ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 5 6 / C&RL News P E O P L E People in the news D onald J. Barrett has received the Colorado Library Association’s Lifetim e Achievem ent Award for 1990. Barrett has served the U.S. Air Force Academy Library since 1955, first as chief of reference and since 1959 as assistant direc­ tor for public services. He was project officer for the transfer of the library from Lowry AFB to Colorado Springs in 1958 and later was proj­ ect manager for a $4.5 million Academic Li­ brary expansion project. He currently serves as a resource person for the Donald J. Barrett Colorado Library Asso­ ciation, sharing his expertise on strategic planning, buildings, accreditation and academic libraries. He was the first chairman of the College Section of CLA and has been Academic Library Representa­ tive on the Governing Board for over 10 years. He has also served on various committees of the Plains and Peaks Regional Library System. Robert A. D rescher has been named execu­ tive director of CLASS (Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services), headquartered in San Jose, California. He previously served as manager of the Library Development Bureau at the New Jersey State Library, which is the library consultation, library extension and library grant management agency of New Jersey. CLASS is a membership-based organization dedicated to pro­ moting library cooperation, automation, and re­ source sharing among all types of libraries and information centers. D orothy-Ellen Gross has been promoted to associate dean for academic support at North Park College and Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illi­ nois. As associate dean, Gross will assist the provost by providing oversight of various academic depart­ ments which serve both the college and the semi­ nary. She will continue as director of the consoli­ dated libraries and of media services, and will also have oversight of the Covenant Archives, the Cen­ ter for Scandinavian Studies, and academic com­ puting. Furthermore, Gross has been appointed coordinator of faculty development for the college, a new position created in connection with a Lilly Foundation grant. The librarians at North Park are particularly pleased by Gross’s promotion because they regard it as evidence of their success in pursu­ ing the model of the teaching library and evidence that the library is completely integrated into the matrix of the college. Raul Antonio Huerta, head of learning re­ sources at Mohawk Valley Community College, has been appointed by the New York State Board of Regents to a three-year term on the Library Services and Construction Act Advisory Council. The 12-member council meets four times annually and advises the state library agency on develop­ ment of the LSCA plan for New York and related policy matters, assists in the evaluation of activities supported by the Act, and advises on other matters such as preparation of long-range plans and annual program statements for Titles I, II, and III. Jay H . Lambrecht, catalog librarian at the Uni­ versity of Illinois at Chicago, has received a 1990-1991 Robert Vosper fellowship from the In­ ternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. It is one o f two fellow ships aw arded annually to “outstanding librarians with an interest in and commitment to the in­ ternational aspects of library service” and pro­ vides $10,000 to enable a recipient to carry out research connected with issues deemed important lay H. Lam brechtby the federation. D ur­ ing a 3-month leave pro­ vided by UIC, Lambrecht will study the implica­ tions of cost-cutting measures on bibliographic control. Lambrecht chairs ALA’s Association for Ja n u a n j 1 9 9 1 / 57 Library Collections and Technical Services and recently completed 4 years o f service on ALA’s Committee on Cataloging. R i t v a L a u n o was elected president o f the In te r­ national Federation for Information and D o cu­ mentation at its general assembly meeting in H a­ vana, Cuba. Launo is currently manager o f infor­ mation services at Alko Ltd., the Finnish state alcohol company, and chairman o f the advisory board to the course on information services and information resources management at the Helsinki University o f Technology. Trained as both a ch em ­ ist and an information specialist, she has worked in the chemical industry in the U.S. as well as Finland. C h a r l e s S a r g e n t , formerly director o f the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Library, is the project director on a federal grant awarded to the University o f Texas Health Science C en te r at San Antonio. Sargent will manage the daily activities o f the two-year grant, a project designed to develop a strategic plan for the future development o f the Georgetown University’s automated Library Info r­ mation System (L IS ). T he San Antonio cen ter is one o f more than 2 5 medical libraries using the L IS system. R u t h S e i d m a n , head o f the science and engi­ neering library at M IT , has been appointed to the Massachusetts delegation to the W hite House Conference on Libraries. Assistant librarian M a r k S c o t t will be first alternate delegate. D o r o t h y S w a n s o n , Tam im ent Librarian at New York University Libraries, New York City, was pre­ sented the Comm erford Award by the New York Labor History Association on November 30, 1990, for her exemplary efforts to further labor history and education. Profiles C l a r a M . C h u has joined the faculty o f U C LA ’s Graduate School o f Library and Inform ation Sci­ ence (G S L IS ) as an assistant professor. Chu will receive h e r Ph .D . this year from the University o f W estern Ontario, w here she also studied for her M L S. Chu has worked in special libraries and was technical editor for a major bibliography p roject at the University o f W estern Ontario which indexed all p re -1914 Canadian and foreign material pub­ lished on Canadian science and technology. She has published extensively. At G S L IS , Chu teaches research methodology, library service to special population groups and su bject access to informa­ tion. Not surprisingly, her research interests in­ clude multicultural librarianship: Chu was b o m in Peru and lived there until she was 10, then em i­ grated to Canada, and holds dual citizenship in Canada and Peru while she teaches in California. C a r o l K . D i P r e t e has been appointed to the National Commission on Libraries and Inform a- 58 / C & R L News tion Science for a term expiring on July 19, 1991. She is dean o f academic services and director o f the library at Roger Williams College in Bristol, Rhode Island. Currently D iP rete is serving a 19 8 9 -1 9 9 1 term as president o f the Consortium o f Rhode Island Academic and Research Libraries and has just finished a term as president o f the Rhode Island Library Association. She is on the ALA standing comm ittee on chapter relations. H er M LS is from the University o f Maryland at College Park, and she has an MS from Oklahoma State University at Stillwater. P e t e r G o y has assumed the post o f vice-presi- dent o f the Ukrainische F reie Universitat in Mu­ nich after serving on the library faculty at City College, New York from 1961 to 1989. Goy com ­ pleted his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the Ukrainische F reie Universitat before taking his M LS at Columbia University, where he was a m ember o f the library staff from 1955 to 1961. At the City College Library Goy served in acquisi­ tions, cataloging, scien ce, and re fe re n ce . He worked as a bibliographer, expanding the Library’s collections in Russian Area studies, ethnicity, an­ thropology, and sociology. He organized and was an instructor in and advisor to the City College Slavic-American Studies Program from 1972 to 1982. In addition, Goy has taught courses in Mu­ nich, London, Zagreb, Belgrade, and Skopie on bibliographic control o f Slavic materials, the his­ tory o f eastern Europe, and Slavic culture and civilization. His many books include Bibliography o f R eference M aterials f o r Russian Area Studies (1962), Russian Area Studies at the City College (1964), D iccionario Tecnico d e Bihlioteconomia, Espanol-Ingles: Technical Dictionary o f Librarian ­ ship, English-Spanish, lst-5 th eds. (1 9 6 4 -1 9 8 0 ), Slavs in Am erica: a Selected B ibliography (1981), and Ukrainian-Muscoυite Relations During Prepa­ ration o f New W ar with Poland: End o f 1650 Till the Treaty o f Bila Tserkva (1984). K r i z a A. J e n n i n g s has joined the staff o f the Association o f Research Libraries (ARL) O ffice o f Management Services (O M S) as trainer. In addi­ tion to her training and sta ff developm ent du­ ties, Jenn in g s will be responsible for the de­ sign and development of O M S institutes on man­ aging diversity in the workplace. These insti­ tutes are being devel­ op ed th ro u g h A R L ’s new initiative, “M eeting the Chllenges o f a Cul­ turally Diverse Environ­ m ent,” which is funded Kriza A. Jennings b y th e H .W . W ils o n Foundation. Jennings comes to O M S from United Theological Seminary Library in Dayton, Ohio, where she served as reference librarian. H er previ­ ous professional positions include acting division ch ief and library administrator at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wil- berforce, Ohio, as well as coordinator o f public services and librarian for resource development at W right State University’s Fordham Health Sci­ ences Library in Dayton. Jennings has also worked as a freelance librarian and has directed her own consulting firm. In addition, she served as an ad­ ju n c t instructor for W right State University’s School o f Education in Dayton and for Kent State University’s School o f Library Science in Kent, Ohio. Jennings received her bachelor’s from C en ­ tral State University in W ilberforce, Ohio, a mas­ ter’s in education from W right State University, and an M L S from K ent State University. In 1988 she was selected Distinguished Alumna o f the Year for the K ent State University School o f Libraiy Science. S u s a n F . S a u l received the 1990 LITA/CLSI scholarship for $2,500. T he award is made to a student enrolled in an ALA-accredited program in library and information science with an emphasis on library automation. Saul has completed two- thirds o f her course work for the M L S at Simmons College Graduate School o f Library and Informa­ tion Science in Boston, Massachusetts. A W ellesley College graduate, she worked as a systems engi­ n eer for several years at IB M . Then, while her children w ere young, she was a volunteer in a school library and a synagogue libraiy. She then reentered the workplace, first as a library assistant at her local library, which participates in a C L S I automated network and later at the network of­ fices, where she continues to work on the consor­ tium’s retrospective database conversion for 24 m ember libraries. Appointments J o h n P . A b b o t t has been appointed associate head o f the collection management program at the North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh. C a r o l A h m a d , formerly assistant director for public services at the University o f Miami Library, has been named assistant dean o f the College o f Fine Arts and Humanities at the University o f Texas at San Antonio. C h r i s t i n e A v e r y has been appointed business reference librarian and cataloger on the University Park campus o f Penn State. R e b e c c a B a n f i e l d has been appointed assis­ tant Schaffner Project librarian at the Northwest­ ern University Libraries, Evanston, Illinois.. Jan u ary 1991 / 59 D o n a l d B a r c l a y has been appointed reference librarian with a specialty in bibliographic instruc­ tion at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces, B e t t y B e n g t s o n , formerly associate director o f bibliographic control at the University o f Washing­ ton Libraries, is now director o f the libraries. B o b r a y B o r d e l o n has been named reference librarian with a specialty in business at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces. E l l e n B r o i d y is now publications coordinator at the University o f California, Irvine library. K a t h l e e n R . B r o w n is the new head o f the acquisitions department at the North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh. A n g e l a C a r r e n o has been promoted to social science bibliographer at New York University's Bobst Library in New York City. H u i - Y e e C h a n g has been appointed to the general cataloging unit at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces. E l a i n e C l e m e n t has been appointed the earth and mineral sciences reference librarian and cata- loger at the University Park campus o f Penn State. R u t h C o c h r a n has been selected for the tem ­ porary reference position at the University o f Idaho Library in Moscow, Idaho. L . M a r k C o n r a d has been appointed data archi­ vist at Penn State, University Park campus. N i k i e C o t t e r is the new assistant reference librarian at the Information Science Building Li­ braries, University o f North Texas, Denton. L e o n o r a C r e m a is the new head o f the circula­ tion division at the University o f British Columbia. K a r e n S . C r o n e i s has been appointed to the new position o f head o f departmental libraries at Washington University in St. Louis. M a r k D o l i v e has assumed his duties as interli­ brary loan librarian at the University o f North Texas, Denton. L i s e D y c k m a n has joined the staff o f New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City as reference librarian for instructional services. K im F i s h e r is now humanities reference librar­ ian at Penn State, University Park campus. C o l l e t t e F o r d is the new education services coordinator at the University o f California, Irvine library. M a r l a y n a G a t e s has joined the staff at Bobst Library, New York University, New York City as reference librarian for interlibrary loan. T a n i a G o t t s c h a l k has been named to fill a reference position in the instructional centers at the University o f Idaho Library, Moscow. L a u r a G r e e n has been appointed visiting assis­ tant librarian, music cataloger, in the music library at Indiana University, Bloomington. P e g g y G r e e n has been appointed acting direc­ tor o f the School o f Library and Information Stud­ ies at the University o f W isconsin, Madison for the current academic year. K e v i n H a r w e l l has been appointed documents librarian at Penn State, University Park campus. P a t H a w t h o r n e has joined the staff o f the Uni­ versity o f Texas Health Science C enter at San Antonio as administrative projects librarian. L e o n o o r I n g r a h a m - S w e t s is the new library and media services director at Clark College’s Cannell Library in Vancouver, Washington. J o a n n a K a t s u n e has been promoted to the position o f bibliographic control coordinator at Brown University Library. R h o n d a R i o s K r a v i t z is the new head o f access services at the California State University Library, Sacramento. E l a i n e R . M a r t i n has been appointed associate director for education, clinical and research serv­ ices at the Health Sciences Library and Informa­ tion C en ter at the University o f Washington, S e ­ attle. P a t r i c i a M a s s o n has been promoted to the position o f head o f the acquisitions department at Brown University. G a r y M a y h o o d has been appointed to the seri­ als record unit at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces. T im M c K im m i e has been named reference li­ brarian with a specialty in agriculture at the New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces. C a t h e r i n e J . M c K i n n e y has been appointed Brady-Green information services librarian at the University o f Texas Health Science C enter at San Antonio. W . B e d e M i t c h e l l has moved to Appalachian State University, in Boone, North Carolina, to be associate librarian for public services. L o c k e M o r r i s e y has been appointed general science librarian at the University o f California, Irvine. S u a d M . M u h a m m a d - G a m a l has joined the staff o f the Olin Library System, Washington Uni­ versity in St. Louis as Islamic Studies librarian. L i n d a M u s s e r has been named head o f the earth and mineral sciences library at Penn State, University Park campus. R i c h a r d N o b l e has been appointed rare book cataloger at Brown University Library. B r i a n O w e n has been appointed senior librar­ ian and analyst at the University o f British Colum­ bia, Vancouver. K e v i n “ W i l l ” O w e n has been appointed micro­ computer systems librarian at the University o f North Carolina, Chapel Hill. C a t h e r i n e P a l m e r has been named humanities librarian at the University o f California, Irvine. J o a n P a r s o n s is the new assistant head o f the biology library at the University o f North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 60 / C & R L News T h o m a s H . P a t t e r s o n is the new associate di­ rector at theW alter Clinton Jackson Library, Uni­ versity o f North Carolina at Greensboro. L y n n e R e d e n b a c h has been appointed circula­ tion and extension librarian at the University o f British Columbia, Vancouver. L o r e t t a J . R i e l l y was recently appointed to the new position o f library instruction coordinator at Oregon State University in Corvallis. D a v i d R e i m e r has been named music cataloger at the University o f British Columbia, Vancouver. J a c q u e l i n e M . S e l l e r s has joined the staff o f the Charles W . Chesnutt Library o f Fayetteville State University, North Carolina as head o f public services. J o h n S i s s o n is now biological science librarian at the University o f California, Irvine. J e a n M . S m i t h has been appointed library direc­ tor and assistant dean for instruction at Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington. D o u g l a s S t e w a r t has joined the staff o f the library at the University o f North Carolina, Chapel Hill as serials cataloger. D i a n e S t i n e has been appointed catalog librar­ ian at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. C o n n i e S a l y e r s S t o n e r has been promoted to associate director o f public services at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. K a r e n S t o r i n S u m m e r h i l l has been selected to fill the humanities reference position at the Uni­ versity o f Idaho Libraiy. R o b i n S u m m e r s is now supervisor o f biblio­ graphic searching in the acquisitions department at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City. F l o y d T h o m a s S w e e t i n g I I I has been appointed head o f circulation and reserves in Hilles Library o f Harvard University. A n n e T a n g u a y has been appointed Supervisor, Hayden Circulation at the Massachusetts Institute o f Technology Libraries. F . N e l l T h o m a s has assumed her duties as head o f circulation services at N ortheastern Illinois University in Chicago. L i n d a T e r h u n e has assumed the new position o f systems librarian at Washington University in St. Louis. J a m e s T e r r y has been head o f access services at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City since O ctober 15. Am y U n d e r h i l l has assumed the position o f reference services librarian at New York Univer­ sity’s Bobst Library in New York City. B e t t y W a y n i c k , formerly monographic series cataloger, has been named microforms cataloger at the University o f North Carolina, Chapel Hill. S u z a n n e W e i n e r has been named assistant li­ brarian in the Engineering and Science Libraries at Massachusetts Institute o f Technology. E l l e n R . W e s t l i n g has been appointed associ­ ate director o f the Francis A. Countway Library o f M edicine at Harvard University. C a r o l W o m a c k has been appointed business librarian at the University o f California, Irvine. W i l l i a m W o n g has been selected to fill a new position as East Asian librarian at the University o f California, Irvine. M i l e s Y o s h i m u r a was appointed reference and collection development librarian at Brown Univer­ sity effective O ctober 15, 1990. Retirements VirA C . H i n d s has retired after 3 0 years with City College, New York. She joined that library in 1970 as ch ie f o f the education and psychology division. Among the achievements o f her career were chairing a committee on reference service for the education and behavioral science section o f A C R L and serving on a Middle States evaluation team that visited the C recibo Technical College of the University o f Puerto Rico. From 1983 to 1989 Hinds served City College as affirmative action officer while continuing some library duties. She continues to serve City College in her retirem ent through her involvement with the faculty develop­ m ent program and remains active as a m em ber o f the Board o f the Foundling Hospital o f New York and a m em ber o f the board o f managers o f the Lincoln Hall Home for Boys. H e l g a M o o d y has retired from the City College Library, New York after 25 years o f service con­ cluded as ch ie f o f the circulation division, reserve and interlibrary loan. Born in Vienna, Austria, Moody attended the Philosophische Fakultaet of the University o f Vienna before receiving her B.A. from the University o f Nebraska. H er M L S is from Pratt, and she did additional graduate work at CCN Y in G erm anic literature and languages. B e ­ fore joining the CCN Y staff she was a junior librar­ ian at the University o f Nebraska, an assistant Advertiser index A m igos.............................................. ..........................43 B allen................................... .............................. 1 B o w k e rA & l......................... .................... insert EBS B ooks.......................... ..........................23 F axon.................................. .................................... 57 I S I......................................... ......9, 29, cover 4 Nat'l Library of Canada . 44 Predicasts........................... ............................15 S a u r ..................................... .................cover 2 W ils o n ................................. ..................cover3 Ja n u a ry 1991 / 61 librarian at Colorado College, and a fellow in the serials department o f the Cohen Library. She re­ ceived a New York Library Club and a Pratt Insti­ tute scholarship. She can look forward to enjoying her homes in the Berkshires, Vienna, and the upper west side o f New York City, according to the news­ letter o f the City College Library. E l d o N e u f e l d retired Septem ber 30 after being music cataloger at the University o f British Colum ­ bia since 1970. Eldo was active in the Music L i­ brary Association which he served both as secre­ tary/treasurer and as president o f the P acific Northwest Chapter. Eldo’s friends are planning to keep up with him through his music, running and cycling. T im o t h y T u n g has retired from the City College Library, New York after 25 years in various posts: chief o f the circulation division, deputy ch ie f o f the reference division, and cataloger. A subject special­ ist in Asian and Chinese materials, Tung worked closely with the Asian Studies Departm ent to build the Library’s collection. H e has had numerous books and magazine articles in Chinese published in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and has trans­ lated books into English for publication here. His articles and book reviews appear frequently in such magazines as Paris Review and New Leader. In addition, he has lectured on American literature and American libraries in several C hinese cities. Deaths H e l e n W e n t w o r t h A z h d e r i a n , longtime head of the reference department at the University of Southern California, died in O ctober. A graduate of the University o f California (Berkeley) Library School, she came to U C LA in 1933 and retired in 1975. She was a lifelong m em ber o f ALA, ACRL, and the Music Library Association. I s a b e l l e F . G r a n t , rare book room librarian at the University o f Illinois, Urbana for many years, died in O ctober at the age o f 94. She was instru­ mental in building the rare book collection and was an expert in the study o f books as physical objects, the literature o f the 17th and 18th centuries, espe­ cially Milton and Miltoniana, and recusant litera­ ture. She came to the U o f I as a student in 1927. C l a y t o n A . S h e p h e r d , professor o f library and information science at Indiana University, died November 2 3 in Bloomington. A native o f W ash­ ington, D .C ., Shepherd had been an associate professor at Indiana University’s School o f Library and Information Science since 1967. Before that, he worked as systems and operations manager and systems analyst for the American Society o f Metals and for the UNIVAC division o f Sp eriy Rand. At Indiana, his research centered on computer appli­ cations in all aspects o f libraries and information centers, particularly the development o f m icro­ computer-based models for automation activities. Shepherd earned his A.B. and master’s degrees from the University o f Maryland and did post­ master’s work at both the University o f Pennsylva­ nia and the American University. ■ ■ Call fo r p o ster sessions Librarians who have dealt with technology as a barrier to information literacy are invited to participate in poster sessions as part o f the A C R L Bibliographic Instruction Section 1991 Program, “Technology as a barrier to Informa­ tion Literacy: Implications for Bibliographic Instruction.” The poster sessions will allow individuals to present how they or their institutions have re­ sponded to institutional or political barriers caused by not having the technology, as well as individual barriers (psychological, gender, cul­ tural) to using the technology. I f you are interested, please send a descrip­ tion o f your proposed poster session to: Mary B eth Allen, 146 Main Library, University o f Ill­ inois, 1408 W est Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 6 1 801; (217) 244-1870. Task fo rce recom m ends in creased paraprofessional participation Increased participation by paraprofessionals has been recom mended by the A C R L Task F orce on Paraprofessionals. Chaired by Sheila D . C reth, University o f Iowa, the task force recom m ended publication o f articles and program planning o f interest to paraprofessionals as well as establishing an award for paraprofessionals. T h e task force also recom m ended encouraging paraprofessional participation in A C R L. Copies o f the report, which was submitted to the A C R L Executive Com m ittee, will b e dis­ tributed to chapters who can best address para­ professional concerns at a local level. Additional copies can be requested by writ­ ing: Paraprofessional in Academic Libraries Report, A CRL, American Library Association, 50 E . Huron St., Chicago, I L 60611.