ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 346 People PROFILES Morell D. Boone, dean of learning resources at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was appointed director of the Center of Educational Resources at Eastern Michigan University by the board of regents. Boone replaces Fred Blum who stepped down to take a position as reference librarian in the EMU library. A native of London­ derry, N orthern Ire­ land, Boone earned a B.S. degree in educa­ tion from Kutztown State College, Pennsyl­ vania, an MLS from Morell D. Boone Syracuse University in 1968, and he expects to receive a Ph.D. in edu­ cational management later this year, also from Syracuse. Boone was university librarian at Bridgeport from 1973 to 1976 and then spent a year as a visiting assistant professor in the College of Education at Syracuse. From 1977 to 1979 he served as dean of library services at Bridgeport and has been dean of learning resources there since Februar)', 1979. Boone is a member of ACRL, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, and the Connecticut Library Association. In 1976-77 he served as a consultant in educational technology to National Iranian Radio and Televi­ sion in Tehran, a project which was sponsored by the University Consortium for Instructional De­ velopment and Technology. Rowland C.W. Brown has been selected by the Board of Trustees of OCLC, Inc., to succeed Frederick G. Kilgour as president. Brown, a business executive and attorney, will become OCLC s second president in December. Brown was president and chief executive officer of Buckeye International, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, from 1970. He received the J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and attended the Mas­ sachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Brown has also been president of Dorr-Oliver, Inc., in Stamford, Connecticut; counsel and staff director of international operations for Machinery and Allied Products Institute, Washington, D.C.; and industrial materials counsel in the U.S. Office of Economic Stabilization. Michael Stuart Freeman has been named director of library services at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, effective December 1. He was formerly chief of reference services at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Freeman received an MLS in 1971 and a master's degree in history in 1970 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Freem an has previously served as head of reference services at Dart­ mouth and as social sciences librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington. Active in professional associations, Freeman has served as chair of the Academic Librarians of New Hampshire, vice-chair of the New England College Librarians, and as 1978 delegate to the New Hampshire Conference on Libraries and In­ formation Science. He is currently a member of the RASD Goals and Objectives Committee for Planning. Among F reem an’s recent publications are “Published Study Guides: What They Say about Libraries,” in the November 1979 Journal o f Academic Librarianship, and a reference tool for historians, the Guide to Newspaper Indexes in New England, which he co-authored with three other members of the Bibliography Committee of the New England Library Association in 1978. Laurence Miller has been appointed director of libraries at Florida International University, Miami, effective January 1. Miller has been director of the University Library at East Texas State University, Commerce, since September, 1974. During that time he served as vice-chair, chair-elect of the Texas Council of State Universi­ ty Librarians, and twice served as chair of the In­ tellectual Freedom Committee of the Texas Li­ brary Association. Miller received his Ph.D. in library science from Florida State University in 1971, and re­ ceived master’s and advanced master’s degrees from the same institution in 1963 and 1970. He was appointed area director of libraries at the In­ ter-American University of Puerto Rico, San Ger­ man, in 1966, and after obtaining his doctorate went to California State College, in California, Pennsylvania, where he served as director of li­ brary services for three years. Miller’s articles have appeared in Library Jour­ nal, Texas Library Journal, RQ, and College & Research Libraries. He is currently secretary of ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Round Table and a member of the Intellectual Freedom Committee. Miller has a special interest in twentieth cen­ tury maritime and naval history and has written a column on travel cruises for the Dallas Times- Herald. 347 Edward T. O’Neill has succeeded Conrad H. Rawski as dean of the School of Library Science at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. O Neill assumed his post on September 1. He comes to Case Western from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has been an associate professor at the School of Information and Li­ brary Studies and ad­ junct associate professor of industrial engineer­ ing and higher educa­ tion for the past ten vears. Edward T. O’Neill O’ Neill has success­ fully wedded his interest in operations research and statistics to librarianship with his achieve­ ments in the field of computer applications of in­ formation science. In addition to many articles in professional journals, O’Neill has co-authored two recent monographs published by OCLC: A Machine Method fo r Correction o f Errors in Sub­ ject Headings and Subject Heading Patterns in OCLC Monographic Records. He is currently completing a textbook on library operations re­ search. In 1978-79 O’Neill was a visiting distinguished scholar at the Research and Development Divi­ sion of OCLC in Columbus, Ohio, where he con­ ducted a study on providing subject access to very large bibliographic data bases. He is a member of the Association for Comput­ ing Machinery, the American Association of Li­ brary Schools, the Operations Research Society of America, as well as ACRL, and is chair-elect of the Special Interest Group for Education of the American Society of Information Science. JoAn S. Segal has been appointed interim director of the Bibliographical Center for Re­ search, Denver, where she has served as acting executive director since June. Segal has been a member of the BCR staff since October, 1978, in the capacity of manager of the Re­ source Sharing Program and later as director of the Resource Sharing Division. She received a Ph.D. degree in com­ munication from the University ol Colorado in 1978. H er MLS is from Columbia Uni­ JoAn S. Segal versity, and she is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University. Segal’s professional library experience has in­ cluded work in special, academic, and govern­ ment libraries, including: the Surgery Depart­ ment of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Institute of Mathemati­ cal Sciences at New York University, and the United States Department of Agriculture Library. She has also been consultant to the National Center for Higher Education Management Sys­ tems in adult and continuing education. Segal has published in the fields of adult and continuing education, group development in theater casts, library development, and needs assessment. She is also active in the Special Lib­ raries Association. James E. Skipper has been appointed executive director of the Midwest Region Library Network (MIDLNET) effective October 1, 1980. Skipper has been active in almost every phase of librarianship for over 30 years, having attained an MLS degree from the University of Michi­ gan in 1949 and a P h D . in 1960. He comes to MIDLNET af­ ter serving as president and vice president of the Research Libraries Group for six years. Among his many acti­ vities Skipper has been James E. Skipper a member of the Con­ necticut Governor’s Committee on Libraries, the ALA Council, the ALA Panel on UNESCO, and has served as a delegate to the Anglo-American Conference on the Mechanization of Library Ser­ vices, and as a delegate for ARL to the Interna­ tional Federation of Library Associations. His many publications have appeared in profes­ sional journals, and he has served as a consultant on administration and library buildings to fifteen institutions. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Marcus A. McCorison, director and librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, has been presented with the first annual award of the Ephemera Society. The award, known as the Samuel Pepys medal in honor of the seventeenth century English diarist, was made in recognition of MeCorison’s outstanding furtherance of ephemera studies. Elizabeth Salzer, chief librarian of the J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library since 1975, has been appointed to Stanford University’s first en­ dowed librarianship. The position is named the 348 Olga Meyer and Alice Meyer Buck Librarianship and was effected by funds from the bequest of the late Alice Meyer Buck, Menlo Park, who with her sister, Olga Meyer, presented Stanford with the gift that enabled the construction of Meyer Library. APPOINTMENTS Adrienne Adan has been appointed head of technical processes in the law library of the Uni­ versity of California, Los Angeles. Anne Locke Alach was named assistant mana­ ger of CLIMBS (Countway Library Medical Bib­ liographic Service) at Harvard University. Robert Alan is a new assistant librarian in the catalog department. University of California, San Diego. Dennis Andersen has been appointed serials cataloger at the Melville Library, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Janet Louise Arcand has been appointed in­ structor and serials cataloger at Iowa State Uni­ versity, Ames. Noreen C. Barnes is curatorial associate for the Harvard University Theatre Collection. J aye Bausser has been named head of post­ cataloging operations, Monographic Cataloging D epartm ent, at Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina. Linda BeauprÉ has been appointed associate director for public services, University of Texas at Austin. Joan M. Bechtel has been elected to serve a three-year term as chair of the Department of Library Resources, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Margaret Benetz is the new circulation librar­ ian at the Loyola University Law Library in New Orleans. Bruce Bergman has been named library direc­ tor for the New York City campus of Pace Uni­ versity. John Berry has assumed the position of gen­ eral reference librarian in the University Librar­ ies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Pamela Bluh has joined the staff of the Uni­ versity of Maryland Law School Library, Balti­ more, as head of technical services. Reed A. Boland was appointed rare book bib­ liographer in the Museum of Comparative Zo­ ology Library, Harvard University. Lisa Bosler has been appointed assistant librarian in the Health Sciences Library, State University of New York, Buffalo. William A. Bourque is now head of technical services at the Cabot Science Library, Harvard University. Louisa Bowen is the new curator of manu­ scripts at Southern Illinois University Library, Carbondale. Merry D. Bower has been appointed assistant librarian in the cataloging department, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan. Catherine Tyler Brody, formerly acting chief librarian, has been appointed chief librarian and department chair at New York City Technical College, City University of New York. Stanley W. Brown has been appointed chief of special collections and curator of rare books at Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire. Jennifer Brownlow has been named adminis­ trative assistant and graduate coordinator at the School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Charles W. Brownson is now reference librarian and English subject specialist at Arizona State University Library, Tempe. Harry A. Butler has been named assistant humanities librarian, North Texas State Univer­ sity Libraries, Denton. Thomas Carter is the new director of the Learning Resource Services at Dalhousie Uni­ versity, Halifax, Nova Scotia. J. Wesley Cochran is now reference librarian at the Loyola University Law Library, New Orleans. Carolyn Cox was promoted to systems analyst and head of the Systems Department at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Charlotte Derksen has assumed responsibil­ ity as branch librarian and bibliographer of Bran- ner Earth Sciences Library, Stanford University, California. Adrienne De Vergie has been appointed cata­ loger at the Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin. Ellen Dole has been appointed drug litera­ ture specialist for the Office Education Project at the University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles. Miriam A. D rake has been named research associate at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Carolyn Dusenbury has been named head of reference service, Arizona State University Li­ brary, Tempe. Blanche Ebeling-Koning is now acquisitions bibliographer at the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Paula Elliot, formerly in cataloging, is now AUTHORS WANTED BY NEW YORK PUBLISHER Leading subsidy book publisher seeks m anuscripts of all ty p es: fiction, non-fiction, p o e try , scholarly and ju v e n ile w orks, etc. New a u th o rs welcomed. Send for free, illu s tra te d 40-page bro ch u re F 83 Vantage Press, 516 W. 34th S t, New York, N.Y. 10001. Or call Toll F r e e 1-800-528-6050 E x t. 2254. 3 4 9 assistant librarian in general reference, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan. Joline Ridlon Ezzell has been appointed head of serials, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. John Fadell has been appointed reference bibliographer in European languages at the Uni­ versity of Houston library. Joyce L. Farris has been named head of the Original Cataloging Section, Duke University Library, Durham. Keith P. Fleeman joined the Universal Serials and Book Exchange staff as manager of collections and services. He was form erly head of the Periodicals Department at Frostburg State Col­ lege, Maryland. Mary S. Florio has been appointed reference librarian at the College Library, Suffolk Univer­ sity, Boston. Michael J. Freeman is now assistant reference librarian at the University of South Carolina li­ brary, Columbia. D eborah Friedman has been appointed sci­ ence cataloger at the Melville Library, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Larry Frye has been selected as associate pro­ fessor and head librarian, Wabash College, Craw­ fordsville, Indiana. He was formerly library direc­ tor at Bethany College, West Virginia. Samuel Y. F ustukjian has been appointed librarian at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg campus. Margaret Galloway is now associate director of technical services, North Texas State Univer­ sity Libraries, Denton. Sonja W. Garcia is now reference librarian at the University of South Florida Library, Tampa. Virginia A. Gilbert has been appointed bib­ liographer, collection development, at the Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina. Ann Glenn has been appointed half-time assis­ tant science cluster librarian at Northern Illinois University Libraries, DeKalb. Lydia Gole has joined the staff of the Dickin­ son College Library, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as serials librarian. Karla P. Goold has assumed the position of university science librarian at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Esther Grassian is the new curator of the California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction collection housed in the College Library Building of the University of California, Los Angeles. Howard Graves has been appointed chair of the Catalog D epartm ent of Hofstra University Library, Hempstead, New York. Jim S. Gray, Jr., has been appointed circulation librarian at the U niversity of South Florida, Tampa. Barbara Greene jo in ed the U niversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio li­ brary staff as learning resources center coordina­ tor. Kathleen A. Haeflinger has been named acting head of the Music Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City. Susan Halpert is now assistant reference librarian at the H oughton Library, H arvard University. Gary Hartman has been appointed assistant librarian at the University of Arkansas School of Law Library, Fayetteville. Janice Heckelman was appointed cataloger in the Harvard Law School Library. Jennie Meyer Howard was appointed techni­ cal services librarian in the Kennedy School of Government Library, Harvard University. Anne C. Hughes was appointed Slavic preser­ vation specialist in the Harvard University Li­ brary. Nancy Huling is now head of reference ser­ vices, University of California, Biverside. Phyllis E. Jaynes has been promoted to direc­ tor of user services, Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire. Jacqueline Jefferson has been appointed ref­ erence librarian at New York City Technical Col­ lege, City University of New York. Althea McE wen Jenkins has been named librarian of the University of South Florida Lib­ rary, Sarasota campus. Cicely R. Joyce has been appointed librarian/ external degree program in Troy, Michigan, at 350 Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant. Gail Junion has been appointed associate pro­ fessor and head of the Original Cataloging Unit, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Stephen Justa is the new media specialist and coordinator of the Education Resource Center at Virginia Union University, Richmond. Patricia Kantner has been appointed catalog librarian at Miami University Library, Oxford, Ohio. Ruth M. Katz has assumed the position of associate director of the East Carolina University Library, Greenville, North Carolina. She former­ ly directed the Libran' Services and Continuation Act program at the Colorado State Library. Patricia Kelley has been named head of undergraduate services in the University Librar­ ies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Mary Ellen Kennedy joined the Department of Library Science at Ball State University, Mun­ cie, Indiana, as assistant professor. Sandra Kerbel is the new reference librarian in the Graduate School of Business Library, Uni­ versity of Pittsburgh. Robert W. Klapthor has been appointed sci­ ence librarian at Kansas State University Library, Manhattan. Margaret Klinkow has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at New York City Technical Col­ lege, City University of New York. Paul G. Knight, Jr., has been appointed cata­ log librarian at Wichita State University, Kansas. David Kohl is the new Undergraduate Library librarian, University of Illinois, Champaign. Annette LeClair has been appointed catalog/ reference librarian, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Anne M. Leibold is now humanities collection development librarian at Arizona State University Library, Tempe. Gerald Leibowitz is now audiovisual librarian at the Mercy College Libraries, W estchester County, New York. Frank Yining Liu has been named librarian at Duquesne University’s School of Law Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jim Lockwood has been appointed assistant chair to the Oregon State System of Higher Education, Library Council, at the Oregon State University campus, Corvallis. Joan Loslo is the new cataloging librarian at Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Richard Luxner has been appointed reference librarian at New York City Technical College, City University of New York. Mary McCallum has been appointed reference librarian at the Melville Library, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kathleen McClory has been appointed acting reference librarian at Virginia Union University, Richmond. Colin McCurdy is the new systems librarian in the Boston College Libraries. Mary Mallory has been appointed documents librarian and visiting assistant professor of library administration at the University of Illinois Li­ brary, Champaign. James P. Markiewicz has joined the Cornell University Libraries staff as assistant reference librarian in the Albert R. Mann Library. Albert Mate has been appointed university librarian at the University of Windsor, Ontario. Alfred J. Maupin has joined the staff of the Tusculum College Library, Greeneville, Tennes­ see, as instructional/public services librarian. Marilyn Miller is now assistant librarian in general reference and science at Kansas State University Library, Manhattan. Heike Mitchell has been appointed catalog librarian at Miami University Library, Oxford, Ohio. Nancy Moeckel is the new assistant science librarian at Miami University Library, Oxford, Ohio. Peter S. Moon was appointed reference li­ brarian in the Countway Library, Harvard University. Laura R. Nauta was appointed assistant librar­ ian in general reference and cataloging, Kansas State University Library, Manhattan. Leroy Nellis has been named assistant direc­ tor for administrative services at the University of Texas at Austin General Libraries. Ann Nevill is the new health sciences librarian at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sue Norman has been appointed catalog/refer- ence librarian, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn­ sylvania. Nestor L. Osorio is now reference librarian at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Jenni Parrish has been named director of the School of Law Library, University of Pittsburgh. Gail B. Peck has been named project manager of WEBNET (Western Pennsylvania Buhl Net­ work), a project conducted by the Office of Com­ munications at the University of Pittsburgh. Thomas C. Phelps has been appointed head of the Libraries Humanities Projects program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Katharine Poole is now learning resources librarian at the Design School Library, Harvard University. Katherine R. Porter has been appointed chemistry librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Anne Powers has joined the staff of the Uni­ versity of California Library, Santa Barbara, as Black studies librarian. Joan Y. Pursell has been appointed assistant librarian in the Government Publications Depart­ ment, University of California Library, Santa Bar­ bara. Jutta R. Reed is the new director of collection and bibliographic control for the Dartmouth Col- 351 lege Library System, Hanover, New Hampshire. Worley Reynolds was appointed coordinator of library/media services at New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell. Sharon A. Rorerts has been appointed assis­ tant librarian in cataloging at Kansas State Uni­ versity Library, Manhattan. Tim Robson has been appointed music librarian at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Ruth Reinstein Rogers was appointed curator of the Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University. Robert F. Rose is now head of the College of Business Administration Library, Arizona State University, Tempe. Myra Saunders has been appointed reference librarian at Boalt Hall Law School Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Esther Schandorff has been appointed direc­ tor of learning services at Point Loma College, San Diego. Marion Schoon has been named head of refer­ ence in the Harvard College Library. Joan Shreve has been named assistant profes­ sor of library administration and director of the library, Kent State University, East Liverpool campus, Ohio. Eric Smith is now engineering librarian at Duke University Library, Durham, North Caro­ lina. Martha Marshall Smith has been appointed cataloger for the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue for North America, Middleton Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Nathan Snyder is the new Hebrew cataloger- bibliographer with the General Libraries, Uni­ versity of Texas at Austin. Julia F. Sollenberger has joined the staff of the Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester, New York, as head of information ser­ vices. Judith Stanley was appointed reference/cir- culation librarian at the School of Law Library, University of California, Berkeley. Janet Steins has been appointed microforms librarian in the reference department of the Mel­ ville Library, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Jana Stevens has been named assistant head of the acquisitions department, Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina. Alva W. Stewart has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at F.D. Bluford Library, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State Uni­ versity, Greensboro. Mark Sullivan was appointed reference librar­ ian in the Harvard Law School Library. Robert Sullivan is the new public services librarian at the Robert Morris College Library, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Sharon A. Sullivan is the new personnel librarian at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus. Richard Swedburc has been appointed cata­ loger at the Harvard College Library. Phyllis M. Taylor is now reference librarian at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Sonya R. Thelin has been named head of the Public Services Department, Robert Morris Col­ lege Library, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Beverly A. Thompson was appointed assistant chief of bibliographic operations in the Harvard University Library Union Catalog Services Office. Bo-Gay Tong has been appointed assistant librarian in the catalog department, University of California, San Diego. Ralph Wagner has joined the staff of Northern Illinois University Libraries, DeKalb, as business/ economics subject cluster librarian. William B. Wartman III is now director for library and media services at Alderson-Broaddus College, Philippi, West Virginia. Patrice Wehner has been appointed serials cataloger for the Benson Latin American Collec­ tion Materials, University of Texas at Austin. Katherine M. Weir is now head of the Architecture Library, Arizona State University, Tempe. Christie Wilbur is the new assistant head of cataloging, Harvard College Library. Margaret Winchell has been appointed half­ time Slavic librarian at the University of Kansas Library, Lawrence. Virginia Wise has been appointed assistant librarian for public services at the Harvard Law School Library. Diane E. Wood is the new reference librarian at the Joseph E. England Library. Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. Deborah Lee Yerkes has been named assistant documents librarian at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. California Librarians California Academic and Research Librar­ ians (CARL), recently formed by a merger of the California Library Association’s ARL Chapter and the Southern and Northern Cali­ fornia Chapters of ACRL, is now recruiting members. There are no dues for those already members of both CLA and ACRL. Dues for others are $2 for a member of either ACRL or CLA, retired librarians, or library school stu­ dents, and $10 for non-m em bers. Janice Koyama, head of Moffitt Undergraduate Li­ brary, University of California-Berkeley, is president of the organization for 1980. To obtain an application form, contact: Beth Sib­ ley, Moffitt Undergraduate Library, Universi­ ty of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. 352 Glenn A. Zimmerman has been named associ­ ate librarian for management at the Library of Congress. Phyllis Zucker is now library instruction librarian and assistant head of reference at the Mercy College Libraries, Westchester County, New York. RETIREMENTS Edmond L. Applebaum, associate librarian for management at the Library of Congress, retired on July 30 after thirty years of service. Jonel Condron retired as library science li­ brarian, North Texas State University, Denton, on August 31 after fourteen years of service. Palmer E. Cone, head of the Chemistry/Phy- sics Library at the University of Notre Dame, re­ tired on June 30. Madelyn A. Davis retired as serials librarian, Point Loma College, San Diego, on August 30 al­ ter thirteen years of service. Connie Dunlap is retiring at the end of this month from the position of university librarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Dun­ lap has been librarian since she came to Duke in 1975. Dunlap has been ac­ tive in ACRL and ALA throughout her career. She was president of ACRL from 1976 to 1977, and has served as chair of ACRL’s Plan­ ning Committee (1975- 76) and Conference Program Committee (1975-77). In 1972-73 she held the post of Connie Dunlap president of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division, and she currently is a member of the ALA Executive Board. Dunlap obtained her MLb trom the University of Michigan in 1952 and remained there to pur­ sue her library career, becoming head of the graduate library in 1967 and deputy associate director in 1972. She serves on the board of directors of the Association of Research Libraries, and has been a technical advisor to the National Center for the Humanities. She has written frequently for journals, includ­ ing College b Research Libraries and Library Re­ sources and Technical Services, and is a popular speaker at library conferences around the coun­ try. Peggy Harper, associate librarian, Louisiana State University Law Library, Baton Rouge, re­ tired on June 30 after 36 years of service. Eli M. Oboler will retire December 31 as uni­ versity librarian at Idaho State University, Pocatello, after nearly 32 years in that post. Oboler has been ac­ tive in the field of intel­ lectual freedom for many years, and in 1976 he was presented with the Robert B. Downs Award for Intel­ lectual Freedom. He is currently chair of the ALA Intellectual Free­ dom Roundtable and served as vice-president of the Freedom to Read Foundation in 1979-80. In 1981 he will be lec­ Eli M. Oboler turing on intellectual freedom and modern library technology in library schools from Wisconsin to Florida. Oboler has over 300 articles and reviews to his credit, as well as several recent books: Defending Intellectual Freedom: The Library and the Cen­ sors (Greenwood, 1980); Ideas and the University Library: Essays o f an Unorthodox Academic Librarian (Greenwood, 1977); and The Fear of the Word: Censorship and Sex (Scarecrow, 1977) He has also edited three professional journals, the PNLA Quarterly (published by the Pacific Northwest Library Association and for which he received the H.W. Wilson Company Library Periodical Award in 1964), the Idaho Librarian, and the Library Periodicals Round Table News­ letter. During his library career Oboler also broadcast a weekly radio program, “Books and You,” on a local Pocatello radio station for 26 years, and produced and participated in a weekly news-comment television program on PBS station KBGL. Oboler is a graduate of the University of Chica­ go and Columbia University. In 1963-64 he served as chair of ACRL’s College Libraries Sec­ tion. Rolland Stevens, professor emeritus of library science at the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has retired after a 17-year teaching career in the GSLS. Stevens received both an MLS and a Ph.D. from Illinois. Prior to his tenure at GSLS, Stevens was head of reference and assistant to the director, Uni­ versity of Rochester Library, 1946-48; head of ac­ quisitions, Ohio State University, 1950-53; assis­ tant director of technical processes, Ohio State, 1953-60; and associate director, Ohio State, 1960-63. At the University of Illinois, his particular teaching and research interests have included book selection, collection development, reference in the social sciences and humanities, history of 3 5 3 books and libraries, and the resources of research libraries. Ruth Schweickart, catalog librarian at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, retired in August after 33 years of service. Thomas Tullos, assistant professor and senior acquisitions bibliographer, retired from the Mem­ phis State University Libraries on August 29. Rose Vainstein, Margaret Mann professor of library science, has taken an early retirem ent from the faculty of the Univerity of Michigan with the close of the 1979-80 academic year. Gordon Williams has retired after 21 years as the director of the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago. When he assumed the position in 1959, the organization was known as the Midwest Inter-L ibrary C en ter and its m em bership consisted of tw enty M idwestern in stitu ­ tions. The collection contained approximate­ ly 1.5 million volumes. When Williams retired June 30, th ere were 114 full members and 67 associate members throughout the United States and Canada. Gordon Williams P rio r to h is position at the Center, Williams was assistant university librarian at the University of California at Los Angeles for seven years. He received his master's degree from the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. Williams is the author of many articles in the literature of librarianship. He has also authored two books: Fantasy in a Woodblock, published by the Caxton Club in 1972, and Beu›ick to Doves- ton—Letters 1824-1828, published by Nattali and Maurice in 1968. Williams also serves on the board of trustees of the Illinois Regional Library Council and Biolog­ ical Abstracts. Walter W. Wright, chief of special collections and curator of rare books at Dartmouth College since 1968, retired on July 1. DEATHS Lyle E. Bamber, former biology librarian and professor of library administration at the Uni­ versity of Illinois Library, Urbana-Champaign, died on Wednesday, O ctober 15, following a short illness. Bamber served as a librarian at Illinois from 1940 to 1971. He was a contributor in the field of biology to the University of Illinois publication, Bibliography: Current State and Future Trends, in 1967. Rita Benton, music librarian and professor in the School of Music at the University of Iowa, died in Paris, France, on March 23, 1980. Dorothy Laughlin, former head of the Cata­ loging Department at the University of Notre Dame library, died on August 20. She had re­ tired in 1976 after 32 years of service as a librar­ ian. Ellen Butler Stutsman, head of the Catalog Department at the University of Kentucky library from 1932-67, died on August 13 after a long ill­ ness. Maurice F. Tauber, an internationally recog­ nized authority on library science and for 32 years a Columbia University professor, died Sun­ day, September 21, in the New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center after a brief illness. He was 72 years old and lived in Manhattan. Tauber’s prolific writings (M. C. Szigethy’s Maurice Falcolm Tauber: A Biobibliography 1934-1973, Scarecrow, 1974, lists over 500 works by or about him) were instrumental in estab­ lishing his national and international reputation as one of America’s foremost authorities in catalog­ ing, classification, and technical processes in general. He was equally well known as a surveyor of American and foreign libraries. His surveys of the libraries of the University of South Carolina (1946), Cornell University (1948) and the Colum­ bia University self-survey (1958) are considered landmarks. His monumental survey of Australian library resources, conducted at the request of the Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services while he was in Australia as a Fulbright scholar, worn him international acclaim. Tauber came to Columbia in 1944 as assistant director of the University Libraries and assistant professor of Columbia’s School of Library Service. He was named associate professor in 1946 and full professor in 1949. In 1954 he was appointed to the Melvil Dewey Professorship at the school, and on his retirem ent in 1976 he was named Dewey professor emeritus. While earning a master’s degree in sociology at Temple University, Tauber worked in the library and became head of the cataloging department in 1934. He was research assistant at the University of Chicago in 1939, and was named chief of that library’s catalog department and preparations di­ vision in 1941, the same year he was awarded his Ph.D. from Chicago’s Graduate Library School. The Tauber family has established a memorial fund at the School of Library Service, Columbia University, in his memory. ■■ 35 4 RESEARCH LIBRARIES TO ADVISE OCLC Directors of eleven research libraries that are m em bers of OCLC have announced plans to establish a Research Libraries Advisory Commit­ tee to OCLC. The group of directors will hold a series of regional caucuses around the country to meet with other research library directors whose libraries are OCLC members. The participants will then select priorities to be communicated to the advisory committee. The eleven directors have met three times since April, 1980, to establish such a committee. According to Harold Billings, director of libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and acting chair of the group, a meeting of the advisory com m ittee is being planned to coincide with ALA’s 1981 Midwinter Conference. A new pub­ lication, Research Libraries in OCLC: A Quarter­ ly, will also make its debut at ALA Midwinter. Members of the group are: Harold W. Billings, University of Texas at Austin; Richard E. Chapin, Michigan State University; James F. Govan, Uni­ versity of North Carolina; Roger K. Hanson, Uni­ versity of Utah; Gustave A. Harrer, University of Florida; W. David Laird, University of Arizona; Jay K. Lucker, Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ nology; Peter Paulsen, New York State Library; Saktidas Roy, State University of New York at Buffalo; Kenneth E. Toombs, University of South Carolina; and Joesph H. Treyz, Jr., University of Wisconsin. ■■ P u b lica tio n s RECEIVED (Selected items will be reviewed in future issues of College & Research Libraries.) • Studies in Creative Partnership: Federal Aid to Public Libraries During the New Deal, edited by Daniel R. Ring (Scarecrow, 1980, $8.50), ex­ amines “the accomplishments of the Work Pro­ jects Administration in the public libraries of New York City, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Baltimore, and Minneapolis.” • The personnel policies of 52 academic and public libraries were examined for Personnel Poli­ cies in Libraries, edited by Nancy Patton Van Zant (Neal-Schuman, 1980, $19.95). In addition to a cross-section of policies, the results of a “sur­ vey of over 1000 libraries offers insight into cur­ rent status and trends of personnel policy-making and practice in libraries.” • In The Library in the University: Observa­ tions on a Service (Westview, 1980, $22) Norman Highman, university librarian, Bristol University, surveys the field of academic librarianship, “de­ fines the academic librarian’s place within the university, and puts the role of the academic li­ brary into perspective for the future.” • The R. R. Bowker Co. has published a guide to Grant Money and How to Get It: A Handbook for Librarians (1980, $19.95) written by Richard W. Boss, former director of libraries at Princeton University and now senior consultant at Informa­ tion Systems Consultants, Inc. • A survey of health sciences librarianship, from the use of handw ritten cards in biblio­ graphic control to online access to computerized data bases, is provided by Jack Key and Thomas Keys in Classics and Other Selected Readings for Medical Librarians (Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., 1980, $24.50). This compilation of papers provides an overview of the health sciences field during an era of great change. • Advances in Data Base Management, vol. 1, (Heyden, 1980) “deals with all stages of the life cycle of a data base management system, from original planning and design through ongoing op­ eration and future developm ents.’ E dited by Thomas A. Rullo, Advances is part of the Heyden Advances Library in EDP Management series. • A practical guide for librarians interested in starting or improving library instruction is avail­ able from Neal-Schuman. Bibliographic Instruc­ tion: A Handbook by Beverly Renford and Linnea Hendrickson (1980, $14.95) provides step-by-step plans for developing all phases of library instruc­ tion programs. • Serial Publications: Their Place and Treat­ ment in Libraries, 3d ed., (ALA, 1980, $20) by Andrew D. Osborn “updates wherever appropri­ ate the facts about the character and management of serials, but its emphasis is upon succinctly de­ scribing newer developments like OCLC, CON- SER, and AACR2 and elaborating on the new opportunities they make possible in serials work. ” • Edmund F. SantaVicca, Department of Li­ brary Science, Peabody College, Vanderbilt, has developed a practical tool for those interested in developing their reference skills. Reference Skills in the Humanities (Scarecrow, 1980, $9) “includes more than 1,000 exercises designed to develop reference skills in the school, public, academic