Smithsonian institution.

Mrs. Helen M. Kovar joined the Pennsyl­
vania State University library on March 1 as 
assistant catalog librarian.

Ann Liivak assumed the duties of library 
science librarian in the reference department 
of Drexel Institute of Technology libraries on 
March 18.

The appointment of Mrs. Marjorie Wal­
lace MacLeod as director of the library at 
Curry College in Milton, Mass., has been an­
nounced.

Basil Mitchell has been named executive 
director of the Southeastern New York Library 
Resources Council with offices at 103 Market 
Street in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Mrs. Twyla Mueller has joined the staff 
of Eastern Michigan University library as 
acquisitions librarian.

Appointment of Mrs. Margaret J. Oaks- 
ford as chief librarian of the college center of 
the Finger Lakes’ new Library Center in 
Ithaca has been announced. She will have 
responsibility for original cataloging and non­
machine functions of the center.

David J. Patten has been named librarian 
of the art and architecture library at Washing­
ton University.

Margaret A. Sealor has been appointed 
to the staff of the catalog division, Smith­
sonian Institution libraries.

Jean C. Smith, assistant director of libraries 
of the Smithsonian Institution libraries from 
1965 through May, 1967, has been appointed 
to the position of special assistant to the 
director of libraries for biological science 
programs.

Thomas W ilding, formerly in charge of 
gifts and exchange in the Smithsonian Institu­
tion libraries, has been named assistant to the 
director of libraries.

R E T IR E M E N T S
George T. Smisor is retiring June 30 after 

serving as head of acquisitions for fifteen years 
and as Latin American bibliographer for the 
past year at the University of California at 
Riverside.

N E C R O L O G Y
Bessie E. Wilder, documents librarian at 

the University of Kansas libraries from 1925 
until her retirement in 1957, died on March 
17, 1968. Miss Wilder continued to work on 
library-related research projects for several 
years after retirement and her latest effort, a 
history of Lawrence, was interrupted by her 
death.

E lizabeth M. Richards died suddenly on 
November 25, 1967, in Oberlin, Ohio, where 
she had made her home since 1956 (with 
Eileen Thornton, librarian of Oberlin College). 
Miss Richards was librarian of Flora Stone 
Mather College of Western Reserve for many 
years before becoming head readers services 
librarian of Vassar College in 1945. She retired 
from that position in 1955.

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