ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Personnel
The University of North Dakota, on July 1, 

1969, reclaims Roger K. Hanson when he 
returns to that campus as director of libraries. 
For the past 2½ years
he has been on the 
staff of the University 
of Minnesota libraries, 
first as assistant to the 
director, then adding 
to this responsibility 
the newly established 
post of chief of the 
department of refer­
ence services.

Mr. Hanson has 
that much admired 
quality of common 

Mr. Hansonsense, combined with
a wholesome honesty that makes him imme­
diately attractive on first meeting. Those of us 
that have worked closely with him know that 
this first impression is a true one. It is under­
standable therefore that when the University 
of North Dakota administration was faced 
with finding a new director of libraries they 
immediately thought of the man that had left 
them several years earlier to come to Min­
nesota.

As a native of North Dakota, Mr. Hanson 
graduated from Mayville State College. After 
serving as a high school teacher-librarian for 
a couple of years he joined the library staff of 
the University of North Dakota. There he had 
responsibility for the order department and 
assisted the director in administration of the 
library. During summers he pursued his edu­
cation in librarianship from the University of 
Denver library school, where he obtained his 
MALS.

At Minnesota Roger’s principal responsibility 
has been to coordinate the final details as­
sociated with the move to the new $10-mil- 
lion O. Meredith Wilson Library. He has 
worked closely with the architects and equip­
ment manufacturers on furniture specifications, 
selection and installation. He also coordinated 
the many details in the actual move itself and 
the problems of final completion and settling 
in into the new building. In all these some­
times onerous details Mr. Hanson exhibited the 
patience and ability to bring out a cooperative 
spirit among the people with whom he worked. 
Perhaps, aside from his affable personality, his 
four years in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic 
and troubleshooter, as well as a flight engi­
neer, trained him well for these duties.

While those of us at Minnesota will sorely 
miss him we congratulate North Dakota in at­ H. Linscheid, New Mexico State University.

tracting him back to his home state. Roger, 
his charming wife, Gretchen, and their chil­
dren will be a significant asset to the UND 
campus.—Ralph H. Hopp, University of Min­
nesota.

Dr. James Dyke will assume the position of 
library director and professor of library science 
at New Mexico State University on July I. For 
Jim, as his many friends call him, this will be 
a return to the state which provided much of 
his professional development during service as 
librarian at Eastern New Mexico University 
from 1951 to 1966.

A native of Breckenridge, Texas, Jim earned 
degrees at Hardin-Simmons University and the 
University of Oklahoma prior to receiving the 
MSLS (1950) and the doctorate in library 
science (1957) at the University of Illinois.

Two years as assistant librarian at Hardin- 
Simmons University were followed by a period 
of service as research assistant at the Universi­
ty of Illinois. The years at Eastern brought 
rapid development of library collections and 
services, construction of an outstanding build­
ing, professional status for the library staff, 
development of a library science teaching 
program, and establishment of one of the 
finest film libraries in the entire Southwest- 
Rocky Mountain area.

Texas A & M University library system has 
moved forward on several fronts during the 
three year span of Dr. Dyke’s tenure at Col­
lege Station. Not the least of these is the re­
cent completion of a new $3,600,000 library 
facility.

In the course of a very active career Jim 
has found time to serve as library building 
consultant for several college and public li­
braries. He was national ALA Membership 
Chairman, I960, and has held offices in many 
professional associations including those of 
President of the New Mexico Library Associ­
ation and chairman of its scholarship com­
mittee. During the years 1962-64 he was an 
appointed member of the New Mexico Com­
mission on Problems of Higher Education.

Dr. Dyke will bring broad experience in ad­
ministration, library construction, audiovisual 
media, automation and library education to 
his new position and to library cooperative en­
deavor in New Mexico and the Southwest. 
New Mexico State University is fortunate in 
the decision which brings a librarian of Jim’s 
caliber back to the Land of Enchantment. 
The library program of this rapidly developing 
university will be in excellent hands.—Chester 



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A P P O IN T M E N T S

Arthur J. Anderson will join the faculty 
of the school of library science, Simmons Col­
lege, on a full-time basis beginning with the 
summer session of 1969.

Marguerite Barrett is now director of the 
Eastern Iowa Community College library, Clin­
ton, Iowa.

Mary Susan Baumbach is a new member 
of the reference division, University of W ash­
ington libraries.

E dwin B. Bronner has been named librarian 
at Philadelphia’s Haverford College.

Robert K. Bruce has been appointed col­
lege librarian and associate professor at Carle­
ton College, beginning with the 1969-1970 ac­
ademic year.

James E. Buck has been appointed assistant 
librarian of Washburn University of Topeka, 
beginning July 1.

Mrs. Mitsuko Collver has joined the staff of 
the SUNY, Stony Brook, library as an assistant 
cataloger.

Lawrence E. Doyle has been appointed 
reference librarian, humanities, at the Uni­
versity of Arizona.

Clark A. E lliott will join the faculty of 
the school of library science, Simmons College, 
in September 1969.

Barbara Gates is now assistant librarian and 
head of technical services at Oberlin College.

Mrs. Virginia B. H arris has joined the staff 
of Oberlin College as a reference librarian.

Roy Liebman has been appointed chief, ac­
quisitions services in the library at California 
State College, Los Angeles.

James M. Matarazzo will join the faculty 
of the school of library science, Simmons Col­
lege, in September 1969.

Stephen Miller is now acquisitions librarian 
at Howard Colman library, Rockford College, 
Rockford, Illinois.

Sandra Peterson has joined the staff of 
Oberlin College as a reference librarian.

Mrs. W ilma E lizabeth Pfeifer has joined 
the staff of the reference division. University 
of Washington libraries.

Dr. Roberto M. Ravelo has been ap­
pointed a senior cataloger in the library at the 
SUNY, Stony Brook.

Harris M. Richard has been appointed 
serials cataloger at the University of Arizona 
library.

Dr. a . Robert Rogers has resigned as di­
rector of the Bowling Green State University 
library to accept the position of professor of 
library science at Kent State University.

Harold B. Schell has been appointed as­
sociate director of libraries. Southern Methodist 
University.

Yukihisa Suzuki, formerly head of the Asia

library at the University of Michigan, is now 
professor of library studies in the University of 
Hawaii.

N E C R O L O G Y

Dr. Sanford V. Larkey, director of the 
medical library at Johns Hopkins University 
Medical School from 1935 until his retirement 
in 1963, died April 16 at his Baltimore home.

R ETIREM ENTS

Sadie Hall, associate librarian of Washburn 
University of Topeka for twenty-three years 
will retire on June 30.

Jens Nyholm, university librarian at North­
western University since 1944, retired on Sep­
tember 1, 1968. From 1939 to 1944, Mr. Ny­
holm was assistant librarian at the University 
of California, Berkeley, and from 1938 to 1939 
he was head of the catalog department there. 
He holds degrees in library science from Co­
lumbia and from the Danish State Library 
School. ■ ■

AWARDS TO BE GIVEN 
AT CON EERENCE

Beta Phi Mu Award. An annual award con­
sisting of $50 and a citation, administered 
by the Library Education Division, made 
to an individual for distinguished service to 
education for librarianship.

Melvil Dewey Medal. An engraved medal and 
a citation presented annually to an individual 
or a group for recent creative professional 
achievement of a high order, particularly 
in those fields in which Melvil Dewey was 
actively interested, notably library manage­
ment, library training, cataloging and classi­
fication, and the tools and techniques of 
librarianship. Donated by Forest Press, Inc.

Hammond Incorporated Library Award. An 
annual award of $500 and a citation to a 
librarian who has effectively encouraged the 
use of maps and atlases or promoted an in­
terest in cartography. The award is presented 
only in those years when an appropriate 
recipient is found. Established in 1962. 
Donor: Hammond, Inc.

Joseph W. Lippincott Award. An award con­
sisting of $1,000, an engraved medal, and 
a special citation made annually to a li­
brarian for distinguished service in the pro­
fession of librarianship, such service to in­
clude outstanding participation in the ac­
tivities of professional library associations, 
notable published professional writing, or