ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


College & Research 
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ACRL Officers for 1973/74
Norman E. Tanis, director of university li­

braries at California State University in North­
ridge, is president of the Association of College 
and Research Libraries for 1973/74. As presi­
dent of ACRL, Tanis serves as chairman of the 
ACRL Executive Committee, of the ACRL 
Board of Directors, and of the ACRL Confer­
ence Program Planning Committee for the 1974 
Annual Conference in New York. He also serves

Norman
Tanis

as a member of the Choice Editorial Board and 
as an ex-officio member of the ACRL Planning 
Committee and of all units of ACRL.

Tanis has been active in ACRL affairs for 
many years. In the past, he has served as chair­
man of the Committee on Standards and Ac­
creditation and as chairman of the Junior Col­

lege Libraries Section. He has been a member 
of the ACRL/ARL Joint Committee on Univer­
sity Library Standards and of the CRL Edito­
rial Board. He has also served on several ALA 
committees and as an ALA representative to 
other educational and professional organiza­
tions.

The newly elected vice-president and presi­
dent-elect of ACRL is H. William Axford, Uni­
versity of Oregon librarian. In the elections 
held late this spring, Axford received a total of 
1,567 votes. Jane G. Flener, associate universi­
ty librarian for public services at the Universi­
ty of California in Berkeley, received 1,524 
votes.

William
Axford

Axford’s service to ACRL and ALA has also 
been long and varied. This has included chair­

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News editor: Allan Dyson, Moffitt Undergraduate Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. 
Associate News editor: Susana Hinojosa, Assistant Librarian, Reference Department, Moffitt Undergraduate Library. 
Editor: Richard M. Dougherty, University Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. President, 
ACRL: Russell Shank. Executive Secretary, ACRL: Beverly Lynch, ALA.



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manship of the ACRL Committee on Standards 
and Accreditation, and membership on the 
CRL Editorial Board and on the University Li­
braries Section Urban Universities Library 
Committee. In ALA’s Resources and Technical 
Services Division, Axford has served as a mem­
ber of the Committee on Preservation of Li­
brary Materials, as a member of the Policy and 
Research Committee of the Acquisitions Sec­
tion, and as a member-at-large on the Execu­
tive Committee of the Reproduction of Library 
Materials Section.

As vice-president of ACRL, Axford serves as 
a member of the ACRL Executive Committee 
and as an officer on the ACRL Board of Direc­
tors. He will chair the ACRL Planning Com­
mittee and the ACRL Conference Program 
Planning Committee for the 1975 Annual Con­
ference in San Francisco. Axford will represent 
ACRL on the ALA Budget Assembly and on 
the ALA San Francisco Conference Planning 
Committee. At the close of the 1974 conference 
in New York, Axford will become ACRL’s thir­
ty-sixth president.

To fill the two openings for director-at-large 
on the ACRL Board of Directors, ACRL mem­
bers elected C. Donald Cook, associated in­
structor on the faculty of library science at the 
University of Toronto (1,736 votes), and 
George S. Bobinski, dean and professor in the 
School of Information and Library Sciences at 
the State University of New York at Buffalo 
(1,477 votes). Cook and Bobinski will each 
serve a four-year term as director-at-large. The 
two remaining candidates for director-at-large, 
Bernard Kreissman, chief librarian at the City 
College in New York, and R. Dean Galloway, 
director of the library at California State Col­
lege in Stanislaus, received 1,358 votes and 
1,336 votes respectively.

The results of the section elections follow. 
For each position, the elected candidate is list­
ed first.

AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGICAL 
SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: A n n  E. Ker­
ker, Professor of Library Science and Veteri­
nary Medical Librarian, Purdue University, La­
fayette, Indiana (144); Lyle R. Schreiner, As­
sistant Director of Libraries for Science and 
Technology, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, 
Lincoln, Nebraska (4 3 ). Secretary: Barbara B. 
Gordon, Librarian, Forest Resources Library, 
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 
(105); Michele A. Huntley, Serials Librarian, 
Love Library, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, 
Lincoln, Nebraska (7 8 ).

ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION

Chairman: Hans E. Panofsky, Curator, Mel­

ville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, 
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 
(54); Antonio M. Rodriguez—Buckingham, As­
sociate Librarian, Peabody Museum Library, 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 
(4 0 ). Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Eliza­
beth Krakauer, Head Librarian, Goddard Col­
lege Library, Plainfield, Vermont (49); Lee 
Ash, Library Consultant, 31 Alden Road, New 
Haven, Connecticut (4 7 ). Secretary: Robert 
E. Pfeiffer, Head, Graduate Social Science 
Libraries, University of California, Berkeley, 
California (49); Barton M. Clark, Head, So­
cial Studies and Humanities Division, Uni­
versity of Nebraska Library, Lincoln, Ne­
braska (4 2 ). Member-at-Large ( 1 year): 
Carol V. Ruppé, Reference Librarian, Hay­
den Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, 
Arizona (59); Ruby V. Martz, Subject Spe­
cialist, Learning Resources Center, Waubonsee 
Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois (2 1 ). 
Member-at-Large (2 years): Marilyn L. Haas, 
Reference Librarian, Lockwood Memorial L i­
brary, State University of N ew  York at Buffalo, 
Buffalo, N ew  York (54); Rinehart S. Potts, 
Assistant Professor, Department of Library Sci­
ence, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New 
Jersey (2 7 ).

ART SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Alice N.
Loranth, Head, John G. W h ite Department of 
Folklore, Orientalia and Chess, Cleveland Pub­
lic Library, Cleveland, Ohio (146); Lucija 
Skuja, Art Librarian, Grand Rapids Public Li­
brary, Grand Rapids, Michigan (8 0 ). Secre­
tary: Mary Ivy Bayard, Fine Arts Librarian, 
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Phila­
delphia, Pennsylvania (133); Susan V. Craig, 
Indexer, Art Index, H. W. Wilson Company, 
Bronx, New York (9 6 ).

ASIAN AND AFRICAN SECTION*

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Henry Schol- 
berg, Librarian, Ames Library of South Asia, 
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, M inne­
sota (80); Lee S. Dutton, Librarian, South­
east Asia Collection, Northern Illinois Univer­
sity, De Kalb, Illinois (5 0 ). Secretary: Elizabeth
A. Widenmann, Cataloger and African Bibliog­
rapher, Columbia University Libraries, New 
York, New York (84); Adrian Jones, Director 
of Libraries, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Il­
linois (4 6 ). Member-at-Large: Frank M. M c­
Gowan, Chief, Overseas Operations Division,

* On Thursday, June 28, by action of the 
ACRL Board of Directors, the name of the 
Asian and North African Section was changed 
to “Asian and African Section.”



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Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (96); 
David Wilder, Executive Director, Long Island 
Library Resources Council, Bellport, New York 
(36).

COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Sister Lau­
retta McCusker, Dean, Graduate School of Li­
brary Science, Rosary College, River Forest, Il­
linois (455); James A. Riddles, Director of 
Libraries, University of the Pacific, Stockton, 
California (344). Secretary: Mary Louise B. 
Cobb, Head, Cataloging Department, E. G. 
Swem Library, College of William and Mary, 
Williamsburg, Virginia (538); Virginia N. 
Cesario, Assistant Chief Librarian, Public Ser­
vices, City College Library, City University of 
New York, New York, New York (241).

COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGE 
LIBRARIES SECTION”

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Anabel R. 
Sproat, Head Librarian, Moraine Valley Com­
munity College, Palos Hills, Illinois (180); 
Marjorie C. Dennin, Director, Learning Re­
sources, Northern Virginia Community College, 
Central Campus, Annandale, Virginia (157). 
Secretary: Leah K. Nekritz, Director of Learn­
ing Resources, Prince George’s Community Col­
lege, Largo, Maryland (223); Hubert E. Da­
vis, Director, Learning Resource Center, South­
west College, Chicago, Illinois (114).

EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL 
SCIENCES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Toyo S. 
Kawakami, Assistant Head, Education Library, 
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (207); 
Phyllis L. Rearden, Assistant Cataloger, Booth 
Library, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, 
Illinois (125). Secretary: Victoria E. Hargrave, 
Librarian, Henry Pfeiffer Library, MacMurray 
College, Jacksonville, Illinois (193); Carolyn
S. Tyler, Librarian, Education Library, Univer­
sity of South Carolina, Columbia, South Caro­
lina (136).

LAW AND POLITICAL 
SCIENCE SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Dan F.
Henke, Professor of Law and Law Librarian, 
University of California, Hastings, San Fran­
cisco, California (132); Margaret A. Otto, As-

* *  On Thursday, June 28, by action of the 
ACRL Board of Directors, the name of the Jun­
ior College Libraries Section was changed to 
“Community and Junior College Libraries Sec­
tion.”

sistant Director for Library Services, The Li­
braries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts (87). Secretary: 
Joan L. Chambers, Government Publications 
Librarian, University of Nevada Library, Re­
no, Nevada (122); Frances B. Woods, Head, 
Catalog Department, Yale Law Library, New 
Haven, Connecticut (96). Member-at-Large: 
Silvia A. Gonzalez, Head, Documents Depart­
ment, University of California Law Library, 
Davis, California (133); Ann K. Randall, Lec­
turer and D.L.S. Fellow, School of Library Ser­
vice, Columbia University, New York, New 
York (87).

RARE BOOKS
AND MANUSCRIPTS SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Hendrik Ed­
elman, Assistant Director for Development 
of Collections, Cornell University Libraries, 
Ithaca, New Fork (244); Willis Van Devanter, 
Oak Spring, Upperville, Virginia (174). Secre­
tary: Gloria A. Francis, Chief, Gifts and Rare 
Books Division, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, 
Michigan (224); Clive E. Driver, Director, 
The Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foun­
dation Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
(193). Member-at-Large: Clyde C. Walton, 
Director of Libraries, Northern Illinois Univer­
sity, DeKalb, Illinois (216); Alexander P. 
Clark, Curator of Manuscripts, Princeton Uni­
versity, Princeton, New Jersey (202).

SLAVIC AND EAST 
EUROPEAN SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Katherine
Cveljo, Associate Professor, College of Librari- 
anship, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 
South Carolina (61); Andrew Turchyn, Li­
brarian for Slavic Studies, Indiana University 
Library, Bloomington, Indiana (55). Member- 
at-Large: Gary D. Wiggins, Slavic Acquisitions 
Librarian, University of Illinois Library, Ur­
bana, Illinois (88); Keith Westover, Assistant 
Acquisitions Librarian, Indiana University Li­
brary, Bloomington, Indiana (24).

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SECTION

Vice-Chairman/Chairman-Elect: Eldred R. 
Smith, Director of University Libraries, State 
University of New Fork at Buffalo, Buffalo, 
New Fork (832); Donald E. Oehlerts, Direc­
tor of Libraries, Miami University, Oxford, 
Ohio (682). Secretary: Margaret K. Norden, 
Acquisitions Librarian, Falk Library of the 
Health Professions, University of Pittsburgh, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (833); Donald L. 
Bosseau, Director of Libraries, The University 
of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas (662). ■■