ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July /August 1988 / 449 P E O P L E Profiles J e f f r e y J . G a r d n e r , associate director of the As­ sociation of Research Libraries Office of M anage­ m ent Studies, W ashington, D .C ., has been nam ed director of th e new ly renam ed Office of M anage­ m ent Services, effective May 1. G ardner has been acting director of the Office since November 1, 1987. G ardner received an MLS from Simmons Col­ lege in 1967. Prior to joining the staff of OMS in 1973, he held positions in a variety of libraries, in­ cluding director of the Project Intrex Model L i­ brary Program at Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ nology. D uring his tenure at OMS G ardner has participated in a num ber of program s and projects designed to enhance the m anagem ent and services of research libraries, including development of the Collection Analysis Project and the N orth Ameri­ can C o lle ctio n s In v e n to ry P ro je c t (N C IP ), of which he is th e director. He has consulted in more th an 100 libraries on m anagem ent, collection de­ velopm ent, public services, and organizational de­ velopm ent; conducted workshops on the Conspec­ tus throughout N orth America and in Europe; and w ritten widely on a num ber of topics related to m anagem ent of research libraries. S t a n l e y J o e M c C o r d , director of the joint li­ b rary of the University of Houston-Victoria and Victoria College since 1979, has been nam ed direc­ tor of library services at L am ar University, Beau­ m ont, Texas, effective August 1. He succeeds Max­ ine Johnston (see Retirem ents). M cCord holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, and MLS (1973) and m aster’s and Ph.D . degrees in G erm an literatu re and linguistics from Louisiana State University. H e ta u g h t G erm an at L am ar from 1970 to 1972 and library science at North Texas State University from 1974 to 1977. Prior to his most recent position he was director of the TALON Regional Medical L ibrary Program at the U n iv e rs ity of T exas H e a lth S cien ce C e n te r (1974-1977). W hile at V ictoria, M cC ord successfully in te ­ grated the library program s of the two colleges, and was responsible for securing an LSCA grant in 1979 for the first integrated autom ated system in Texas to be shared by an academ ic and a public li­ brary. M cCord has been active in the Texas L ibrary As­ sociation, serving as chair of the Legislative C om ­ m itte e (1 9 8 3 -1 9 8 5 ), c h a ir of D is tr ic t IV (1981-1982), an d Executive Board m em ber for TLA-PAC, as well as num erous com m ittee assign­ ments. He was nam ed TLA L ibrarian of the Year for 1988. M cCord has been a m em ber of the L i­ b rary F orm ula Study Com m ittee for the C oordi­ nating Board of the Texas College and University System since 1981, and currently serves as chair- elect of the Texas Council of State University L i­ brarians and as a board m em ber on the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council. A translator for the N ational Translations C en­ ter, M cC ord has w ritte n for th e Texas L ibrary Journal, the A L A Yearbook, and was a reviewer for the A m erican Reference Books A nnual from 1970 to 1979. E l a i n e F . S l o a n , dean of university libraries at In diana University, has been nam ed vice president for inform ation services and university lib rarian at C o lu m b ia U n iv ersity , New York C ity , effec­ tive August 1. Sloan will assu m e re s p o n s ib ility for the n ation’s seventh la rg e s t a c a d e m ic r e ­ se arc h lib r a r y , w h ich has m ore th an 5.6 m il­ lio n v o lu m e s in 26 branches. She succeeds Patricia M. Battin, who left the post last year to becom e the first presi­ dent of the Commission Elaine F. Sloanon Preservation and Ac­ cess at the Council of L i­ b rary Resources. Sloan has served as dean of libraries at In d ian a University since 1980, and was associate university lib rarian (public service) at the University of C ali­ fornia at Berkeley from 1977 to 1980. Before th a t she worked in various capacities at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries from 1970 to 1976, and held research assistantships at the University of M ary­ land, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public H ealth, and the University of Pittsburgh. She re­ ceived a bachelor’s degree w ith honors from Cha- 450 / C&RL News tham College in 1959, a master’s from the Univer­ sity of Pittsburgh in 1962, and MLS (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) degrees from the University of Mary­ land. Elected to Beta Phi Mu in 1972, Sloan has re­ ceived its award for Outstanding University of Maryland Graduate, and is currently president of the society. She is also a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary society, and Mortar Board. Sloan is president of the Association of Re­ search Libraries and is a member of the ALA Council. She has published many papers and re­ views in scholarly journals and conducted work­ shops and made presentations on library science throughout the nation. T h o m a s F . S t a l e y , provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Tulsa, has been named director of the Harry Ransom Human­ ities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, effective Sep­ tember 1. He succeeds Decherd Turner, who has retired. In addition to his HRC position, Staley, a leading James Joyce scholar, will teach one course a year in the English Department. At Tulsa, Staley is the Trustees Professor of Modern Literature. He has spent almost his en­ Thomas F. Staley tire academic life on the Tulsa campus, where he joined the English faculty in 1962. He has also been dean of the college of arts and sciences, chairman of the graduate faculty of modern letters and dean of the graduate school. Staley is editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, which he founded in 1963 and which has become the pre-eminent journal of Joyce studies. His per­ sonal Joyce collection, now numbering several thousand items, is considered one of the finest pri­ vate holdings in the world. Staley has written or edited seven books on Joyce and also several on modern British women authors including Jean Rhys and Dorothy Richardson. He has been chair­ man or co-chairman of four international James Joyce symposia in Dublin and Trieste and has twice been a Fulbright professor in Trieste. He has been on the board of editors of Twentieth Century Liter­ ature for more than 20 years. A native of Pittsburgh, Staley earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and philosophy from Regis College in Colorado. He has a master’s degree from Tulsa and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in English literature. Staley has held a number of visiting professorships, including a 1980 summer appointment in comparative litera­ ture at UT Austin. People in the news H o w a r d B . G o t l i e b , director of special collec­ tions at Boston University, received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on May 15 at BU’s 115th Commencement Exercises. Gotlieb was appointed archivist and curator of historical manuscripts at Yale University in 1955 and took over his present position at Boston in 1963. He has succeeded in amassing a prestigious collection of archival mate­ rial from influential 20th-century figures. D o n a l d D . H e n d r i c k s , dean of library services at the University of New Orleans, has announced that he will step down as dean effective December 31, 1988. Hendricks will continue as librarian and plans to devote his time to identifying and seeking grants to support collection development for the Earl K. Long Library. R e b e c c a B o o n e K e l l o g g , associate dean of the University of Arizona’s College of Arts and Science, will be on leave during 1988-1989 to become a member of the Arizona Board of Regents staff. The Board governs the state’s public universities, and works closely with the legislature and the commu­ nity college system in support of higher education. I l s e M o o n replaced Janet C. Phillips as execu­ tive secretary of the Association for Library and In­ formation Science Education on July 1. Moon is a freelance writer and former director of profes­ sional development studies at the Rutgers Univer­ sity Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Appointments (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) C h a r l e n e A b e l has been appointed reference li­ brarian at the Loop Campus of DePaul University, Chicago. K i m b e r l y G. A l l e n is the new circulation/ref- erence librarian in the Law Library at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. B r e n d a P. B l o u n t has been appointed head of circulation services in the Cabot Science Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A x e l B o r g is the new bio/agricultural librarian at the University of California, Davis. M a u r e e n C a n i c k is now chief librarian of Cen­ tral Reference and Loan Services at the Smithso­ nian Institution, Washington, D.C. V i v i a n C a r l s o n has been appointed engineer­ ing, mathematical, physical or earth sciences refer­ ence librarian and selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville. F r e d C h a p m a n has been appointed director of the library at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne. 452 / C &R L News S t e p h a n i e C h a s e has been appointed science reference librarian and selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville. W i n - S h i n S t e l l a C h i a n g is the new head of the Jonsson L ibrary of G overnm ent Documents at Stanford University, California. Ann C o r b e t t is now specialist in the sciences and nursing at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey. C h e r y l C u t s f o r t h has been appointed head of technical services at the University of Wisconsin- E au Claire. G a i l E g b e r s has been appointed to the Central Reference staff at the University of Nebraska, Lin­ coln. M a r y F e r g u s o n has been appointed librarian in the Reference and Collections Development D e­ partm ent at the University of W aterloo, Ontario. M i l t o n F i g g has been appointed collection de­ velopment librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. K e n F i s h e r has joined the staff at Gonzaga Uni­ versity, Spokane, Washington. L i n F r e d e r i c k s e n is now slide librarian in the D ep artm en t of Art History at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. S h e r r i l y n n e F u l l e r has been appointed direc­ tor of the Health Sciences Library and Information Center Library at the University of Washington, Seattle, and director of the Pacific Northwest Re­ gional Health Sciences Library Service. R o b e r t G a l b r e a t i i has been appointed assis­ tan t director for collection m anagem ent at Loyola University, Chicago. W i l l i a m G a r r i s o n is the new assistant chief for original monographic cataloging at Stanford Uni­ versity, California. L i n d a G elb has been appointed assistant engi­ neering lib rarian for ocean and m echanical engi­ neering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ ogy, C am bridge. E i l e e n A g a r d G l i c k s t e i n has been nam ed di­ rector of the library at Barnard College, New York City. A n n e M . G o r d o n has been appointed cataloger at Loyola University, Chicago. C a r o l y n G u t i e r r e z is now reference librarian at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey. M a u r e e n H e r r a g h t y has been appointed cata­ loger at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. P e g H e w i t t has been appointed research lib rar­ ian in the Technology Assessment Group at the School of Public Health of H arvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. M a r y H o l l e r i c h is the new bibliographer in the Illinois Research and Reference Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham paign. S u s a n I s r a e l e v i c i i has been appointed c a ta ­ loger at Loyola University, Chicago. P a u l i n e T. L e s n i k has been appointed chief of acquisitions services in the Collections M anage­ m ent Division of the Sm ithsonian In stitu tio n , W ashington, D .C. M a r t h a M c P h a i l has been appointed catalog li­ brarian at San Diego State University, California. S a n d y M a x f i e l d is the new associate head for inform ation services, engineering and science li­ braries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ ogy, Cambridge. L o r e n D . M e n d e l s o h n is the new assistant di­ rector of the Science and Engineering Library at W ayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. S a l l y N i c h o l s has been appointed head of cata­ loging at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. L e a h O r e n t is now cataloger in the H arvard College Library, Cambridge. Massachusetts. Jo L y n n e P a y n e has been appointed principal monograph cataloger at the Massachusetts Insti­ tute of Technology, Cambridge. S a l l y P e t t y has been appointed head of collec­ tion access services at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. J a y R e a is the new head of the Spokane Medical L ibrary of Eastern W ashington University. D i a n e R i c h a r d s is now reference librarian at North Dakota State University, Fargo. S h e i l a R i l e y has been appointed chief of cata­ log records at the Smithsonian Institution, W ash­ ington, D .C. T i m o t h y D. R o b s o n has been appointed assis­ tan t director for technical services at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. M a r l y s R u d e e n is the new head of the Acquisi­ tions D epartm ent at the Center for Research Li­ braries, Chicago. W a y n e S h i m o g u c h i has been appointed catalog librarian at San Diego State University, Califor­ nia. D a v i d S h o n t z has been appointed psychology reference librarian and selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville. M a r t i n S m i t h is the new chief of the National Air and Space Museum Branch L ib rary of the Smithsonian Institution, W ashington, D .C . M e r r i l l S m i t h is now assistant librarian and collection m anager in the Rotch L ib rary at the M assachusetts In s titu te of T echnology, C a m ­ bridge. P e t e r S t e r n has been appointed Latin Ameri­ can librarian at the University of Florida, Gaines­ ville. T a m r a T e a s l e y has been appointed head of seri­ als cataloging at the University of Nebraska, Lin­ coln. S u s a n U l r i c h has been appointed assistant uni­ versity librarian for access services and autom ation at San Diego State University. K a r e n S i t t o n V a u g h a n has been appointed co­ ordinator of autom ated reference services at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. S i l v i a D . W a t s o n is the new librarian of the Highsm ith C orporate L ib rary and Inform ation Center, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. July /August 1988 / 453 C a r o l y n L . W h i t e has been appointed circula­ tion librarian/assistant audio-visual services coor­ dinator at G ettysburg College, Pennsylvania. J a n e t S t o e g e r W i l k e is now reference lib rar­ ian at Kearney State College, Nebraska. E d g a r W i l l i a m s o n has been appointed assis­ tan t librarian for business and economics in the Reference D epartm ent at the University of D ela­ w are, Newark. Retirements R o b e r t W . B u r n s J r . , assistant director of li­ braries for research and planning at Colorado State U niversity, F o rt C ollins, has re tire d as of this m o n th . B urns b eg a n his lib ra ry c a re e r at th e O m aha Public L ibrary, later serving as head of cir­ culation at the University of Idaho and as head of Idaho’s Science L ibrary. He has been at Colorado State since 1985. Active in professional and civic groups, Burns has served on the ACRL Planning C om m ittee, th e Ad Hoc C om m ittee on Perfor­ m ance Measures, and the ALA Steering C om m it­ tee of the L ibrary Research Round Table. For the latter he planned the Research Forum Series d u r­ ing the 1976 ALA C entennial Conference in C hi­ cago. He has also served as a m em ber of the Consti­ tution and Bylaws Com m ittee, the Publications Com m ittee, and in 1977 received the LRRT Re­ search Com petition Award. Burns has been a C ab­ inet Representative for SIG/CBE of the American Society for Inform ation Science, a Council On Li­ brary Resources Fellow, and has served as a trustee for the Fort Collins Public L ibrary and on the State Board of the Colorado M ountain Club. In 1978 he was nom inated by the W hite House to serve on the National Commission on Libraries and Inform a­ tion Sciences, serving until 1981. The author of n u ­ merous papers, Burns is also a teacher and consul­ tan t, and plans to travel to the People’s Republic of C hina this fall to discuss com puter modelling for estim ating shelving needs. M a r g a r e t C a r t e r , branch supervisor of the School of L ibrary and Inform ation Science Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, has retired. C arter worked as a secretary in the library while a student during the 1940s and returned p art tim e in 1968. She had been employed full tim e since 1975. J a m e s D y k e , u n iv e rs ity b ib lio g r a p h e r a n d form er director of the library at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, is retiring after 43 years of service. Dyke was library director for more than 16 years before becoming university bibliographer 2 1/2 years ago. Prior to coming to New Mexico State he was director of the library at Texas A&M Uni­ versity for three years and library director at E ast­ ern New Mexico University for 15 years. Dyke has also held positions at Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, and on the library school faculty at the University of Oklahom a. Active in professional af­ fairs, Dyke has held all the offices of the New Mex­ ico L ibrary Association, has been chair of the ALA M em bership C om m ittee, and was chair of the Board of the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council at its incorporation. He was also one of the original members of the O CLC Users’ Council. A m em ber of Beta Phi Mu, Dyke is the ninth graduate of the University of Illinois L ibrary School’s doctoral pro­ gram. He was a B-24 pilot during W orld W ar II and holds the rank of L ieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Retired. C h r i s t o p h e r H a i l , head of public services in the Loeb L ibrary at H arvard University, Cam bridge, Massachusetts, retired June 30 after more th an 20 years of service. Hail began his career at H arvard in 1967 as a library assistant in the Map Collection and transferred to the Loeb L ibrary in 1971 as a cataloger. He was prom oted to head of public ser­ vices the following year, and served as acting Loeb librarian during 1982-1983. Hail has been an ac­ tive m em ber of m any professional organizations, including th e M assachusetts C om m ittee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, as president during 1987-1988; the Council of Planning L ib rar­ ians; the Association of Architectural Librarians; the Association of Architectural School Librarians; and the Art Libraries Society of N orth America, as well as numerous H arvard Committees. For the past 10 years Hail has spent m uch of his personal tim e photographing and compiling a com prehen­ sive inventory of Cam bridge buildings, and plans to devote more tim e to the project. M a r i a n H o l l e m a n , head librarian at the Uni­ versity of San Diego, California, for the past 16 years, retired June 30 as university librarian emeri- Attention, authors College & Research Libraries News can now accept manuscripts subm itted on diskette or via ALANET. The C & R L News ALANET num ber is A LA 0306. If you c a n u p lo a d it, I can download it, because ALANET translates text into pure ASCII files. If you don’t have ALANET or you prefer to send a diskette, m ake sure it is a 5 1/4-inch floppy for IBM or com patible machines; either 360K or 1.2M will do. W e use Xyw rite III for w ord processing, bu t we can attem pt other soft­ w are programs. The best thing to do is convert your text into an ASCII file before sending it, if possible. Always send a paper copy of your m anuscript along w ith the diskette, just in case it is unread ­ able. Let us know if you need your floppy re­ turned to you. If you cannot send a m anuscript electroni­ cally somehow, subm it three paper copies in a sta n d a rd ty p eface such as C o u rier or Pica. Avoid proportional or oversize typefaces. Send all m aterials to George M. E b erhart, E ditor, C &R L News, ACRL/ALA, 50 East H u­ ron St., Chicago, IL 60611.—GME. 454 / C&RL News tus. Hollem an came in 1966 to w hat was then the San Diego College for Women as a cataloger. In 1972, when th at institution was merged with the San Diego College for Men, she was nam ed USD librarian and engineered the merger of the two li­ braries. The following year Holleman was instru­ m ental in establishing the USD Friends of the Li­ brary, and in 1984 oversaw the move into the new Copley Library, which she helped design. Holle­ m an served earlier in her career as chief librarian of the Toronto Academy of Medicine, on the staff at the University of Southern California and as visit­ ing lecturer in the USC library school, as a bibliog­ rap h e r at UCLA and as lib ra ria n for Bishop’s School in La Jolla. She will continue to teach li­ brary science at USD. E l l e n J o h n s o n , librarian of the Archive of Re­ corded Sound at the University of Kansas, L aw ­ rence, since 1982, retired June 17. Johnson came to Kansas in 1973 as head of the Cataloging D epart­ m ent and later became associate music librarian. M a x i n e J o h n s t o n , director of the library at L a­ m ar University, Beaumont, Texas, since 1980, will retire at the end of July after 33 years of service. Johnston came to Lam ar in 1955 as a reference li­ brarian and became associate director in 1970. She earned her MLS from the University of Texas in 1958. D uring her tenure the library went through three building programs, recataloged from Dewey to LC classification, grew in size from 30,000 to 850,000 volume equivalents and from a staff of 6 to 46, and initiated numerous computerized services and cooperative agreements. Johnston has also worked for full faculty status for Lam ar librarians, and was instrumental in obtaining tenure, aca­ demic rank, and staff classification agreements. A life member of ALA and the Texas Library Associa­ tion, Johnston has served as chair of a TLA District (1961) and as chair of TLA’s Reference Round T a­ ble (1968-1969) College and University Division (1985-1986), as well as on numerous committees. She was nam ed Texas L ib rarian of the Year in 1974. Johnston has also served on the Form ula Study Committee of the Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University System; as a member of the Texas List Committee since 1974; and has written several articles. She has been active in the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, and the N a­ tional Parks and Conservation Association, and has written on the effort to establish the Big Thicket National Preserve. G e r a l d O p p e n h e i m e r retired January 1, 1988, as director emeritus of the Health Sciences Library and Inform ation Center at the University of W ash­ ington, Seattle. J a m e s P o l l o c k , Near East studies area specialist and Near East cataloger at In d ian a University, Bloomington, has retired after 26 years of service. Pollock has been active in cooperative collection development and preservation, and has taught bib­ liography in the library school. He will continue editing Arabic Islamic theological texts. R o b e r t S l o c u m , principal cataloger in Central Technical Services at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, for nearly 34 years, has retired. Deaths P a t r i c k B a r k e y , director of libraries and A. J. McFadden L ibrarian for the Claremont Colleges, California, died May 17 at the age of 66. Born in Flint, Michi­ gan, Barkey earn ed a bachelor’s degree at Po­ m ona College in 1948 and an MLS from the University of Michigan in 1949. Later the same year he began his career in the F lint Public L i­ brary, and later worked at the University of No­ tre D am e and E astern Illinois University. He was library director at Patrick Barkey Texas A&I U niversity a n d th e U n iv ersity of Toledo before joining the Claremont Colleges staff in 1974. A pioneer in library autom ation, Barkey conceived and developed an online system for the 1.6 million volume collection of the five colleges, which share major library facilities. He also helped develop the Ohio College Library Center, which as OCLC became a national database, and organized and directed the OCLC Pacific Network, which now serves more than 575 West Coast libraries. More recently, Barkey supervised the construction of a $8 million addition to the Honnold Library. A member of ALA, the California Library Asso­ ciation and the American Society for Information Science, Barkey published a num ber of profes­ sional papers and served as a library building con­ sultant for several academic institutions. R u s s e l l K . G a r d i n e r , retired head of the Bib­ liographic Services D epartm ent at the University of California, Berkeley, died April 25 of AIDS at his home. Gardiner began his career at Berkeley in 1952 as a student assistant in the Reserve Book Room. Following service in the U.S. Army during 1953-1956, he returned to complete his undergrad­ uate degree in Slavic Languages and Literature while working as a post-graduate research linguist on the Machine Translation Project. He left the li­ brary in 1959 but rejoined the staff in 1966 after earning his MLS. Gardiner was Head of the Slavic Cataloging Section and Principal Cataloger in the C atalog D epartm ent before becoming Head of Bibliographic Services. M a t t i e U. R u s s e l l , retired curator of m anu­ scripts at Duke University, D urham , North C aro­ lina, died May 4 at 72. Russell earned bachelor’s and m aster’s degrees at the University of Missis­ sippi and was later a schoolteacher in th at state. She taught at Mars Hill College from 1943 to 1946, 456 / C&RL News the year she entered Duke University as a doctoral candidate in history. She received her Ph.D . de­ gree in 1956. Initially a student worker in the li­ brary, in 1948 Russell was appointed assistant cu­ rator of the M anuscript D epartm ent and curator in 1952, a position she held until her retirem ent on May 31, 1985. She also taught on the UNC L ibrary School faculty from 1969 to 1978. As m anuscript curator, Russell’s major contribution was the de­ velopment of a detailed and comprehensive of the collection’s holdings. She was a mem ber of ALA; the Society of American Archivists, of which she was nam ed a Fellow in 1979; the Historical Society of North Carolina; and the Southern Historical As­ sociation. From 1977 to 1983 Russell served on the National Archives Advisory Council as the repre­ sentative from the Southern Historical Association. B e n t o n F. S c h e i d e , library director emeritus of California State University, Rakersfield, died May 5 after a long illness. He was 70. Scheide came to Bakersfield in 1968 as the founding library director and served 15 years. He worked formerly at San Diego State University, Northeast Missouri State College, A uburn University, and Oregon State College. An active m em ber of the California Li­ brary Association and the Black Gold Cooperative L ib rary System, Scheide held bachelor’s (1948) and MLS (1949) degrees from the University of Denver and a Ph.D . degree from Case W estern Re­ serve University (1973). J a m e s K . W e b s t e r , m anager of the E arthquake Center Inform ation Service and engineering refer­ ence and collection development librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo, was killed in an automobile accident May 1. He was 55. W eb­ ster was formerly director of the Science and Engi­ neering Library (1978-1982) and later head of ref­ erence there (1982-1987). He had assumed his dual role in 1986. An ALA and ACRL m em ber, he was also a m em ber of the Special Libraries Association, the SUNY L ibrarians’ Association, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Citizen’s Library Council of New York State, and the Engi­ neering Society of Buffalo. W ebster also served on the Board of Trustees and as past president of the W estern New York Library Resources Council. As a mem ber of the New York Library Association, he had been president of the Academic and Special Li­ braries Section, a m em ber of the Government Doc­ uments and the Library User Education R oundt­ ables, and had served as m oderator, organizer or presenter for numerous NYLA workshops, semi­ nars and meetings. PU B L IC A T IO N S • A drienne Rich: The P oet an d H er C ritics, by Craig W erner (199 pages, April 1988), examines the evolving relationship betw een political and aesthetic values in the writings of contem porary American poet Adrienne Rich. The author’s analy­ sis proceeds from close readings of m ajor poems from each distinct period of Rich’s career, includ­ ing “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” “Necessities of L ife,” “Diving into the W reck,” “R ape,” and “Sources.” Three m ajor poetic themes are identified: Rich’s critique of patriarchy, her effort to contribute to a wom an-centered alternative, and her experiments in the creation of a radical poetic voice. Published as p art of a series on critical writings about British and American poets, the volume is available for $19.95 from ALA Publishing, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0487-4. • A lte r n a tiv e L ib r a r y L i te r a tu r e , 1 9 8 6 / 8 7 , edited by Sanford Berman and James P. Danky, w ith drawings by Jackie Urbanovic (288 pages, 1988), is the editors’ third biennial anthology of so­ cially relevant, pop cu ltural, and /o r hum orous gleanings from library literature and other esoteric sources. Some of th e c h a p te r h e a d in g s are: W omen, Nukes/Peace, Censorship, A/V, and the Central Am erican/Nicaraguan Connection, which last includes a piece by the Nicaraguan Minister of Culture. Some of the more fun stuff includes chap­ ters on m ail art, rock videos, “The L ib ra ria n ’s Songbook,” and “Dewey’s Believe It or Not!” Cop­ ies are $35 and may be ordered from M cFarland & Com pany, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0- 89950-336-5. • B uilding Use Policies, SPEC Kit #144 (May 1988), analyzes documents gathered in a 1986 ARL survey th at dealt w ith food and drink, smoking, general building use, and aesthetics in the library. The kit contains a SPEC survey tally, food and drink policies from 16 libraries, smoking policies from 14 libraries, four statements on aesthetics, and a selected reading list. SPEC Kits are available for $20 (prepayment required) from SPEC, Office of M anagem ent Services, 1527 New H am pshire Ave., N .W ., W ashington, DC 20036.