ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


Personnel
During the summer just past, Frederick G. 

Kilgour became the director of the newly- 
created Ohio College Library Center. Though 

a librarian for more 
than thirty years be­
fore accepting the di­
rectorship, in many 
ways this move was a 
step in a new career 
which began in 1965 
when Fred left Yale’s 
medical library for the 
post of associate li­
brarian for research 
and development in 
Yale’s university li­

Mr. Kilgour brary.
Actually, Fred had

been preparing for this shift for many years. 
During his last years at the medical library he 
increasingly gave his time to those aspects of 
library development which are frequently sub­
sumed under the catch-all term of “automa­
tion.” Fred’s interest in automation, however, 
like his interest in medicine and in science 
generally, was predicated upon humanistic pre­
suppositions rather than primarily upon opera­
tional efficiencies. Not the saving of dollars and 
cents but the serving of faculty and scholars 
gave direction to Fred’s investigations. This 
aspect of his work made him the ideal associate 
for me as we began the implementation of the 
new technology in the university library. Un­
fortunately for me and for Yale, it was also, no 
doubt, one of the reasons why Fred was wooed 
away to Ohio. In his new job he will have the 
challenge of creating the networks which will 
contribute so critically to the next phase of in­
terlibrary cooperation. Hopefully he will be 
able to utilize many of the techniques which 
he and his staff worked out at Yale. Certainly 
Yale will continue to look to Fred’s new ef­
forts for guidelines in meeting many of its 
problems of intralibrary and interlibrary de­
velopment.

Fred’s career was largely divided between 
Harvard and Yale—and a six-year stint for the 
government. After graduating from Harvard in 
1935, he joined the staff of the college library 
there, working in circulation, reference and ad­
ministration. He left Harvard in 1942 for the 
Office of Strategic Services and then left Wash­
ington for New Haven in 1948. At Yale he gave 
seventeen years of distinguished leadership as 
librarian of the medical school. Also a student 
of the history of science and medicine, for fif­
teen years he was lecturer in that department 
at Yale. During most of his time at the medical 
library, he was the managing editor of the Yale 
Journal of Biology and Medicine, as well as a

frequent contributor of scholarly articles to 
various learned journals.

Fred’s interest in the history of ideas never 
blinded him to the imaginative exploration of 
new ideas, nor to new uses for old ideas. His 
interest in the world of computors has not been 
antithetical to his interest in ancient technology; 
rather, the two are bands on an open-ended 
spectrum. The one informs the other; they both 
inform Fred Kilgour; and Fred informs those 
of us who are laboring to bring libraries into 
the present and on into the future.—James 
Tanis, Yale University.

Kenneth E. Toombs, director of libraries 
and professor of library science at the Univer­
sity of Southwestern Louisiana, was appointed 
director of libraries at
the University of 
South Carolina effec­
tive September 1.

Toombs, a native of 
Colonial Heights, Vir­
ginia, had been at 
S o u th w e s te r n  since 
1963. Prior to that 
time he held the po­
sition of assistant di­
rector of libraries at 
Louisiana State Uni­
versity, of research as­ Mr. Toombs
sistant to graduate
school of library science at Rutgers University, 
and of reference assistant at the University of 
of Virginia.

He planned the recently completed 137,000 
square foot Dupre library at the University of 
Southwestern Louisiana and assisted in plan­
ning and moving for the consolidation of the 
university libraries at Louisiana State Univer­
sity in 1958.

Toombs has degrees from Tennessee Wes­
leyan College, Tennessee Technological Uni­
versity, the University of Virginia, and Rutgers 
University and has also done graduate work at 
Louisiana State University.

He is a veteran of both World War II and 
the Korean War and has been active in pro­
fessional and civic organizations. He has served 
as editor of the Bulletin of the Louisiana Li­
brary Association and the Southwestern Loui­
siana Journal and has written for professional 
journals.

Toombs presently serves on the Executive 
Board of the Southwestern Library Association 
and is chairman of the College and University 
section of the Southwestern Library Association. 
He is a member of the State Board of Library 
Examiners of Louisiana and is the Higher Edu­
cation Representative of the Louisiana Library

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Development Committee. He served as chair­
man of the Louisiana Academic Librarians and 
is past chairman of the librarian section of the 
Louisiana College Conference.

During his tenure at Southwestern, in ad­
dition to the erection of a new university library 
building, he has instituted an automated circu­
lation system, has planned an automated serials 
system, has introduced new methods for the 
orientation of freshman students to the use of 
the library and, in a period of less than two 
years, the Southwestern Library has converted 
nearly half of its collections from the Dewey 
Decimal Classification System to that of the 
Library of Congress.

The University of South Carolina has chosen 
a librarian who is well equipped in all modern 
aspects of librarianship. He will adjust to the 
problems at South Carolina and its anticipated 
building program. He is a restless young man 
with many fine personal qualities. He is missed 
in Louisiana and will rapidly make many friends 
in his new home.—T. N . McMullan, Louisiana 
State University.

A P P O I N T M E N T S
John K. Amrheim is director of the circula­

tion department, Kent University libraries.
Mrs. Magda Kahan Appel is a cataloger in 

Hunter College library, Park Ave. College, New 
York.

Herman Baron was recently appointed man­
ager, journal services, at the Institute for Scien­
tific Information, in Philadelphia.

Frederick Bell is presently head of the 
circulation department at Trinity University, 
San Antonio.

Joan Boelke has been appointed to the 
ERIC Clearinghouse as document analyst, Uni­
versity of Minnesota library school.

Ruby E. Burn is presently working at Trinity 
University, San Antonio, as a cataloger.

Mrs. Virginia Bradburry was named as­
sistant education librarian in Southern Illinois 
University, Edwardsville, on Dec. 1.

Maxine Burton has become serials librarian, 
Eastern New Mexico University.

Edward Carraway has accepted a position 
as reference librarian at Wichita State Univer­
sity.

Mrs. Virginia Cassady is head of the library 
science library in P ratt Institute.

James Chandler, formerly of the CIA li­
brary, joined the staff of McKeldin library, 
University of Maryland, on September 25 as 
assistant director for reader services.

H arold Chou has been appointed as a cata­
loger in Edinboro State College’s Hamilton li­
brary.

Mrs. Mary Louise Brown Cobb has recently 
been appointed assistant cataloging librarian, 
Earl Gregg Swem library, College of William 
and Mary.

J. Isaac Copeland is now chief of the man­
uscripts department and director of the South­
ern Historical Collection in University of North 
Carolina library, Chapel Hill.

E dgar E. Cordoba has been named assistant 
in the reference department of Pattee library, 
Pennsylvania State University.

Desiree DeCharms is now head of Kent 
University music library.

F erdinand E ngel is now acquisitions librar­
ian and assistant professor of French in Fisk 
University, Nashville.

Mrs. Marion S. F erguson has been added to 
the staff at California State Polytechnic College, 
Pomona as catalog librarian.

Suzanne Louise F oley is now reference li­
brarian, Earl Gregg Swem library, College of 
William and Mary.

Stephen B. F olts last spring was named 
assistant to the executive director of the South­
eastern (N.Y.) Library Resources Council.

Mrs. Barbara F oster was named supervisor 
of the foreign-language teaching materials cen­
ter in Hunter College, Park Ave. College, New 
York.

Richard F renier assumed charge of the 
engineering and physical sciences library in the 
University of Maryland on September 5.

Mrs. D orothy H ill Gersack, archivist in 
the records appraisal division, National Archives 
and Records Service, Washington, D.C., has 
been elected a Fellow of the Society of Amer­
ican Archivists at the national organization’s 
annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Samuel Goldstein joins the staff of the Uni­
versity of Massachusetts library on January 2 
as chief of readers services and head of the 
reference department.

Mrs. J. Carol Goodger-Hill joined the ac­
quisitions staff at the University of California, 
Santa Barbara, Sept. 5, as a bibliographer.

George Goodwin, Jr. joins the staff of the 
University of Massachusetts library on February 
15 as chief of divisional libraries and biological 
sciences librarian.

Mrs. Martha Lane Goold has been named 
director of the humanities division of the Kent 
State University library.

Dana Gould is now acquisitions librarian, 
University of South Alabama.

H enry Dale GrUnder has recently been 
appointed curator of the Virginia Collection 
and of rare books, Earl Gregg Swem library, 
College of William and Mary.

Joseph H. H all has been appointed head of 
the serials department, University of Iowa li­
braries.

George Hanson, librarian of Olivet College 
since 1950, has been promoted to the post of 
assistant to the President of the college.

Viola H arper, former librarian in the Mobile 
County (Alabama) school system is now refer­
ence librarian, University of South Alabama.

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R i c h a r d  W . H a r r i s  was appointed science 
and technology librarian at the Texas A&M 
University, effective O ctober 16.

J u d y  H o r n  was appointed librarian in charge 
of state documents at the University of Cali­
fornia, Santa Barbara, on Sept. 1.

M r s .  E v a l y n  H u d s o n  has been named an 
assistant undergraduate librarian in University 
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

M r s .  K a t h e r i n e  J a c k s o n  has accepted a ref­
erence position in the sciences-engineering li­
brary, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Sharlee Ann Jeser is an assistant reference 
librarian at Trinity University, San Antonio.

E d w a r d  R. J o h n s o n  has been appointed busi­
ness administration librarian at the University 
of Iowa libraries.

J a n e  A. J u l i e n  was appointed an assistant 
cataloger, Northern Arizona University library 
on Sept. 1.

F l o r e n c e  K a s i s k e  was appointed assistant 
in the education library in Southern Illinois 
University, Edwardsville, on July 1.

M r s .  S h e s h a n a  K a u f m a n n  is a new staff 
member in the general reference division of 
Paul Klapper library, Queens College of the 
City University of New York.

D a v i d  F . K e f a u v e r  has been named associ­
ate director of the National Library of Med­
icine extramural programs.

H o w a r d  D .  K e i t h  was named assistant li­
brarian for Yale College, effective Oct. 1.

G a r y  K o r n  joined the University of Cali­
fornia, Santa Barbara, library staff Sept. 1 as a 
reference librarian.

D e n n i s  P. L e e p e r  has joined the staff of 
Hamilton library at Edinboro State College 
(Pennsylvania) as reference librarian.

A n n  L i s t o n  was appointed continuations li­
brarian at Simon Fraser University library on 
Nov. 1.

E d w a r d  H. L i s z e w s k i  has been appointed 
assistant librarian in charge of technical proc­
esses at the U .S. Naval Academy, on Aug. 28.

J o h n  A r t h u r  M a c P h e r s o n  is reference li­
brarian, government documents, in Hunter Col­
lege, Park Ave., New York.

J a m e s  R. M a h o n e y  is reference librarian, 
Hunter College in the Bronx.

M r s .  A t t e e  M a y  was appointed serials li­
brarian in Gailford College last summer.

M i l t o n  M a y e s  is now head of the book 
order section of University of North Carolina 
library’s acquisition department, Chapel Hill.

E l a i n e  M i l l e r  is now an assistant reference 
librarian and documents specialist at Eastern 
New Mexico University library.

M r s .  J a n e  B. M o b e r g  has joined the refer­
ence department staff of Pattee library, Pennsyl­
vania State University, as an assistant.



Foster E. Mohrhardt will serve as program 
officer of the Council on Library Resources. Mr. 
Mohrhardt, who is also the current president of 
th e American Library Association, takes up his 
new duties January 15, 1968.

Gerd Muehsam is now art bibliographer 
of Queens College, Klupper library, City Uni­
versity of New York.

Mrs. Georgia Mulligan is an assistant un­
dergraduate librarian in University of North 
Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Margaret A. Nation joined the staff of 
Northern Arizona University library as an as­
sistant cataloger on September 15.

Berna Neal assumed charge of the library 
of the school of architecture, University of 
Maryland, College Park, on Aug. 7.

Mrs. E valine Neff has been named the 
first executive director of the new Rochester 
Regional Research Library Council, New York.

Rameshwar N. Paul has been named as­
sistant director for information retrieval in the 
ERIC clearinghouse for library and information 
sciences in the University of Minnesota library 
school.

Linda Phillips returned to the University 
of California, Santa Barbara, reference depart­
ment staff Oct. 2 after spending a year in 
England as an intern librarian with the [British] 
Library Association.

H ugh J. Poland now is serving in the ca­
pacity of director of technical services at Trinity 
University, San Antonio.

Mrs. Ann Randall is a new member of the 
acquisitions staff of Paul Klapper library, 
Queens College of the City University of New 
York.

E dward Richter has joined the Eastern New 
Mexico University libraries staff as acquisitions 
and serials librarian.

Donald Robertson is a new member of the 
cataloging staff of Southern Illinois University 
libraries, Edwardsville.

Mrs. Nelsa Rothschild last summer joined 
the Guilford College library staff as chief cata­
loger.

Martha Rudyk has been appointed to the 
catalog division staff of Paul Klapper library, 
Queens College of the City University of New 
York.

Mrs. Susan Sabre was last summer named 
circulation librarian of Guilford College.

Mrs. E laine Salmon is a reference librarian 
in the business administration and social sciences 
division, University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill.

Mrs. Mary G. Sanders is presently employed 
as a cataloger at Trinity University, San An­
tonio.

Mrs. Peg Schaberg is chief of acquisitions,

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University of North Carolina library, Chapel 
Hill.

Emil Schafer has been appointed systems 
analyst in the University of Southern California 
library.

D. W. Schnieder is now chief of the busi­
ness administration and social sciences division 
in University of North Carolina library, Chapel 
Hill.

Louis Shores, dean emeritus of the library 
school, Florida State University is the newly 
named director of the TEX-TEC PROJECT for 
the Communication Service Corporation of 
Washington, D.C. under the terms of a con­
tract recently signed with the Texas state li­
brary. Dr. Shores will head a team of library 
and education consultants preparing syllabi for 
library technician courses to be taught in Texas 
Junior Colleges.

Mrs. Barbara Silver has accepted the posi­
tion of cataloger at the University of California, 
Santa Barbara.

Martin Silver was named music librarian at 
the University of California, Santa Barbara, to 
take charge of the music section of the arts 
library scheduled to open in 1968.

Robert Sivers has been serving as map li­
brarian for the past six months in the sciences- 
engineering library, University of California, 
Santa Barbara.

Mrs. Juliann Skurdenis-Smercich has been 
named head of acquisitions in Pratt Institute 
library.

Irving K. Smith, former serials librarian at 
Florida Atlantic University, has assumed the 
new position of science librarian at Indiana 
State University, Terre Haute.

Sandra Smittle transferred Nov. 1 from her 
position as international documents librarian at 
the UCLA Library to the UC Santa Barbara 
government publications section, where she will 
be in charge of the federal documents depos­
itory.

Mrs. Yun Song has been appointed cata­
loger and advisor to the LC reclassification 
project at Wichita State University.

Harvey Soule is the new education librarian 
in Kent State University.

D avid H. Stam is now head of the processing 
department of the Newberry library, Chicago.

In Feb. Ralph E. Stirewalt, Ford Foundation 
consultant to the Haile Selassie I University 
library in Ethiopia, will become coordinator of 
technical services at Wichita State University.

Leslie Armour Taylor is now head of tech­
nical services in Hunter College library, Park 
Ave., New York.

Mary Lynwood Thaxton has been appoint­
ed assistant reference librarian, Earl Gregg 
Swem library, College of William and Mary.

Ian W. Thom has been appointed associate 
librarian, Paul Klapper library, Queens College 
of the City University of New York.

Mrs. Sharon C. Thomas has joined Trinity 
University as head of acquisitions.

On Aug. 1, Donald Thompson joined the 
social science/business library staff in Southern 
Illinois University, Edwardsville.

Marguerite Joyce Thompson has been ap­
pointed head of the cataloging department, 
University of Iowa libraries.

Mrs. Irene Silver Topalcic is serials cata­
loger in Hunter College library, Park Ave., 
New York.

George Toussaint was named assistant so­
cial science librarian of Southern Illinois Uni­
versity, Edwardsville, on Oct. 23.

Mrs. Helen Urquhart is a new staff mem­
ber in the catalog department of University of 
of North Carolina library, Chapel Hill.

Seymour W einstein has been appointed 
head of the circulation department, University 
of Iowa libraries.

Ray Wile is supervisor of evening services 
in Paul Klapper library, Queens College, City 
University of New York.

Mrs. E lizabeth W illiams is assistant docu­
ments librarian, University of North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill.

Ruby O. Woods has joined the staff of Sacra­
mento State College library as assistant educa­
tion & psychology reference librarian.

Vincent Kuo-Chen Yu is a cataloger in 
Hunter College library, Park Ave., New York.

FIFTY-THIRD CONFERENCE
(Continued from page 4)

and for each abstract it publishes CAS 
uses some twenty-eight index entry points. 
Although CAS has had grants for research 
and development, its production has always 
been self-supporting. I t has four kinds of 
output: (1) awareness of alerting tools; 
(2) search tools; (3) correlative tools; and 
(4) specialized custom services tailored to 
demand. He indicated th at CAS is anxious 
to improve its communication with the 
library community and is taking steps to 
accomplish it. His organization is now de­
veloping a list of the holdings of most of 
the large libraries of the major sources of 
chemical literature, including twenty-four 
thousand serial entries and thirty-four hun­
dred monographic entries. This union list 
is almost complete and will constitute a 
major service.

Again vigorous discussion ensued, follow­
ing which the group repaired to an upper 
floor for a reception and refreshments be­
fore adjourning for another year.—DK ■■

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