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Profiles
Michael B. Binder 

of libraries at Western 
ing Green. For the past

has been appointed director 
Kentucky University, Bowl­
 eight years he served as di­

re c to r of M essier L i­
b ra ry  a t F a irle ig h  
D ickinson U niversity’s 
Rutherford, New Jersey 
campus.

His professional c a ­
reer also includes library 
d ire c to r p o sitio n s at 
Clinch Valley College of 
th e U niversity of V ir­
ginia and the University 
of P ittsburgh at B rad ­
ford.

In  1979-81 he c o ­
Michael B. Binderfounded and served as 

P re sid e n t of th e  New
Jersey Chapter of ACRL; and from 1984-85 he was 
President of the Council of New Jersey College and 
U niversity L ib ra ria n s. From  1979 to 1984 he 
served on the statewide planning group of the New 
Jersey State Library.

A graduate of New York University, Binder re­
ceived his MLS from Rutgers University and a 
Ph.D. in library and information sciences from the 
University of Pittsburgh.

He is the author of Videotex and Teletext: New 
Online Resources fo r Libraries, published by JAI 
Press in 1985, and has frequently contributed to the 
professional literature.

C. Edwin Dowlin has been appointed director 
of the Golden Library at Eastern New Mexico Uni­
versity, Portales. Dowlin began his career as a pub­
lic librarian in Provo, Utah, and moved into state 
lib ra ry  a d m in istra tiv e  w ork in 1967 w hen he 
joined the staff of the State Library of Ohio.

After a year as head of the Ohio Catalog Center, 
he was named head of library development for the 
state. In 1977 Dowlin was named State Librarian 
of New Mexico, and was a chief architect of the Co­
ordinated Library Systems Plan of New Mexico.

Dowlin then entered the Ph.D. program at the 
University of Pittsburgh and in 1980 was named di­
rector of the Library Science D epartm ent at Sam 
Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas.

Nicholas B. Burckel has been appointed direc­
or of public services and collection development at 
he W ashington University Libraries, St. Louis, ef­
ective January 1.

Burckel joins W ash­
gton University w ith a 

ro fessio n al b a c k ­
round th at includes ca­
eers as an h is to ria n , 
e a c h e r, a rc h iv is t, l i ­
rarian  and university 
dm inistrator.

He received a bache­
r ’s degree in history 

rom Georgetown Uni­
ersity in 1965, m aster’s 
n d  P h .D . degrees in 

Nicholas B. Burckelistory from the Univer­
ity of Wisconsin, M adi­
on in 1967 and 1971, respectively, and an MLS de­
ree from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 
 1983.
Most of Burckel’s professional experience has 

een w ith th e Wisconsin university system. In 
971, he was nam ed assistant archivist at the Uni­
ersity of Wisconsin, Madison, and served for 10 
ears as director of the Archives and Area Research 
enter at the University’s Parkside institution. 
uring most of this period, Burckel also served as 

xecutive assistant to the chancellor.
In 1982, he became associate director of the Uni­

ersity of Wisconsin, Parkside, Library Learning 
enter and was subsequently appointed assistant 

ice chancellor.
Prior to accepting this position at Washington 

niversity, Burckel took a year’s leave of absence to 
ccept an Academic Library M anagement In tern ­
ip at the University of Chicago.
In addition to these positions, Burckel has taught 

arious courses in U.S. History, and has been an ac­
ve scholar. His contributions to scholarship in­
ude th e c o -a u th o rin g  or co -ed itin g  of seven 
oks. He has had more than 15 articles and 60 re­
ews published in historical, archival and library 
ublications, as well as having been listed as con­
ibutor to several indexes, encyclopedias and ref­
ence books.
Currently, Burckel serves on the ACRL’s Publi­
tions Committee (1982-86); is a member of the

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Feis Award C om m ittee of the American Historical 
Association (1985-87); is P ro g ram  C o m m ittee 
c h a ir for th e  Society of A m eric an  A rchivists 
(1986-87); and is book review editor of the A m eri­
can A rchivist (1984-87). In  1981-82, he was a 
m em ber of the history panel for the American Book 
Awards.

O ther notew orthy achievements include awards 
from the Council for Wisconsin W riters, the State 
Historical Society of Wisconsin, and the American 
Association for State and Local History. In 1985 he 
was elected Fellow of the Society of American Ar­
chivists.

Leigh Stewart Estabrook has been nam ed
dean of the G raduate School of L ibrary and Infor­
m ation Science at the University of Illinois, U r­
bana, effective January
2. She holds the rank of 
professor.

Prior to her appoint­
m en t at Illinois, E s ta ­
brook was an associate 
professor in the School 
of In fo rm atio n  Studies 
at Syracuse University.
Before joining the Syra­
cuse faculty in 1978, she 
taught in the School of 
L ibrary Science at Sim­
mons C ollege, Boston, Leigh Estabrook
1971-77. E a rlie r, she 
was a com m unity infor­
m ation specialist in South Bend, I n d ia n a ,1970-71,
and a Soviet and East E uropean bibliographer at
the University of Notre D am e, 1969-70.

Estabrook holds a bachelor’s degree in history
from N orthw estern University, an MLS from Sim­
mons and a doctorate in sociology from Boston
University.

She has served as a consultant on systems and in­
form ation m anagem ent to several cities and educa­
tional institutions.

Barbara Buckner Higgenbotham has been a p ­
pointed chief librarian at Brooklyn College. She
joins Brooklyn from C olum bia University were she
held a num ber of positions from 1977 to 1985, in­
cluding head of access services, head of original
monographs cataloging and assistant head of origi­
nal m onographs cataloging.

Prior to th a t H igginbotham  also held technical
services positions at the U.S. Customs Service Li­
b rary , U.S. D e p a rtm e n t of T ran sp o rtatio n  L i­
brary and Rhode Island College Library, and was
ch ild ren ’s d ep artm en t director at the Lakeview
Branch of the Chicago Public Library.

Higginbotham  received her bachelor’s degree
from C entenary College of Louisiana, an MLS
from C olum bia University, and is presently com ­
pleting her DLS at Colum bia.

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Board of Trustees, the New York Technical Ser­
vices Librarians, and the New York L ibrary Club.

She has taught library science courses at Queens 
College G raduate School of L ibrary and Inform a­
tion Studies and at Colum bia. Her research in ter­
ests include preservation and library history. She is 
a frequent speaker on professional topics ranging 
from cataloging government docum ents to RLIN 
and faculty status.

Anne J. Mathews has been appointed director of 
library program s of the Office of E ducational Re­
search and Im provem ent by Secretary of E d u ca­
tion W illiam J. Bennett.
M athews will direct the 
fe d e ra l g o v e rn m e n t’s 
p ro g ra m  to im p ro v e  
p u b lic lib ra ry  services 
and construction, post­
s e c o n d a ry  li b r a r y  r e ­
sources, interlibrary co­
operation, training and 
education in lib rarian - 
ship, lib ra ry  research, 
and library services for 
American Indians.

M athews, a professor 
A nne J. M athew sat the University of D en­

ver’s G raduate School of
Librarianship and Inform ation M anagem ent, has 
been a m em ber of the University of Denver faculty 
since 1970.

For the past year she has served as a consultant to 
the United States Inform ation Agency (USIA), re­
viewing USIA library program s in North Africa, 
the Middle East, and Asia.

Earlier, Mathews was the program  director of 
the C entral Colorado L ibrary System, Denver. She 
has been a consultant on library systems for the 
U.S. D e p a rtm e n t of E d u catio n  and th e U nited 
States Agency for In te rn a tio n a l D evelopm ent 
(AID).

She re c e iv e d  h e r b a c h e lo r ’s d e g re e  fro m  
W heaton College in 1949, an MLS from the Uni­
versity of Denver in 1965, and a doctorate in speech 
com m unication from the University of Denver in 
1977.

Marietta Plank has been apppointed associate 
director for technical services at the University of 
M aryland, College Park, Libraries, w here she had 
served as acting associate director for technical ser­
vices since 1984.

In her new position, Plank will be responsible for 
planning, directing, and adm inistering the opera­
tions and activities of the division.

Plank joined the UMCP Libaries w ith experi­
ence gained in the position of senior librarian w ith 
Costabile Associates, Inc. There she provided staff 
support in project planning and adm inistration of 
lib ra ry  an d  in fo rm a tio n  co n tra cts. P lank also 
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and private library and inform ation related con­
tracts.

Prior to her experience w ith Costabile Associ­
ates, Plank was the head of inform ational and in­
structional services at Pennsylvania State Univer­
sity and had held a position as head reference
librarian at Georgetown University.

Plank received a bachelor’s degree in Art History
and an MLS at the University of Michigan.

Peter R. Young has been appointed chief of the
C ataloging Division at the L ib rary  of Congress
Copyright Office, effective October 23. In his new
post, Young is responsi­
ble for directing online 
c a ta lo g in g  o p e ra tio n s  
for co pyright re g istra ­
tions. The division has a 
staff of 107 and p ro c ­
esses more than 550,000 
co p y rig h t registrations 
each year.

Young had been assis­
t a n t  c h ie f of th e  LC 
MARC E ditorial D ivi­
sion, Processing Services 
D e p a r tm e n t, since 

Peter R. Young1984. His prior LC ser­
vice includes custom er
services officer of the Cataloging Distribution Ser­
vice, a position he held from 1980 until 1984.

Before joining the Library of Congress, Young
served in several technical and m anagerial posi­
tions in university, college, and public libraries, as
well as working in private industry.

A 1966 g ra d u a te  of th e College of W ooster, 
O hio, Young received an MLS from C olum bia
University in 1968. Following service in the U.S. 
Army in Vietnam 1969-70, he held positions in the
American University L ibrary, Franklin and M ar­
shall College L ibrary, Rice University L ibrary, 
and the G rand Rapids Public Library.

From 1976 to 1980, Young was a library systems
analyst w ith CLSI, in Newton, Massachusetts, spe­
cializing in the development of autom ated library
systems applications.

Young’s professional activities include m em ber­
ship on various ALA committees in LAMA, and
service as the LITA liaison to the RTSD Cataloging
and Classification Section’s Description and Access
Committee.

People in the News
Nicholas C. Burckel, director of public ser­

vices and collection development at W ashington 
University Libraries, St. Louis, has been elected a 
fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), 
th a t organization’s highest honor. Burckel was 
aw arded the distinction based on his m any profes­
sional contributions, superior publishing record 
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standing archival work.
Stuart Kölner, a librarian and associate profes­

sor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine 
for eight years until his enrollm ent last fall in m edi­
cal school, has won the fourth annual D ata Courier 
Award. The aw ard, given yearly to the author of 
the best article published in online and database 
journals, includes a $1,000 prize. Kölner received 
the aw ard for his five-part series titled “The IBM 
PC as an Online Search M achine,” which appeared 
in the January, M arch, May, July, and September, 
1985, issues of Online. It discusses in detail the fea­
tures of the various components of the IBM PC as 
well as electronic delivery of search results to end 
users and other applications. Kolner’s MLS is from 
Case W estern Reserve University.

Susan Taylor, cu rato r of m anuscripts in the 
Lilly Library at the Indiana University, has been 
elected president of the Society of Indiana Archi­
vists. The term  of office is one year.

Elaine F. Sloane, dean of the Indiana Univer­
sity Libraries, has been elected to the board of di­
rectors of the Association of Reaserach Libraries 
(ARL). She will serve a three-year term  on the 
board.

Velma Veneziano, librarian at Northwestern 
University, and James Aagaard, com puter systems 
analyst at Northwestern University, have receieved 
the L ibrary and Inform ation Technology Associa- 
tion/G aylord Award for Achievement in Library 
and Inform ation Technology last July 7. The two 
were cited for their early vision of an integrated on­
line library system th a t evolved into NOTIS, the 
Northwestern Online Total Integrated System.

Anne Woodsworth, associate provost for li­
braries at the University of Pittsburgh, is the new 
president of the Association of Research Libraries 
(ARL). W oodsworth succeeds Richard J. Talbot, 
director of libraries at the University of Massachu­
setts, who had served as ARL president since O cto­
ber, 1984.

Appointments
(A ppointm ent notices are taken from library 

newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap ­
pointees, and other sources. To ensure th a t your 
appointm ent appears, w rite to the E ditor, ACRL, 
50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.)

J ohn Arbott has been appointed head of the 
Forest Resources L ibrary at North Carolina State 
University, Raleigh.

Lisa Abbott has been appointed documents li­
brarian at North C arolina State University, Ra­
leigh.

Ronald Allen has been appointed head of the 
library at the G raduate School of Business A dm in­
istration at W ashington University, St. Louis, Mis­
souri.

Gwendolynne Arthur has been appointed re­
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sity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Christine S. Babcock has been appointed refer­

ence librarian at the Naval W ar College, Newport,
Rhode Island.

Jane Baldwin has been appointed serials acqui­
sitions librarian at North Carolina State Univer­
sity, Raleigh.

Jane Barnwell has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Lowell T. Berenguer has joined the reference
services departm ent at Auburn University, Mont­
gomery, Alabama.

Margaret Bielefeld has been appointed assis­
tant librarian in the Poetry/Rare Books D epart­
ment at the State University of New York at Buf­
falo.

Rick J. Block has been appointed assistant cata-
loger for science at M a rq u e tte  U niversity L i
braries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Louis W.Bookheim has been appointed refer
ence librarian at California W estern School of
Law, San Diego.

Axel Borg has been appointed science reference
librarian at the University of California, Santa
Cruz.

Henry William Brands has been appointed oral
historian at the Tarlton Law Library at the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin.

Keith R. Brehmer has been appointed director
of the library at Monterey Institute of In te rn a
tional Studies, Monterey, California.

Lynda M. Bronaugh has been appointed refer
ence librarian at the Naval W ar College, Newport.

Kathleen Brown has been appointed assistant
departm ent head in the Monographic Cataloging
D epartm ent at North Carolina State University,
Raleigh.

Caroline Carlton has been appointed head o
the Design Library at North Carolina State Uni
versity, Raleigh.

Min-Chih Chou has been appointed curator o
the Wason Collection at the Olin Library at Cor
nell University, Ithaca, New York.

Roxane Combs has been appointed assistant i
special collections at the Museum of Comparativ
Zoology L ibrary at H arvard University, C am
bridge, Massachusetts.

Kathleen Connors has been appointed refer
ence lib r a r ia n  a t th e  U n iv ersity  of O reg o n ,
Eugene.

Anita Cook has been promoted to chair of th
General Services D epartm ent at the University o
Nebraska, Lincoln.

Judith Copler has been appointed head of th
Interlibrary Services D epartm ent at Indiana Uni
versity Libraries, Bloomington.

Kathy Cunningham has been appointed suppor
services librarian at the NOTIS Office at N orth
western University, Evanston, Illinois.

H. Scott Davis has been appointed head of th
Library Instruction and O rientation Program a
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Jinnie Davis has been appointed assistant to the 
irector for planning at North Carolina State Uni­
ersity, Raleigh.
Dorothy Hamilton DeSimone has been ap ­

ointed cataloger at the H arvard College Library.
Tamsen Emerson has been appointed senior as­

istant librarian in the Documents D epartm ent at 
he University of Wyoming Library, Laramie.

Maggie S. Fernandez has been appointed cata­
oger for Portuguese and Spanish Materials at the 

arvard College Library, Cambridge.
Jerome B. Frobom has been appointed head of 

overnment documents at the University of Ne­
raska, Lincoln.
Victoria Frowine has been appointed assistant 

o the director of libraries at Temple University, 
hiladelphia.
Frank Gallegos has been appointed assistant 

atalog librarian at W hittier College School of 
aw , Los Angeles, California.
Sue Smith Glaze has been appointed m ono­

raphic cataloger at Auburn University, M ont­
omery, Alabama.
Edwin R. Harris has been appointed coordina­

or of information systems and operations at Au­
burn University, Montgomery, Alabama.

Harold Isadore has been promoted to associate 
ibrarian and supervisor of reference and circula­
ion at the Southern University Law Library, Ba­
on Rouge, Louisiana.

Dennis Isbell has been appointed assistant ref­
erence librarian at the University of South Caro­
lina, Columbia.

Jeffrey S. Jackson has been appointed head of 
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference at Michigan 
State University, East Lansing.

William Joyce has been appointed associate 
university lib rarian  for Rare Books and Special 
C ollections at P rin ceto n  U niversity L ib ra ry , 
Princeton, New Jersey.

Barbara M. Kelly has been appointed curator 
of the Long Island Studies Institute and Special 
Collections at Hofstra University, Hem pstead, 
New York.

Joseph T. King has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the Norris Medical Library at the Uni­
versity of Southern California, Los Angeles.

David Kohl has been appointed assistant direc­
tor of public services at the University of Colorado, 
Boulder.

Cynthia Levine has been appointed humanities 
reference librarian at North Carolina State Univer­
sity, Raleigh.

Caroline C. Long has been appointed science 
subject specialist/reference lib rarian  at George 
W ashington University, W ashington, D .C.

Katherine Malmquist has been a p p o in te d  
head of circulation at the University of Virginia 
College of Law , Charlottesville.

Melbarose Manuel has been promoted to law 
librarian at Southern University Law Library, Ba­
ton Rouge.

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Jim Meyer has been appointed m onographic cat- 
aloger for Africana in the C atalog D epartm ent at 
N orthw esteren University L ibrary, Evanston.

Sheila Milam h as b e e n  a p p o in te d  Ib e ro - 
American cataloger at Arizona State University, 
Tem pe.

Patricia S. Neff has been appointed coordina­
tor of cataloging and bibliographic control activi­
ties at A uburn University, M ontgomery, Alabam a.

Vivian Olsen has been appointed cataloger at 
the Sibley Music L ibrary at the University of Roch­
ester, Rochester, New York.

Anne Ostrye has been appointed head of refer­
ence at the University of W yom ing L ibrary, L a ra ­
mie.

Darlene A. PoDOLEYhas been appointed refer­
ence librarian at Florida A tlantic University, Roca 
Raton.

Catherine Pollari has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at Ham pden-Sydney College, V ir­
ginia.

Alvin Roche has been prom oted to associate li­
b rarian  at the Southern University L aw  L ibrary, 
Baton Rouge.

Gloria Rogers has been appointed senior assis­
ta n t librarian in the Catalog Division at the U ni­
versity of San Diego, California.

Barbara Sargen has been appointed reference/ 
instruction librarian at Tem ple University, Phila­
delphia.

Terri O. Saye has been appointed catalog li­
b rarian  at the L aw  L ibrary at the University of 
N orth C arolina, C hapel Hill.

Jean Skipp has been appointed rare book biblio- 
grapher/cataloger at Tem ple University, Philadel­
phia.

Jane S. Staffier has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at the Naval W ar College, Newport.

Larry Stallings has been appointed coordina­
tor of learning resources at Valencia C om m unity 
College, O rlando, Florida.

Scott D. Stebelman has been appointed refer-

African Studies award

At its annual m eeting in New Orleans on No­
vem ber 24, 1985, the African Studies Associa­
tion aw arded its first Distinguished Service to 
African Studies A ward to Hans Panofsky, cu ra­
tor of N orthw estern U niversity’s Melville J. 
Herskovits Africana Collection.

Panofsky, who has served as chair of both the 
ACRL Anthropology and Social Sciences Sec­
tion (1973-74) and the Asian and African Sec­
tion (1977-79), was cited for his “dedication to 
African studies at the technical, personal, and 
scholarly levels w hich has served as an inspira­
tio n ” to others in the field. He was responsible 
for developing the Herskovits L ibrary into the 
largest separate collection of Africana m aterials 
in the world.

ence librarian and coordinator for bibliographic 
in stru c tio n  a t G eorge W ash in g to n  U niversity, 
W ashington, D .C .

Sandra Thompson has been appointed assistant 
librarian at the Ambler Cam pus L ibrary of Tem ­
ple University, Ambler, Pennsylvania.

Alphonse N. Vinh has been appointed acquisi­
tions lib rarian  at Simmons College, Boston, Massa­
chusetts.

Michael James Waldo has joined the reference 
departm ent at A uburn University, Montgomery, 
Alabam a.

Ann Baker Ward has been appointed head of 
Interlibrary Loan at N orth C arolina State U niver­
sity, Raleigh.

Shirlene Ward has been appointed recorded 
sound services lib rarian  in the Music L ibrary at 
N orthw estern University, Evanston.

Virginia W . Weathers has been appointed as­
sistan t reference lib ra ria n  at th e  U niversity of 
South C arolina, Colum bia.

David Weinberg has been appointed assistant 
curator of u rb an  archives at Tem ple University, 
Philadelphia.

Mary Frances White has been appointed fine 
arts and hum anities reference librarian at L am ar 
University, Beaum ont, Texas.

Vivian White has been appointed technical ser­
vices librarian at Mobile College L ibrary, Mobile, 
Alabam a.

Elizabeth H. Wood has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the Norris Medical L ibrary at the 
University of Southern C alifornia, Los Angeles.

Retirements
Freda Bailey, deputy head of the Catalog Rec­

ords Division at the University of British C olum ­
bia, retired in O ctober after 20 years of service.

Charles F. Gosnell, chairm an of the Board of 
T rustees of P ublic A ffairs In fo rm a tio n  Service 
(PAIS), retired in November. Gosnell had been a 
m em ber of the board since 1948, and had chaired it 
since 1976. He was instrum ental in securing a ch ar­
ter from the Regents of the University of the State 
of New York th a t established PAIS, a publisher of 
bibliographical indexes, as a not-for-profit organi­
zation. Gosnell is an active ALA m em ber, and has 
served as a m em ber of the Executive Board, chair 
of the C om m ittee on L ibrary C ooperation w ith 
L atin America, and as president of the A dm inistra­
tion Division. In 1974 he retired as director of li­
braries at New York University, becoming em eri­
tus professor of library adm inistration.

Bill Horner, head of L ibrary Systems at North 
C arolina State University, Raleigh, retired Decem ­
ber 31. H orner joined the library in 1970 as a sys­
tems librarian.

Frances Reece Kepner, cataloger of rare books 
and special collections at In d ian a State University, 
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the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, 
and Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania.

Mike MacInnes, assistant university librarian 
for personnel at the University of C alifornia, Ir ­
vine, retired F ebruary 1. A retired Navy captain 
with 26 years of service, MacInnes joined the UCI 
library in 1970.

Ann Smith, head of Interlibrary Loan at North 
Carolina State University, Raleigh, retired in June 
after 15 years of service. Smith joined the library in 
1970 as an assistant catalog librarian.

Deaths
Paul D. Barton Jr., fine arts librarian at the 

University of Arizona since 1970, died December 
12. Barton was a Fellow of the Royal Society of 
Arts (London). He was a founding m em ber of the 
University of Arizona C am pus L ib rary  Council

and the L ibrary Faculty Assembly, and served the 
latter as chairm an for three terms.

D onald L . Leavitt, chief of the L ib rary  of 
Congress Music Division from 1978 until his retire­
m ent in October due to ill health, died November 
28. L eavitt’s 29 years of LC service included work 
as a music reference librarian, as head of the Re­
corded Sound Section (then p a rt of the Music D ivi­
sion), as assistant chief of the Music Division, and 
as acting chief of the division until his appointm ent 
as chief in 1978. Leavitt is credited w ith in au g u rat­
ing num erous in n o v ativ e series, in c lu d in g  th e 
“Concerts from the Collections” series.

Lillian J. Lee, fo rm er G eology lib ra ria n  at 
N orthw estern University, died July 14 after a long 
illness.

David Arnold Peele, periodicals librarian at 
the College of Staten Island, died November 9 of a 
heart attack. ■ ■

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to the electronic search and retrieval capabilities of 
the InfoTrac system. The InfoTrac database, in ­
troduced in January 1985, contains indexes to a p ­
proxim ately 1,000 business, technical, and general 
interest magazines and newspapers. The new en­
hancem ents allow the searcher to dow nload se­
lected references or full text onto a floppy disk for 
editing or inclusion in other documents.

♦ O C L C , In c., has m ade available the United
States Newspaper Program National Union List, 
derived from inform ation added to the O C LC

database by participants in the National E ndow ­
m ent for the H um anities’ United States Newspaper 
Program . P articipating national repositories in­
clude the L ibrary of Congress, the American Anti­
quarian Society, C enter for Research Libraries, 
Kansas State Historical Society, New York H istori­
cal Society, New York State Library, Rutgers Uni­
versity, and the State Historical Society of Wiscon­
sin. The union list provides inform ation on more 
th an  25,000 U.S. newspapers and identifies the li­
braries, archives, and historical societies th a t col­
lect them . Four indexes provide access to the list: 
place of publication, intended audience, language, 
and date of publication. H ard copy and microfiche 
editions of the union list, containing entries input 
through June 1985, may be ordered from O C L C , 
6565 F rantz Road, D ublin, OH 43017.

♦ ScholarNet is a new electronic m ail service for
scholars in the hum anities and social sciences h ead ­
quartered at North C arolina State University. The 
system allows scholars in 65 countries to com m uni­
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journals, books, and software programs. Two net­
works, PoliNet for political scientists and public 
adm inistrators, and H um aN et for scholars in the 
hum anities, are online w ith others to be added in 
the future. An initial subscription costs $29.95 for 
an individual or $100 for a com pany or academic

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