ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 310 / C&RL News and special equipment including a Perkins Brailer and a speed synthesizer. •The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, in partnership with the University Computing Center, opened a new Computerized Learning and Information Center in February. Students, faculty and staff can use the Center’s equipment to access information via computer workstations and related equipment. Computer-assisted instruction programs involving software that aids skill devel opment are being emphasized. Faculty are encour aged to deposit “reserve” copies of their own pro­ grams or com m ercially purchased softw are (within copyright limitations). The C LIC features 80 workstations incorporating IBM and Macintosh PCs as well as dumb terminals, dot matrix and la ser printers, and nine PLATO terminals. •The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio now offers access to the Microme- dex Corporation’s Computerized Clinical Infor­ mation System. The CCIS database contains infor m ation on drugs, poisonings, and emergency treatment through the D RUGDEX, POISINDEX, and EM ERG IN DEX files, and is available to au thorized users of the library’s VAX system at any li brary terminal. CCIS is generally located in hospi tals and emergency centers. P EO P L E Profiles MARY L OU GOODYEAR, assistant director for in struction and research services at the Auraria L i brary of the University of Colorado, has been ap pointed assistant direc tor for public services at Iowa State University, Ames. Goodyear’s accom plishments at the Auraria Library have included the implementation of a cooperative online pub lic access catalog, a con tinuing program of staff development for supervi sors, and an organization development planning Mary Lou Goodyearproject for library fac ulty. She also initiated a document delivery service for students and faculty. A graduate of Graceland College (1974), Good year received an MLS (1975) and a master’s degree in public administration (1981) from the Univer sity of Missouri. She will receive a doctorate in pub lic administration from the University of Colorado this year. From 1981 to 1983 Goodyear was head of the Reference Department at Wichita State University and was previously a referen ce lib ra ria n (1979-1981) at Stephens College and at the Univer sity of Missouri (1976-1979). She has been a library consultant and has authored articles in several pro fessional journals and given presentations. PAUL H . MOSHER, deputy director of libraries at Stanford University since 1985, has been named vice provost and director of the library system at the University of Penn sylvania, Philadelphia. At Penn, Mosher will be responsible for a system encom passing 15 l i braries containing more than three million vol umes. Mosher joined the staff at Stanford in 1975 as assistant director for collection development and later became direc­ tor for collection devel­ Paul H. Mosheropment and director for research services. He was assistant professor of history at the University of Washington from 1966 to 1975, serving as chair man of its Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group. Mosher has also spent many summers as visiting professor at Trinity College’s Rome, Italy, campus. A regular lecturer in Stanford’s Religious Studies Program, Mosher has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a Fulbright-Hays Sen ior Research Scholarship in Italy (1971), and the Blackwell North America Scholarship for the best article in the area of library resources (1984). MLS—160 People, 27 Years of Service to Libraries Jay Askuvich Scott Schmidt Carl Dorr General Sales Midwest Southeast Manager Lawrence Nagel Forrest Link Kim Anderson Lorraine Best West Northeast M ountain Plains Canada Midwest Library Service 11443 St. Charles Rock Road Bridgeton, MO 63044, USA Call toll-free 1-800-325-8833 Missouri librarians call toll-free 1-800-392-5024 Canadian librarians call toll-free 1-800-527-1659 312 / C&RL News Mosher is a member of the ALA Planning Com mittee, the Resources and Technical Services D ivi­ sion’s Publications C om m ittee, and the R T SD Nominating Committee, of which he was chair man for 1983-1984. J . D a n i e l V a n n I I I , executive director of li braries and learning resources at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, since 1981, has been named director of library ser vices at B lo o m sb u rg University of Pennsylva nia. An 1957 graduate of the University of North C a r o lin a , V an n has m a s te r’s (1 9 5 9 ) and Ph.D . (1965) degrees in history from Yale Uni versity, an M LS (1971) from Emory University, and has also pursued ad vanced study at Teach J. Daniel Vann IIIers C ollege, C olum bia University, and postdoc toral work at Stanford University. Vann has led library automation and building efforts as director of the Baptist College at Charles ton (1966-1969), Keuka College (1969-1971), and at S ta te n Isla n d C o m m u n ity College/CU N Y (1971-1976), where he later became professor of li brary science (1976- 1979). Vann was appointed head librarian of the Lockwood L ibrary at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979 and was appointed assistant director for planning the following year. Prior to his library career, which began as a bib liographer for European history and literature at the Newberry Library, Vann taught European his tory at several liberal arts colleges. Active on professional boards and committees, V an n has been an A C R L B o a rd m em ber (1976-1978) and has served on the Choice Editorial Board (1977-1978) and as a member of the Aca demic/Research L ib ra ria n of the Year Award Committee (1978), the Conference Program Plan ning Committee (1977-78), the Membership Com mittee (chair, 1978-1980), and the Standards and Accreditation Committee (1984-1986). He has also been chair of the Community and Junior College Libraries Section (1977-1978), and held a variety of C JC L S positions from 1973 to 1983. Vann is also a member of several other ALA D i visions and has served on numerous library and university committees. WINSTON TABB, chief of the Inform ation and Reference Division of the Copyright Office at the Library of Congress, Washington, D .C ., has been appointed chief of the Loan Division, effective March 14. He succeeds Olive Jam es, who is now li­ brary director at San Francisco State University (see C &RL News, October 1987, p. 575). T abb came to the Library of Congress in 1972 as a participant in the Library’s Intern Program for outstanding library school graduates. Upon com pletion, he worked as a reference specialist in the Congressional Research Service, becom ing con gressional research adm inistrator (1 9 7 4 -1 9 7 5 ). T abb was subsequently appointed team leader of the Congressional Reading Room and in 1977 be came administrator of CAS’s Inquiry Section. The following year he was appointed assistant chief of the Library’s General Reading Rooms Division, and has served as chief of the Information and Ref erence Division since 1984. Appointed vice chair of the Management and Planning Committee in January of this year, Tabb has also served as chairman of the Librarian’s Task Force Subcommittee on Services to Staff (1976). He received Meritorious Service Awards in 1980 and 1987 and has consistently earned outstanding per formance ratings since 1978. An ALA member, T abb is also a member of Beta Phi Mu and the Dis trict of Columbia Library Association. T abb is a 1963 magna cum laude graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and holds a master’s degree in American literature from Harvard Uni versity (1964) and an M LS from Simmons College (1972). He has also been Harvard’s director of sum mer admissions and served with the U.S. Army during 1966-1968. People in the News N. BERNARD BASCH, president of Turner Sub scriptions, New York City, has been appointed to the National Council for the Olin Library of W ash ington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The Na tional Library Council will be chaired by a mem ber of the University’s Board of Trustees and will include people whose expertise and experience will help guide the library system into the next century. The Council plans to review both current and fu ture library programs. TONI CARBO BEARMAN, dean of the School of L i brary and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been appointed to the U .S. Commerce Departm ent’s Advisory Com mittee on Patents and Trademarks. Bearman will join 16 others in advising the Patent and Tradem ark Office on a broad range of policy matters re lating to both domestic and foreign issues. DAVID A. DAY, music lib ra ria n at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake C ity, Utah, is the third recipient of the Music Library Association’s W alter Gerboth Award, intended to support re search by a member in the first five years of his or her career. Day is preparing an annotated catalog of the printed and manuscript opera and ballet col lection of the Théâtre de la Monnaie, housed at the Archives de la ville in Brussels. S oftw are For Access To The Wilson Databases D ire c t A cc e s s Pay As L ittle As for Y our P atro n s— N o w A vailable ONE DOLLAR Per R eady R e fe re n c e fo r You for Apple or IB M S earch! M enu-driven W ILSEARCH Com puters WILSEARCH is priced to software makes electronic meet the needs and budgets inform ation retrieval a real The same easy-to-use, afford of libraries of all types and alternative to traditional refer able WILSEARCH service is sizes. W h ile you can use ence sources. 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In New York State call ■ Over 80,000 books 1-800-462-6060; in Canada cataloged annually W ll Sf ARC H IS A TRADEMARK OF IMF MAY W ll SON C O M PAN Y. call collect 212-588-8400. ■ A total of more than 1 9 87 THE H .W . W ll SON C O M PAN Y. 3 m illio n records to date! ‹ COPYRIGHT 1985. APPl F ('C)MPUTf-R. INC. IBM IS A KF C»IST F RE I) TRADEMARK OF IN TER N ATIO N A! BUSINESS MAC FIINFSC OR PC ›RATIO N. Bl T H E H .W . W IL S O N C O M P A N Y 950 U n ive rsity Ave., Bronx, N ew York 10452 • (212) 588-8 4 0 0 314 / C&RL News ELLEN GAY DETLEFSEN, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and ALA executive director THOMAS J . GALVIN, former SLIS dean, have received a 1988 George Eliot Prize for co-authoring an article on health science and biomedical librarianship. The article, “Education for the Health Sciences/Biomedical Librarianship: Past, Present, and Future,” appeared in the April 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. The prize is administered annually by the Login Brothers Book Company for the most outstanding contribution to the field of medical li brarianship. IRENE B . HOADLEY, director of the library at Texas A&M University, College Station, is the first holder of a newly endowed chair for the director ship, funded by Sterling C. Evans, for whom the library is named, and by John and Sara Lindsey of Houston. Hoadley has been director at Texas A&M for the past 14 years. Another chair, also endowed by Evans and the Lindseys, will be held by Frank E. Vandiver, who will relinquish the presidency of the university later this year. JOHN P . MC GOWAN, university librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, has been installed as the first recipient of the newly en dowed Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Chair of Research Librarianship. McGowan was named university librarian in 1971. He had served in the Technological Institute Library at North western from 1956 to 1959 and then as director at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia before re turning to Northwestern as associate university li brarian. A past president of the ALA’s Reference and Adult Services Division, McGowan has also served as chair of the Board of Governors of the Re search Libraries Group, and currently chairs the conference of library directors representing the in stitutions that form the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. He was instrumental in the creation of NOTIS, Northwestern’s highly successful auto mated system, and has authored and presented many papers on library automation and informa tion technology. SAMUEL ROTHSTEIN, professor in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, has re ceived the 1988 Award for Outstanding Profes sional Contributions to Library and Information Science Education from the Association for L i brary and Information Science Education. The award was presented at the annual ALISE confer ence in San Antonio, Texas. HAROLD B . SHILL, Evansdale librarian and asso ciate professor of library science at West Virginia University, Morgantown, has received the 17th an nual Dora Ruth Parks Award for Outstanding Ser vice to Libraries and Librarianship in West Vir ginia. The award was given primarily for Shill’s contributions as federal regulations coordinator for the West Virginia Library Association, a post he has held since 1973. Shill is chair of the ACRL Leg islation Committee and the ALA Legislation As­ sembly. ARLENN SOMERVILLE, head of science and engi neering libraries and chemistry librarian at the University of Rochester, New York, is the 1988 chairman of the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society. Somerville is the first academic librarian to be elected an officer in the Division. She participated in the 8th Interna tional Conference on Computers in Chemical Re search in Education held in Beijing in June, 1987, and was invited to lecture at the Institute of Photo graphic Chemistry in Beijing on the topic of search ing computerized chemical databases. Appointments (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) DENA ADAMS has been appointed assistant librar ian for science and engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. CARL A. ANDERSON is the new assistant director for technical and automated services at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania. TTERRY K . BASFORD is now head of the Humani ties D ivision at O klah om a S ta te U niversity, Stillwater. AIMME A L G IR BAXTER is now Latin American serials cataloger in the Cataloging Department at the University of Texas at Austin. SUSAN BECK has been appointed head of catalog ing at the University of Texas Health Science Cen ter, San Antonio. E l i z a b e t h B e d f o r d is now cataloger in the Law Library at the University of Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania. NANCY BIERSCHENK is now administrative proj ects librarian at the University of Texas Health Sci ence Center, San Antonio. TYRONE H . CANNON has been appointed head of the Social Sciences Division at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. STEVEN CARTER- LOVEJOY has been appointed head of circulation and reserves at Virginia Com monwealth University, Richmond. KATHARINE CHIBNIK is now head of access and support services in the Avery Library at Columbia University, New York City. DORIS H . CHRISTON is now special projects coordi nator in the Gutman Library at Harvard Univer sity, Cambridge, Massachusetts. CATHERINE D . COLLINS is now project librarian in the Loeb Library at Harvard University, Cam bridge, Massachusetts. MAUREEN S. CONNORS has been appointed refer ence librarian/social sciences liaison at George Ma­ May 1988 / 315 son University, Fairfax, Virginia. D o n n a C r o m e r has been appointed assistant li brarian for science and engineering at the Univer­ sity of New Mexico, Albuquerque. C a r y D a n i e l is now cataloger at Harvard Uni versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts. E d m u n d P . E d m o n d s is now law librarian at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana. G e r a l d i n e E i s e n r e r g has been appointed head, audiovisuals and serials, at Hahnemann Uni versity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. N a n c y E . E l k in g t o n is now assistant to the as sistant director for technical services at the Univer­ sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. L in d a E l l i s is the new director of the Museum Studies program at San Francisco State University, California. D a p h n e E s t w i c k has been appointed reference librarian in the Business Library at Columbia Uni versity, New York City. M i c h a e l E . F in e m a n is now bibliographer for science and engineering at Johns Hopkins Univer sity, Baltimore, Maryland. K a t h e r i n e G ib r o n s has been appointed medi cal reference librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. R o d n e y K . G o in s has been appointed associate head of the Acquisitions Department at Massachu setts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Susan D . G o l d n e r has been appointed catalog/ reference librarian at the University of Arkansas/ Pulaski County Law Library, Little Rock. M a r y E . H a r r in g t o n is now assistant curator of printed books at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. M a r y E . H o g u e has been appointed reference and government documents management librar ian at th e S ta te U n iv ersity of New York at Binghamton. G e n e v a H o l l i d a y is now collection develop ment librarian in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York City. D a v id H u n t e r has been appointed music librar ian at the University of Texas at Austin. M a r y E l i z a b e t h J o h n s o n is now assistant li brarian for economics and business at the Univer sity of New Mexico, Albuquerque. C a r o l J o i n e r has been appointed assistant li­ brarian for reference at the University of New Mex­ ico, Albuquerque. S c o t t K o z i o l has been appointed newspaper cataloger for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Project at the University of Pittsburgh. K e r r y L . K r e s s e is the new head of the Physics Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. K i m r e r l y L a ir d has been appointed informa tion services librarian in the Health Sciences L i­ brary at the University of Illinois at Chicago. M a r j o r i e L a w r e n c e has been appointed cata­ loger in the Cataloging Department at the Univer­ sity of Texas at Austin. J u d y Me Q u e e n has been appointed senior con­ sultant at Information Systems Consultants, In c., Washington, D .C . J a n i c e M a t t h i e s e n has been appointed rare book cataloger in the Technical Services Depart­ ment at the University of California, Los Angeles. D ia n a N o r t h r u p has been appointed assistant librarian for science and engineering at the Univer­ sity of New Mexico, Albuquerque. P a t t i O g d e n is the new head of reference and faculty services in the Law Library at the Univer­ sity of Houston, Texas. J u d i t h O l s e n has been appointed assistant ref­ erence librarian at Villanova University, Pennsyl­ vania. A n d r e w H . P e r r y is now assistant director for systems management at the State University of New York at Binghamton. C a r l o s E . P o l i t has been appointed L atin American studies librarian at Ohio State Univer­ sity, Columbus. Sa l l y R o g g ia has been appointed instructor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madson. A m e l i a R o k ik i is now information services li­ brarian in the Countway Library at Harvard Uni­ versity, Boston, Massachusetts. L u c i l l e M . R o sa has been appointed associate head for monograph cataloging and authority con­ trol in the Catalogue Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. L e e A . R y a n has been appointed reference li­ brarian in the Law Library at the University of San Francisco, California. A n n e G . S c h l o s s e r is the new head of the Cinema-Television Library and Performing Arts Archives at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. A n g e l a Se c r e s t is the new head of the Biblio­ graphic Search Department in the Law Library at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. J e a n Sh a d y has been appointed serials project li­ brarian in the Law School Library at Harvard Uni­ versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts. R e g in a Si n c l a i r has been appointed preserva­ tion and physical processing librarian at the Uni­ versity of Missouri, Columbia. C a r o l So m m e r in now assistant catalog librar­ ian in the Clark Library at the University of C ali­ fornia, Los Angeles. K e i t h A nn St iv e r s o n has been appointed spe­ cial assistant to the Law Librarian at the Library of Congress, Washington, D .C . M a r c ia Su t e r has been named director of the Learning Resource Center at the Scott Park Cam­ pus of the University of Toledo, Ohio. L in d a K . T e s a r is now technical services/sys­ tems librarian in the L a w L ib rary at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. A n g e l a M a r i e T h o r has been appointed senior assistant librarian at the University of Delaware, Newark. C h a r l e s H u d s o n T u r n e r is now microcom­ 316 / C&RL News puter applications librarian in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Texas at Austin. B a r b a r a V an D e v e n t e r is the new assistant di­ rector for collection development at the University of Chicago, Illinois. P a u l V a s s a l l o is the new executive director of the Washington (D .C .) Research Library Consor­ tium. Susan v o n Sa l is is the new manuscript processor at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. W i l l i a m M . W a l k e r has been appointed docu­ ments/reference librarian in the Law Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. J o h n C . W a l s h has been appointed reference li­ brarian/humanities at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. C a m i l l e W a n a t has been appointed head of the Engineering Library at the University of Califor­ nia, Berkeley. G l e e W i l l i s is the new head of the Engineering Library at the University of Nevada, Reno. M a r i e W o l k o f f is now head of resources in the Law Library at Columbia University, New York City. Sh a r o n K a y W o m a c k has been appointed head of the Reference Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. L y n d a W o r n o m W r i g h t has been appointed cataloger of the Chrysler Museum Library, Nor­ folk, Virginia. K r i s t i n e W y c is k has been appointed assistant librarian for reference at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Retirements J o h n R . T u r n e r E t t l i n g e r , professor in the School of L ib rary and Inform ation Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has re­ tired as professor emeritus effective at the end of last year. Ettlinger is the first library school faculty member to be so honored, and is the last remaining member of the school’s original faculty. In 1969, when the library school was founded, he was col­ lections librarian in the university library, a posi­ tion he assumed in 1966. Prior to then Ettlinger had held several positions in rare books, bibliogra­ phy, and special collections at Brown, M cGill, and Columbia Universities. At Dalhousie, he special­ ized in teaching collection development and the history of the printed book. Beside writing on early books and prints, Ettlinger’s bibliographical publi­ cations include substantial works on young peo­ ples’ literature and on Canadian imprints. The lat­ ter form part of the multi-volume Checklist of Canadian Copyright Materials in the British M u­ seum, 1895-1923, being published by the School of Library and Information Studies. L o is E . G o d f r e y , assistant head librarian at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, has retired after 34 years of service. Godfrey was involved in every phase of library operations there, including planning of the new lib rary , which opened in 1977, and the planning and implementa­ tion of the library’s automated systems. Active in the Special Libraries Association since 1950, she served on many committees and was a charter member of the Rio Grande Chapter, serving twice as its president. Godfrey was also president of the New M exico L ib r a r y A ssociation during 1978-1979; was secretary of the New Mexico L i­ b ra ry and A udiovisual E d u c a tio n C ou n cil (1969-1971); and was a member of the Task Force on a New Mexico Inter-Library Cooperative Sys­ tem (1977-1978). She currently serves as member and vice-chair of the New Mexico Advisory Coun­ cil on Libraries, and was New Mexico’s librarian of the year in 1983. Co-editor of the first and second editions of SL A ’s D ictionary of R eport Series Codes, Godfrey has authored and edited a number of other publications and articles. Y v o n n e G r e e a r , assistant university librarian for public services at the University of Texas at E l Paso since 1971, retired March 1. Greear first came to the library as an administrative secretary to the Librarian in 1950, and completes more than 30 years of service, interrupted during 1955 and 1956 when she studied library service at the University of Texas at Austin. She also worked intermittently in private industry and military libraries around El Paso before returning to the university perma­ nently in 1964. Named librarian of the year by the Border Regional Library Association, Greear was awarded the Distinguished Service to the Univer­ sity Award in 1987 from the U T -E l Paso Chapter of Sigma Xi, a national honor society for science and engineering. B a r b a r a M . I v e y , acquisitions librarian at the U .S . Air F o rc e A cadem y L ib r a r y , C olorad o Springs, will retire June 3 of this year after 31 years of service as a federal librarian. Ivey has worked in libraries in Japan, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and at various U.S. locations. During a break in federal service from 1967 to 1969, she was director of the Fort Vancouver Regional L i­ brary in Washington state. M a r y A n n a K r a u s e , selecto r fo r Anglo- American Law in the Law L ibrary at Harvard University, retired in September, 1987, after 26 years of service. Krause had held the position since 1981, and was formerly acquisitions librarian. She has been a member of law library professional asso­ ciations and served on the University L ibrary’s Communications and Orientation Committee. W i l l i a m M a y l e s , science, engineering and technology librarian at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, retired April 30. Deaths M e r l e B a r t l e t t , former catalog librarian at the Library of Congress and California State Uni­ May 1988 / 317 versity, Northridge, died March 6. C h a r m a in e St a n d e r B o y d , retired coordinator of user services at Prince George’s Community Col­ lege, Largo, Maryland, died February 16. Boyd served at PG C C for 19 years and was an active member of ALA and the Maryland and District of C olum bia L ib ra ry Associations. She served as MLA president during 1978-1979 and also as presi­ dent of its Academic and Research Libraries Divi­ sion. In 1981 she received the Maryland Library Association Award, its outstanding honor, and re­ ceived the MLA Distinguished Service Citation in 1987, the year she retired. Boyd was the founder of the D .C . Citizen Advocates for Libraries. W i l l i a m J e n n in g s C h a l k e r , former director of the library at Jacksonville University, Florida, died March 6 at age 73. Chalker served at Jacksonville from 1961 until his retirement in 1978. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in 1937 and a bachelor’s in library science (1950) and M LS (1951) from George Peabody College for Teachers. Chalker served in the U.S. Army during World W ar II and was newspaper librarian for the Nashville Tennessean during 1950-1951 before serving as director of the library at New York State College at Fredonia from 1951 to 1960. R o r e r t E s t e l l e , audiovisual curator for uni­ versity archives at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, died February 14 in St. Paul at the age of 62. Estelle received a bachelor’s degree in ed­ ucation and master’s and doctoral degrees in Span­ ish from the University of Minnesota, and joined the D ep artm en t of Spanish and Portuguese in 1963. From 1967 to 1984 he was director of the Learning Resources Center, which under his lead­ ership was incorporated into the University L i­ braries and expanded its services to include both the Minneapolis and St. Paul Campuses. M a r ia n H a r m a n , professor of library adminis­ tration emerita and honorary curator of incunab­ ula a t th e U n iv e rsity o f Illin o is , U rb a n a - Chainpaign, died February 27. Harman retired in 1969 from her position as rare book librarian, and had served formerly as head of the Cataloging De­ partment. Her interest in rare books continued and culminated in the publication in 1979 of her Incu­ nabula in the University o f Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, distributed by the University of Illinois Press. V i r g in ia H a v i l a n d , the first chief of the Chil­ dren’s Literature Center at the Library of Con­ gress, Washington, D .C ., died January 6 at her home in Washington. Haviland came to the L i­ brary in 1963 to establish and develop a center for the study of literature for children, having previ­ ously served in several capacities at the Boston Pub­ lic Library. At the Library of Congress she devel­ oped a comprehensive collection of books relating to English and foreign-language children’s books; histories; critical studies; works on writing and il­ lustrating children’s books; studies of folklore, sto­ rytelling, children’s reading, and book selection; basic catalogs and indexes; and selective and spe­ cial subject lists. Haviland was the author of Chil­ dren's Literature: A Guide to Reference Sources (1966), and succeeding supplements. R o s e m a r y N e i s w e n d e r , former cataloger in the Technical Services Division at the University of C a lif o r n ia , Los A ngeles, died Ja n u a r y 3 1 . Neiswender worked in the lib rary , in itially as Slavic bibliographer in the Bibliographers Group, from 1968 until her retirement in 1983. F e l i x P o l l a c k , assistant professor emeritus and former curator of rare books at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, died November 19, 1987, at the age of 78. A native of Austria, Pollack pursued careers in the law and the theatre, studying under Max Reinhardt, before fleeing the Nazi invasion in 1938. He earned a bachelor’s degree in library sci­ ence in Buffalo, New York, and later served in the U.S. Army as an interpreter. Pollack earned his MLS from the University of Michigan and in 1948 was appointed curator of special collections at Northwestern University. At Northwestern he su­ pervised the development of the department’s col­ lections to reflect his broad interests as a bookman, writer, translator and poet. Pollack returned to V i­ enna during the winter of 1955-56 to pass his final examination for his doctorate of law. He came to Wisconsin in 1959 and was instrumental in devel­ oping the library’s Sokov collection of little maga­ zines and small press editions. Known as a tireless defender of small presses and magazines, Pollack contributed poetry, essays, aphorisms and transla­ tions to more than 100 such publications, including American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner. His poems were widely antholo­ gized and were translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Hungarian. Pollack also wrote seven books of poetry between 1963 and 1988. D a v id E . P o w n a l l , chief librarian at the Mel­ bourne CAE C arlto n Campus (form erly M el­ bourne State College), Australia, from 1976 to 1986, died January 2 at the age of 62. A profes­ sional cellist with the National Symphony Orches­ tra in Washington, D .C ., before becoming a li­ brarian, Pownall worked in several reader services positions before becoming director of library ser­ vices at Hofstra University (1973-1976). In Austra­ lia he became involved in the development of recip­ ro c a l b o rro w in g a rra n g e m e n ts. P o w n a ll’s publications included the seven-volume Articles in Twentieth Century Literature: An Annotated Bib­ liography, and its three-volume supplement, due for publication this year. D o r is R a n s o m , former senior descriptive cata­ loger in Processing Services at the Library of Con­ gress, W ashington, D .C ., died D ecem ber 27, 1987, in Colorado. 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