ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 96 Personnel Edward M. Heiliger is now chief of library sciences in United Aircraft’s Corporate Systems Division located in Farmington, Conn. He is a senior scientist re­ sponsible to the vice president for engineer­ ing. Starting date on the new assignment was March 13. Ed has had a varied and interesting career, in fact, three careers; one as a college li­ brarian for seven years at Wayne State Uni­ versity, one as an international librarian in Nicaragua, Chile, Mr. Heiliger Mexico, and with the Department of State. His third career has been perhaps the most interesting of the three— pioneering in the application of data processing techniques to library operations. This has led to his present assignment with United Aircraft. His formal education includes an AB in history from the College of the Pacific ( 1933), a BS in LS from Denver (1935), and an MA in history from Denver (1941). He was a junior assistant at Detroit public library; assistant librarian at Wayne; director of the American library of Nicaragua at Ma­ nagua; director-advisor, Universidad de Chile at Santiago; head, program management, over­ seas libraries, U.S. Department of State, Wash­ ington; director, Benjamin Franklin library, Mexico City; associate director, New York state library; director, University of Illinois library at Chicago; and director of library and in­ formation retrieval services at Florida Atlantic University. Ed has always been active in both profes­ sional and community affairs. He was recently president of the Boca Raton public library board and of the Boca Raton library association; a Rotarian; chairman of the ALA-RSD Informa­ tion Retrieval Committee; a board member of the National Educational Associates for Re­ search and Development, Inc.; chairman of SLA’s Committee on Document Reproduction. He has also been active in many ALA and other committees dealing with library and cultural relations between the United States and Latin America. Concurrently with his li­ brary work, he has had numerous teaching assignments in history and in library science. He is the author of many articles in the li­ brary literature, the translator into Spanish of “Codigo para Clasificadons,” a co-author of “Catalogacion Clasificacion” and of “Advanced Data Processing in the University Library.” In beginning his work of applying data processing techniques to library procedures at Illinois, Ed had the advantage of having taught most phases of library work (in Spanish!). This gave him a thorough knowledge and an analytic approach to library problems which assisted greatly in the necessary systems de­ velopment and in the use of hardware as an­ other tool in achieving the library’s goals. It has been characteristic of his work, both at Illinois and at Florida Atlantic, that the tools have been used to accomplish program ob­ jectives rather than to impose new techniques which distort objectives and service. Because of this, his work has been marked by a prac­ ticality often missing from computer applica­ tions.—Paul Howard. Irlene Roemer Stephens is the chief li­ brarian, with the rank of professor, of the new graduate unit of the City University of New York—Richmond Col­ lege, to be located on Staten Island. She is now active in recruit­ ing a staff and in de­ veloping book, period­ ical, and audiovisual collections for the li­ brary of the college, which will open next September. Richmond College will be the fifth major unit of the City University of New Mrs. Stephens York, the others being the City College of New York, and Hunter, Brooklyn, and Queens colleges. A sixth college is also being planned. Mrs. Stephens has earned a bachelor’s de­ gree with chemistry and biology majors, a master’s degree in education from Rutgers Uni­ versity, and a master’s degree from the school of library service, Columbia University (1953). She has completed her course work and quali­ fying examinations for the doctorate at Colum­ bia, and is presently working on her disserta­ tion. She also has taken advanced work in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and sta­ tistics. She comes to her new position immediately from Columbia, where she was a teaching as­ sistant and associate in library service in the fields of technical services and cataloging and classification during 1965-66. Prior to that she was director of the South Orange ( N.J.) public library. Earlier positions included directorships of the libraries of Bristol-Myers and the Cela- 97 nese Corporation of America. She was a bio­ chemist and assistant to the director of re­ search at Schering Corporation. She has taught chemistry at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. She is the author of many articles and parts of books on pharmacology, biochemistry, for­ eign and domestic patents, nomenclature, spe­ cial vocabularies in various fields, literature searching, technical writing, indexing and ab­ stracting, and other areas. She has been a consultant to technical, medical, and other scientific agencies, and has been active in li­ brary and scientific associations. During the past two years she has worked with the writer of this sketch on a variety of projects, including surveys of college, university, public, state, and special libraries, as well as co-editing a U.S. Office of Education project, Conference on the Use of Printed and Audio- Visual Materials for Instructional Purposes (is­ sued last fall), and the forthcoming volume, Library Surveys (papers presented at a con­ ference at Columbia in 1965), which will be published by the Columbia University Press in May of this year. This conference was co­ sponsored by the ACRL Committee on Li­ brary Surveys. Mrs. Stephens assumes her new assignment facing a complete spectrum of problems, but her experience in resources development and evaluation, technical services, readers’ needs and services, building programs, and general trends in information storage and retrieval should stand her in good stead. With her strong background, a cordial personality, scholarly out­ look, ability in getting along with and super­ vising people, a great sense of responsibility, and amazing industry, Richmond College has found a librarian who may very well accomplish an impossible task.—Maurice F. Tauber. Lloyd F. Wagner assumed the position of director of libraries at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in January. Wag­ ner, after having had preprofessional experi­ ence at the Cleveland public library and at the Columbia Univer­ sity medical library, was inducted into the Armed Forces in 1941, where he attained the rank of Sergeant Tech­ nician, 4th Grade, 187th Field Artillery Group Headquarters. He participated in the Mr. Wagner European campaign from Omaha Beach to Czechoslovakia. While still in the Army, he returned to England to attend the Shrivenham American University, where he was able to tour English libraries under the sponsorship of the U.S. Army pro­ gram. He also served for a time as an observer of library administration at Liverpool Uni­ versity. Returning to the United States in 1946, he completed his Bachelor of Arts in political science at Lafayette College, where he assisted in the college library, receiving first hand awareness of student needs. While in college, he was active in numerous student ac­ tivities including debating, dramatics, and col­ lege publications. In 1950, he received the de­ gree of MSLS from Catholic University. Then began a series of positions of increasing re­ sponsibility: acquisitions librarian at Iona Col­ lege; reference librarian at the Army library in the Pentagon; and extensive documentation, bibliographic, and supervisory experience at the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1958 to 1965, he was supervisor of the Whippany li­ brary, Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. Here his experience was enriched through association with imaginative and cre­ ative fellow supervisors and was provided with an unusual opportunity for a background in library systems development, machine appli­ cations to library problems, and work in depth with scientific and technical literature. In 1966, Wagner became chief of the library services division of the Federal Aviation Agency in Washington. He has always been active on numerous Special Libraries Association com­ mittees, served as a director of the New Jersey Chapter in 1965, and is currently serving on the committee to review SLA publications. Mr. Wagner assumes the direction of an important university library system at a time when automation for library data processing is assuming great importance. His previous experience will enable him to give the library imaginative leadership.—Thos. P. Fleming. A P P O IN T M E N T S Christine I. Andrew has been named refer­ ence assistant in the documents division of Yale University library. Kathleen M. Ansell has joined the staff of Hamilton library at Edinboro State College ( Pa.) as an assistant cataloger. Mrs. Marilyn H. Arnold has been named assistant head of the technical department, Newberry library. Virginia Ashley has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in the William R. Perkins library of Duke University. Mrs. Lois Bebout joined the University of Houston library staff as documents librarian on January 1. Mrs. Barbara Bell is reference assistant in Yale University library. Diana Blake joined the library staff of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., as adminis­ trative librarian, in February. Mbs. E strella Bryant is now cataloging assistant in the South East Asia collection, Yale University. John P. Burnham has been appointed as librarian of the numismatic collection, Yale University library. Mrs. Eileen Bush is order librarian in the Yale University divinity library. Jerry F. Cao has been appointed head of the government documents department at the University of Iowa libraries. Jennifer Cargill joined the University of Houston library staff as assistant acquisitions li­ brarian on February 10. Kenneth W. Carroll has been appointed director of the clearinghouse of Harvard’s Cen­ ter for Research and Development on Educa­ tional Differences. He also is assistant librarian of the Harvard graduate school of education. Phyllis S. Cassler has accepted appoint­ ment as a reference librarian in the Oberlin College library as of Feb. 1. Madeleine C. Chen is a new cataloger in the East Asia collection, Yale University li­ brary. Polly Chiu has been appointed assistant serials cataloger in Texas A&M library effective Feb. 27. Carol Christensen became head catalog li­ brarian at Colorado College on Jan. 2. John Cook, director of Air University’s In- COLLEGE LIBRARIAN VACANCY Assistant to Chief Librarian Instructor rank. A.L.A. accredited; Li­ brary degree required. Liberal vacations and other academic holidays. Salary $7,700 plus benefits. Position begins September 1967. Send complete résumé to: Box CR 856, 125 W. 41 St. NY, NY 10036 An Equal Opportunity Employer stitute of Technology library, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, has been appointed staff officer in charge of the entire Air Force library program with duty station at Randolph Air Force Base, Tex. Mrs. Marie Copeland has been transferred to the circulation department of University of Kentucky libraries and is now serving as depart­ ment head. James L. Craig has been named assistant librarian, administration, Yale University li­ brary. Paul T. Culley joined the staff of the South Dakota school of mines and technology library on Feb. 1, as assistant librarian for cataloging. Joyce Davis has been named cataloger in the William R. Perkins library of Duke Uni­ versity. R. Charles E llsworth joined the staff of Queen’s University library, Kingston, Ont., on March 15, as head of the reference and re­ search division. Ralph E sterquest, librarian of the medical library at Harvard University, has been engaged as consultant in the planning for a new library at the University of Miami school of medicine. Marcia Goodman has been named assistant librarian in the State University of New York at Binghamton, cataloging department. Balfour Halévy has been appointed librari­ an of the law library of York University, effec­ tive March 1. Alexis A. Hrycuk is a newly appointed staff member for technical processes in Queen’s Uni­ versity, Kingston, Ont. Mary Irvine was recently appointed catalog­ er in Newberry library. Mrs. Di Duan Jong is a new cataloger in the East Asia collection of Yale University library. Daniel S. Kalk has been appointed head cataloger and head, cataloging section of the medical library in Yale University library. Aletha Kowγγz joined the staff of the Archi­ bald Church medical library, Northwestern University, Chicago, as periodicals librarian and instructor in medical bibliography on March 1. Robert A. Lamb II has been appointed head of reserve book service, Northwestern Univer­ sity. On March 6, David O. Lane joined the staff of the ALA Office for Research and Develop­ ment as director of the acquisitions study. Mrs. Ann Liivak joined the staff of Drexel Institute of Technology on Feb. 1, as general reference librarian. Ben-Ami Lipetz has been named head of the research department, Yale University li­ brary. Mrs. Joan Marcia Maier has been appoint­ ed data collector and systems analyst for the Colorado Book Processing Project at the Uni­ versity of Colorado library. Her duties begin April 1. 98 Susan Martin has joined the staff of the Linda Hall library as an assistant in acquisitions and reference. Gertrude Merritt has been named assistant librarian for technical services in Duke Uni­ versity. Bonnie L. Meyer has joined the staff of Air University library as a books cataloger. Arthur Miller has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in Newberry library. Anne Okoniewski is now assistant librarian in the acquisitions department, State University of New York at Binghamton. James H. Olsen has been promoted to as­ sistant librarian-readers’ service, Lehigh Uni­ versity library. Virginia Parker became chief medical li­ brarian of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., in January. Theodore D. Phillips became assistant chief librarian of Queen’s University in Kingston, O n t., in January. L. Dolores Ryan has been appointed under­ graduate librarian in the Cleveland State Uni­ versity libraries. Elizabeth See is now reference librarian in the art library, Yale University. Helen M. Smith has been named serials librarian in Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont. Susan Sonnet is now a cataloger in the mu­ sic library, Yale University. Mrs. Susan G. Swartzburg is CTUW proj­ ect librarian in the circulation department, Yale University library. ■ ■ R E T IR E M E N T S Madeleine Brown has retired as serials cataloger in the medical library of Yale Uni­ versity. Leon Nemoy, curator of Hebrew and Arabic literature in Yale University library, retired early his year. Colton Storm retired on December 1 as head of the department of special collections, Newberry library. N E C R O L O G Y Rev. Andrew Bouwhis, S.J., formerly Ca­ nisius College librarian, died January 23 in Buffalo. He served the college from 1935-55, when he left to head St. Peter’s College library, Jersey City, N.J. In 1960 he left St. Peter’s to direct the Le Moyne College library in Syra­ cuse, and in 1962 he was appointed rector and president of Bellarmine College in Plattsburg, where he served until 1965. 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