ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 79 Personnel The greatest of our university libraries are in a way beyond envy. They are such astonishing institutions with such enormous resources that a smaller institution would no more envy the libraries at Har­ vard or Yale or Berke­ ley than Greylock would envy Everest. These giants command respect and a certain awe, and everyone wishes them well as they face their special problems. Thus the news that J a m e s E. S k i p p e r will Dr. S kipper become director of li­ braries at the University of California at Berkeley when Donald Coney retires this sum­ mer has been received with satisfaction and pleasure that one of the most distinguished librarians of recent decades will be succeeded by one of the most able of the younger men. At Princeton, where he earned friendship and respect of both staff and faculty in a short year as associate university librarian, regret at his announced departure has been tem­ pered by the obvious rightness of the appoint­ ment. Now forty-seven, Skipper received his under­ graduate degree at the University of North Carolina, where thirty hours a week as a stu­ dent assistant in the library nurtured rather than stifled his decision to become a librarian. After receiving his B S and his MS in library science at Michigan, he took his first regular professional post in 1949 as assistant librarian at Washington and Jefferson College. Then fol­ lowed through the 1950’s appointments of in­ creasing importance at Ohio State and Mich­ igan State in technical services, that admirable area for a firm foundation in librarianship. During this same period he did some teaching and completed work for a PhD in library sci­ ence at the University of Michigan, awarded in 1960. In 1959 he went to the University of Connecticut as director of libraries. In 1962 the Association of Research Librar­ ies decided to enlarge its membership, to open a regular office, and to engage a full­ time executive secretary. To the first chairman of the ARL under the new constitution fell the task of recruiting the executive secretary. He remembers the initial worries of the Exec­ utive Board lest no outstanding librarian would risk a post of unknown potential with an es­ sentially new organization and their eventual pleasure when Skipper, their first choice, was willing to accept the risk. The success of the ARL in its new incarnation has been to a considerable extent the result of Skipper’s clear vision and his quick grasp of the special world of Washington. In four years he made the ARL secretariat a post which can attract the most able members of the profession. Hav­ ing achieved this, he resigned to return to the campus, accepting appointment as associate university librarian at Princeton, where he took up his duties in the spring of 1967. Throughout his career he has been actively involved in the essential technical details of librarianship, serving as chairman and member of a variety of committees of state, national, and international professional associations. In 1963-64 he was president of the Resources and Technical Services Division of ALA, and he is now chairman of the important ARL Com­ mittee on Automation. At ARL he broadened his international contacts and experience as a delegate to IF L A conferences in Sofia, Rome, Helsinki, T he Hague, and Toronto, and as a participant in other international gatherings. He has been active as a consultant on library buildings and administration, working with more than a dozen institutions. This is a course of study and experience, added to his native imagination, energy, in­ tegrity, and scholarly tastes, which seems to have been admirably designed to equip James E . Skipper to direct one of the great libraries of the world.—W illiam S. Dix, P rince­ ton University. A P P O I N T M E N T S R o d n e y E . C h r i s t e n s e n is a new member of the social science library staff in the Uni­ versity of Oregon. G e o r g e A. C o l t o n has been appointed chief of the general information and circula­ tion department, in the John Crerar library, Chicago. D i a n e C o t h r e n was appointed cataloger in the medical library of the University of Virginia. M a t t h e w C u l l e n joined the staff of the Southern Oregon College library on January 2, as documents and reference librarian. E l e a n o r e D o w l i n g is the new music librar­ ian of the State University of New York, Stonybrook. F r a n c e s A. E u b a n k is now documents li­ brarian, University of W est Florida. B a r b a r a G . F i s h e r is university archivist in the University of Oregon library. 80 M a r i a G a l l o has been appointed librarian of the Kenosha County Center library, the University of Wisconsin, Kenosha. C h e o n g - C h o r G a n has joined the catalog­ ing staff of the library at State University Col­ lege, Fredonia, New York. N o r m a n F. G r a h a m has recently been ap­ pointed associate director for public services, University of West Florida libraries. J . R i c h a r d H e i n z k i l l is the recently ap­ pointed humanities librarian in the University of Oregon. E u g e n e A. H o e r a u f has joined the staff of the University of Oregon library as map room assistant. P a u l J a c k s o n has been appointed to the position of performing arts librarian, Kresge library, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich. R o b e r t T. J o r d a n joined the staff of the new Federal City College, Washington, D.C., as director of media services. His initial work will involve the establishment of a library for the college, which was established by Con­ gressional action in 1966. M r s . M . H e a t h e r K e a t e has joined the science library staff in the University of Oregon. C h a r l e s P . K i m b a l l , J r . , is assistant refer­ ence librarian, University of West Florida. M r s . G e r t r u d e L e e joined the library staff in the State University of New York at Stony­ brook as assistant cataloger, in January. H e a t h e r M a c A l p i n e , assistant librarian in the physical sciences division, Oklahoma State University, has been promoted to head of the general reference department. J o y c e E l i z a b e t h M o b l e y was appointed, effective February 5, the assistant cataloging librarian of the University of South Alabama, Mobile. T h o m a s J . M o r r i s o n , J r . , is periodicals li­ brarian in University of West Florida. J a m e s N . M y e r s has been appointed ac­ quisitions librarian, Kresge library, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich. M r s . E l l a J . N e w b e r g is catalog librarian in the University of Oregon. R o n a l d J. N i m m e r has become head ac­ quisitions librarian, Center System library, the University of Wisconsin, Madison. M r s . E l i z a b e t h L. O r b is a recently ap­ pointed catalog librarian in the University of Oregon. E l i z a b e t h H . P e e l e b has been named as- n m a m e m a t i c s b o o k s R E P R O D U C E D F U L L - S I Z E B Y D U O P A G E e S en d for 32-p ag e catalog lis tin g o u t-o f-p r in t m ath e m a tic s books a v a ila b le in m a n y la n g u a g e s . w C a ta lo g a ls o in c lu d e s i n fo rm a tio n on how you can now o btain th e o t h e r h a r d -to - g e t b o o k s you need. M I C R D P H O T O DIVISION 1700 SH A W AVE. C LE V E LA N D , O H IO 44112 W R IT E T O D A Y F O R F R E E C A T A L O G : B e l l & H OWEll 81 sociate director for technical services, Univer­ sity of West Florida libraries. C o n s t a n c e P e n t a has become assistant li­ brarian in charge of technical services at Siena College. F r e d M. P e t e r s o n has been named assistant to the director, Iowa State University library, effective Feb. 1. L u c y A n n e P o u c h e r has been appointed head cataloger of Southern Oregon College library. J u d i t h P r o c t o r is serials cataloger in Ohio University libraries. F e l i c e R . ( H a h n ) R e i s l e r has become li­ brarian of the Fox Valley Center library, the University of Wisconsin, Menasha. J o a n n e V. R h o d e s is a new science library staíf member in the University of Oregon. M u r r a y R o g o f s k y has been appointed spe­ cial assistant for technical information systems at the Naval Oceanographic Office, Suitland, M d . A d a m S e b e s t y e n is acquisitions librarian, Ohio University. M r s . L a n a W a r r e n S t a n l e y is cataloging librarian in the University of West Florida. L i a n H w a N i o T h e is Southeast Asia librar­ ian at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. G e r h a r d M. V a s c o has joined the staff of the library of the State University of New York at Stonybrook, as a subject specialist. M a r i o n V i c c a r s is now assistant reference librarian in the University of West Florida. M r s . N o l a L. W o l f is assistant documents librarian in the University of Oregon. B i l l M. W o o d s has been named executive director of Engineering Index. Mr. Woods was executive director of the Special Libraries As­ sociation from 1959 to 1967. M r s . H u i - t z e W a n g Y a n i s reference room librarian in the University of Oregon. M r s . D o r o t h y D. S. Yu has received ap­ pointment as serials cataloger, Drexel Institute of Technology libraries, effective January 16. R E T I R E M E N T S H e n r y E . C o l e m a n , J r . , is retiring after serving as head librarian of Washington and Lee University for the past twenty years. N E C R O L O G Y C e l i a H a u c k , associate director of libraries in Marquette University, died on January 31. M r s . W a l t e r H a u s d o r f e r , retired librarian of the school of nursing in the University of Pennsylvania, died on January 31. 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