ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


College & Research 
librariesnews No. 8, September 1974

ACRL News Issue (A) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 35, No. 5

ACRL Officers for 1974/75

H. William Axford

H. William Axford, university librarian at the 
University of Oregon, will serve as president 
of the Association of College and Research Li­
braries for 1974/75. As president of ACRL, 
Axford serves as chairman of the ACRL Execu­
tive Committee, of the ACRL Board of Direc­
tors, and of the ACRL Conference Program 
Planning Committee for the 1975 Annual Con­
ference in San Francisco. He also serves as a 
member of the Choice Editorial Board and as 
an ex-officio member of the ACRL Planning 
Committee and of all units of ACRL. In addi­
tion, he will represent ACRL and ALA to other 
educational and professional organizations.

Axford’s previous service to ACRL and ALA 
includes chairmanship of the ACRL Committee 
on Standards and Accreditation and member­

Louise Giles

ship on the College & Research Libraries Edi­
torial Board and on the ACRL University Li­
braries Section Urban Universities Library 
Committee. Axford has also been active in 
ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Divi­
sion.

The newly elected vice-president and presi­
dent-elect of ACRL is Louise Giles, dean of 
learning resources at Macomb County Commu­
nity College, in Warren, Michigan. In the re­
cent elections, Giles received 1,881 votes. 
James O. Wallace, director of learning re­
sources at San Antonio College, in Texas, re­
ceived 1,452 votes.

During her recent term as vice-chairman and 
chairman of ACRL’s Community and Junior 
College Libraries Section, Giles served as a

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H . W illiam Axford. Executive Secretary, ACRL: Beverly P. Lynch.
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member of the ACRL Board of Directors and 
of the ACRL Conference Program Planning 
Committee for the 1974 Conference in New 
York. In the past, she has served as an ACRL 
representative to the AAJC/ACRL Joint Com­
mittee on Junior College Libraries, as a mem­
ber of the ALA Audiovisual Committee, and as 
chairman of the ISAD Discussion Group on In ­
formation Technology. In 1972, she was elected 
to serve on the ALA Council.

As vice-president of ACRL, Giles will serve 
as a member of the ACRL Executive Commit­
tee and as an officer on the ACRL Board of D i­
rectors. She will chair the ACRL Planning 
Committee and the ACRL Conference Program 
Planning Committee for th e 1976 Annual Con­
ference in Chicago. Giles will represent ACRL 
on the ALA Budget Assembly and on the ALA 
Chicago Conference Planning Committee. At 
the close of the 1975 Conference in San F ran ­
cisco, Giles will become ACRL’s thirty-seventh 
president.

The results of the ACRL section elections 
follow. For each position, the elected candidate 
is listed first. The num ber of votes earned by 
each candidate is listed in parentheses.

AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGICAL 
SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: E arl F a r­
ley, Director, Clendening Medical Library, Uni­
versity of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, 
Kansas (1 3 7 ); Binford H. Conley, Director of 
Library Services, North Carolina Agricultural 
and Technical State University, Greensboro, 
North Carolina (8 9 ).

Secretary: B arbara B. Gordon, Forest Re­
sources Librarian, University of Washington, 
Seattle, W ashington (1 7 5 ); W alter D. Morrill, 
Director of Libraries, Hanover College, H an­
over, Indiana (4 6 ).

ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION
V ice-Chairm an/Chairm an-Elect: Antonio M. 

Rodriguez-Buckingham, Associate Librarian, 
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cam­
bridge, Massachusetts (1 5 2 ).

Member-at-Large: Polly S. Grimshaw, Li­
brarian for Anthropology, Sociology, and Folk­
lore, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 
(1 3 0 ); Kathleen A. Kennedy, Education Li­
brarian, Savitz Learning Resource Center, 
Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey 
(3 8 ).

ART SECTION
V ice-C hairm an/Chairm an-Elect: Gerd Mueh- 

sam, Associate Professor and Art Bibliographer, 
Queens College, City University of New York, 
Flushing, New York (1 5 6 ); Elizabeth P. Arm­
strong, Head Librarian, California Institute of 
the Arts, Valencia, California (144).

ASIAN AND AFRICAN SECTION
Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Alan R. 

Taylor, Associate Director of Libraries, Johns 
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 
(1 1 6 ); Gertrude R. I. Linnenbruegge, Africana 
Bibliographer and Librarian, Associated Studies 
Division, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (6 6 ).

Member-at-Large: Yen-Tsai Feng, Assistant 
Director, Research Library Services, Boston 
Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts (9 8 ); 
Corinne E. Nyquist, Librarian, W orld Study 
Center, State University College, New Paltz, 
New York (8 6 ).

C OLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION
V ice-Chairm an/Chairm an-Elect: Richard A. 

Olsen, Director of the Library, Rhode Island 
College, Providence, Rhode Island (5 2 3 ); 
Richard L. King, Head, Business, Economics, 
and Geography Reference Department, Cali­
fornia State University, Long Beach, Long 
Beach, California (446).

Secretary: Betty Jane Highfield, Head L i­
brarian, North Park College, Chicago, Illinois 
(5 3 6 ); Alvin C. Cage, D irector of Libraries, 
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacog­
doches, Texas (4 3 0 ).

COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR C OLLEGE 
LIBRARIES SECTION

V ice-Chairm an/Chairm an-Elect: Rosemary N. 
Henderson, Director of Library Services, Cof­
feyville Community Junior College, Coffeyville, 
Kansas (3 2 4 ); John F. Herbst, Jr., Assistant 
Dean of Learning Resources, Penn Valley Com­
m unity College, Kansas City, Missouri (144).

Secretary: M argaret A. W ainer, Director of 
the Library, Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, 
Illinois (2 4 6 ); John B. St. Leger, Coordinator 
of Library Services, Central Virginia Communi­
ty College, Lynchburg, Virginia (2 1 7 ).

EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL 
SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairm an/Chairm an-Elect: W ayne Gos- 
sage, Director of Library Services, Bank Street 
College of Education, New York, New York 
(2 6 1 ); Emil Greenburg, D eputy for Learning 
Systems to the D ean of the Faculty, Borough 
of M anhattan Community College, New York, 
New York (181).

LAW AND PO LITICA L 
SCIENCE SECTION

V ice-C hairm an/Chairm an-Elect: Eleanor L. 
Chase, Librarian, Interlibrary Loan Service, 
University of W ashington, Seattle, W ashington 
(2 1 0 ); Abdul Malik, Assistant Branch Librari­
an, Queens Borough Public Library, New York, 
New York (105).

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Member-at-Large: Dimity S. Berkner, Social 
Science Bibliographer and Head, Interlibrary 
Loans, University of Southern California Li­
brary, Los Angeles, California (228); Albert 
James Diaz, Vice-President and Publisher, 
Microcard Editions, Washington, D.C. (89).

RARE BOOKS 
AND MANUSCRIPTS SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Ann Bow­
den, Associate Editor, Papers of the Biblio­
graphical Society of America, University of 
Texas, Austin, Texas (322); Donald W. Krüm­
mel, Professor of Library Science, University 
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il­
linois (199).

Member-at-Large: Richard A. Ploch, Manu­
scripts Librarian, University of Arizona, Tuc­
son, Arizona (291); William P. Wreden, Own­
er, William P. Wreden Books and Manuscripts, 
Palo Alto, California (218).

SLAVIC AND EAST 
EUROPEAN SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Wasyl Ver- 
yha, Catalog Librarian, University of Toronto, 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (92); Andrew L. 
Makuch, Bibliographer for Collection Develop­
ment, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, 
Arizona (58).

Member-at-Large: Wojciech Zalewski, Cura­
tor, Russian and East European Materials, 
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Cali­
fornia (79); Joseph Szeplaki, Head, Serials De­
partment, Ohio University Library, Athens, 
Ohio (67).

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION
Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Page Ack­

erman, University Librarian, University of Cali­
fornia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 
(1,254); Alice E. Wilcox, Project Director, 
MINITEX, University of Minnesota, Minneapo­
lis, Minnesota (522).

The Harry A. Sprague Library at 
Montclair State College has established 
a committee to study the future of micro­
forms in that library. The committee is 
interested in hearing from similar groups 
in libraries who are studying housing, 
personnel, maintenance, and accessibility 
problems concerning microforms. Other- 
groups who would like to exchange in­
formation may contact Vincent Jennings, 
Microforms Locations Committee, Harry 
A. Sprague Library, Montclair State Col­
lege, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043.

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