ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 188 / C &RL News EOPL E Profiles R ay E n g l is h has been appointed Azariah Smith Root director of libraries at Oberlin College, Ober- lin, Ohio. English came to Oberlin as head refer­ ence librarian in 1979. In 1986 he was given the additional title of associ­ ate d irector and as­ sumed the responsibili­ ties of budget manage­ m ent and p ersonnel ad m inistration. Last S ep tem b er he was named acting director of libraries, following the resignation of William A. Moffett, who is now director of the Hunting­ B ay English ton Library in San Mar­ ino, California. English graduated with honors in German from Davidson College in 1969, and he holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in German literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also earned the MLS at Chapel Hill. Before coming to Oberlin he worked in libraries at the University of Virginia and Duke University. He has published articles on both library issues and German literature. Active in professional organizations, English is a member of two ACRL committees: the Academic Library Statistics Committee and the College Library’s Section CLIP Notes Committee. At the ALA an­ nual conference next summer, English will chair a LAMA program on library budget priorities. A r t h u r C . G u n n has been appointed chief li­ brarian at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He comes to Hunter from Wayne State University, where he was on the library school faculty. Prior to joining the faculty at Wayne State, Gunn served as director of the AÍro-American Li­ brary at the University of Pittsburgh for three years. He has also been head of public services for the Founders Library at Howard University. Gunn has an MSLS from Atlanta University and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. His research in­ terests include early education opportunities in librarianship for blacks. D ia n e H . S m i t h has been promoted to the po­ sition of chief of the humanities and social sciences department at Penn State’s University Libraries, University Park. Before accepting this appoint­ ment, Smith was project lead er for th e com ­ puter-based resources and services team at the University Libraries. P rior to 1 989, she served Penn State as docum ents librarian, head of the documents section, and head of the documents and maps section. She completed Diane H. Smith her undergraduate stud­ ies at Mary Washington College in Virginia and holds two master’s degrees: an MLS from the University of North Carolina and an MBA from Penn State. People in the news H i r a m L . D a v is , director of Michigan State University Libraries in East Lansing, has been appointed to the Library of Michigan Board of Trustees by Governor James Blanchard. He re­ places Peter Kempel of Cooley Law School, Lan­ sing, as a representative of Michigan academic libraries. The appointment is for three years. March 1991/189 J o a n n e R . E u s t e r has been elected to the board of directors of CAUSE for a three-year term, be­ ginning in 1991. Euster, who is vice president for information services and university librarian at Rutgers University, is a former president of ACRL and is chair-elect of the Research Libraries Group. M a r y E l l e n K e c k will be assisting staff of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Infor­ mation Science (NCLIS) in preparing a strategic framework for Native American libraries. Through June 1, 1991, Keck will work with tribal leaders, federal officials, congressional staff, and educators to develop a long-range plan to provide Native American tribes with adequate library and infor­ mation services. Keck has worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior since 1969. She was chief of Public Service and Technical Services for the U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Re­ sources Library and Law Library during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1984—85, she participated in the Interior Departmental Manager Development Program. Since then she has served as a staff assistant in the Office of the Secretary. Most re­ cently she successfully concluded an A-76 Review of the Interior Library. She has also worked with the Bureau o f Indian Affairs (BIA) in developing opening day collections for BIA school libraries throughout the United States, conducted manage­ ment efficiency studies in the health and human service areas for the Government of American Samoa, and developed long-range planning strate­ gies in the area o f Information Resources Manage­ ment. A recipient of a Title II-B Higher Education Act fellowship, Keck received her MLS from the Catholic University of America. She has an under­ graduate degree in secondary education. Appointments (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and appointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) G o r d o n T . A a m o t has been appointed head of the Business Administration Library at the Univer­ sity of Washington, Seattle. R a l p h A l b e r i c o has been named head librarian of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Texas at Austin. E l i z a b e t h A n d r e w s has been appointed refer­ ence archivist in Archives and Special Collections at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cam­ bridge. N a n c y B i e r s c h e n k has been appointed assis­ tant executive director for administrative services at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medi­ cal Center Library. D a m o n C a m i l l e has been appointed assistant executive director for library services at the Hous­ ton Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Libraiy. M i c h e l e V a l e r i e C l o o n a n is now an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Califor­ nia, Los Angeles. W i l l i a m P . C o l l i n s , has been named Chief of the Cataloging Division o f the Copyright Office at the Library o f Congress. M i c h e l e C r u m p is now an acquisitions librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville. M a r t h a E . D a v is has been appointed technical services librarian o f the M.W. Bell Libraiy at G uilford T ech n ical Com munity C ollege in Jamestown, North Carolina. M a r k D im u n a t io n has been selected to head Cornell University’s Rare Book Department in the Olin Library in Ithaca, New York. C h r i s F e r g u s o n is now head of Central Univer­ sity I jbrary s Research Services Department at University of California, San Diego. R o b e r t G r a p p o n e has been appointed head of reader services at John Jay College o f Criminal Justice Library in New York City. R o s e m a r y H a d d a d has been promoted to head, rare books and preservation, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Quebec. J a n n e t t e H a r t l e y is now technical services coordinator at Miller Library, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. S u sa n S a r e P o l it a n o H a y n e s has been ap­ pointed associate librarian for collection services at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. J a n J o r g e n s e n has accepted the position of U.S. documents head at Coe Library, University of Wyoming, Laramie. R o b i n L e c k b e e has accepted a position as spe­ cial collections librarian at Lake Forest College, Illinois. M ir a n d a L e e has accepted a temporary ap­ pointment as a science reference librarian at the University of California, Riverside. J a n i c e L i n d q u i s t has been named serial acqui­ sitions librarian at the University of Missouri-Kan- sas City Libraries. M a r il y n L u t z k e r has been promoted to chief librarian at John Jay College o f Criminal Justice Library in New York City. P a t r ic ia L y s y k has been named acting head of the Hamber Library, University of British Colum­ bia, Vancouver, for the period December 1, 1990, to June 30, 1992. G u i l l e r m o N a n e z F a l c o n is now head of the 190 / C &RL News Latin American Library at Tulane University in New Orleans. B o n n te N e l s o n has been appointed deputy chief librarian at John Jay College of Criminal Justice Library in New York City. R osa n n a M . O ’ N e i l has been appointed chief of the Cataloging Department at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. R o s e M a r i e O n ie w s k i has been appointed head of documents and microforms at the University of South Alabama, Mobile. A r l e n e P a r k e r has been appointed the access services librarian at Harvard University’s Count­ way Library of Medicine in Cambridge, Massachu­ setts. B e t s y P o r t e r has accepted the position of head of reference at Coe Library, University of Wyo­ ming, Laramie. I s a r e l d e l C a r m e n Q u in ta n a has been ap­ pointed cataloging librarian in the Tozzer Library at Harvard University. V o l λ n t e R u s s e l l has been appointed associate librarian in the Law Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. S h a r o n K . S c o t t has been named serials librar­ ian at the University o f Nevada, Reno. R u t h S h o g e is now reference and instruction librarian at Washington College in Maiyland. R e g in a S in c l a ir is the newest Mellon Intern in the Preservation Department at Stanford Univer­ sity Libraries, California. D o r m a n S m i t h is now director of public serv­ ices at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. M a d e l e i n e T a in t o n has been named media services director at Nazareth College of Rochester, New York. R ic h a r d V a u g h n is a newly appointed assistant librarian in acquisitions and serials control in the Law Libraiy at Indiana University, Bloomington. A n n a W u has been appointed physical sciences reference librarian at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. A n g e l a Y a n g has been appointed multicultural services librarian at the University of California, Irvine. E l i z a b e t h Z u e l k e is a newly appointed visiting assistant librarian in government publications at Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. Retirements G e o r g e B l a c k has retired after 22 years as head of the Science Division at Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. B e r n a r d D e n h a m has left the Stanford Univer­ sity Libraries after 23 years of service. Denham joined the staff in 1967 after taking his MLS from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1974 he has been head of the Interlibraries Services Division. W o l f g a n g M . F r e i t a g , librarian of the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, has announced that he will retire on June 30. Freitag, who recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/ NA), has served the Harvard Library in various positions since 1951. In 1962 he left Harvard to become chief of the Undergraduate Library Divi­ sion at Stanford, but he returned in 1964 when the fine arts post became open. Freitag will be teaching a course on art librarianship at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Sci­ ence and working on two publishing projects: the “Garland Artist Resource Manuals,” of which he is the general editor, and a new edition of his major work, Art Books: A Basic Bibliography o f Mono­ graphs on Artists. A n n N e l s o n , head of the Hamber Library at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, retired at the end of November. Nelson obtained her undergraduate degree at UBC in zoology and bac­ teriology and her BLS at the University of Toronto. Between 1949 and 1953 she worked as a librarian in various positions in British Columbia and Ontario, including two years in the Reference Division at UBC Library. She returned to the UBC Library in 1966, starting as a reference librarian in the Sci­ ence Division. In 1972 she became head of the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology Institute Library, a position she held until the branch closed in 1982. After an assignment as acting deputy librarian in Woodward, she became head of Ham­ ber Library, a new branch library at the site of Children’s, Grace, and Shaughnessy Hospitals. Deaths E s t h e r W i l l a r d A n e l l , former serials cata­ loged died at the Evenglow Lodge in Pontiac, Illinois, on November 16, 1990, at the age of 92. She had retired in 1965 after 44 years of service at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she was in charge of reporting the library’s holdings to New Serial Titles. She was born in Shelby, Kansas, and was a graduate of the State University of Iowa. She received her BLS from the University o f Illinois Library School in 1926. J a m e s D . H a r t , director of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1969, died at his Berkeley home on July 23, 1990. March 1991/191 During his tenure he worked ceaselessly to build Bancroft’s collections and resources, with remark­ able success. Before becoming director of the Bancroft, Hart taught with distinction in the Eng­ lish Department at Berkeley for more than four decades. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963 for his services to literature. His publications reflect both his knowl­ edge of American literature and his informed en­ thusiasm for the culture and history of California; they include The Oxford Companion to American Literature‚ now in its fifth edition, and A Com pan­ ion to California, first published in 1978 and reis­ sued in an expanded edition two years ago. He also wrote major works on Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Norris, and Francis Parkman; a history of popular literary taste in the United States; and other works on various aspects of literary culture and taste. He was a fellow of the American Acad­ emy of Arts and Sciences and the American Anti­ quarian Society, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by Mills College in 1978. Hart graduated from Stanford University in 1932 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard Univer­ sity in 1936. He was chairman of the English Department at Berkeley from 1955 to 1957 and again from 1965 to 1969. He also served as Berkeley’s vice chancellor for academic affairs from 1957 to 1960. W . S t a n l e y H o o l e , dean emeritus of Univer­ sity of Alabama Libraries, died December 12 at the age of 87. He served as director and dean of libraries at UA from 1944 until his retirement in 1973. He was a nationally known librarian, scholar, and author. A graduate of Wofford College, he received his doctorate in American history and literature at Duke University. He was responsible for the establishment of UA’s Special Collections Department which was named the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library in 1977. Prior to his tenure at UA, he served as librarian at Birming- ham-Southern College, Baylor University, and North Texas University. One of the organizers of UA’s library school, he served as the first professor there. S i s t e r M a r y D e n n i s L y n c h , SHCJ, director of the library at Rosemont College, Ambler, Pennsyl­ vania, died on November 14,1990, at the age of 70. For 37 years she provided leadership in the library community of the greater Philadelphia area, and she was president of the Catholic Library Organi­ zation 1983-1985. She held several degrees, in­ cluding the M SLS from Catholic University of America, and was listed in W ho’s W ho o f American W omen, W ho’s W ho in L ib rary Science, and W ho’s W ho in Am erican Education. She was a member of ACRL and served as an OCLC Users Council delegate. S h e i l a N e v i l l e , who had worked in the Univer­ sity o f British Columbia Libraries, Vancouver, for 20 years, died in December. She began her career in a part-time position in the Extension Library and, in 1973, was appointed as supervisor of the Reserve Book Collection and the Extension Li­ brary, a position she held until her retirement in 1985. G e r t r u d e W h i t e , head of current periodicals at the Stanford University Libraries during the 1960s and 1970s, died December 23 after a stay in the hospital for heart related disorders. She is remembered at Stanford for her great spirits, her encouragement of young people, and the pleasure she took in her daughter’s success on the stage in New York. ■ ■ ALA protests donation to Columbia ALA is urging the Carnegie Corporation of New York to reconsider donating its archives to Columbia University. In a letter to David A. Hamburg, president o f the Carnegie Corpora­ tion, ALA President Richard M. Dougherty said, “Although well intentioned, your gift is misplaced and ill-timed. Knowing of Carnegie’s long and generous support o f libraries, I am assuming you are not aware that the Columbia Board of Trustees recently announced its intent to close the School of Library Science— the country’s oldest such program for librarians.” ALA believes this action to be shortsighted, Dougherty said. “In all of history, there has never been a greater need for those who would serve as information professionals.” Dougherty recognizes the distinguished na­ ture of Columbia’s libraries but that the deci­ sion to close the library school reflects a lack of commitment by the university. He said he is asking the Carnegie Corporation to reconsider its decision in favor of a college or university with a clear commitment to libraries, librarians, and those who benefit from their services. ACRL membership booth volunteers We need volunteer ACRL members to help us at our membership booth at ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, June 29-July 4, 1991. All members interested in volunteering please call Betsy N. Hine, head, monograph cataloging, Indiana State University: (812) 237-2573.