ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Personnel
William Stone Budington has been ap­

pointed executive director and librarian of The 
John Crerar Library to succeed the under­
signed on April 1,
1969. He joined the 
Crerar staff in 1952 as 
associate librarian, and 
has served as librarian 
since 1965.

Mr. Budington s ed­
ucation, professional 
activities and experi­
ence combine to make 
this appointment a 
logical one. His aca­
demic and profession­

Mr. Budingtonal education includes 
degrees from Williams
College (American literature); Virginia Poly­
technic Institute (electrical engineering); and 
Columbia University (library science).

His professional memberships and activities 
include ALA, SLA, ASIS, ASEE, the Chemical 
Literature Section of ACS, and AAAS; and he 
has been a working member. For example: in 
ALA, he has served on the executive boards of 
Engineering Libraries Section—Pure and Ap­
plied Science; Reference Services Division; and 
Copying Methods Section, including chairman­
ship during 1967/68. His activities in SLA 
have included many committees and offices, in­
cluding presidency of both the national organ­
ization and the Illinois chapter. He has also 
found time for participation in a variety of 
meetings and special conferences, a recent oc­
casion being the 1968 summer conference of 
the graduate library school, University of Chi­
cago. A footnote to the scope of his interests is 
his affiliation with, fraternal organizations—Phi 
Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi 
Kappa Phi and Phi Delta Theta.

In his activities at Crerar, Bill Budington 
has been an associate administrator in the full 
sense of the term. And in certain special serv­
ices of the library he has carried major re­
sponsibilities. For some years he was in direct 
charge of Research Information Service, and in 
the development and growth of the Transla­
tions Center he was the Crerar representative 
in almost endless conferences, negotiations, and 
liaison activities that accompany a cooperative 
enterprise. There will be no hiatus here in the 
changing of the guard.

I would end on a personal note. It has long 
been my conviction that no action of an ex­
ecutive is more important than the choice of 
the men and women who make wheels turn in 
the right direction. One of the most important 
actions I took at the Library of Congress was 
to insist on the appointment of Seymour Lu- 
betzky. At Crerar, the instance was my ap­
pointment of Bill Budington as my Associate. I 
have long seen him as my successor, and it was 
pleasant to have our Board of Directors con­
firm that judgment. The inexorable quality of 
time is not unwelcome when the shape of 
events fulfills expectations.—Herman H. Henkle, 
The John Crerar Library.

Charles E. Nairn, a native of Ohio, re­
cently moved to the uppermost tip of Michigan 
where he assumed the directorship of the Lake 
Superior State College
library. Mr. N airn 
earned his Bachelor of 
Arts and Master of 
Arts degrees in librar- 
ianship at Kent State 
University, Ohio. He 
also holds a Bachelor 
of Divinity degree 
from Oberlin College.

He brings thor­
oughgoing and valu­
able knowledge to his Mr. Nairnnew position. With ex­
perience gained from
situations in the Cleveland Public Library and 
the Lorain ( Ohio) Public Library, he acquired 
his first college library experience at Upper 
Iowa College, Fayette, Iowa. He obtained a 
very special administrative and planning skill 
while working on the preparation of a new 
building there.

From Iowa he returned to his native state to 
accept the directorship of the Findlay College 
library. The library prospered under his direc­
tion. There was an unprecedented increase in 
holdings. The planning of and moving into the 
beautiful and functional Schafer Library was 
accomplished under his leadership.

While at Findlay College, Mr. Nairn served 
as president of the Faculty Professional Club, 
was one of the founders of the Northwestern 
Ohio Academic Librarians, and was on the



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staff development committee of the Ohio Li­
brary Association. In addition to membership 
in the American Library Association and the 
American Association of University Professors, 
he has membership in several national learned 
societies which are relevant to librarianship and 
philosophy and religion.

Always anxious for bigger and more satisfy­
ing accomplishments, Mr. Nairn is now faced 
with phenomenal collection building. A new 
building on the order of $2,000,000 is in the 
planning stage at Lake Superior State College. 
Using his ministerial talent he will also serve as 
Resident Director of the Wesley Foundation.

Mr. Nairn’s personal assets range from his 
deeply religious nature to his active, informa­
tive professional contacts. He also finds time 
for gardening, music, fishing, camping, reading, 
and creative writing. His is not the narrow 
sectarian approach but a broadly based feeling 
for humanity.

Ohio’s loss of this gentleman, scholar, and 
professional librarian is a considerable gain for 
Michigan. Lake Superior State College is for­
tunate in having a librarian of Mr. Nairn’s 
stature and background of administrative ac­
complishments to direct its burgeoning program. 
—Carson W. Bennett, Heidelberg College.

On or before 1 July 1969 James H. Rich­
ards, Jr. becomes director of libraries at the 
University of Wyoming. Colleagues and friends 
in Minnesota will miss
his calm counsel as he 
leaves the state after 
seventeen years of 
service as librarian 
and professor at 
Carleton College in 
Northfield where he 
was part of the insti­
tutional thrust to­
wards academic ex­
cellence and played a 
key role in the devel­

Mr. Richardsopment and creation 
of an undergraduate
collection and library building, both among the 
finest in the country. With a national reputation 
as impeccable as the institution he has served 
so well, Jim also has made major professional 
contributions in responding with easy grace to 
the many demands placed on him by the Min­
nesota Library Association, ACRL, and ALA.

Most of us can usually count on the fingers 
of one hand those persons, prominent or ob­
scure, who have significantly altered or shaped 
our lives. A librarian was one of the shapers in 
the life of Jim Richards, who first became ac­
quainted in his freshman year with Fremont 
Rider, then librarian at Wesleyan. More than 
anyone else, Rider helped Richards to trace out

an educational pattern bridging the World War 
II years which eventually led Jim to his con­
tinuing commitment to academic librarianship.

Born in Scranton in 1918, Jim graduated 
with honors in history at Wesleyan University 
in 1940 and stayed on, earning an MA in 
American history the following year. He served, 
was wounded, and cited for bravery as a field 
artillery officer in World War II, then went to 
the Columbia school of library service, gradu­
ating in 1947. Before coming to Minnesota, 
Jim was librarian at Earlham College in Indi­
ana from 1947 to 1950, and assistant librarian 
at George Washington University from 1950 to 
1952.

His services to librarianship are too numerous 
for listing and include many committee assign­
ments with several state library associations, 
and with ACRL and ALA. In recent years he 
has worked actively in support of intellectual 
freedom, accreditation, recruiting, and more 
meaningful and effective academic library co­
operation in Minnesota. The Associated Col­
leges of the Midwest will also miss his leader­
ship in the development of their new coopera­
tive periodical bank and service library. As he 
has had time he has further rounded out a re­
warding professional life as a consultant to vari­
ous academic libraries as well as to the U.S. 
Office of Education and through short-term 
teaching assignments in Indiana, Minnesota and 
New York.

When Jim came to Carleton in 1952 his 
academic, military, and professional credentials 
were presented in the July issue of College ír 
Research Libraries (XIII, 265). He was trav­
eling in fine company then. The same issue 
noted the move of Melvin Voigt from Carnegie 
Tech to the University of California, Andrew 
Horn to UCLA, and Robert Vosper to the Uni­
versity of Kansas—the Vosper note written by 
Lawrence Clark Powell whom I first met 
through Jim Richards. He continues to travel 
in good company, joining James Ranz, now 
dean of academic affairs at the University of 
Wyoming and its librarian from 1955 to 1962.

At Wyoming, Jim will be working with a 
larger collection, 500,000 volumes, growing an­
nually by some 20,000 additions, and drawing 
also on the area’s other library resources 
through the Rocky Mountain Bibliographic Cen­
ter. He will be supervising a much larger staff, 
and supporting growing professional schools as 
well as undergraduates. The Coe Library there 
has long had a reputation for its holdings in 
western Americana, particularly strong in its 
coverage of the cattle industry. Recently the 
university established as a part of the library a 
Western History Research Center. I believe I 
am correct in recalling also that Wyoming has 
one of the better collections on cavalry opera­
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service, a transparency for overhead classroom

A fellow Pennsylvanian, Jim has responded 
even more strongly than I to the openness of 
the western high plains areas and in the prime 
of his working life can be counted on to find 
not only professional but also personal sat­
isfactions as he takes up his new duties in 
Laramie where the vistas are more exciting and 
the ski slopes less congested!—James F. Holly, 
Macalester College

On October 16, 1968, Theodore Ryberg be­
gan his new duties as Dean of Instructional 
Services at the University of South Florida, 
bringing to this chal­
lenging assignment a 
rich professional ex­
perience. Since 1957, 
when he received his 
Master’s degree in Li­
brary Science at 
Western Reserve Uni­
versity, he has moved 
rapidly from a cata- 
loger at the Rochester 
Institute of Technolo­
gy, to assistant direc­ Mr. Rybergtor of the University 
of Ruffalo library, to
assistant director of the Syracuse University li­
braries, to the director of the University of 
Alaska libraries, a position he has held with 
distinction for the past five years.

Throughout his career, Ted Ryberg has con­
sistently accepted positions which made new 
and heavier demands on him. Each new posi­
tion offered him a distinctly different type of 
experience. These opportunities came to him 
because he had demonstrated his shrewdness in 
relating experience to new situations, his keen­
ness in analyzing problems, and his sound 
judgment in making decisions and taking ac­
tion. Ted Ryberg was consistent when he left 
the University of Alaska for the University of 
South Florida. As Dean of Instructional Serv­
ices, he has an opportunity to administer a 
multi-media information system for a young but 
already distinguished community. Specifically, 
he will be coordinating the University’s library, 
AV Center, Graphics and Photographic Serv­
ices, Educational and closed circuit TV, FM 
Station, Curriculum Laboratory, and Instruc­
tional Materials Center.

Mr. Ryberg will be concerned with the infor­
mation needs of administrative officers, faculty 
members, students and specialists in the Tampa 
area. These needs range from the critical in­
terpretation of student revolt on campuses to 
collateral readings for a Freshman course. 
These needs will be fulfilled by resources as 
diverse as a sophisticated personal reference 

projection, or a closed circuit TV lecture. To 
each of these needs, Ted Ryberg brings wis­
dom, originality, empathy, and a sincere service 
motivation. He participated in Library 21, and 
no doubt he will use that experience to good 
advantage now.

Tours of duty with the Navy and Maritime 
Service, and an innate love of the sea, help to 
explain Ted Ryberg’s devotion to sailing. He 
has sailed from Chesapeake Bay, Cape Cod, 
and Puget Sound. Although boatless when he 
drove almost 5,000 miles from Fairbanks, Alas­
ka to Tampa, Florida, it will probably only be 
a matter of time before he sets sails to the 
wind in the Gulf of Mexico.—Wayne S. Yena- 
wine, University of Louisville.

A P P O I N T M E N T S

Harold Bloomquist has been appointed li­
brarian of the Francis A. Countway library of 
medicine at Harvard University.

Mrs. Mary E lisabeth Dudman is now cir­
culation librarian at Bates College library, 
Lewiston, Me.

Mrs. Adrienne C. Grenfell has joined the 
staff of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as sci­
ence reference librarian.

Barbara Hendry has been appointed mili­
tary document indexer at Air University li­
brary.

Mrs. Heike Luehning Kordish has been ap­
pointed library systems analyst at Columbia 
University.

Mrs. Nina Lencek has been named East 
Central European bibliographer at the Colum­
bia University libraries.

George Lowy is now assistant head of ac­
quisitions, Columbia University libraries. Mr. 
Lowy will be responsible for overall collection 
development and particularly for development 
of collections for area institutes and related 
programs.

Edwin E. Olson has been appointed an as­
sociate professor in the school of library and 
information services, University of Maryland.

Arthur Plotnik has been appointed as as­
sociate editor of the Wilson Library Bulletin.

Patrick Rae has been named head of the 
Parkinson Information Center, Columbia Uni­
versity medical library.

Mrs. Mary Anne Rangel-Guerrero has 
joined the Eastern New Mexico University ref­
erence library staff as the institution’s first map 
librarian.

Mrs. Gertrude A. Reinach has joined the 
staff of Monmouth College, West Long Branch, 
N.J., as an assistant librarian.

Edmund Rubacha has joined the staff of the 
catalog department of the Wesleyan University 
library, Middletown, Conn.

Frances Rucks has been appointed editor



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of Air University library bibliographic publica­
tions.

Liela Russell has accepted appointment as 
a reference librarian at Air University.

Fred C. Schmidt has been appointed docu­
ments librarian at Colorado State University.

Mrs. Meta Shackelford is now an indexer 
at Air University library.

Tai-Hing Shen has joined the staff of the 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, as 
serials librarian.

Philip Shih has been appointed to the ref­
erence faculty at Wichita State University.

Peter Alan Simmons has been named as­
sistant professor of librarianship at the Uni­
versity of British Columbia, effective July 1, 
1969.

Walter W. Slocum has accepted appoint­
ment as acquisition librarian (serials) and in­
structor in library administration at the Uni­
versity of Oregon.

Edward G. Strable has been appointed 
manager of information services in the Chicago 
office of J. Walter Thompson Co.

Dolores Tambellini is now assistant circu­
lation librarian at San Diego State College.

Joanne A. Vinson has joined the staff of 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a catalog li­
brarian.

LATEST CATALOG LISTING..... NEWSPAPERS ALONG 

Ann Louise Wood has been appointed 
South Asian bibliographer, Columbia University 
libraries.

N E C R O L O G Y

Elsie Rackstraw, who retired as chief of 
the loan division in the Library of Congress in 
1950, died December 11 in Towson, Md.

R E T IR E M E N T S

Mrs. Helen Dudenbostel Jones, head of 
the bibliography and reference correspondence 
section of the general reference and bibliog­
raphy division in the Library of Congress, re­
tired on January 2 after thirty years of service.

E lva L. Krogh, assistant chief of the dec­
imal classification division, retired December 31 
after more than thirty years of service in the 
Library of Congress.

Miriam C. Maloy, assistant librarian and 
head of technical services at Stanislaus State 
College, retired November 1, after thirty years 
of service in librarianship.

Mrs. Thelma V. Taylor, coordinator of li­
brary services at Los Angeles Harbor College, 
retired June 30 after forty-five years of teach­
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