ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries January 1989 / 79 Preconference on regional history collections “Local History, Global Village: Regional Col­ lecting, Regional Collections” is the theme of the ACRL Rare Rooks and Manuscripts Section’s pre­ conference, set for June 22-23, 1989, on the cam­ pus of Southern methodist University in Dallas. D onald J. Pisani, associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and author of From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Cru­ sade in California and the West, 1850-1931, will give the keynote address. Pisani will explore the difficulties of collecting an ever-increasing mass of documents pertaining to the region’s history at public, academic, and state agency libraries and institutional archives. O ther presentations will ex­ amine regional cooperation and the need to coordi­ nate collection development, documentation strat­ egies, an d th e experiences of a v a rie ty of institutions and libraries w ith extensive regional collections. Preconference activities include receptions on Thursday and Friday evenings and a dinner on F ri­ day. Housing will be available in the SMU dormi­ tories for $16 a night or in any of the ALA confer­ ence hotels in dow ntow n D allas. All program sessions will take place on the SMU campus, so there will be no official RBMS hotel for the Dallas preconference. Registration for the preconference is limited to the first 200 applicants. The fee is $85 for ACRL members and $ 110 for non-members. The deadline is May 15,1989. Late registration will be accepted on a space available basis after May at an addi­ tional cost of $25 per person. A registration brochure will be mailed to all RBMS members. Additional brochures and infor­ m ation may be requested by contacting Mary Ellen Davis, RBMS Preconference, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; (800) 545- 2433; in Illinois, (800) 545-2444; in C anada, (800) 545-2455. ■ ■ Acquisitions • T he College of W illiam a n d M ary’s E a rl Gregg Swem Library, W illiamsburg, Virginia, has acquired the Murray and Shirley G. Horowitz Col­ lection on Dogs and Related Subjects, a gift from Shirley G. Horowitz, of North Woodmere, New York. The collection contains some 6,000 volumes and will complement the Peter Chapin Collection of Books about Dogs presented to W illiam and M ary in 1937. • E ast C en tral State U niversity, Ada, Qkla- hom a, has acquired 71 volumes of typescripts of proceedings and docum ent books pertaining to Cases One and E ight of the Nazi W ar Crimes Trials heard by Tribunal One of the United States Mili­ ta r y T rib u n a l a t N u re m b e rg , G erm an y , 1946-1947. The set, donated by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elwood Kemp of Ada, belonged to John­ son T ai Craw ford, a local Pontotoc County district judge who was one of the three judges who made up T ribunal One. In some cases the books contain C raw ford’s handw ritten notes about the evidence and the disposition of a case. Document books for Case One, the case against the doctors, also include photographs of victims of medical experiments. These volumes join other personal papers of C raw ­ ford’s acquired by the University some years ago. • The N ational Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, has acquired a copy of the book describ­ ing the discovery of oxygen in 1773 by the Swedish apothecary C arl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), who isolated the gas prior to and independently of Joseph Priestley, the British scientist credited with the discovery in 1774. Although the manuscript for Scheele’s Chemische Abhandlung von der L u ft und dem Feuer was ready for the printer by December 1775, publication was delayed for tw o years and he did not publish his results until 1777. The book is extremely rare and NLM has been fortunate to ac­ quire a copy in fine condition. • Ohio State University’s E dgar Dale Media Center, Columbus, has acquired a collection of 4,000 children’s books from professor C harlotte Huck, who retired in June 1988. This teaching and research collection, recently appraised at $21,000, traces the developm ent of children’s literatu re from 1820 to the present. The collection includes works by Caldecott, Crane, Greenaway, Potter, and Baum, along w ith significant picture books, classics, special reference books, and Mother Goose Collections. Two original woodblocks, valued at $400 each, of Randolph Caldecott’s illustrations ★ ★ ★ News from the field 80 / C&RL News for John Gilpin's R ide and engraved by Edm und Evans are a p a rt of the art collection, as well as an unsigned Burmingham picture th at was a rejected cover for Mr. G u m p y’s Outing, a collage picture by Roger Duvoisin for W hat is Right fo r Tulip, and a woodblock by Evaline Ness for Tom Tit Tot. • Sam H o u sto n S tate U n iv ersity 's N ew ton Gresham Library, Huntsville, Texas, has acquired several volumes of correspondence relating to San­ ford Bates, the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. These volumes will be added to the li­ brary’s large collection of Sanford Bates correspon­ dence, professional papers, manuscripts, and his personal book collection housed in the library’s Thomason Room. • T he U niversity of A lbany L ibraries, New York, have acquired the papers of Carleton Simon (1872-1951), a N ew York crim inologist w ho gained prominence in 1901 for his psychiatric ex­ amination of Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley. Simon served as Special Dep­ uty Commissioner in charge of the New York City Narcotics Bureau (1920-1926); as special adviser to the Will H. Hays Office of Motion Picture Pro­ ducers of America pertaining to the depiction of c rim e an d c rim in a ls in m o tio n p ic tu re s (1928-1938); and w rote and spoke extensively throughout his career on crime, drug addiction, street gangs, race, and related subjects. These p a­ pers are now p a rt of the University’s growing Ar­ chives of Public Affairs and Policy, as are his un­ published manuscript “Spotting the Junkies,” and his w ritten evaluations of forty movies and ten plays for the Hays Office. • The University of Illinois Archives at Urbana/ C ham paign has acquired the only microfilm copy (outside of Mauritania) of one of the most im por­ ta n t African m anuscript collections in the world. The collection is the Haroun ould Cheikh Sidiyya library, located in Boutilimit, M auritania, a per­ sonal library representing the efforts of four gener­ ations of bibliophiles and containing more than 100,000 folios of Arabic works dating as far back as the early 19th century. Among the most significant holdings of this extensive private collection are treatises from all four schools of Islamic law at the end of the 19th century; a large collection of books and letters by Tim buctu scholars Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti and Sidi Muhammid b. Sidi al-Mukhtar; a Koranic com m entary by th e Nigerian scholar ’Abdullahi b. Futi (d. 1829); and an Arabic gram ­ m ar by the M auritanian scholar al-Mukhtar ould Buna. • The University of Kentucky Library, Lex- ington, has acquired for its broadcasting archives film , video footage and news scripts from Lex­ ington television station WKYT. This is the second major broadcasting acquisition of the year; in Jan­ uary WLKY-TV, a Louisville-based ABC affiliate, gave the library its news footage shot between 1973 and 1979. The curator of the university’s Audio- Visual Archives, Tom House, is developing a com­ puterized index for all the broadcast material. • The University of Missouri-Kansas City Gen- eral L ibrary has acquired a collection of music memorabilia belonging to Dave E . Dexter J r ., a pi­ oneer in America’s record industry as a journalist, record producer, and author. The collection, as­ sembled over more than 50 years, documents the evolution of the music industry from an insider’s perspective, and includes records, tapes, books, magazines, photographs, manuscripts, and corre­ spondence. The extensive collection of p hoto­ graphs is a resource frequently used by record com­ panies and authors; the record and tape collection contains recordings Dexter produced, as well as his liner notes; and the magazine collection includes bound copies from the early years of Downbeat, Metronome, and Music Notes. • The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, has acquired a collection of rare m anu­ scripts detailing the day-to-day life at California’s historic missions, especially those of V entura, Santa Ynez, and Santa Cruz. The 25 mission docu­ ments range in date from 1791 to 1846 and include inventories, annual reports, account books, a letter outlining the requirem ents for m arriage, and a marriage contract. Among the well-known signers of these documents is Andres Pico, the brother of Pio Pico, after whom Los Angeles’ Pico Boulevard is named. In addition, the library has acquired one of the earliest Los Angeles documents of the American period, a manuscript th at records the November 4, 1850, election returns for the Justice of the Peace. Many Los Angeles namesakes pepper the election tally sheet, including the w inner, Juan Sepulveda, after whom Los Angeles’ Sepulveda Boulevard is named. Grants • The Committee on Institutional Cooperation has received a grant of over $1.1 million from NEH an d th e A ndrew W . Mellon F oun d atio n for a th ree-year m icrofilm ing project. The ten C IC m ember libraries participating in the project are N o rth w e ste rn , C h icag o , Illin o is (U rb an a- Champaign), Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan S tate, M innesota, O hio S tate, an d W isconsin (Madison). They will be filming brittle materials in a variety of subject areas based on each library’s collection strengths. A resulting aspect of the proj­ ect is the use of both RLIN and O CLC to queue de­ cisions to film specific titles so th at, between the time of the decision and the actual filming and cat­ aloging, another library will not go to the expense of filming the same title. • H arvard University’s Visual Collection in Fine Arts Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has re­ ceived a $50,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foun­ dation, Inc., to expand its unique exchange pro- 82 / C&RL News gram for photographs of Oriental art. The aw ard, to be expended over a three-year period, will fund the purchase of photographs of Oriental art in the United States and Europe to be exchanged for pho­ tographs from East Asian collections, and will help support the work necessary to foster the exchanges. The exchange was initiated in 1983 and for the first four years exchanges were carried out w ith the Shanghai Museum and the Palace Museum, both in the People’s Republic of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. W ith the Luce Founda­ tion grant it will be possible to expand the pro­ gram; probable partners for new exchanges are the C entral Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and the Chengdu Museum in Sichuan Province. The col­ lection now holds more than 1.4 million photo­ graphs and slides, among them some 15,000 photo­ g rap h s d o c u m e n tin g C hinese w orks of a r t—possibly the largest such collection in the United States. • Ohio University Library, Athens, has received a $104,705 Title II-C grant from the U.S. D epart­ m ent of Education for its Southeast Asia Collec­ tion. W ith the grant the University will complete a project of entering significant microfiche titles pro­ duced by the L ibrary of Congress Field Offices in Jakarta, Indonesia, and New Delhi, India. Other m ajor universities owning this collection can ob­ tain the project output on computer tape for load­ ing into their local systems. In addition, the University has received a two- year, $60,000 g ra n t from the Scripps H ow ard Foundation to help fund the hiring of a project ar­ chivist to process the personal papers of the late jo u rn a lis tic g ia n t E .W . S cripps. In A ugust, Charles E. Scripps, grandson of E.W . and chair­ m an of the board of the Scripps Howard C orpora­ tion, transferred ownership of the papers to Ohio University; the extensive collection is considered one of the most im portant in American journalism. E .W . Scripps founded the first major newspaper chain in the United States and w hat later became U nited Press International. H e also established three feature syndicates. He died in 1926 at the age of 71. • Saint Francis College, Loretto, Pennsylvania, has received a $3 million grant to establish an en­ dowment fund for the library. The gift was made by Frank J. and Sylvia G. Pasquerilla of Johnstown as p art of the recently announced $7 million C am ­ paign for Saint Francis College. The money will enable the college to continue to increase book and periodical holdings, to enhance the library’s study and research resources, and to purchase additional computers and electronic resources for more effec­ tive library services. • The State University of New York at Buffalo Libraries have been awarded a $175,746 U.S. D e­ partm ent of Education Title II-D Research and Demonstration grant to investigate the im pact of telefacsimile and optical scanning technologies on collection development and resource sharing. The funding will be used to set up controlled tests to evaluate the d irect and associated costs, tu r n ­ around times, and end-user acceptance of services based on facsimile copies and scanner-generated, machine-readable files in lieu of the actual items or photocopies th at are now sent via interlibrary loan. Funds will also be used to purchase telefacsimile and scanning equipm ent and to hire staff and stu­ dents. • Texas Tech University Libraries’ Southwest C ollection has received more th a n $19,000 in grants to fund a traveling exhibit and major sympo­ sium on Hispanic settlement in the Southwest. The grants were from the Texas Committee for the H u­ m anities, the Lubbock Cultural Affairs Council, and the Friends of the University L ibrary/South­ west Collection. The exhibit, which will premiere in Lubbock in February 1989, will feature a six- panel display th at will document the progress of H ispanic settlers from Mexico and New Mexico into greater West Texas and the South Plains. The symposium, scheduled for May 5, 1989, will fea­ ture several distinguished scholars who will speak on related topics. • The University of C alifornia, Los Angeles, G raduate School of Library and Information Sci­ ence has been aw arded a grant from the Online Com puter Library Center (OCLC) to support a project titled “Research on Knowledge-based D e­ scriptive Cataloging of Cartographic Publications: An Experim ental Advice-Giving System, MAP­ P E R .” The objective of this research will be to identify instances of expert judgm ent in solving specific tasks in the area of descriptive cataloging of maps. The project will also im plem ent these judg­ ments in a semi-automatic advice-giving system and evaluate the performance of the experimental system in a controlled environment. • The University of Illinois Library, Urbana- Cham paign, has received a three-year, $82,000 grant from the Council on Institutional Coopera­ tion (CIC) for preservation of Russian and Ukrain­ ian books in the Slavic and East European Library. The aw ard is part of a grant obtained by the CIC from the National Endowm ent for the H um ani­ ties. More than 2,300 volumes are scheduled to be preserved by the Library’s microfilming labora­ tory; all are from th e end of th e 19th century through World W ar II, and all deal w ith the hu­ manities and social sciences. Among the books are im portant works from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1918-1929, and several Ukrainian works published in displaced-persons camps in G erm any during W orld W ar II. • The University of Michigan’s Alfred Taubm an M edical L ib ra ry , Ann A rbor, has received a $200,000 planning grant from the N ational L i­ brary of Medicine to integrate the U-M Medical C enter’s computerized information systems. The grant will help the U-M Medical C enter integrate 84 / C&RL News records on patients, students, research databases, hospital ad m inistration, lib rary holdings, and other areas that currently are stored in separate computers. Integration of these records will greatly benefit patient care, research, medical education, and other activities on the Medical Center campus. The grant is part of the Integrated Academic Infor­ mation Management project developed by the As­ sociation of American Medical Colleges in 1982. In addition, the University’s School of Inform a­ tion and L ibrary Studies has received a $120,000 grant to restore and furnish Room 411 of the West E n g in eerin g B uilding, ad jo in in g th e L ib ra ry School’s new home. The grant, which is the largest single endow m ent in the School’s history, was given by Virginia Spencer Ehrlicher and A rthur Ehrlicher, both Michigan graduates. M atching funds will come from the University to complete the project. • The University of New Mexico General Li- brary, Albuquerque, has been awarded a $5 mil­ lion grant from the federal government to establish th e C enter for Southwest Research, w hich will provide research space for students and scholars to foster discussion on issues of im portance to the re­ gion. Matching funds will be raised by the Univer­ sity to create endowments to provide continuing support for acquisitions, staffing, and programs. • The University of North Carolina at Greens- boro has received a $5,000 gift from E lizabeth Shamburger in memory of her sister, Anne Sham­ burger, a health teacher at the University for 45 years. The gift has been designated for restoration of rare book materials. • The University of Texas at Austin General Li- braries is one of six major U.S. research libraries chosen to receive grants of $200,555 from the N a­ tional E ndow m ent for the Hum anities and the U.S. D epartm ent of Education to convert card cat­ alogs of their large Latin American library hold­ ings into computer-readable autom ated records for national online databases. Stanford University is administering the grants; the other participants in the cooperative effort are Yale University, Univer­ sity of California at Berkeley, University of Flor­ ida, and Indiana University at Bloomington. The money will be used at UT Austin to continue con­ verting to an electronic format the card catalog of the internationally esteemed Nettie Benson Latin American Collection, and to tag each entry w ith a symbol that identifies a holding as being located at UT Austin. Records of the L atin American library holdings of the six institutions will go into OCLC and RLIN. The records will also be made available to the Organization of American States’ Columbus M em orial L ib rary in W ashington, D .C ., and thereby, to all L atin American countries. • T he V irginia State L ib rary and Archives, Richmond, has been awarded a grant from the N a­ tional Historic Publications and Records Commis­ sion to enter series descriptions of more than 2,000 of the Library’s most valuable government records on the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN). The RLIN Government Records Project is a continuation of the Seven States Project, where seven state archives entered thousands of records descriptions into RLIN during 1986-1987. The NHPRC grant will enable tw o additional staff members to describe series and to input the descrip­ tions onto RLIN. • W hitm an College, W alla W alla, W ashing- ton, has been aw arded a $10,000 grant from the Brunswick Public Charitable Foundation, In c ., to improve the college library’s holdings in Hispanic publications. The grant will be used to purchase some books, but the main emphasis will be on ob­ taining a good stock of videotapes w ith a cultural and literary focus for use in the classroom. The grant will also make it possible for the college to strengthen its ties to the W alla W alla Hispanic community. News notes • The College of the Atlantic in Bar H arbor, Maine, has completed construction of its new li­ brary building built on the site of the old building which burned down in July 1983. Only fourteen years old at the time, the college rallied immedi­ ately to begin rebuilding. Architect Daniel Scully worked with a committee of college trustees, staff, faculty, and students to design a building in keep­ ing w ith COA’s ecological perspectives. The com­ pleted Kaelber Hall/Thorndike L ibrary learning resource center insures that natural light will be optim ized so th a t energy consum ption can be sharply reduced. In addition, the finished appear­ ance of the structure follows coastal Maine’s noted architectural style; its cedar shingles articulate the close relationship between humans and their envi­ ronm ent. The 20,000-square foot building will house the 50,000-volume library, as well as a din­ ing hall, computer center, audio-visual room, and student lounge. • Old Sturbridge Village has launched a re- search project on the experiences of minorities in rural New England during the early 19th century (1790-1850). The minorities to be examined are Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and the Irish. The first phase of the project began in fall 1988 and entails a search for prim ary and secondary source materials dealing w ith the groups. Printed m ateri­ als, graphics, and manuscript collections that con­ tain relevant materials will be identified and exam­ in e d an d th e ir co n ten ts e v a lu a te d . T his inform ation will be incorporated into an anno­ tated bibliography of source materials for future research. The second phase begins fall 1989 and will be a focused research effort using some of the collections identified in the phase one. Any infor­ mation regarding specific collections and their con- January 1989 / 85 tents th at may be relevant to the research is wel­ com e. Send m aterials to: M yron O. S tachiw , Research Departm ent, Old Sturbridge Village, 1 O ld S turbridge Village R oad, Sturbridge, MA 01566. ■ ■ Profiles Ruth M. Katz, director of academic library ser­ vices at East C arolina University, has been named u niversity lib ra ria n a t th e U niversity of New Hampshire, D u rh am . Katz received her MLS and Ph.D . from Rutgers’ University, and her under­ graduate degree from Clark University. She has held the positions of associate director of academic library services at East Carolina, senior research scientist at the Denver Research Institute, and as­ sistant professor at the University of Denver Li­ brary School. She has also worked at the Rutgers’ University Libraries, the L ibrary of Congress, Sys­ tem Development Corp., and Documentation Inc. The author of numerous articles and presentations, K atz has been active in RASD, ASCLA, and LRRT, as well as in state associations in Colorado and North Carolina. D iane E. M urray, technical and automation services librarian at Hope College, Holland, Mich­ igan, has been appointed director of libraries at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. Mur­ ray received her MLS from Western Michigan Uni­ versity and her m aster’s in m anagem ent from Aquinas College. She held several positions with the Technical Services Division of Michigan State University from 1968 to 1977, and served on the ed­ itorial board of Title Varies. She has also served as secretary, vice-chairperson, and chairperson of the Michigan L ibrary Association Board of Trustees from 1980 to 1985, and was editor of the Grand Rapids Area Union L ist o f Serials for several years. People in the news N ancy G w in n , editor of Preservation Micro­ film ing: A Guide fo r Librarians and Archivists for th e Association of Research L ibraries and the Northeast D ocum ent Conservation C enter, has been awarded the Society of American Archivists’ W aldo Gifford Leland Prize for w riting of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice. The aw ard, which was established in 1959 and is conferred annually in the fall, was presented to Gwinn a t the SAA conference in Atlanta in September 1988. The book was se­ lected from a pool of seven nominees and was cited as “a comprehensive, easily used, and readable m anual for archivists and librarians and an excel­ lent introduction to various aspects of microfilming projects.” Ken neth J. L aB u d d e , form er director of li­ braries and now professor emeritus of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has received the Thomas Jefferson Award granted annually to one member of the faculty from the four campuses th a t comprise the University of Missouri. The aw ard recognizes his life-long commitment to the Jeffersonian ideals of freedom of expression and in­ dividual liberty as well as his continued commit­ m ent to quality in education. LaBudde retired in 1985 after being director of libraries for 35 years, but he continues to contribute to the University by working for the development of the special collec­ tions in its libraries and for the completion of its G eneral Library building. Charles R. McC lure, professor at the School of Inform ation Studies, Syracuse University, New York, and Peter Hernon, professor at the G radu­ ate School of L ibrary and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, have been aw arded the 1988 American Society for Infor­ mation Science (ASIS) Book Award for their book Federal Information Policies in the 1980s: Con­ flicts and Issues (Norwood, N .J.; Ablex Publishing Corporation). The aw ard is given annually to the author and publisher of an outstanding book rele­ vant to the information sciences. Books are judged on their im portance to information science and technology, readability, validity, originality, re­ search significance, and scholarship. McClure and H ernon accepted the aw ard at the Annual ASIS Conference in A tlanta, Georgia, in October. C harles Mauer, library director of Dennison University, has been awarded the American Li­ brary Association of Ohio’s Distinguished Service Award. To be eligible for the aw ard a librarian Fulbright Grants in library science The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) has announced th at a number of 1989-1990 Fulbright Grants remain avail­ able to U.S. faculty in the field of library sci­ ence. There are specific openings in the German Democratic Republic, Honduras, Morocco, Ni­ geria, Peru, Poland, Sudan, and Syria. Scholars in all academic ranks, including emeritus, are eligible to apply. It is expected th at applicants will have a P h.D ., college or university teaching experience, and evidence of scholarly productivity. United States citizen­ ship is required. In a few countries (Central and South A m erica an d F ran co p h o n e A frica), knowledge of the host country language is re­ quired. Interested scholars are urged to inquire as soon as possible. For information, call or write: CIES, Eleven D upont Circle, N .W ., Suite 300, W ashington, DC 20036; (202) 939-5401. When inquiring, indicate countries of interest. 86 / C&RL News must be a m ember of ALAO for at least five years, demonstrate leadership and service w ithin the or­ g a n iz a tio n , a n d p ro m o te acad em ic lib ra rie s throughout the state of Ohio. Mauer has been ac­ tive in ALAO as a board of trustees member and as a mem ber of the 1986-1987 ALAO Conference program committee. He currently continues as the ALAO liaison w ith the Ohio L ibrary Foundation and Ohio Pi. He also assists OCLC in their develop­ m ent of the new online catalog. Director of Denni­ son University Library since 1971, Mauer has also served as assistant professor of G erm an at the Uni­ versity of Michigan (1965-1971) and instructor of G erm an at L aurence U niversity (1962-1965). Known for his white lab coat and collection of rhi­ noceroses, Mauer published in 1971 the book Call to Revolution: The Mystical Anarchism o f Gustav Landauer (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1971), and has authored an essay “Close Encoun­ ters of Diverse Kinds” in Collection Development (Metuchen, N .J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981). Appointments (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices, and ap­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointm ent appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) W illiam Abernathy has been named librarian at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri. Nancy Allen has been appointed assistant di­ rector for public services at Colorado State Univer­ sity Libraries, Fort Collins. Kathleen D oris Anderson has been appointed head of technical services in the Hilles and Lamont Libraries at H arvard University, Cambridge, Mas­ sachusetts. Mary Axford has joined the Reference D epart­ ment staff at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. G ordon Banholzer Jr. has joined the Refer­ ence D epartm ent staff at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. D omenica Barbuto has been appointed busi­ ness reference lib ra ria n at H ofstra University, Hempstead, New York. Susan Barnes has been appointed head of public services at the M ann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. D ouglas Bates has been appointed head of the Documents D epartm ent at Kansas State Univer­ sity, M anhattan. Mark Beatty is the new interlibrary loan librar­ ian in the Wisconsin InterL ibrary Service at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. W illiam E. Benemann has been appointed Ro­ mance languages cataloger in the Law School Li­ brary at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa­ chusetts. Stella Bentley has been named assistant uni­ versity librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Rebecca Bernthal has joined the staff of the Branch Services D epartm ent at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. M arcia Bianchi-Barteletti has been named head of the Cataloging Section at Santa Clara Uni­ versity, California. T racy Bicknell has joined the staff of the Cen­ tral Reference Services D epartm ent at the Univer­ sity of Nebraska, Lincoln. Mark Braden has been named assistant techni­ cal services librarian for cataloging at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. Catherine T. Brody has been named director of archives at the New York City Technical College of the City University of New York. N ancy Buchanan has been appointed hum ani­ ties reference librarian at Texas A & M University, College Station. F rances Bufalo has been named librarian for Congressional research services of the American L aw Division at the Library of Congress, Wash­ ington, D .C. Lorri Burroughs has been named librarian of the Georgia C enter for Continuing Education at the University of Georgia, Athens. Helena Calogeridis has been appointed cata­ loger in the Cataloguing D epartm ent at the Uni­ versity of Waterloo, Ontario. L oretta Caren has been appointed head of the Inform ation Services D epartm ent at Syracuse Uni­ versity, New York. Jo Chanaud has been named head of the Refer­ ence D epartm ent at the Georgia Institute of Tech­ nology, Atlanta. Shelly Clement has been appointed circula- tion/reference librarian at the University of Okla­ hom a Law Library, Norman. L inda Coates has been appointed assistant li­ brarian in the Biomedical L ibrary at the University of California, Los Angeles. Patricia D enham has been named head of pres­ ervation and archives at the University of Cincin­ nati Law Library, Ohio. L orie D ocken has been appointed assistant O CLC coordinator in the Wisconsin Interlibrary Service at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jeffrey E arnest has been nam ed head of the Music Cataloging Section at Stanford University, California. Jay Evatt has been named reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens. Barbara F arah has been nam ed technology branch librarian at the University of New H am p­ shire, Durham . E. Jain F letcher has been appointed assistant librarian in the Biomedical L ibrary at the Univer­ sity of California, Los Angeles. N ancy Flott has been named librarian at Cot- tey College in Nevada, Missouri. January 1989 / 87 L e iL ani F reund has been appointed interli­ brary loan librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville. D avid A. Gaarder has joined the Reference De­ partm ent at the University of Michigan Law Li­ brary, Ann Arbor. Paula G abbard has been appointed fine arts bibliographer and reference librarian at the Avery Library, Columbia University, New York. G ail Garfinkle has been nam ed public services archivist at the University of Georgia, Athens. N ancy V. Gauss has been nam ed head of the Ar­ chives and Records Management D epartm ent at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Edward F. Gaynor Jr. has been appointed head of the Monographic/Post-Cataloging Unit at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Ray Gesselbach has been named archivist at the T rum an Library in Independence, Missouri. Mark C. Goniwiecha has been named instruc­ tor of library science at the University of Guam, Mangilao. Suzanne Grefsheim has been named head of the Alfred T aubm an Medical Library and coordinator of the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. H enry D. Gründer has been named special col­ lections librarian at the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond. Michael H addock has been appointed science reference librarian a t Texas A & M University, Col­ lege Station. H arriet H agenbruch has been named educa­ tion librarian at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. Paula H ammett has been appointed college li­ brarian at World College West, Petaluma, Cali­ fornia. John B. H arer has been nam ed head of the C ir­ culation Division at Texas A & M University, Col­ lege Station. Phillip H eagy has been appointed reference and online searching librarian for the sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas. D avid H eisser has been appointed collection m anagement librarian at Tufts University, Med­ ford, Massachusetts. Betty H ertel has been named reference librar­ ian at the Duke University Law Library, D urham , N orth Carolina. G ail H itchcock has been named assistant tech­ nical services librarian for cataloging at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. D aniel H olt has been appointed curator of the Liberty Memorial Museum and Archives, Kansas City, Missouri. Kari H orowicz has been appointed assistant ar­ chitecture and fine arts librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville. V alerie H orton has been named systems li­ brarian at New Mexico State University, Las C ru­ ces. 88 / C&RL News Godlind Johnson has been named engineering lib rarian at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Patricia Johnston has joined the staff of the Reference D epartm ent at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Sally Kelley has been appointed assistant li­ brarian in charge of the Agricultural Law Collec­ tion at the University of Arkansas Law Library, Fayetteville. H arriet Kersey has joined the staff of the Seri­ als Cataloging D epartm ent at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Barbara King has been appointed library devel­ o p m e n t officer a t th e U n iv ersity of F lo rid a , Gainesville. Richard Koprowski has been appointed assis­ ta n t archivist in the Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University, California. P. J. Koshy has been appointed media services librarian at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. Ramune Kubilius has been appointed head of the Reference D epartm ent at the N orthw estern University Medical Library, Chicago, Illinois. Mary Lynette Larsgaard is the new assistant departm ent head in the Map and Imagery L abora­ tory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Seth Lerner is the new project archivist in ar­ chives and special collections at Ohio University, Athens. T ang-Hwa Liou has been appointed assistant li­ brarian in the O riental Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Charles Lipsig has been appointed science ref­ erence lib rarian a t the University of F lorida, Gainesville. Margaret Lourie is the new HOLLIS services librarian in the Law School L ibrary at H arvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Robert McD onald has been appointed head of technical services in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York. Sally McGill has been nam ed assistant curator of rare books and manuscripts at Vassar College Li­ brary, Poughkeepsie, New York. N an McMurry has been named history bibliog­ rapher at the University of Georgia, Athens. Langhorne Mallory has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens. Rikki Mangrum has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens. Alena Marek has been appointed Russian/Ger­ m an cataloger at the University of Florida, Gaines­ ville. W ilbur Meneray has been appointed assistant university librarian for special collections at T u­ lane University, New Orleans. L awrie Merz has been appointed reference and music librarian at Houghton College, Houghton, New York. D enise Miller is the new autom ation help desk consultant in Automation Services at the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin, Madison. Patricia E. Palmer has been named conserva­ tion librarian at W ashington University, St. Louis. Mary-Frances Panettiere has been appointed head of the Com puter Search and Training De­ partm ent at the Georgia Institute of Technology, A tlanta. L. Eileen Parris has been appointed retrospec­ tive conversion archivist in the Manuscript D epart­ m ent of the Duke University Library, D urham , N orth Carolina. Roberta Pessah has been appointed reference and government documents librarian at the New York Law School Library, New York. Janice A. Peters has joined the staff of the Ref­ erence D epartm ent at the G eorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Roberta Pitts has been appointed head of Per­ sonnel Operations a t the Texas A & M University L ibrary, College Station. Phyllis Post has been named head of cataloging at the Capital University Law School Library, Co­ lumbus, Ohio. Kevin Ray has been named curator of m anu­ scripts in special collections at W ashington Univer­ sity, St. Louis, Missouri. Anne Reber is the new Southeast Asia research bibliographer at Ohio University, Athens. Martha Richardson has been appointed infor­ m ation specialist/systems lib rarian w ith the L i­ brary Task Force at Kuwait University. Jacquelene Riley has been appointed head of the Catalog D epartm ent at University of Cincin­ nati, Ohio. N ancy R oderer has been n am ed assistant health sciences librarian for resources and refer­ ence services at Columbia University, New York. Susie Rohrbough has been named health sci­ ences reference librarian at Ohio University, Ath­ ens. A nn R onchetti has been appointed English bibliographer at the U niversity of P ittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Robert Sabin has been nam ed reference and col­ lection development librarian for the sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas. Joye D. P. Slife has been named assistant head of acquisitions at the University of Georgia, Ath­ ens. Sheridon Speeth has been appointed physical sciences reference librarian at Kansas State Univer­ sity, M anhattan. M ary Stephenson has joined the staff of the Technical Services Division at the N ational L i­ brary of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. Jan Swanbeck has been appointed chair of the Government Documents D epartm ent and bibliog­ rapher for government documents at the Univer­ sity of Florida, Gainesville. Patricia A. Tarin has been named assistant to the deputy director of the University of Michigan January 1989 / 89 Libraries, Ann Arbor. Yitzhak T eutsch has been appointed serials cataloger in the Law School Library at H arvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Colleen Thorburn has been appointed serials cataloger at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Terry Tjaden has been named cataloger at W il­ liam Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. Stephanie T olson has been appointed technical services specialist w ith the St. Louis Community College System, Missouri. Felix Unaeze has been appointed business ref­ erence librarian at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. Barrara H. Vaccaro has joined the Reference D epartment at the University of Michigan Law Li­ brary, Ann Arbor. Coleen Valente has been appointed cataloger at the University of New Hampshire, D urham . Barrara Valentine has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Georgia, Athens. John V an H ook has been appointed Ameri- can/English language and literature selector at the University of Florida, Gainesville. D enise W allace has been appointed reference librarian at D elaw are Technical and Community College, Dover. T yler W alters has been appointed assistant university archivist at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Brian W arling has been nam ed science librar­ ian at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. D iane W atson has been appointed public ser­ vice librarian at Texas A & M University at Galves­ ton. Mark W eber has been appointed personnel offi­ cer at the libraries of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. W illiam W iese has been appointed agriculture science reference librarian at Kansas State Univer­ sity, M anhattan. D oris W illiams has been appointed assistant director for Science Libraries at the State Univer­ sity of New York, Stony Brook. C hristine R. W ondolowski has been named collection development librarian at Hofstra Uni­ versity, Hempstead, New York. Roger W yatt has joined the faculty of the E m ­ poria State University School of Library and Infor­ mational Management, Em poria, Kansas. Elaine Yontz has been appointed special collec­ tions and humanities monographs cataloger at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Retirements Larry E arl Bone, director of libraries and pro­ fessor at Mercy College, Westchester County, New York, and the Westchester campus of Long Island University, will retire at the end of January after a 35-year career in libraries. Before joining the staff at Mercy College in 1977, Bone served as director of the Burrow Library at Rhodes College, Mem­ phis, Tennessee. He has also served as assistant di­ recto r for public services at th e Memphis and Shelby County Public L ibrary and Information Center; assistant director of the G raduate School of L ibrary Science at the University of Illinois, Ur­ bana; deputy librarian of the American L ibrary in Paris, France; librarian at George Mason College, Fairfax, Virginia; and assistant head of the Gift Section of the L ibrary of Congress, Washington, D .C . He has been a visiting professor at nine grad­ uate schools of library science, and was the recipi­ ent of a Council on L ibrary Resources fellowship in 1974. He served as president of ALA’s Reference and Adult Services Division in 1978-1979, and is the editor of three books, tw o issues of Library Trends, and tw enty articles. M erle N. Boylan, director of libraries at the University of W ashington, Seattle, for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1988. Edward D auphinais, technology branch librar­ ian at the University of New Hampshire, D urham , has retired after 20 years of service. Mildred E mmons, assistant director for techni­ cal services and collection developm ent at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, retired in August after 31 years of service. Stephen Ford, director of the library at G rand V alley S tate University, A llendale, M ichigan, since 1962, retired in December. Ford began his career in 1949 at Lawrence University as an assis­ tan t librarian, became chief of the Serials Division at Southern Illinois University in 1953, moved on to the University of Michigan Library as head of the O rder D epartm ent in 1954, then took a leave in 1961-1962 as special consultant in library develop­ ment to the University of Baghdad, Iraq. Ford has been a member and chair of the ALA committees on Bookbinding, Statistics, and Publishing from 1956-1974; he served as Second Vice President of the Michigan L ibrary Association from 1965-1966; he was a member of the Executive Council of the Michigan Library Consortium from 1975-1977; James Cameron Scholarship Award Academic/Scholarly Book Center president Daniel Halloran has announced the perpetual renewal of the Book Center’s annual James C a­ meron Scholarship Award. Originally planned for two years, the scholarship awards $1,500 to a deserving library school student interested in pursuing a career in acquisitions or technical services. The juried aw ard will continue to be presented during ALA Annual Conference, in memory of former Book Center sales and gen­ eral manager James Cameron. Interested ap­ plicants may contact: The Book Centers (Ca­ m eron Scholarship), 5600 N. H assalo S t., Portland, OR 97213. 90 / C&RL News and was lecturer in bibliography and book selec­ tion at the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University from 1963-1980. Ford au­ thored a book on The Acquisition of Library Mate­ rials (Chicago: A merican L ib rary Association, 1973), a revised edition of which was published in 1978. He also served as assistant editor of Library Resources and Technical Services from 1956-1964. Robert Reed, head of collection development at the University of New Hampshire, D urham , has retired after 28 years of service. D onald Vinc en t, university librarian at the University of New Hampshire, D urham , has re­ tired after 26 years of service. Deaths E dith G. H enderson, form er curator of the Treasure Room in the H arvard University Law School Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, died this fall. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Hen­ derson entered the H arvard L aw School in 1950 w ith the first class to have women members. She received her LL.B. degree in 1953 and her S.J.D. in 1959. Shortly thereafter Henderson began her long association w ith the Law School Library and w ith the T reasure Room, w hich houses the L i­ brary’s collection of rare historical legal materials. In 1963 she was appointed curator of the Treasure Room, a post she held until her retirement in 1987. Henderson served as the Selden Society’s Honorary Secretary-Treasurer for the U nited States from 1965 to 1987, and also as a director of the American Society of Legal History from 1981 to 1983. Milton H odnetteJ r., retired head of the C ata­ loging D epartm ent at Ohio University, Athens, died September 29 after a long illness. Hodnette had served in his position at Ohio from 1969 to 1984. M iriam T urner L arson, associate professor em erita at W ayne State University, D etroit, Michi­ gan, died November 20,1988, at the age of 79. L ar­ son earned her bachelor’s degree in biology in 1930 and master’s in microbiology in 1931 from Middle­ bury College, V erm ont, and received her MLS from Wayne State University in 1967. She joined th e WSU faculty as assistant professor in 1968. D uring her tenure she served on numerous com­ mittees and as coordinator of the medical libraries concentration for the Library Science Program. She was also a noted author in the medical libraries area and a successful grant w riter. ■ ■ CALENDER February 23-24—Automation: The Seventh Texas Confer­ ence on Library Automation, sponsored by the University of Houston Libraries, will be held at the Stouffer Greenway Plaza Hotel in Houston and will feature keynote addresses by Susan K. M artin, Director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and Rebecca L enzini, President of CARL Systems. O ther speakers will include John C orbin, Jennifer C argill, C arolyn Frost, C arol Hawks, Judy Myers, and Raymond V ondran. Registration fee: $95 before January 13, $120 after. Contact: D ana Rooks, University of Houston Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2091; (713) 749-4241. 26-28—Information access: “Teaching & Tech­ nology: The Im pact of Unlimited Information Access on Classroom Teaching,” a forum spon­ sored by Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, will explore the issues involved in teaching and learning when there is unlimited access to infor­ mation. The keynote address will be given by M artin Dillon, director of the O CLC Office of Research. Other participants include W ilbert McKeachie (National Center for Research to Im ­ prove Post-Secondary Teaching and Learning, University of Michigan), William Bryan Martin (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), Daniel C. D ennett (Center for Cog­ nitive Studies, Tufts University), and Patricia Swanson (John C rerar L ibrary, University of Chicago). Attendance is by invitation; w ritten inquiries may be directed to Evan Ira Farber, Lilly Library, E arlham College, Richmond, IN 47374. March 1—Audiovisual preservation: T he National Ar­ chives and Records Administration presents its F o u rth A nnual Preservation C onference on