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 monograph holdings, and will evaluate 
whether the TALON Cooperative Acquisitions 
Program has had a measurable effect on the col­
lections of participating libraries.

NEWS NOTES

• T he C e n t e r  f o r  R e s e a r c h  L i b r a r i e s , 
Chicago, has accepted ownership and managerial 
control of the Foreig n  Newspaper M icrofilm 
Project (FNMP) from the Association of Research 
L ib ra rie s , e ffectiv e January 1. T h e p ro je c t, 
originating at Harvard in 1938, is designed to 
maintain a pool of current foreign newspaper ti­
tles on microfilm and has been housed at the 
Center since 1956. C RL’s absorption of the project

 provides for all present participants, whether 
or not members of the Center, to continue to 
take part in the project; however, no new non­
CRL members may participate without first b e­
coming Center members.

• The U .S. O f f i c e  o f  F o r e i g n  A s s e t s C o n ­
t r o l  has lifted its ban on the importation of 
single copies of published materials from Cuba, 
Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia, according 
to a January issue of the Federal Register. The 
Customs Service can now release to individual or 
institutional addressees any books, newspapers, 
magazines, films, phonograph records, microfilm, 
microfiche, posters, and similar materials pub­
lished in these countries. ■ ■

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PROFILES

D on L .  B o s s e a u , university librarian at the 
University of Hawaii, has been named librarian of 
San Diego State University effective this sum­
mer. He has also served 
as director of libraries 
at E m ory U n iv ersity  
and at the University of 
Texas at El Paso. From 
1966 to 1972 he worked 
at th e U n iv ersity  of 
California, San Diego, 
as assistant university 
lib rarian  and head of 
computer applications.

Prior to his work at 
UCSD, Bosseau was as­
sistant librarian and re­ Don L. Bosseau
search associate at Gen­
eral Atomic in La Jolla
and a research engineer at Allis-Chalmers Nu­
clear Division in Milwaukee. He holds a master’s 
in engineering from the University of Kansas and 
an MLS from the University of Hawaii.

In five years as chief administrator for the col­
lections at the Manoa campus in Honolulu, Bos­
seau has been actively involved in reorganizing 
the library’s structure to accommodate new com­
puter systems.

St e v e n s  W. H i l y a r d  has been appointed uni­
versity librarian at the University of Southern 
Maine, effective July 1. Hilyard was most re­
cently director of the library at Pittsburg State 
University, Kansas, from 1976 to 1982. Prior to 
that he was college librarian at New England Col­
lege (1966-1976), assistant librarian at Grand Val­
ley State Colleges (1965-1966), and administrative

 assistant to the librarian at Bowdoin College 
(1962-1963).

Hilyard recently com pleted most of the re­
quirements for a doctorate in the administration 
of educational media and technology at Boston 
University, and has begun work on a dissertation 
on “educational, experiential, and personality 
characteristics of academic educational media 
directors.” His MLS is from the University of 
Michigan.

He is also involved in consulting, with experi­
ence in the implementation of technology and 
building planning and design.

B r u c e  M. H u r l b e r t  has been named director 
of lib rary  serv ices at Lycom ing C olleg e, 
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, effective February 1.
Prior to this appoint­
ment he was assistant 
director of libraries for 
adm inistration at V ir­
ginia C om m onw ealth 
U n iv ersity , w here he 
had also served as as­
sistant director for the 
academic campus.

From  1968 to 1972 
he held  several p o si­
tions at Florida Atlantic 
U n iv ersity , th e most 
r e c e n t b eing  that of Bruce M. Hurlbert
assistant d ire cto r for 
technical services.

Hurlbert received an MLS from Florida State 
University in 1968.

J ohn G. J a f f e  has been named director of li­
braries at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. Since 
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books lib rarian , and archivist at Sw eet Briar. 
Prior to that he held similar positions at Bryn 
Mawr College Library, Pennsylvania.

Jaffe received an MLS from Villanova Univer­
sity in 1974, as well as a master’s in English in 
1971.

V i r g i n i a  L a c y J o n e s  has been named the first 
director of the new Atlanta University C enter s 
Robert W. Woodruff Library. Since 1967 Jones 
has participated in the 
p lannin g and a s se s s ­
ment of library needs in 
the Atlanta U niversity 
C e n te r , and she now 
will head the planning, 
organizing, and d irect­
ing of the library’s hold­
ings and p ro fessio n al 
services of the consor­
tium institutions in the 
C enter-w id e W oodruff 
Library facility.

In accepting the ap­ Virginia Lacy Jones
p o in tm e n t, she r e lin ­
quished h er du ties as 
dean of the Atlanta University Graduate School of 
Library and Information Studies, a post she has 
held since 1945. She came to the university in 
1939 and joined the teaching staff of the library 
school when it opened in 1941.

Jones holds two bachelor’s degrees from the 
Hampton Institute, an M LS from the University 
of Chicago, and honorary degrees from the Uni­
versity of Michigan and Bishop College. She has 
received both the ALA Melvil Dewey Award and 
the Joseph W. Lippincott Award, and has served 
as editorial consultant for Library Journal.

A l b e r t a  G a y l e  M a y b e r r y  has been named di­
rector of the Zale Library at Bishop College, Dal­
las, effective February 1. She came to Bishop 
from  th e p o sitio n  o f 
p u b lic serv ices l i ­
brarian/liaison for the 
In d u stria l E d u ca tio n  
D iv isio n  o f H ouston 
C om m u n ity  C o lle g e .
Mayberry received her 
M LS from Atlanta Uni­
v e rsity  in 1 9 7 1 , a fte r 
w hich she was ap ­
pointed teacher educa­
tion librarian at Texas 
Southern University.

Sh e serv ed  as a Alberta Mayberry
M ello n -A C R L  L ibrary  
A d m inistration In te rn  
in 1976-1977 at Emory University, where she as­
sisted in the development of collection develop­
ment guidelines and other policies. In 1978 she 
took a position with Ahmadu Bello University in

Zaria, Nigeria, where she served as coordinator of 
campus services and taught courses in the man­
agement of LRC facilities.

K a t h l e e n  J .  M o r e t t o , formerly assistant di­
rector of the Music Library at Yale University, 
has b een  named d irector of the Franklin and 
M arsh all C o lle g e  L i­
brary, Lancaster, Penn­
sylvania, e ffe c tiv e  in 
A pril. H er previous 
library ex p erien ce in ­
cludes consulting work 
for PA LIN ET and posi­
tions as librarian of the 
N otre D am e I n te r n a ­
tional School in Rome, 
assistant music librarian 
at SU N Y -B u ffalo , and 
head of tech n ica l s e r ­
vices at th e P h ila d e l­ Kathleen Moretto
phia College of the Per­
forming Arts.

Moretto holds a master’s degree in musicology 
from the University of Pennsylvania (1977), an 
MLS from Drexel University (1968), and a bache­
lo r’s d eg ree in m usic from th e U n iversity  of 
Pennsylvania.

Sh e was a C o u n cil on L ib ra ry  R eso u rce s 
Academ ic L ibrary M anagem ent In tern  at the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 
1980-1981. She currently serves on the board of 
directors of the Music Library Association as a 
member-at-large, and has been a member of the 
American Musicological Society’s Committee on 
the International Inventory of Musical Sources 
since 1975.

D o y l e  P i c k e t t , form erly vice p resid en t of 
marketing for the Baker & Taylor Company, has 
b een  appointed p resid en t o f U nipub in New 
York. P ic k e tt was r e ­
sponsible for developing 
the Baker & Taylor ap­
proval plan in 1969 and 
since 1976 has focused 
his a tte n tio n  on th e 
need s o f acad em ic l i ­
braries in particular. In 
1978 he worked out the 
scope and ground rules 
w ith A C R L  for th e 
Academ ic or R esearch 
L ib ra ria n  o f th e Y ear 
Award, th e first o f Doyle Pickett
which was presented at 
th e F ir s t  A C R L  Na­
tional Conference in Boston, and has represented 
Baker & Taylor in the presentation of the award 
ever since.

In 1977 P ick ett co-authored (with K athleen 
M cCullough) an Oryx Press m onograph, A p proval



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 Plans and Academic Libraries: An Inter­
pretative Survey. In 1980-1981 he was on the 
advisory board of Technicalities and still serves on 
the advisory board of the Society o f Logistics 
Engineers.

As p resid ent of Unipub he will continue to 
focus on th e  n eed s of acad em ic and sp ecia l 
libraries.

P e g g y  P o r t e r , formerly librarian at Chatham 
College, has been named head librarian of the 
H u n t L ib ra ry , C a rn e g ie -M e llo n  U n iv e rs ity , 
P itts b u rg h . P rio r to taking h e r p o sitio n  at 
Chatham in 1977, Porter spent five years as coor­
dinator of info rm ation  s e rv ice s at A llegheny 
County Community College.

She received a bachelor’s degree in English lit­
erature in 1962 and an M LS in 1965, both from 
the University of Texas at Austin.

Porter has been president of the Pennsylvania 
Library Association’s College Research Division.

APPOINTMENTS

K a t h e r i n e  J .  A d a m s has been appointed as­
sistant head librarian and archivist of the Barker 
Texas History C enter at the Perry-Castañeda Li­
brary, the University of Texas at Austin.

A n t h o n y  J .  A m o d e o  has assumed the position 
of Illinois cooperative conservation librarian at 
M orris L ibrary , Southern Illinois U n iversity, 
Carbondale.

J o h n  W i l l i a m  B e e c h e r  is now head of public 
services of the St. Paul Campus Libraries, Uni­
versity of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities.

A r n e i c e  H i l l i a r d  B o w e n  is now catalog librar­
ian at the D .H . Hill Library of North Carolina 
State University, Raleigh.

L isa C. B r o w a r  has joined the staff of the Vas­
sar College Library, Poughkeepsie, New York, as 
curator of rare books and manuscripts.

L i n d a  B r y s o n  is now consultant for E d u ca­
tional Information Services at the Colorado State 
Library, Denver.

C h r i s t i n e  B u r r o u g h s  has been named assist­
ant director for public services at the University 
of Georgia Libraries, Athens.

Sa n d r a  C . D ow  has been appointed to the staff 
of the Taubman Medical Library at The Univer­
sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

A nn D rain has been appointed acting director 
of Case W estern Reserve Libraries, Cleveland, 
Ohio.

E a r l e  C . F e r g u s o n  has been appointed asso­
ciate director of libraries for the University of 
Manitoba, Winnipeg.

N a n c y  G i b b s  has b een appointed humanities 
cataloging librarian at the Ralph Brown Draughon 
Library, Auburn University, Alabama.

B a r b a r a G l e n d e n n i n g  has been named refer­
e n ce  lib ra ria n  at C alifo rn ia S ta te  U n iv ersity  
Dominguez Hills, Carson.

P e g g y  G r o s s m a n  is th e  new  in fo rm atio n  
science librarian at the University of Texas at 
Austin.

P e t e r  H a i k a l i s  is now assistant d irector for 
readers services at San Francisco State University 
Library, California.

F o r r e s t  A . H a l l  is now reference librarian at 
C alifornia State U niversity D om inguez H ills, 
Carson.

J u l i e  H a n s e n  has joined the reference staff at 
Georgia Southern College Library, Statesboro.

C a r o l y n  H a v e n s  has been  appointed serials 
cataloging librarian at the Ralph Brown Draughon 
Library of Auburn University, Alabama.

B e t h  H o l l e y  has joined the staff of the Origi­
nal Cataloging Department at the University of 
Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.

J o n a t h a n F .  H u s b a n d  has been named reader 
services librarian at the Henry W hittem ore L i­
brary, Framingham State College, Massachusetts.

B r e n d a  L .  J o h n s o n  is now head of the Docu­
m ent D elivery Services/New Jersey  R eference 
Services at the Rutgers University Libraries, New 
Brunswick, New Jersey.

Sc o t t  K ass is the new Instructional Services 
librarian at Florida International University L i­
brary, Bay Vista Campus.

J o h n  K u p e r s m i t h  has been appointed assistant 
for p u b lic s e rv ice s program s at th e  P erry - 
Castañeda Library, the U niversity of Texas at 
Austin.

B r u c e  E a r l e  L a n g d o n  has b een  appointed 
departmental director of Wilson Library, Univer­
sity of Minnesota Libraries-Twin Cities.

G e r a l d  L e i b o w i t z  has been appointed media­
referen ce librarian at Nassau Community C ol­
lege, Garden City, New York.

M a r y C .  M a i d e n  has assumed the position of 
science reference librarian at the University of 
Georgia Science Library, Athens.

M a r k  M a i r e  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at Monmouth College, Illinois.

B a r b a r a  M a r k h a m  has been appointed associ­
ate director for technical services at the Florida 
Institute of Technology Library, Melbourne.

L o r e t t a  K . M e r s h o n  has been appointed as­
sistant head o f the Serials D ep artm en t of the 
D .H . Hill Library at North Carolina University, 
Raleigh.

B a r b a r a  B u r n s M o ra n has joined the faculty 
of the School of Library Science at the University 
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

S usan N e u m a n  is now librarian for the Gradu­
ate S ch o ol o f B u sin e ss at th e U n iv e rsity  of 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

D i a n e  S. N i x o n  has been appointed serials ac­
quisitions librarian at the University of California, 
Santa Barbara.

A l a n  N o u r i e  was appointed Humanities D e ­
partm ent head at the Ralph Brown Draughon 
Library of Auburn University, Alabama.

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librarian at the Bakersfield Library of California 
State College.

R .  B r u c e  P a r h a m  has been appointed Univer­
sity a rc h iv is t at C a lifo rn ia  S ta te  U n iv e rsity  
Dominguez Hills, Carson.

D e b o r a h  R a i k e s  has been appointed personnel
officer at the University o f Delaw are Library, 
Newark.

C y n t h ia  R i c e  has been named Louisiana Room 
referen ce librarian at the University of South­
western Louisiana, Lafayette.

J o h n  J .  R i e m e r  has b een  appointed serials 
cataloger at the University of Georgia Libraries, 
Athens.

F r e d  W .  R o p e r  has b e e n  nam ed associate 
dean o f the School o f L ibrary S cien ce at the 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

D o r o t h y  R o s e n t h a l  is now head of the Circu­
lation D epartm ent of the Florida International
University Library, Tamiami Campus, Miami.

G a r y  R o s s  has b e e n  ap p o in ted  au to m ated
cataloging/ O C LC  co o rd in a to r at th e  P erry - 
Castañeda Library of the University of Texas at 
Austin.

R e i n e r  Sc h a e f f e r  has been appointed director
of the U.S. Air Force Academy Library, Colorado.

L o r r a i n e  S e b o  has b een  appointed govern­
ment documents librarian at Stanford University, 
California.

R e n a t a  V. S h a w  has b een  named assistant
chief of the Prints and Photographs Division of

 

 

 

 

 

the Library of Congress.
R i c h a r d  N. S h a w  has been  appointed non­

print services librarian at the University of the 
South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

P a ts y H a l e y  St a n n  has been appointed interim 
d irector of the Continuing Library Education 
Network and Exchange, Inc. (C L E N E ), Washing­
ton.

J a n e t  S w a n b e c k  has accepted the position of 
head of the Documents Division at Texas A&M 
University Library, College Station.

K a r e n  S w i t t  is the new business referen ce 
librarian at F lo rid a In tern a tio n a l U n iv ersity , 
Tamiami Campus, Miami.

J o h n  T o n g a t e  has been appointed head librar­
ian of the Reference Services Department, Uni­
versity of Texas at Austin.

S usan M. U n g e r  has been appointed assistant 
librarian for technical services at the Jennie King 
Mellon Library, Chatham College, Pittsburgh.

P h i l l i p  W h i t e  has been appointed reference 
librarian for social sciences at the University of 
Texas, Austin.

E . L o u is a W o r t h i n g t o n  is now reference li­
brarian for social sciences, humanities, and health 
sciences at the O’Leary Library, University of 
Lowell, Massachusetts.

P a t r i c i a  L .  W r i g h t  has been named associate 
d ire cto r o f the S w eet B riar C olleg e L ib rary , 
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RETIREMENTS

W i l l i a m  H .  B o n d , librarian of Harvard Col­
lege’s Houghton Library since 1965, will retire on 
June 1. Bond will continue to teach in Harvard’s 
English Department and will also conduct a sem­
inar on bibliography. Bond was curator of manu­
scripts at Harvard from 1948 to 1964, assistant to 
the librarian at Houghton Library 1946-1948, and 
research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library 
in 19 4 1 -1 9 4 2 . In 1981 he was named Sandars 
Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge University.

D o r o t h y  C o o k e  has retired as university li­
brarian at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.

DEATHS

B o g d a n  D e r e s i e w i c z , fo rm er rare book 
cataloger at the University of California, Santa 
Barbara, died in March.

D e n n i s  A l f r e d  G i b s o n , reference librarian at 
th e U n iv e rsity  o f S o u th w e stern  L o u isian a, 
Lafayette, died on November 8 from injuries he 
sustained in an automobile accident.

J a m e s  V i c t o r  J o n e s , d ire c to r o f th e C ase 
W estern R eserve U niversity L ibraries, C le v e ­
land, since 1968, died on February 27. Jones was 
known nationw ide for 
his expertise in library 
organization, m anage­
ment, and planning.

F ro m  1955 to 1966 
he was d ire c to r o f l i ­
braries at Saint Louis 
U n iv e rsity , w h ere he 
plan n ed  th e Pius X I I  
Memorial Library. After 
that he served as direc­
tor of libraries at C leve­
land S ta te  U n iv e rsity  
before coming to Case. James V. Jones

Jo n e s r e c e iv e d  a 
bachelor’s degree from 
John Carroll University in 1949 and an MLS from 
W estern Reserve in 1950. He served as chairman 
of the board of trustees and president of the Ohio 
College Library C enter from 1971 to 1975 and 
aided in the early planning stages of the OCLC 
system.

H a r o l d  L a n c o u r , dean emeritus of the library 
school at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, died 
on October 23 at his home in Vermont.

W i l l i a m  B ,  R e a d y , lib ra ria n  em e ritu s at 
McMaster University, died suddenly in Victoria, 
British Columbia, on Septem ber 12.

J e s s e  H a u k  Sh e r a , dean emeritus of the Baxter 
School of Information and Library Sciences, Case 
W estern Reserve University, died March 8 in

Cleveland at the age of 
78. S h e ra  serv ed  as 
dean o f th e  lib ra ry  
school from  1952 to 
1970, and esta b lish ed  
th e C e n te r  for 
D o cu m en ta tio n  and 
C om m u n ication  R e ­
search th e re  in 1955.
Though he was partially 
b lin d  from  b ir th , he 
was an acknow ledged 
visionary who saw far 
in to th e fu tu re o f his Jesse Shera
profession.

Sh era’s career in li­
brary work began in 1927 when he became an as­
sistant to the librarian at Miami University, Ox­
ford, Ohio. The next year he becam e bibliog­
rapher and research  associate at the Scripps 
Foundation for Research in Population Problems. 
In 1940 he was named chief of the census-library 
project at the Library of Congress to develop a 
collection in population and demography. The 
next year he was appointed deputy chief of the 
C en tral Inform ation Division o f the Office o f 
Strategic Services. He left in 1944 to become as­
sociate librarian at the University of Chicago. In 
1947-1952 he was associate professor at the Uni­
versity of Chicago Graduate Library School.

After his retirem en t from Case W estern he 
served for one year as visiting professor at the 
G raduate L ibrary School o f th e U niversity of 
Texas, returning to Case as dean and professor 
emeritus in 1972.

Among his international honors, Shera served 
as international delegate to the U N ESC O  confer­
ences on International Bibliographic Organization 
and Bibliographic Organization in the Social Sci­
ences in Paris in 1950. The same year he was a 
delegate for the National Science Foundation to 
an international conference on classification at 
Dorking, England. He was also a visiting lecturer 
at the Brazilian Institute for Bibliography and 
Documentation in Rio de Janeiro, at Bangalore, 
India, and at the London School of Librarianship.

His awards have included the Kaula, a gold 
medal from India, the Distinguished Alumnus 
Award from the University of Chicago, the Melvil 
Dewey Award from ALA, the Librarian of the 
Year Award from Ohio Library Association, and 
the Ohioana Award from the Ohioana Founda­
tion.

Shera’s many publications include An Introduc­
tion to Library Science (1976), Foundations o f 
Education f o r  Librarianship (1972), The Com­
pleat Librarian (1970), and Libraries and the Or­
ganization o f Knowledge (1965). He served as 
editor of American Documentation from 1953 to 
1960 and as editor o f Library Q uarterly from 
1947-52. ■ ■