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deacidification, paper fills, and non-adhesive 
binding.

•Pennsylvania State University, University 
Park, has issued a progress report stating that some 
$400,000 of a planned $1 million has been raised 
for the Paterno Libraries Endowment. The project 
started two years ago with a five-year planned du­
ration in support of the Penn State Libraries. Major 
benefactors include the R ich ard  King M ellon 
Foundation and friends, alumni, and several ma­
jor corp orations. T h e Paterno E nd ow m ent is 
named in honor of longtime Penn State football 
coach Joe Paterno, an outspoken supporter of aca­
demic libraries as well as a generous donor.

•The State University of New York at Albany’s 
School of Library and Information Science became

one of four independent graduate schools of the 
University as of June 2. W ith the Schools of Crim i­
nal Justice and Social W elfare and the Graduate 
School of Public Affairs, it now comprises part of 
the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs 
and Policy and is known as the School of Inform a­
tion Science and Policy. The name change is part of 
substantial planned curricular growth, with an in­
terdisciplinary Ph.D . program scheduled for 1989. 
To be included in an enlarged MLS program are re­
vised specializations in records management and 
archives, information systems development and 
management, and information policy. The new 
curriculum is being designed in consultation with 
the New York State Archives staff. ■  ■

 P EOPLE  
Profiles

J o h n  W i l l i a m  B e e c h e r  has been named direc­
tor of libraries at North Dakota State University, 
Fargo, effective September 1. Beecher had been 
acting co-director of the 
St. Pau l C am pus L i ­
braries at the University 
of Minnesota.

Prior to his service at 
M in n n eso ta, B e e ch e r 
was education and psy­
chology lib r a r ia n  at 
New Mexico State Uni­
versity (1 970– 73), and 
agriculture librarian at 
the U niversity of I l l i ­
nois, U rb a n a -C h a m
paign (1973–82). He re­ Joh n  W illiam  B eech er
ceived his bachelor’s de­
gree in ornamental hor­
ticulture from the University of Illinois in 1964 and 
his MLS at Illinois in 1966. From 1966-68 Beecher 
served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, and 
was library consultant for the U.S. Agency for In ­
ternational Development and Mexico State Uni­
versity in 1970.

Beecher is the author of recent publications in­
cluding “Implementing and Managing a Fee-based 
Inform ation service in an Academic L ib ra ry ,” 
published in a guide for health science librarians,

and “Use of Random Alarm Mechanisms for Ana­
lyzing Professional and Support Staff Activities in 
Scence Libraries: Methodology,” published with 
three other authors in L ibrary  Research.

J a m e s  A. D a m i c o  has been named director of li­
braries at the University of South Alabama, Mo­
bile.

D a m ico  earned  his 
M LS degree from  
Rutgers University and 
his bachelor’s degree in 
business administration 
from Long Island Uni­
versity’s C .W . Post Col­
lege. His most recent po­
sitio n  was at the 
University of Southern 
M ississippi, w here he 
was D ire cto r of Cook 
M em orial L ibrary . As 
associate professor in the 

Jam es A. D am icoSchool of Library Ser­
vice at U SM , D am ico 
taught courses in library automation and library 
management.

Damico has served at Rice University, Brown 
University, and the University of Dayton, and has 
worked in the special libraries at General Precision 
(HRB Singer), Thiokol Chem ical Corporation, 
and the American Institute of Aeronautics and As­



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tronautics. His consultantships in academic li­
braries include the Universidade Estadual de Cam ­
pinas in Brazil and Abadan Institute of Technology 
in Iran.

D o n a l d  G . D a v is  J r . has been promoted to pro­
fessor in the Graduate School of Library and Infor­
mation Science at the University of Texas at Austin.

Since joining the fac­
ulty in 1971, Davis has 
taught courses in refer­
ence and bibliography, 
collection development, 
and the history of books 
and libraries. Since 1976 
he has edited the Journal 
o f Library History, pub­
lished quarterly by the 
U n iversity of Texas 
Press.

D avis has d irected  
two n a tio n a l L ib r a r y  D onald G. Davis Jr.
History Seminars— 1980 
in Austin and 1985 in 
Chapel H ill— and edited their proceedings. He 
also organized and directs the annual Texas L i­
brary History Colloquium, held every spring in 
Austin. Active in many professional associations, 
Davis has been invited to give nearly twenty papers 
since coming to Austin and has served as consultant 
to six library agencies and publishers.

Davis received his bachelor’s degree from the 
University of California, Los Angeles, his master’s 
in history and his MLS from UC-Berkeley, and his 
Ph.D . in Library Science from the University of Il­
linois. From 1964 to 1968 he was senior reference 
librarian at Fresno State College, later becoming 
head of Special Collections.

E i l e e n  D u b i n  has been named director of li­
brary services at Stockton State College, Pomona, 
New Jersey, effective August 25.

In her former post as 
director of library ser­
vices at William Rainey 
H arper College, P ala­
tine, Illinois, Dubin was 
an a ctiv e m em ber of 
ALA and the Illinois L i­
brary Association. She is 
president-elect of the Il­
linois Association of Col­
lege Research L ib r a r i­
ans (A C R L ’s Illin o is 
Chapter) and is chair of 
A C R L ’s C om m u nity E ileen Dubin
and Junior College L i­
braries Section.

Dubin holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology 
from Hunter College. She pursued graduate study 
in library science at Indiana University and the 
University of Chicago, earning her MLS at North­
ern Illinois University where she began work to­

ward a doctorate in education.
Dubin’s publications include many articles in 

professional journals and a book, co-authored with 
May Brottman, Independent Research: A R efer­
en ce G uide (Greenwood, 1986). She was selected 
to participate in the Institute for Leadership Devel­
opment sponsored by the League for Innovation in 
Community Colleges and the American Associa­
tion of Women in Community and Junior C ol­
leges, held in Mays Landing, New Jersey.

J o a n n e  R . E u s t e r , library director at San F ran­
cisco State University, has been named director of 
the Rutgers University Libraries, New Jersey, ef­
fective September 1.

In her new position 
Euster will administer a 
library system that in­
cludes 17 branches at 
R u tg ers’ New B ru n s­
w ick , C am den and 
Newark campuses. She 
succeeds H endrik 
Edelm an, who left the 
post last year to return to 
the faculty of the School 
of Communication, In ­
formation and Library Joan n e R. Euster
Studies.

E u ster received a 
bachelor’s degree from Portland State College, O r­
egon, in 1965 and went on to earn an MLS from the 
University of Washington in 1968 and an MBA 
from the same institution in 1977. She received a 
doctorate from the School of Library and Informa­
tion Studies at the University of C aliforn ia at 
Berkeley in 1986.

Euster served as assistant librarian at Edmonds 
Community College, Washington, from 1968 to 
1973, later becoming head librarian (1973– 77). 
She was named university librarian at Loyola Uni­
versity, New Orleans, in 1977 and remained there 
until 1980, when she assumed the library director­
ship at San Francisco State University.

At both Loyola and San Francisco, Euster super­
vised the automation of the libraries and was noted 
for her leadership in the areas of collection develop­
m ent, improvement of programs and services, 
management systems and personnel policy, and 
public relations.

E u ster was recently elected vice-president/ 
president-elect of ACRL for 1986–87. She served as 
ch a ir of the A C R L  P u b lica tio n s C o m m ittee 
(1982-86), and has been a member of the ACRL 
Appointments and Nominations Committee and 
the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. Euster 
has numerous publications to her credit and cur­
rently serves as a contributing editor to Library Is­
sues: Briefings fo r  A cadem ic Officers.

B a r b a r a  J .  H u t c h i n s o n  has been named direc­
tor of library services at Georgian Court College, 
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Hutchinson formerly served at Monmouth Col­
lege, Florida Atlantic University, the University of 
Virginia Law  Library, Nova University, Princeton 
University, New Mexico State University, and the 
University of Nevada. Most recently she was adult 
services librarian at the Lakewood Public Library.

A graduate of Drew University, Hutchinson 
earned a master’s degree from New Mexico State 
University and her MLS from Rutgers University.

M i c h a e l  A. K e l l e r  has been appointed associ­
ate university librarian for collection development 
at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, ef­
fective August 1.

Keller served most re­
cen tly  as head of the 
M usic L ib r a r y  at the 
U niversity of C a lifo r ­
nia, Berkeley, where he 
served as ch a ir of the 
B erk eley  C o lle c tio n  
M anagem ent and D e ­
velopment Com m ittee.
He was also m usic l i ­
brarian and senior lec­
turer in musicology, and 
later acting undergrad­ M ichael A. K eller
uate librarian at Cornell 
U n iv e rsity , and has 
taught at Stanford and Berkeley.

Keller has served as a consultant to libraries in 
North America and Italy. He was a member of the 
Music Library Association Board of Directors from 
1976 to 1978.

G e r a l d  R. L o w e l l  has been appointed associ­
ate university librarian for technical services at 
Yale University, effective August 1.

As former chief of the 
Cataloging Distribution 
Service at the Library of 
C ongress, L o w ell was 
responsible for all b ib ­
liographic products and 
services produced and 
sold by LC  to libraries 
throughout the world. 
He was vice president 
and managing director 
for North A m erica for 
th e F axo n  C o m p an y , 
and was instrumental in G erald  R. L o w ell
the design of Faxon’s se­
rials control system and 
online serials management workshop.

Lowell began his career at the University of 
Washington, where he served in the Slavic and 
East European Division and later in the Serials D i­
vision. He has been a member of the National In ­
formation Standards Subcommittee on the Com­
pact Disc D ata Format Standard, and was chair of 
the American Standards Committee from 1979 to 
1980.

E m i l y  R. M o b l e y  has been appointed associate 
director of libraries and associate professor of li­
brary science at Purdue University, West L afay­
ette, Indiana, effective 
August 14.

Mobley received her 
bachelor’s degree in ed­
u ca tio n  and her M LS 
from the University of 
Michigan. She has also 
com pleted all course- 
work through the Ph.D . 
ca n d id a cy  stage at 
Michigan.

Mobley has served as 
engineering librarian at 
the Chrysler C orp ora­ Em ily R. M obleytion, science librarian at 
Wayne State University, 
supervisor of reader services at General Motors Re­
search Laboratories, and library director of GMI 
Engineering and Management Institute. She has 
also held appointment as adjunct lecturer at the 
University of Michigan’s School of Library Science.

H er p ro fessio n al a c tiv itie s  in clu d e: v ice- 
president of the Board of Trustees of the Library of 
Michigan; president of the Michigan Chapter of 
the Special Libraries Association, and various of­
fices in the SLA Engineering and Library Manage­
ment Divisions. She is currently president-elect of 
SLA.

Mobley has written several extensive bibliogra­
phies and other papers, as well as a book, Special 
L ibraries at W ork.

J a c q u e l y n  M . M o r r i s  has been named college 
librarian at Occidental College, Eagle Rock, C ali­
fornia, effective October

Morris had most re­
cently served as associ­
ate dean of university li­
braries at the University 
of the Pacific. She has 
held positions at Cornell 
U n iv ersity  and the 
SUNY College of Envi­
ronmental Science and 
F o re s try . M orris r e ­
ceived her M LS from  
Sy racu se U n iv e rsity , 
later serving as adjunct 
professor there. Jacqu ely n  M. Morris

M orris’ activ ities in 
A C R L  have most r e ­
cently included chairing the ad hoc College L i­
brary Standards Committee which developed the 
1986 College Library Standards. She is currently 
serving as chair of the Professional Association L i­
aison Committee and is a member of the A CRL 
Appointments and Nominations Committee and 
the Committee on Performance Measures. W ithin 
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tive retrospective conversion in Private Academic 
Libraries under the auspices of the Association of 
Independent California Colleges and Universities.

Morris recently co-authored a book with Mignon 
Adams entitled Teaching L ibrary Skills f o r  A ca­
dem ic Credit.

H . R o b e r t  M a l i n o w s k i  has joined the faculty of 
the University of Wisconsin School of Library Sci­
ence, Milwaukee. Malinowski is past president of
the Special Libraries Association.

Malinowski was president of the Geoscience In­
formation Society in 1970, president of the Moun­
tain Plains Library Association during 1977–78, 
and governor’s appointee to the Kansas State L i­
brary Advisory Commission from 1974–79.

Prior to joining the University of Illinois at Chi­
cago in 1985 as associate professor and bibliogra­
pher for science and engineering, he was editorial 
consultant for the Oryx Press (1984–85); general 
manager of Libraries Unlimited, Littleton, Colo­
rado (1983-84); and science librarian at the Uni­
versity of Kansas (1967–83).

Malinowski received his bachelor of science in
geological engineering from the University of Kan­
sas and his MLS from the University of Denver. He
is the author of Science and Engineering L itera ­
ture: A G uide to R eferen ce Sources, now in its
fourth edition.

L a r r y  R . O b e r g  has been appointed director of
the library at Albion College, Michigan, effective
August 18.

Prior to coming to Al­
bion, Oberg served at 
Lewis Clark State Col­
lege, Lewiston, Idaho, 
first as head of reference 
and, from 1983, as di­
rector. W hile there he 
taught lib rary  science 
courses in a program  
leading to state certifica­
tion of librarians at the 
secondary level. He has 
also held appointments 
at the University of Cali­ L arry R. Oberg
fornia at Berkeley and 
Stanford University. A 
Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Berkeley, he received
his MLS there in 1979.

Oberg has participated in the Fred Meyer Chari­
table Trust’s Library and Information Resources
for the Pacific Northwest program of regional col­
lection assessment. He has been assistant editor of
C ollege & R esearch Libraries since 1984, and is the
author of Human Resources in Postrevolutionary
C uba (Greenwood, 1985).

People in t he News

R o b e r t  H .  B l a c k b u r n , librarian emeritus of the

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
 
 

University of Toronto, received an honorary doc­
orate in June at McGill University, Montreal.

B e n - A m i L i p e t z  , professor at the School of In ­
ormation Science at the State University of New 
ork at Albany, has been elected president of the 
merican Society of Indexers for 1986–87. Lipetz 
as also recently elected to the Board of Directors 

f Documentation Abstracts, In c ., the parent orga­
ization for the secondary journal and database In ­

orm ation  Science Abstracts, for which he was edi­
or from its establishment in 1966 until 1981.

F a y  Z i p k o w i t z  has been appointed visiting pro­
essor for 1986–87 at the Graduate School of the L i­
rary and Information Science at the University of 
hode Island, Kingston. She is on leave from her 
osition as director of the Rhode Island Depart­
ent of State Library Services.

ppointments

(Appointments are taken from library newslet­
ers, leters from personnel offices and appointees, 

and other sources. To ensure that your appoint­
ent appears, write to the Editor, A CRL, 50 E. 
uron St., Chicago, IL  60611-2795.)

S t e p h e n  A b y  has been appointed reference li­
rarian at Northeastern University, Boston.

V i c t o r i a  A d a m i t i s  is the new preservation offi­
er at Stanford University, California.

T e r r y  A l l i s o n  has been appointed assistant 
ead of the Acquisitions Department at the Univer­
ity of California, San Diego.

T o n y  A n g i l e t t a  has been appointed head of the 
General Reference Department at Stanford Uni­

ersity, California.
R i c h a r d  A r s e n t y  has been appointed science/ 

eference librarian at the State University of New 
ork at Purchase.

J u d i t h  A v e r y  has been named head of the L i­
rary Science Library at the University of Michi­
an, Ann Arbor.

B r e n t  B e r n a u  is now documents/media librar­
an in the Law Library at Golden Gate University, 
an Francisco.

M e l i s s a  B e r n h a r d t  has been appointed assis­
ant librarian in the Technical Services Depart­

ent at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A m a n d a  B o w e n  has been appointed assistant art 

ibrarian at Stanford University, California.
B a r b a r a  A . B u r g  has been appointed reference 

ibrarian at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mas­
achusetts.

B r i d g e t  C a n a v a n  has been appointed general 
onographic cataloger at Northwestern Univer­

ity, Evanston, Illinois.
J e r Is C a s s e l  has been appointed reference libra­

ian/online services coordinator at the Kilmer Area 
ibrary of Rutgers University, Piscataway, New 

ersey.
J u s t i n e  V . C l a n c y  has been appointed head of 

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sity, Los Angeles.
S t e p h e n  C o r r s in  has been appointed deputy as­

sociate librarian for technical services and princi­
pal cataloger at Brooklyn College, New York.

M . R i t a  C o s t e l l o  is now associate librarian in 
the Management Library at the University of C ali­
fornia, Los Angeles.

M a r y  C r o s s  has been appointed director of tech­
nical services at Columbia College, South Caro­
lina.

J a m e s  R .  C u b i t  has been named assistant college 
librarian at W illiam s College, W illiam stow n, 
Massachusetts.

G e n e  D a m o n  has been appointed associate dean 
for technical services and systems development at 
Northeastern University, Boston.

R e b e c c a  D a v is  has been appointed reference li­
brarian/coordinator of online services at the Uni­
versity of California, Davis.

J a m e s  D e n d y  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at Northeastern University, Boston.

L e s l i e  D o n n e l l y  is now business and adminis­
tration librarian at Drexel University, Philadel­
phia.

P a t r i c i a  M . D u c k  has been named head librar­
ian at the Greensburg Campus Library of the Uni­
versity of Pittsburgh.

M a r y  B e t h  F e c k o  has been appointed cataloger 
at Lander College, Greenwood, South Carolina.

T a y l o r  F i t c h e t t  has been named head law li­
b rarian  at the University of C in cin n ati Law  
School, Ohio.

K a y  F l o w e r s  is now assistant university librar­
ian for automated systems at Rice University, 
Houston, Texas.

J a n e t  F r e d e r i c k  has been appointed head of the 
Bibliographic Database Management Department 
at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

M o n i c a  J .  F u s i c h - C h e e s e m a n  has been ap­
pointed information services librarian at St. Mary’s 
College, Moraga, California.

M a r y  W . G h ik a s  is now director of network de­
velopment at Gaylord Brothers, In c., Syracuse, 
New York.

W i l l i a m  A. G o s l i n g  has been appointed assis­
tant director for technical services at the University 
of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

P a t r i c k  G r a c e  has been appointed government 
documents librarian at Brooklyn College, New 
York.

J a n i e  H a r r is  has been appointed deputy collec­
tion development librarian at Cornell University, 
Ithaca, New York.

N a t a l i e  H assan is now a serials cataloger in the 
Baker Library of the Graduate School of Business 
Administration of Harvard University, Boston.

D an C. H a z e n  has been appointed associate li­
brarian for Hispanic Collections at the University 
of California, Berkeley.

F r a n c e s  F .  J a c o b s o n  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian and user education coordinator in 
the Reference Library at the University of Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign.
S a n d r a  L .  J a n i c k i has been appointed instructor 

in the Reference Division at Indiana University of 
Pennsylvania.

D o n a l d  F . J a y has been appointed field director 
of the Library of Congress office in Cairo, Egypt.

D a n a  E . J o h n s o n  is now online reference ser­
vices coordinator at Western Washington Univer­
sity, Bellingham.

N a n c y  P . J o h n s o n  has been named director of 
the law library at Georgia State University, At­
lanta.

R e b e c c a  K r o l l  has been appointed public ser­
vices librarian in the Science & Engineering L i­
brary at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illi­
nois.

C a r o l  A . L a w r e n c e  has joined the staff at Yale 
University Library.

L in d a  L e a h y  has been appointed associate dean 
for user services and collection development at 
Northeastern University, Boston.

R o b e r t  L e s h  has been appointed monographic 
cataloger in Africana at Northwestern University, 
Evanston, Illinois.

D a v i d  L i e  has been appointed catalog librarian 
at the State University of New York College at Pur­
chase.

A l i c e  L i t t l e j o h n  has joined the staff at Califor­
nia State University Library, Long Beach.

H a r r y  L l u l l  has been appointed head of the 
Science & Engineering Library at the University of 
New Mexico, Albuquerque.

D e b o r a h  K . M CA na l l e n  is now assistant head 
of online shared cataloging at Michigan State Uni­
versity, East Lansing.

J e r r y  M c B r i d e  has been appointed music li­
brarian at Middlebury College, Vermont.

B e t t y  N . M c F a l l  has been appointed user ser­
vices librarian at Middle Tennessee State Univer­
sity, Murfreesboro.

J o h n  M a d d e n  has been appointed assistant law 
librarian at the University of Idaho Law Library, 
Moscow.

T h o m a s  W . M an n  J r . is now a manager in the 
m anagem ent consulting departm ent of Peat, 
Marwick, Mitchell & C o., San Francisco office.

A n t o n  C. M a sin  has been appointed reference 
and library instruction librarian at Mercy College, 
Dobbs Ferry, New York.

J o s e p h  R . M a z u r a n i c  is now head of circulation 
at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

L i n d a  M e i s e l e s  has been appointed principal 
serials librarian at Brooklyn College, New York.

J o s e p h  J .  M ik a  has been named director of the 
graduate library science program at Waynè State 
University, Detroit, Michigan.

N a d e n e  M i l l e r  has been appointed reference li­
brarian at the University of Portland, Oregon.

S i g r i d  D o c k e n  M o u n t  has been appointed arts 
bibliographer at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
Tennessee.

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librarian at Michigan State University, East Lans
ing.

L a w r e n c e  W .  O n s a g e r  has been named library
director at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic
Medicine, Missouri.

D a n i e l  J . P e d e r s o n  has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the Cabot Science Library of Har­
vard University.

L a w r e n c e  P e i c k  has been appointed reference
librarian at Northeastern University, Boston.

M i c h a e l  J . P e t i t  has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at the University of Miami Law L i­
brary, Florida.

L a n c e  Q u e r y  is now assistant university librar­
ian for planning and personnel at Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois.

W i l l i a m  R a t l i f f  has been appointed curator of
the Latin and North American collections at the
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Califor­
nia.

R it a  R e u s c h  is the new director of the Univer­
sity of Utah Law Library, Salt Lake City.

C a m i l l e  R i l e y  has been named director of the
Law Library at West Virginia University, Morgan­
town.

D a v i d  G. R o b in s o n  has been appointed auto­
mation librarian at Middle Tennessee State Uni­
versity, Murfreesboro.

L in d a  S. R o n a n  is now head of reserves and cir­
culation at the Lamont Undergraduate Library of
Harvard University.

M a r k  Sa n d l e r  has been appointed coordinator
of graduate library selectors at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.

L e i n a a l a  R o b in s o n  Se e g e r  has been appointed
associate librarian for public services in the Law
School Library at Harvard University.

T i m o t h y  Sh e e h y  has been appointed associate
librarian in the Law Library at the University of
California, Los Angeles.

C h r i s t o p h e r  S u g n e t  has been appointed head
of the new Monographic Cataloging and Classifi­
cation Department at the University of New Mex­
ico, Albuquerque.

St u a r t  A . Su t t o n  is now public services librar­
ian in the Law Library at Golden Gate University,
San Francisco.

B a r b a r a  Sy k e s - A u s t in  has been appointed ref­
erence librarian/library instruction coordinator at
the Kilmer Area Library of Rutgers University, Pis
cataway, New Jersey.

M e l a n i e  R .  T h o m a s  has been appointed user
services librarian at Middle Tennessee State Uni­
versity, Murfreesboro.

V i c t o r  T o r r e s  has joined the staff of the Uni­
versity of Illinois Library, Urbana-Champaign.

N ancy A. VERSTREATE has been appointed assis­
ta n t lib rarian  in ch arg e of serials at Siena College, 
L oud on ville, New York.

T e d  W a l l e r  has been appointed technical ser­
vices librarian at Meredith College, Raleigh, North
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A l e x  W a r r e n  has been named head of the 
orrison Library at the University of California, 

erkeley.
G w e n d o l y n  W e a v e r  is now associate librarian 

or administration in the Baker Library of the 
raduate School of Business Administration of 
arvard University.
J u d i t h  W e l s h  has been appointed reference li­

rarian in the Health Sciences Library of the Uni­
ersity of California, Davis.

G e o f f r e y  W e x l e r  has been appointed manu­
cripts librarian/university archivist at the Univer­
ity of California, San Diego.

S h e r r y  W i l l h i t e  has been appointed informa­
ion services librarian/chemistry specialist at the 
niversity of California, San Diego.
M a r t h a  Y e e  is now associate librarian in the Ar­

hives of Film, Television and Radio at the Univer­
ity of California, Los Angeles.

G a r y  E . Y e l a  has been appointed assistant li­
rarian for rare books at the University of D ela­
are, Newark.
P a m e l a  F. Y o r k s  has been appointed assistant 

ngineering librarian in the Engineering Library 
t the University of Washington, Seattle.

R e b e c c a  Y o u n g  has been appointed reference li­
rarian at Maryville College, Tennessee.

etirements

R o s a n n a  P . A l l e n , chief of the Humanities and 
ocial Sciences Department at Pennsylvania State 
niversity, retired June 30 after 19 years of service. 
ppointed initially as chief reference librarian, Al­

en came to Penn State from Cornell University, 
here she served as associate librarian in the Engi­
eering and Veterinary Libraries. During 1964–65 
he worked in Liberia as a consultant in a project 
ponsored by Cornell and the U.S. Agency for In ­
ernational Development to upgrade the library at 
he U niversity of L ib e r ia . A g rad u ate of 

ilmington College with an MLS from Columbia 
niversity, Allen also worked in private industry, 
onprofit organizations and the government, and 
as been active in ALA and ACRL.

L e o n a r d  N. B e c k , subject collections specialist 
in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division 

f the Library of Congress, retired June 30 after 40 
ears of service. Beck joined the staff of the Divi­
ion in 1973 in the newly created position of curator 
f special collections, later known as subject collec­
ions specialist, and became identified with the L i­

brary’s resources on magic in the Harry Houdini 
and McManus-Young collections and with the 
Third Reich collection. Beck received a master’s 
degree in European history from New York Univer­
sity, doing further graduate work at Columbia and 
studying library science at the Catholic University 
of America. During World W ar II he worked in 
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R i l e y  P a u l  B u r t o n  is retiring from the Law 
Center of the University of Southern California, 
Los Angeles, after 33 years of service. Burton was 
law librarian and assistant professor (1953–56), as­
sociate professor (1956–59), professor (1959–72), 
and curator and professor (1972–86).

W i l h e l m e n  A B . C u r r y , senior manuscript li­
brarian in the Preparation Section of the Manu­
script Division at the Library of Congress since
1978, retired June 3 after more than 31 years of ser­
vice. After receiving her master’s degree in history 
from Howard University in 1948, Curry taught at 
the State Teachers College, Fayetteville, North 
Carolina, later working for the Department of De­
fense and the Veterans Administration. She joined 
the Library’s Gifts and Exchange Division in 1954 
and the Manuscripts Division in 1961, serving as an 
editor of presidential papers indexes from 1965 to 
1973.

M a r g a r e t  H o r n  retired August 1 as a cataloger 
at Concordia College, St. Paul, Minnnesota. Her
30 years at Concordia included service as head li­
brarian from 1958-67. Earlier, Horn had been li­
b ra ria n  at the Ames L ib ra ry  of South Asia 
(1949-56).

W o m e n ’s Studies 
R esource Guide

“Women’s Studies in Western Europe,” a pub­
lication of the Association of College and Re­
search Libraries, is now available from the 
American Library Association Order Depart­
ment.

The book includes a review and annotated 
directory of women’s publishing in 27 Western 
European countries, compiled by Virginia 
Clark, editor of Books fo r  College Libraries (3d 
edition). The directory covers independent and 
government organizations, archives, libraries, 
documentation and information centers, re­
search centers, bibliographies, databases, dia­
ries, directories, journals and bookshops.

Women’s studies courses and research in the 
major Western European countries are reviewed 
by Beth Stafford, women’s studies librarian at 
the University of Illinois at Urbana. The devel­
opment of collection management policies at the 
Fawcett Library, England’s leading women’s 
studies research center, is described by Rita 
Pankhurst, head of library services there.

“Women’s Studies in Western Europe: A Re­
source Guide” (ISBN 0-8389-7037-0) is edited 
by Stephen Lehmann, humanities librarian at 
Swarthmore College, and Eva Sartori, modern 
languages bibliographer at the University of 
N ebraska-Lincoln. Copies may be ordered 
from the ALA Order Department, 50 E . Huron 
St., Chicago, IL  60611. The 129-page paper­
back sells for $18 ($15 to ACRL members).

H e n r y  K o c h  
rector emeritus of Michigan State University after
1 years of service. After two years at the Cleveland 

Public Library, Koch began his career at Michigan 
State as head of the Literature and Social Sciences 
Division. During his tenure as associate director 
the university added some 2.5 million volumes.

P a u l  P a r h a m  resigned effective September 16 
from his position as university librarian at Texas 
Christian University for reasons of disability.

T a d e u s z  Sa d o w s k i retired May 30 as senior legal 
specialist in the European Law Division of the Law 
Library of the Library of Congress after 30 years of 
service. A native of Russia, Sadowski served in the 
Polish government prior to World W ar II and 
came to the United States in 1949, becoming a citi­
zen in 1955. He received a master’s degree in Slavic 
languages and literatures from Harvard University 
in 1952. Sadowski joined the Library of Congress 
in 1956 in the Aerospace Technology Division of 
the former Reference Department, becoming re­
search analyst and later senior lexicographer. In 
1969 he transferred to the European Law Division 
as a specialist in the Polish and Soviet legal systems.

R o d n e y  G. Sa r l e , chief of the Library of Con­
gress’s Overseas Operations Division since 1976, re­
tired May 30 after nearly 28 years of service. Sarle 
came to the library in the Special Recruit (now In­
tern) Program after receiving his MLS from the 
University of North Carolina. He also holds a bach­
elor’s from Brown and an MBA from Harvard Busi­
ness School. Initially assigned to the General Refer­
ence and Bibliography Division, Sarle spent the 
balance of his career in the Processing Services De­
partment, becoming head of the Gift Section in the 
Exchange and Gift Division in 1961. He became di­
rector of the P .L . 480 Project in Cairo, Egypt, in 
1964 and in 1967 was named field director of the 
LC office in Karachi, Pakistan. Between 1969 and 
1975 he served as field director on New Delhi and 
then in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

P e t e r  B . Sh e r i d a n , an analyst in American na­
tional government in the Congressional Research 
Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress, retired 
May 30 after 30 years of service. Sheridan joined 
the Library in 1956 as reference assistant in the His­
tory and General Research Division of the former 
Legislative Reference Service (LR S), becoming in­
formation librarian in the Office of the Director 
the following year. In 1967 he was promoted to 
head of the Special Reference Section of CRS after 
holding various other positions and was assigned to 
the post from which he retired in 1974. Sheridan 
received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from 
Pennsylvania State College in 1945 and 1950 and a 
Ph.D. in American History from Georgetown Uni­
versity in 1957.

B e t t y  T h o m s o n  retired August 31 as head of the 
Catalog Department at East Texas State University 
after 22 years of service. Thomson joined the staff 
in 1964 as a catalog librarian and became depart­
ment head in 1975. During her tenure she super­

C. retired October 1 as associate di­

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vised the university’s conversion from the Dewe
Decimal system to LC classification and from 
manual cataloging system to O CLC.

Deaths
H e l e n  F .  C o n o v e r , a former bibliographic spe

cialist at the Library of Congress, died May 25 at
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A 1919 graduate o
Bryn Mawr College, Conover also studied at Co
lumbia and New York Universities and at the Sor
bonne and taught in private schools. Prior to join
ing the Library in 1931 she worked as an editor,
researcher and librarian for several publishing
firms. She was a pioneer in developing African bib
liographic and reference programs while serving i
the L C ’s Division of Bibliography, and served als
in the European and General Reference and Bibli
ography Divisions. As the Library’s African area
specialist, Conover was the first appointee to the
LC African Section upon its establishment in 1961.
She retired in 1963 after 32 years of service, contin
uing to work independently.

A l e x a n d e r  H r o m o c k y j , science reference li
brarian in the Science and Technology Division o
the Library of Congress, died of a heart attack a
his home April 18. Born in Poland and educated i
Germany, Hromockyj came to the United States i
1949 and studied at Millard Fillmore College an
the University of Buffalo, earning a B.S. degree i
1967 from American University. He joined the L i
brary in 1959 as a library assistant, becoming tech

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ence Project in 1969. Hromockyj was promoted to 
science reference librarian in 1971.

J o h n  E d w i n  Sm i t h , university librarian emeritus 
at the University of California, Irvine, died July 
28. Smith became founding university librarian at 
Irvine in 1963 as part of 
a 39-year career. After 
earning his certificate of 
librarianship from UC- 
Berkeley, Smith served 
as a junior professional 
librarian for the Library 
Association of Portland, 
Oregon, and later at the 
U.S. Department of Ag­
riculture as a junior pro­
fessional (1941–42). He 
later became the first li­
brarian  of the newly- 

John Edwin Smithformed Institute of In ­
d u strial R elatio n s at 
UCLA, returning to that institution in 1949 as head 
of the Acquisitions Department after a period with 
the U .S . Army M edical D ep a rtm en t. From  
1952-61 Smith was chief librarian for the City and 
County of Santa Barbara, California, and later 
spent two years in Pakistan as a library resources 
adviser for the University of Southern California. 
Invited to join the library at UC-Irvine two years 
before it opened in 1965, Smith supervised the 
growth of the collection to some 800,000 volumes 
and 12,400 journals by the time of his retirement in
1979.

PUBLICATIONS
•Alaska Place Names, by Alan Edward Schorr

(144 pages, 3d ed., 1986), is a 20-year cumulation 
of all decisions on Alaska rendered by the United 
States Board on Geographic Names from January
1966 through December 1985. It supercedes earlier 
editions published in 1974 and 1980. The book is
divided into sections on new names, new names
representing a change in an earlier decision or his­
torical reference, previously established names
with revised descriptions, and references from pre­
vious decisions and variant spellings to the ap­
proved name. A new feature in the third edition is
an index to personal names, corporate bodies, ves­
sels, and other significant information contained in
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$15.95 (plus $1.50 shipping) from the Denali Press, 
P.O. Box 1535, Juneau, AK 99802. ISBN 0-938737-
11- 2 .

•The Alma College Archives Guide (119 pages, 
1986) describes a century of the holdings of this 
four-year liberal arts college in Michigan. The 
guide includes papers of administrators, faculty 
and students; records of academic growth; 250 lin­
ear feet of records; more than 8,000 photographs, 
slides, films, and tapes; oral history interviews 
with people involved in 20th-century wars; and the 
Alma College Centennial history. The guide is 
available for $9.00 from Larry Hall, Archivist, 
Alma College, Alma, MI 48801.

•Bibliographies o f  Louisiana State University