ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries March 1989 / 227 P E O P L E P eo p le in th e new s Yolanda C. Bonitch and Richard Tirotta, both New York Public L ibrary librarians, have been nam ed th e first recipients of the B ertha Franklin Feder Award, a new annual aw ard estab­ lished by a gift to the Library in 1988 by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Feder in memory of Mr. Feder’s mother. The aw ard, the first in the history of the NYPL to give tangible recognition for outstanding librarianship, is intended to recognize a librarian who has m ade exceptional contributions in such ar­ eas as public access to the Library’s collections; en­ couraging reading; and improving the care and presentation of the collections. Bonitch, Borough C om m unity Specialist for M anhattan, has been a pioneer in many ways in her 10 years w ith NYPL: she developed the Parent- Child Remedial Skills Center at the Fordham Li­ brary Center, introduced library services for the homeless living in shelters, and helped establish li­ brary services for patients with AIDS. Tirotta, bib­ liographic specialist for the Branch Libraries, has been w ith NYPL for 25 years. His accomplishments include establishing the Book Express program, heading the committee on Books to Remember, representing the NYPL at the Moscow Book Fair, and participating in the annual Training Seminar for Adult Librarians. The two winners were pre­ sented their awards, consisting of $1,000 each and a framed certificate, at a meeting of the NYPL Board of Trustees on January 12. Marianna T ax Choldin, head of the University of Illinois Slavic and East European Library and director of the Russian and East European Center, has been appointed the first C. W alter and Cerda B. Mortenson Distinguished Professor for Interna­ tional Library Programs, a new endowed chair in international library programs at Illinois. The pri­ mary goal of the professorship will be to create in­ ternational cooperative efforts among libraries; further international exchanges of library m ate­ rial; extend the library faculty’s involvement in in­ ternational programs; and promote scholarly re­ search and teaching. Choldin also plans to explore possibilities for library programs in areas of the world like Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Far East. Believed to be the only one of its kind, the new professorship was established with a gift of nearly $2 million from the Mortensons, W aukegan natives now living in Newark, Dela­ ware. Mortenson was a 1937 graduate of the Uni­ versity of Illinois. J im Kennedy, reference librarian at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, appeared on the “Gong Show” in January 1989 as a tuba-playing contestant. Kennedy, an Earlham employee for al­ most 25 years, has been playing the tuba for 50 years. He auditioned for the TV show after seeing a newspaper ad seeking people w ith “weird, strange, or off-the-w all” acts. The result of his p erfo r­ mance? Apparently the judges had the audience booing. Patricia A. W and, assistant university librarian for public services at the University of Oregon Li­ b rary , Eugene, has been granted a F u lb rig h t Award to Ecuador. The aw ard is for a project called “Professional Development for Academic Libraries,” which will be carried out from M ay- August 1989. A p p o in tm e n ts (Appointm ent notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointm ent appears, w rite to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) Roger Beckman has been appointed reference librarian in the Indiana University Chemistry Li­ brary, Bloomington. E ugene Beshenkovsky has been appointed Slavic/Eastern Europe bibliographer at Columbia University Libraries, New York. Mary Brennan has been promoted to deputy as­ sistant director for collection development at the University of Texas, Austin. Eileen Brown has been appointed special ser­ vices librarian at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Betty Bryce has been appointed reference li­ brarian at the University of Alabama Libraries, Tuscaloosa. Barbara Cangiano has been appointed library systems analyst at Columbia University Libraries, New York. Sharron Carlson has been appointed library coordinator for the Pew G rant at Case Western Re­ serve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 228 / C&RL News Mary M. Carr has been nam ed director of li­ brary services at North Idaho College Library, Coeur d ’Alene. Karen Chapman has been nam ed business refer­ ence librarian at the University of Alabama Li­ braries, Tuscaloosa. J ohanna C ooper has been named librarian in the Davis Centre Reference and Collections Devel­ opment Departm ent at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. Jane Curtis has been promoted to head of refer­ ence in the Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, New York. J udith D ye has been appointed head of the School of Library and Information Science library at Indiana University-Bloomington. L orene F landers has been appointed biblio­ graphic instruction/reference librarian at Georgia College, Milledgeville. Judith Yem Siu F ong has been appointed head of the Colorado Technical Reference Center a t the University of Colorado, Boulder. Heather Fraser has been appointed cataloger in bibliographic services at York University, Ontario. Katherine Gratke has been appointed grants librarian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. E lizareth Hewins has been appointed instruc­ tional services coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. J anet Swan H il i, has been appointed assistant instructor for technical services at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Marilyn Irwin has been appointed director of the Office of Inform ation Dissemination in the In ­ stitute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities at Indiana University-Bloomington. Bary L. Johnson has been nam ed monographic cataloger at the College of William and Mary, W il­ liamsburg, Virginia. Addis Kambule has been appointed reference li­ b ra ria n at th e U niversity of N o rth C aro lin a , Wilmington. Bill Kara has been named acquisitions librar­ ian at Cornell University’s Mann Library, Ithaca, New York. Karen Kaye has been named departm ent chair of the Library/Audio-Visual Departm ents at San Diego Mesa College Library, California. Cynthia A. Kehoe has been appointed Balcones librarian in the Engineering Library at the Univer­ sity of Texas, Austin. Bharpur Khangura has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in the Engineering Library at the University of M anitoba, Winnipeg. Edith Landau has been nam ed head of the Non­ book D epartm ent at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. J ohn R. M. Lawrence has been appointed in­ terlibrary loan/reference librarian at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Clementine Lewis has joined the staff of the La­ Guardia Community College Library, New York. Karen Liston has been named coordinator of the Illinois Research and Reference Center at the Uni­ versity of Illinois Library, Urbana-Champaign. D onald M. L uisi has been appointed public ser­ vices librarian at the Pittsburgh Center, Robert Morris College, Pennsylvania. Michael Maben has been appointed assistant li­ brarian in the Law Library at Indiana University- Bloomington. Carol A. McAllister has been appointed bib- liographer/information services librarian at the Col­ lege of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. D eborah J. M cC alpin has been appointed bib­ liographic database librarian at the Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore. L aurie McClellan has been appointed assis­ tant librarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Michael McD ermott has been named evening reference librarian at the University of Southern Maine, Portland. Sally McGill has been nam ed assistant curator of rare books and manuscripts at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Brenda Marston has been appointed archivist for hum an sexuality at the Cornell University Li­ braries Departm ent of Manuscripts and University Archives, Ithaca, New York. Marianne Mason has been appointed cataloger in th e L aw L ib r a r y a t I n d ia n a U niversity- Bloomington. Ray E. Metz has been appointed assistant direc­ tor for systems at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Larry Miller has been nam ed Slavic acquisi­ tions librarian at the University of Illinois Library, Urbana-Champaign. Marilyn Miller has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Dallas, Irving, Texas. H ilary Moser has been appointed librarian at the Schiller International University campus at Strasbourg, France. Old Sturbridge Research Fellowship Old Sturbridge Village, an outdoor living history museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, announces its first annual Research Fellowship to be aw arded to a scholar working in the social history and material culture of rural New E n­ gland from 1790 to 1850. The project need not be limited to rural New England nor to this pe­ riod, but must relate significantly to the Vil­ lage’s time and place. The fellowship is for a 6-12 week period (Spring and Fall Semester preferred) w ith a stipend of $2,500. For appli­ cation information, contact: John Worrell, D i­ rector of Research, Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge, MA 01566; (508) 347-3362, x302. Application dead­ line is July 1, 1989. March 1989 / 229 Angela Murphy-Walters has been named as­ sistant head of the Catalog Departm ent at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. Brian Nielsen has been appointed assistant uni­ versity librarian for branch libraries and informa­ tion services technology at Northwestern Univer­ sity, Evanston, Illinois. Carol Nurse has been named computer services librarian w ith the New York Metropolitan Refer­ ence and Research Library Agency’s Hospital Li­ brary Services Program, Brooklyn. Michael Ochs has been named the first Richard E. French librarian at H arvard University, Cam ­ bridge, Massachusetts. Toni Olshen has been appointed associate di­ rector of university libraries at York University, Ontario. Charles R. Peguese has been appointed assis­ tant dean for instructional resources at the Harris­ burg Area Community College. W ayne Perryman has been promoted to deputy assistant for technical services operations at the University of Texas, Austin. Nancy Poehlmann has been appointed cata- loger at Indiana University, Bloomington. Donald L. Ray has been named assistant head of public services at Mercy College Libraries, Westchester County, New York. Lindsey Rerer has been appointed research bib­ liographer for the Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University Libraries, Athens. Mary Lynn Rice-Lively has been appointed li­ brary and information science librarian at the Uni­ versity of Texas, Austin. John V. Richardson Jr. has been appointed as­ sociate dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Li­ brary and Information Science, Los Angeles. Rick Richmond has been appointed automated systems librarian at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. T homas C. Rick has been appointed assistant archivist at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, Illinois. Ron Rodrigues has been named assistant engi­ neering librarian at Stanford University, California. Diann Rusch-Feja has been named Germanic bibliographer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Rose M. Saenz has been appointed systems li­ brarian at the Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Margo Sasse is the new head of the Catalog De­ partm ent at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins. J ohn Schmitt has been appointed head of the Social Sciences and Humanities D epartm ent at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins. R. Neil Scott has been appointed coordinator of in fo rm a tio n services a t G eorgia C ollege, Milledgeville. J udith Segal has joined the staff of the Hunter College Library, New York. Charlene Shults has been named reference li­ brarian at the University of Alabama Libraries, Tuscaloosa. Bob Stewart has been promoted to head librar­ ian in the Bibliographic Systems Office at the Uni­ versity of Texas Libraries, Austin. Ed Stockey has been named library automation o fficer a t th e In d ia n a U n iv ersity L ib ra rie s, Bloomington. Allison Supancic has been appointed reference lib rarian at th e University of N orth C arolina, Wilmington. Cheryl Taranto has been appointed nonbook cataloger at the University of Alabama Libraries, Tuscaloosa. Christopher P. Thornton has been appointed serials cataloger at Case Western Reserve Univer­ sity, Cleveland, Ohio. Stephen H. Toombs has been appointed music lib rarian at Case W estern Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. E lizabeth Tsai has been appointed cataloger at the LaGuardia Community College Library, New York. D onald J. W elsh has been appointed coordina­ tor of reference services at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Jenifer W est has been named catalog librarian at Georgia College, Milledgeville. Mary W estermann has been appointed assis­ tant professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, C. W. Post Campus, Long Is­ land University, New York. C hristine R. W ondolowski has been named collection development librarian at Hofstra Uni­ versity, Hempstead, New York. R etirem ents Richard L. Anders, rare book cataloger at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massa­ chusetts, since 1968, retired at the end of January. In his years at A AS, Anders established himself as the authority on the compilation and publication of American almanacs. Of the 15,000 almanacs in the A AS collection, Anders cataloged all those dated from 1646 through 1820, as well as about two-thirds of those issued during the next decade. In his retirement he will continue to serve AAS by working as a regular volunteer. Larry Earl Bone, director of libraries at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York, for 12 years, re­ tired on January 31. He will remain on the faculty as professor of library service. Bone came to Mercy College from Rhodes College in Memphis, where he served as director of the Burrow Library. Prior to that he was an assistant director of the Memphis and Shelby County Public Library, and assistant director of the G raduate School of Library Science at the University of Illinois. He also has served with 230 / C&RL News the American Library in Paris and with the Li­ brary of Congress. A graduate of Rhodes College, where he received his bachelor’s degree, Bone holds a master’s degree from Long Island University and an MLS from Case Western Reserve University. He is a past president of the ALA Reference and Adult Services Division, and a member of accreditation teams for the Middle States and the American Library Association. Helen S. Butz, rare book librarian at the Uni­ versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, retired at the end of January after 25 years of service. Butz began her career as library assistant in the D artm outh Col­ lege Art Library and went on in 1948 to become a member of the cataloging staff at the Princeton Theological Seminary Library. In 1961 she moved to Michigan and worked in different cataloging ca­ pacities at UM until 1968 when she was appointed coordinator of technical services at Syracuse Uni­ versity. Two years later she returned to Michigan. Active in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Butz served on a number of committees including the RBMS Standards Committee, of which she was co-founder and first chair. Ronald B. De W aal, social sciences and humani­ ties librarian at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins, since 1966, retired June 30, 1988. Jana Kovtun, Slavic cataloger at the University of California at Berkeley, retired at the end of De­ cember after 27 years of service. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Kovtun studied medicine there before moving to New York in 1951. In 1957 she moved to Berkeley, where she worked in the C ata­ log Departm ent as a Slavic cataloger. In the fall of 1967 she moved to Seattle, then returned to Berke­ ley in 1972 as circulation supervisor at the Biology Library. After 1974 she worked in the Acquisition Departm ent w ith a split assignment in the Catalog Departm ent, then joined the Catalog Department full-time in 1978. E va Kronik, bibliographer in the Olin Collec­ tion Development Departm ent at Cornell Univer­ sity, Ithaca, New York, retired at the end of Janu­ ary. Kronik began her career at Olin in 1971 as a serials cataloger, then became the D epartm ent’s European Studies bibliographer in 1977, building the collections in both Germanic and Romance lit­ erature and history. In 1984 she reduced her hours to half-time, retaining responsibility for South Eu­ ropean literature and history. W illiam F. Lindgren, head of the Catalog De­ partm ent at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins, retired June 30,1988, after 28 years of service in that position. Antoinette Lueck, physical sciences librarian at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins, retired December 31,1988, after 20 years of service. Iva Mostecky, cataloging librarian at the Uni­ versity of California at Berkeley, retired at the end of 1988 after 17 years of service. A native ofPrague, Czechoslovakia, Mostecky moved to New York and received her library degree from Columbia Univer­ sity in 1950. She began her career at the Folger- Shakespeare Library in Washington, D .C ., as a cataloger, then worked at the National Library of Medicine as senior cataloger and book selector; H arvard University’s Francis A. Countw ay Li­ brary of Medicine, where she was involved in the Colum bia-H arvard-Y ale catalog-on-com puter project; and SUNY-Buffalo, as coordinator of cata­ loging in scientific libraries and head of acquisi­ tions. She went to Berkeley in 1971 as head of the Documents and Serials Departments, then became head of the Serials D epartm ent. She joined the Catalog Departm ent in 1976. D eaths Claire De Mandy, chief librarian of the C ata­ loging Division at Lehman College, Bronx, New York, since 1985, died on March 30, 1988. Marnesba H i l l , fo rm er ch ief lib r a r ia n of Lehman College, Bronx, New York, died April 8, 1988. Hill had served at Lehman in many capaci­ ties for 25 years before retiring in 1983. J ack Byron Spear, former head of the Traveling Library and the Library for the Blind at New York State Library, died November 24, 1988. Spear was named Illinois’ Youngest Librarian in 1938 and 1939 while working at the Carbondale Public Li­ brary and attending Southern Illinois University. He served in World W ar II in the Transportation Corps and was Library Officer at Eisenhower’s headquarters in Paris, where he set up bookmobiles to serve soldiers in Europe. He was also a past di­ rector of the American Heritage Project, which works to stimulate discussion of American heritage and its contemporary applications. ■ ■ Library instruction becomes a requirement Beginning w ith the Fall Semester of 1989, Temple University will require all undergradu­ ate students to complete, as part of the core cur­ riculum, a non-credit introduction to the use of the library. This requirement will be met by com pleting th e L ibrary Skills W orkbook, which introduces students to the basic steps of doing research, includes exercises that give stu­ dents hands-on experience w ith library materi­ als, and pursues a single topic throughout so as to model real library research. After students complete the exercises, they will complete a computer-assisted learning program that tells them whether or not their responses are correct, gives them an opportunity to make corrections, and provides a printout of their final scores. Students will have to complete the workbook before they have done 30 credit hours of work at Temple or they will not be perm itted to register for the next semester.