ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 47 People P R O F IL E S Berry G. Richards, who joined the Lehigh University staff in 1969, has been promoted to director of libraries with the faculty rank of professor with ten­ ure. She was associate librarian in charge of Lehigh’s Mart Science and Engineering Li­ brary and an associate professor with tenure, and more recently she was acting director of libraries at the univer­ sity. Announcement of the promotion was Berry G. Richards made by Dr. A. C. Zettlemoyer, provost and vice-president at the university. Mrs. Richards joined the Lehigh University staff in 1969 as associate librarian in charge of the Mart Science and Engineering Library. She was promoted to the faculty rank of associate professor with tenure in 1972. Prior to joining the Lehigh staff, she was head librarian for Sprague Electric Co., North Adams, Massachu­ setts. Mrs. Jttienar‹ls succeeds Janies D. Mack, who has been associated with the Lehigh library staff for 30 years, including the last 26 as di­ rector. In September 1976, he was appointed curator of rare books at Lehigh. Lehigh has two major library facilities. In ad­ dition to the Mart Library, the university also has the Lindennan Library. Linderman was built in 1877 and expanded in 1929. Mart was constructed in 1969. The university system has some 635,000 vol­ umes, including an unusually fine rare book collection that has works dating back to medi­ eval times, among them works by Shakespeare, Ptolemy, Euclid, Copernicus, Franklin, Audu­ bon, Bach, Pliny, Spenser, Kepler, Cooper, Dar­ win, Whitman, and others. A native of Newark, New Jersey, Mrs. Rich­ ards was graduated from Vassar College with the bachelor of arts degree and received her master of library science degree at the State University of New York at Albany. She is cur­ rently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in library science at Drexel University. A specialist in the field of science librarian- ship, Mrs. Richards has served as a member of the Task Force on Alternative Education, con­ sultant to the Center for the Study of Informa­ tion and Education at Syracuse University, and on the advisory committee of the library tech­ nical assistant program of Northampton County Community College. She has taught a seminar on library organization. Mrs. Richards is coeditor of Magazines for Libraries, R. R. Bowker, New York, and has also authored other articles in her area of spe­ cialization. She is a member of the American Library Association, Pennsylvania Library Asso­ ciation, American Society for Information Sci­ ence, and American Association of University Professors. She served as secretary to the facul­ ty at Lehigh from 1972 to 1974. Hugh C. Atkinson, director of libraries at Ohio State University, joined the faculty at the Universitv of Illinois September 1 as uni­ versity librarian and professor of library administration. He succeeded Pro­ fessor Robert W. Oram, who had been acting university li­ brarian at Urbana- Champaign since the death of Dr. Lucien W. White in March 1975. Born November 27, Hugh C. Atkinson 1933, in Chicago, Mr. Atkinson attended St. Benedict’s College in 1951-53 and then en­ rolled at the University of Chicago where he earned a master’s degree in library science in 1959. In 1958 he received a certificate in ar­ chival administration from the U.S. National Archives. From 1951 to 1956, Mr. Atkinson worked as a junior accountant for Lawrence Scudder and Co., CPA’s, in Chicago and in 1957-58 was an assistant in rare books at the University of Chi­ cago Library. He worked as reader’s services librarian at Pennsylvania Military College in 1958-61 and then spent six years at State Uni­ versity of New York at Buffalo, heading the Reference Department and later serving as as­ sistant director of libraries, technical services, and as acting assistant director of libraries for health sciences. Mr. Atkinson went to Ohio State in 1967 and was assistant director of libraries, public ser­ vices, until 1971, when he became director of libraries this year. Active in a variety of library associations, Mr. For Librarians. . . ADVANCES IN LIBRARIANSHIP, Volumes 6 and 7 Edited by MELVIN J. VOIGT and MICHAEL H. HARRIS CONTENTS OF VOLUME 6: E. H. Daniel, Per­ Systems. /. Dahlberg, Major Developments in formance Measures for School Librarians, Classification. S. B. Aje, National Libraries in Complexities and Potential. T. J. Waldhart Developing Countries. W. A. Munford, The and T. P. 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