ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Profiles
M . F r a n c e s  J o n e s , interim library director since 

September 1985, has been appointed university li­
brarian at Cornette Library, West Texas State Uni­
versity, Canyon.

Jones had served as as­
sociate lib ra ria n  for 
technical and computer 
services since 1972.
From 1967 to 1972 she 
was acquisitions librar­
ian at East Texas State 
University. She holds a 
b a ch e lo r’s degree in 
home economics from 
Oklahoma State Univer­
sity, and an MLS from 
East Texas State Univer­
sity. M. Frances Jones

Jones guided W est 
Texas State’s participation in the Harrington L i­
brary Consortium, a mix of college, public, and 
school libraries in the Texas Panhandle sharing a 
common bibliographic database and an integrated 
library system. She has served in a wide variety of 
offices in the Texas Library Association and in 
community service organizations.

L in d a  K. R a m b l e r  has been named associate di­
rector of libraries for technical services and systems 
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, 
Pennsylvania, effective in July.

Prior to coming to IUP, Rambler served as the 
state automation coordinator for the United States 
Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Stabili­
zation and Conservation Service, library liaison of­
ficer with the SUNY/OCLC Network, and a vari­
ety of cap acities at the Pennsylvania State 
University Libraries and Lehigh University.

Rambler holds a doctorate in library administra­
tion from Simmons College, a master’s degree in 
English from Lehigh University, an MLS from 
Case Western Reserve University, and a bachelor’s 
degree in education from Millersville State Col­
lege. She has published articles in the Journal fo r  
A cad em ic L ibrarian sh ip , Serials R eview , and 
W om en’s Studies Abstracts.

People in the news
J a m e s  D o n a l d  C r a i g , director of the Todd Li­

brary at Middle Tennessee State University in 
Murfreesboro, has been named president of the 
Tennessee Library Association at the group’s an­
nual convention in Knoxville.

Y e n - T sai F e n g , the Roy E. Larsen librarian at 
Harvard College since 1982, was awarded an hon­
orary Doctor of Library Science degree from Sim­
mons College at the College’s 81st commencement 
exercises on May 18. Yen-Tsai Feng has also served 
as librarian of Harvard College (1980– 1982), li­
brarian of Wellesley College (1977– 1980), and as­
sistant director of research library service at Boston 
Public L ibrary (1966– 1977). Born in Peking, 
China, Yen-Tsai Feng holds degrees from the Uni­
versity of Shanghai, Colorado State College, the 
University of Denver, and the Columbia Univer­
sity School of Library Service. At the Simmons Col­
lege ceremony Feng was cited for her achievements 
as an accomplished librarian, an effective teacher, 
and a valued advisor to the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts and the City of Boston on ethnic her­
itage affairs.

Sa m u e l  H i t t , director of the University of North 
Carolina Health Sciences Library, Chapel Hill, 
was named a Fellow of the Medical Library Associ­
ation at MLA’s annual meeting in Minneapolis. 
Hitt has served as president of MLA, chaired its 
Publications Panel, and helped found the Associa­
tion of Academic Health Sciences Library Direc­
tors.

D a v id  K a s e r  has been named to the rank of Dis­
tinguished Professor at the all-Indiana University 
Founders Day cerenonies on April 16. Kaser joined 
Indiana’s School of Library and Information Sci­
ence faculty in 1973. He served as president of 
ACRL in 1968– 1969.

Su l  H . L e e , dean of university libraries at the 
University of Oklahoma, was appointed academic 
consultnt for the Oxford/Oklahoma Library Semi­
nar at Oxford University in England, held May
18–June 6, 1986.

Appointments
(Appointment notices are taken from library 

newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­



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pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your 
appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 
50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL  60611-2795.)

Y o k o  A k ib a  is a new catalog librarian at Duke 
University, Durham, North Carolina.

W h i t n e y  B a g n a l l  has been appointed head of 
special collections at the Columbia University Law 
Library, New York.

M a r y  A l i c e  B a l l  is now support services librar­
ian for NOTIS, Northwestern University, Evan­
ston, Illinois.

K i m b e r l y  B a n k s - I s z a r d  is the new reference/ 
collection develeopment librarian for psychology 
at Columbia University, New York.

B a r b a r a  B a x t e r  has been appointed law librar­
ian at CBN University, Virginia Beach.

Susan I . B e l l o  is the new assistant acquisitions 
librarian for exchange, gifts and serials at the Mas­
sachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

D e e  M . B e s t  has been appointed director of li­
brary services at Davidson County Community 
College, Lexington, North Carolina.

T e r r e n c e  A . B r o o k s  has been appointed assis­
tant professor in the Graduate School of Library 
and Inform ation Science at the University of 
Washington, Seattle.

H e a t h e r  C a m e r o n  has been appointed director 
of acquisitions and editorial development at ABC- 
C L IO ’s Denver office.

R e n e e  D . C h a p m a n  has been appointed head of 
technical services in the Law Library, State Uni­
versity of New York at Buffalo.

J a m e s  C h e n g  has been appointed head of the 
Oriental Library at the University of California, 
Los Angeles.

E l l e n  C o r d e s  has been appointed assistant cir­
culation librarian at Yale University.

M a r t h a  D e l l  C o o n e y  has been appointed busi­
ness lib rarian  at Hofstra University L ib rary , 
Hempstead, New York.

J .M . E d e l s t e i n  has been appointed senior bibli­
ographer and resource coordinator for the Getty 
Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 
Santa Monica, California, effective in September.

H a l  E sp o  has been appointed senior consultant 
for Information Systems Consultants, In c., in Be­
thesda, Maryland.

P a t r i c i a  B . F a r r is  has been appointed informa­
tion services librarian at the Biomedical Library, 
University of South Alabama, Mobile.

G r e g o r y  F in n e g a n  is now humanities and so­
cial sciences reference/bibliographer at Dartmouth 
College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

R o b in  G a u l t  has been appointed head of public 
services at the College of Law Library, Florida 
State University, Tallahassee.

St e v e n  R . G o l d b e r g  is now technical services 
librarian at Williams Colege, Williamstown, Mas­
sachusetts.

G a r y  G o l d e n  has been named director of the 
Camden Arts and Sciences Library, Rutgers Uni­
versity, Camden, New Jersey.

R e b e c c a  J .  G o m e z  has been appointed head of 
he Interlibrary Loan Department at Duke Univer­
ity, Durham, North Carolina.

R . E l l e n  G r e e n b l a t t  has been appointed cata­
g editor in Central Technical Services, State Uni­

ersity of New York at Buffalo.
Sa m  H a m m o n d  has been appointed assistant cu­

ator of rare books at Duke University, Durham, 
orth Carolina.
R a e  M . H a w s  has been appointed acting coordi­

ator for library instruction at Iowa State Univer­
ity, Ames.

G e n e v a  H o l l i d a y  has been appointed refer­
nce/interlibrary loan librarian in the Health Sci­
nces Library at Columbia University.

J o h n  B . H o w a r d  has been appointed assistant li­
rarian at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Har­
ard University.

P r i s c i l l a  H o w e  has been appointed Slavic cata­
oger at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

G a r y  A. H u n t  has been appointed associate di­
ector of libraries for subject and special collections 
t Ohio University, Athens.

R o b e r t  D . I b a c h  J r . has been named director of 
he Mosher Library at Dallas Theological Semi­
ary.

C h a c o n a  W. J o h n s o n  has been appointed direc­
or of grants and development for Wayne State 
niversity Libraries, Detroit.
E.J .  J o s e y  has been appointed professor in the 

epartment of Library Science at the University of 
ittsburgh School of Library and Information Sci­
nce.

J a n e  P . K l e i n e r  has been appointed head of ref­
rence services at Louisiana State University, Ba­
on Rouge.

B l a k e  L a n d o r  is a new catalog librarian at 
outhern Illinois University, Carbondale.

L o u i s e  M . L a n g d o n  is now ORION user ser­
ices librarian at the University of California, Los 
ngeles.
I r e n e  M . L o v a s  is the new resource develop­
ent coordinator at the Pacific Southwest Re­

ional Medical Library Service in the Biomedical 
ibrary at the University of California, Los An­
eles.

M i c h a e l  L y n c h  has been named assistant direc­
or of the College of Law Library, Florida State 
niversity, Tallahassee.
T h e r e s a  M c D e v i t t  has been appointed govern­
ent publications/reference librarian at Indiana 
niversity of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylva­
ia.

M a r y  B e t h  M e r e d i t h  is a new cataloger at the 
enter for Research Libraries, Chicago.

Correction

American Book Prices Current is published
by Bancroft Parkman, Inc., not Dodd, Mead,
Co., as erroneously reported in C &R L News, 
May 1986, page 236.

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Sa l v a d o r  M ir a n d a  has been appointed assistant 
director for collection development at Florida In­
ternational University, Tamiami Campus, Miami.

M a r i l y n  K. M o o d y  has been appointed head of 
the Access Services Department at Iowa State Uni­
versity Library, Ames.

G l e n d a  M o r r is  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at St. Johns River Community College, Pa­
latka, Florida.

Su sa n  M . M u e l l e r  has been appointed health 
sciences cataloger at the University of Missouri, 
Columbia.

M i c h a e l  M . N o g a  has been appointed head of 
the Geology-Geophysics Library, University of 
California, Los Angeles.

T e r r e n c e  D . N o l l e n  has been appointed edu­
cation bibliographer at the University of Nebraska, 
Lincoln.

L a r r y  R . O b e r g  has been named director of the 
library at Albion College, Michigan.

S c o t t  P a g e l  has been appointed assistant law li­
brarian for public services at Columbia University, 
New York.

I s a b e l  M . P i n t o  has been appointed informa­
tion services librarian at the Health Sciences L i­
brary, University of Missouri, Columbia.

V i c t o r i a  R e i c h  is now head of the Acquisitions 
Branch of the National Agricultural Library, Belts­
ville, Maryland.

Su z a n n e  R e m u s a t  has been appointed reference 
librarian at Marymount Manhattan College, New 
York City.

M a r t h a  K . R e n i c k  has been appointed assistant 
law librarian for public services at the University of 
Oregon, Eugene.

J an L .  R i c e  has been appointed science librarian 
at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

R u t h  A. R i l e y  has been appointed information 
services librarian at the Health Sciences Library, 
University of Missouri, Columbia.

T h e r e s a  R y a n  has been promoted to head of 
ORION user services at the University of Califor­
nia, Los Angeles.

L i l y  G . Sc h w a r t z  has been appointed archivist 
of the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center at the 
Balch Institute, Philadelphia.

S . D i a n e  Sh a w  is the new catalog librarian 
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

D o r o t h y  S. T a o  has joined the Information Dis­
semination Department of the Health Science L i­
brary at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

M . Su sa n  T a r a b a  has been appointed catalog li­
brarian at Duke University, Durham, North Caro­
lina.

M i c h e l  T h e r i a u l t  has been appointed assistant
professor on the Faculty of Canon Law, Saint Paul
University, Ottawa.

P o l l y  T h i s t l e t h w a i t e  has been appointed
head of the Circulation Unit, New York Univer­
sity.

B o - G a y T o n g  is now associate ORION user ser­
vices librarian at the University of California, Los

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Angeles.
D a n i e l  T sa n

University of C
K a t h e r i n e  L.

g  is now reference librarian at the 
alifornia, Irvine.
 W a l t e r  has been appointed chair 

of the Serials Department at the University of Ne­
braska, Lincoln.

K e i t h  E . W a s h b u r n  has been named executive 
director of the C entral New York L ibrary R e­
sources Council, Syracuse.

B e t h  W e i l  has been appointed biology librarian 
at the University of California, Berkeley.

M a r g a r e t  R .  W e l l s  has been appointed head 
of bibliographic instruction at the Undergraduate 
Library at the State University of New York at Buf­
falo.

J o y c e  L . W e m e r  is the new cataloger at Eastern 
Washington University, Cheney.

V ir g in ia  W i s e  has been appointed associate ref­
erence librarian in the University of Michigan Law 
Library, Ann Arbor.

B r ia n  Z a c c a r ia  has been appointed real estate 
librarian at the Jack Brause Real Estate Institute 
Library, New York University.

Retirements
A nn M . C a r p e r  has retired as director of the E l­

izabethtown College Library, Pennsylvania.
J e s ú s  and C e l i a  L e y t e - V i d a l  retired from the 

staff of Duke University Library, Durham, North 
Carolina, on December 20 after 20 years of service. 
Jesús was librarian for Ibero and Latin American 
materials and his wife Celia was responsible for 
processing Duke’s Guido Mazzoni collection. The 
couple obtained their MLS degrees at Emporia 
State University after emigrating from Cuba in 
1961.

J o h n  L i u , Oriental studies librarian at the Uni­
versity of Arizona, Tucson, retired on June 30 after 
20 years of service. Liu obtained an MLS from Co­
lumbia University and a master’s degree in sociol­
ogy from the New School for Social Research in 
New York.

R o b e r t  L o c k a r d , documents librarian at the 
University of Oregon, Eugene, retired April 30 af­
ter 25 years of service. He had also held positions as 

 social science librarian and reference librarian. He 
received his MLS from the University of Denver in 
1956 and a master’s degree in political science at 
the University of Oregon.

D o n a l d  O . R o d , director of library services at 
the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, re­
tired June 30 after 33 years of service. He had ear­
lier served as head librarian at Augustana College 
for 10 years and as assistant librarian at Luther 
College for 3 years. He received his ABLS degree 
from the University of Michigan in 1940 and pur­
sued additional graduate work in library science at 
the University of Chicago and Rutgers University.

Rod has been active in ALA and ACRL, serving 
terms on the ALA Council and on the standards





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committees that prepared the first college and 
community college library standards. He has been 
a library building consultant to more than 40 col­
leges and universities throughout the United 
States. In honor of his services to the University of 
Northern Iowa, the State Board of Regents has 
named the library building the Donald O. Rod L i­
brary.

J o h n  A. W i t m e r  will retire in August as director 
of the Mosher Library at Dallas Theological Semi­
nary, a post he has held since 1963. Witmer joined 
the Seminary faculty in 1947, teaching in the Sys­
tematic Theology department along with his li­
brary responsibilities.

Deα†h
F r e d  C a r r in g t o n  C o l e , president of the Coun­

cil on Library Resources from 1967 to 1977 and a 
member of its board of directors since 1962, died on 
May 6 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 
While serving as a special consultant for the Ford 
Foundation’s education program in 1954– 1955, 
Cole began inquiring into the problems facing the 
nation’s libraries. It was in part his awareness of 
these problems that contributed to the establish­
ment of the Council on Library Resources by the 
Foundation in 1956.

PUBLICATIONS
•The Abstracting and Indexing Career Guide,

by M. Lynne Neufeld and Martha Cornog (63 
pages, 2d ed., June 1986), provides information on 
education for abstracting and indexing, how to 
find a job, who hires abstractors and indexers, typi­
cal salaries, and the future of the field. A special 
feature is a newly updated 8-page chart providing 
position descriptions for 22 abstracting and index­
ing services. The cost is $15 prepaid from the Na­
tional Federation of Abstracting and Information 
Services, 112 S. Sixteenth St., Philadelphia, PA 
19102.

•African Languages: A Guide to the Library Col­
lection o f  the University o f  Virginia, edited by Mary 
Alice Kraehe, Cristina W. Sharretts, and Christine 
H. Guyonneau (169 pages, 1986), describes 1,266 
items in that collection. Included are maps and au­
thor and language indexes. Copies are available for 
$10 from the Collection Development Depart­
ment, University of Virginia Library, Charlottes­
ville, VA 22903-2498.

•Automation at the Library o f  Congress: Inside
Views is a collection of articles written by current 
and former employees from different LC depart­
ments that describes in detail the part that automa­
tion plays in bibliographic control, collections de­
livery, and reference and research at the Library of 
Congress. Copies may be ordered for $10 (prepaid) 
from the Library of Congress Professional Associa­
tion, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

• Creating Connections: Books, Kits, and Games
f o r  Children, by Betty P. Cleaver, Barbara Chat­
ton, and Shirley Vittum Morrison (560 pages, 
1986), is a resource guide for the selection and use

of curriculum-related materials for elementary 
students, school library media specialists, teachers, 
and children’s librarians. Six chapters— on Appa­
lach ia, bodies, cities, monsters, oceans, and 
sound— outline specific topics for integrating 
books and media throughout the curriculum. Cop­
ies may be ordered for $27 from Garland Publish­
ing, 136 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. 
ISBN 0-8240-8798-4.

• Foreign Relations o f  the United States, v. 1: Viet•
nam, 1 9 5 8 –60  (802 pages, 1986) recounts the story 
of early American policy towards Vietnam through 
a series of diplomatic documents collected and 
compiled by the Office of the Historian at the U.S. 
State Department. The volume includes letters and 
official memoranda as well as embassy telegrams 
on the political and military events in Vietnam be­
tween 1958 and 1960. Copies are available for $18 
from Dept. 36-ST, Superintendent of Documents, 
Washington, DC 20402-9325. Stock no. 044-000- 
02107-2.

•A Guide to History-Related M icroform H old­
ings a t the University o f  T o le d o ,  compiled by 
Gerald Thompson and Larry D. Wilcox (81 pages, 
1986), lists over 1,000 entries, including manu­
scripts, newspapers, government documents, and 
journals. Each entry contains the call number as 
well as the number of reels, cards, or fiche in a par­
ticular collection. Most large microform collec­
tions are indexed by reference guides, also listed in 
this volume. Copies are $5 (prepayment required) 
from the Department of History, University of 
Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606.

•Jesuit Science in the Age o f  Galileo  (32 pages,