ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July/August 1984 / 363 essed holdings. • Tufts University Libraries, Medford, Massa- chusetts, have received a $100,000 grant from the Surdna Foundation to further awareness of infor­ mation technology among library users and staff. The grant, awarded for a three-year period, will be used to support projects designed to upgrade un­ derstanding of news information technologies on the part of librarians, faculty and students. • W estm inster College, New W ilm ington, P ennsylvania, has been aw ard ed a g ran t of $151,000 by the Buhl Foundation of Pittsburgh, which will enable the college to pioneer the con­ cept of a static-capacity library. The model is in­ tended to enable the college to save the cost of con­ structing a new library wing, improve library service, and facilitate the management of library resources. It will also feature an open-stack, man­ ageable collection for u n d erg rad u ate use; in ­ creased utilization of shelf space; conversion of m a­ terials to m icroform ; the use of m echanized compact shelving; increased staff to assist with the review of the use of materials and the maintenance of the catalog; and transfer of certain materials to remote storage. The Westminster holdings will reach a maximum of 300,000 volumes. ■ ■ P E O P L E Profiles William J. Crowe has been appointed assistant director of libraries for technical services at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, effec­ tive April 1. Crowe has been acting assistant direc­ tor since late 1983, and had served as assistant to the director since 1979. He came to Ohio State from Indiana University, where he was assistant to the dean of libraries (1977-1979) and coordinator of processing for regional cam pus lib raries (1971-1976). He was a cataloger and assistant to the acquisitions librarian at Boston Public Library (1969-1971). In 1976-1977, Crowe was a Council on Library Resources Management intern at the University of Michigan Library. He is currently a doctoral can­ didate at Indiana University and holds an MLS from Rutgers University and a bachelor’s degree from Boston State College. Crowe currently serves as coordinator of the Academic and Special Li­ braries Division of the Ohio Library Association, has been active in ALA’s Library Administration and Management Division, and is incoming chair of the Technical Services Group of the Ohio Inter- University Library Council. His writings have ap­ peared in College ò- Research Libraries and L i­ brary Resources and Technical Services. Dorothy M. Kijanka has been appointed direc­ tor of the Sacred Heart University Library, Bridge­ port, Connecticut, effective July 1. Kijanka has been with Fairfield University as reference librar­ ian and later as associate university librarian, a po­ sition she held for over 10 years. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Kijanka received an MLS from Rutgers University. She has written articles for the Journal of Aca­ demic Librarianship and the New England Aca­ demic Librarians’ Writing Seminar. Alan Edward Schorr has been named univer­ sity librarian at California State University, Fuller­ ton, effective July 16. He has been director of li­ b raries and m edia services at the Univer­ sity of Alaska, Juneau, since 1978. In 1972- 1978 he served as gov­ ern m en t p u b licatio n s and map librarian at the U niversity of Alaska, Fairbanks. Schorr received an MLS from the Univer­ sity of Texas at Austin, a master’s in history from Syracuse U niversity, Alan E. Schorr and a bachelor’s degree from H u n te r College (CUNY). He was a doctoral student at the Univer­ sity of Iowa. Schorr is currently serving his second term as ALA councilor at large. He also serves on the ALA Publications Committee, the Dewey Medal Com­ mittee, and the Reference Books Review Commit­ tee. He has served as a member of both the ACRL and RASD Publications Committees, and the 364 / C&RL News Dartmouth Medal and Mudge Citation Commit­ tees. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Aca­ demic Librarianship, Wilson Library Bulletin, the Journal of the American Society of Information Science, RQ, and Arctic Bulletin. He is the author of books published by Libraries Unlimited, Special Libraries Association, and Pierian Press. He has also presented workshops and given lectures throughout Alaska, California, and Britain. At Juneau he was involved in the initiation of au­ tomated services, collection development, facility renovation, and planning for a new building and a recent accreditation visit. Larry E. Sullivan has been appointed professor and chief librarian at Herbert H. Lehman College in the Bronx, New York. He comes to the college from the New York Historial Society where he has served as librarian since 1980. He had earlier been the head librarian at the Maryland Historical Soci­ ety and the library director of the Maryland State Penitentiary. Sullivan has taught at Essex Commu­ nity College, Western Maryland College, Allegany Community College, and Johns Hopkins Univer­ sity. A graduate of DePaul University, he holds a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins and an MLS from the Catholic University of America. From 1966 to 1967 he studied on a Fulbright Fellowship at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale at the University of Poitiers, France. Among his published works are: Oral History in Maryland: A Directory (editor); Guide to the Re­ search Collections of the Maryland Historical Soci­ ety (co-editor); and articles in the Journal of L i­ brary History, Collier’s Encyclopedia, Imprint, Mediaevalia, Printing History, and The Map Col­ lector. Sullivan is currently working on a history of the prison reform movement in the United States and is continuing his research on libraries and literacy in 19th-century America. He recently organized the major exhibition at the New York World Trade Center commemorating te 300th anniversary of the founding of New York’s counties. People in the News Edward D. Garten, director of libraries at Ten­ nessee Tech University, has been named to receive the 1984 Distinguished Graduate Award by the Kent State University School of Library and Infor­ mation Science. The award is given in recognition of “educational achievement beyond the profes­ sional degree, publishing record, and service to the profession.” Adele Lerner, medical archivist at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, has been elected vice-chair/chair-elect of the Council of National Library and Information Associations. Jay K. Lucker, director of libraries at Massachu­ setts Institute of Technology, has been appointed chairman of the Research Libraries Advisory Com­ mittee to OCLC (RLAC) beginning July 1. He suc­ ceeds Roger K. Hanson, library director at the Uni­ versity of Utah, who has served as chairman since September 1982. John David Marshall, Middle Tennessee State University Library, Murfreesboro, is the 1984 re­ cipient of the Tennessee L ibrary Association’s Frances Neel Cheney Award for “outstanding con­ tributions to the world of books and librarianship. ” Bessie Boehm Moore was reappointed to the National Commission on Libraries and Informa­ tion Science for a term expiring July 19, 1988. Moore has been a member of the Commission for the past 13 years and has served as NCLIS vice chairman since 1972. In the March 8 Senate pro­ ceedings in w hich she was unanim ously re ­ nominated, Senator David H. Pryor (D-Ark.) cited Moore’s “undying commitment to education, li­ braries, and information systems throughout the past half century.” Charles D. Patterson, professor at the Louisi­ ana State University School of Library and Infor­ mation Science, has received the H.M. “Hub” Cot­ ton F o u n d a tio n F acu lty Excellence A w ard established to honor and recognize excellence in teaching, research, administration, or public ser­ vice. Patterson is editor of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. Appointments (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, ĬL 60611-2795.) Deborah Allen has been promoted to Nesbitt and Evening Colleges librarian, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen K. Andersson has been appointed chief serials cataloger in the Harvard College Library. Judith Anspaugh is now associate law librarian at the University of Connecticut School of Law Li­ brary, West Hartford. Elizabeth J. Bradt has been appointed assis­ tant librarian of the Circulation Division at the University of Washington, Seattle. Robert M. Brooks has been named director of the Guggenheim Library, Monmouth College, New Jersey. Robert E. Burgin will join the faculty of the School of Library Science at North Carolina Cen­ tral University, Durham, as a lecturer on Septem­ ber 1. JoA. Cates has been appointed reference librar­ ian in Lamont Library, Harvard University. Lorna Cohen has been appointed reference li­ brarian at George Washington University Law Li­ brary, Washington, D.C. Lillian Cooley has joined the staff of the Mis- 366 / C&RL News sissippi College School of Law Library, Jackson, as evening reference librarian. Edward J. DeLong has been appointed audio­ visual librarian at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. Christine de Vallet has been appointed li­ brary services librarian at Yale University Library. Richard Dick has been named director for local systems and m icro co m p u ter ap p licatio n s at OCLC, Dublin, Ohio. Linda S. Drago has been appointed associate law librarian at the University of Pittsburgh Law Library, Pennsylvania. Gary Draper has been appointed coordinator for user education at the University of Waterloo Li­ braries, Ontario. Marla Edelman is now the head serials librar­ ian at the University of North Carolina at Greens­ boro. Leslie Edmonds joined the faculty of the Grad­ uate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois, Urbana, as an assistant professor. Barbara L. Emmer has been named head librar­ ian the Pennsylvania State University, Du Bois campus. Rita Fein has been appointed assistant acquisi­ tion librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Maggie S. Fernandez has been promoted to head of the MARC Processing Section in the H ar­ vard College Library. John J. Ferrainolo joined the staff of the Penn­ sylvania State University Libraries, University Park, as physical sciences librarian/cataloger. Steve Gerhardt has been appointed associate dean for library learning resources at West Hill Community College in Coalinga, California. Elizabeth Ginkel is now assistant law librarian for technical services at the Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library, University of Maine, Portland. Dianne B. Grover has been appointed head of the Processing Control Section, Serials Division, University of Washington, Seattle. Judith Head has been named associate director of libraries for the University of Manitoba, Winni­ peg. Nancy L. Herron has been appointed head li­ brarian at the the Pennsylvania State University McKeesport Campus. James Hodson is now social sciences reference and collection development librarian at Temple University, Philadelphia. Judith Hopkins has been appointed technical services research and analysis officer at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Susan E. Huff has been appointed head of the Microform/Newspaper Unit, Government Docu­ ments Department, at the University of California, Berkeley. Joseph A. KiEGELhas been appointed Slavic cat- aloger at the University of Washington, Seattle. Paul Knight has been appointed head of cata­ loging, Temple University, Philadelphia. Carolyn C. Jamison has been appointed docu­ ments lib rarian and cataloger at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Timothy J. Johnson has been named head li­ brarian at Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois. Carol Ann Kirtley has been appointed assis­ tant online access services librarian at the Univer­ sity of Florida, Gainesville. Jay Ladd has been named assistant director of li­ braries for departm ent and undergraduate li­ braries at Ohio State University, Columbus. Isa Lang has joined the staff of Garbrecht Law Library at the University of Maine, Portland, as reference librarian. Linda Lawrence has been appointed as a refer­ ence librarian at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Marcia G. Lehr is now reference librarian at Northwestern University Law Library, Chicago. John Lepke has been appointed assistant social sciences librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Mary McCreadie is now catalog librarian in the Transportation Library at Northwestern Univer­ sity, Evanston, Illinois. Martha McNamara has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at Suffolk University, Boston, Mas­ sachusetts. Marilyn McSweeney has been appointed assis­ tant serials librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Mark Matthewman has been appointed head of public services in the Museum of Comparative Zo­ ology Library, Harvard University. Meredith Meritt has been appointed cataloger in the Technical Services Division, University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie. Jim Minton is now head of the Map Collection at University of Arizona, Tucson. Lisa Mitten is now cataloger/information scien­ tist at the Franklin Pierce Law Center Library in Concord, New Hampshire. Harold M. Moren joined the staff of the H ar­ vard Law School Library as acquisitions librarian. Leslie A. Morris has been appointed curator of history and bibliography at the Rosenbach Mu­ seum and Library, Philadelphia. Diane Parker has been named director of West­ ern Washington University, Bellingham. Ruth J. Person has been appointed associate dean of Catholic University of America’s School of Library and Inform ation Science, Washington, D.C. Howard E. Polonsky has been appointed head of reader services at Western New England College of Law Library, Springfield, Massachusetts. Audrey E. Powers will join the Pennsylvania State University Libraries at University Park as en­ gineering librarian and cataloger. Victoria Punsalan has been appointed refer­ July/August 1984 / 367 ence librarian at Pennsylvania State University, Capitol Cam pus, Middletown. E. Ann Rae has been appointed chief law lib rar­ ian at the University of Toronto L aw Library. Linda S. Richer has been appointed reference librarian at the Pennsylvania State University L i­ brary, University Park. Carol S. Robinson has been appointed process­ ing librarian in the Barker Engineering Library, M assachusetts I n s titu te of T echnology, C a m ­ bridge. Delanie Ross has been appointed head of the Mississippi Valley Collection at the Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee. Debora Shaw has joined the faculty at the G rad­ uate School of L ibrary and Inform ation Science of the University of Illinois, U rbana, as assistant pro­ fessor. Marian Shostrom is now reference librarian at the University of San Francisco of School Law L i­ brary. Ray Soto has been appointed assistant to the university librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mary Stout has been appointed acting head of CPNM at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Larry E . Sullivan has been nam ed professor and chief librarian at H erbert H. Lehm an College of the City University of New York in the Bronx. Bob Veenstra has been appointed medical li­ brarian at Auburn University, Montgomery, Ala­ bam a. Jim Warrington has been appointed reference librarian at the Business/SPEA Library, Indiana University at Bloomington. Sandra Weronko has been prom oted to univer- Libraries cited in report on graduate education A report by the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance last December called for Fed­ eral action to enhance the quality of scholarly li­ braries and ensure th a t valuable collections are m aintained. As p art of its report on “serious signs of distress” in graduate education, the Commission cited the rising cost of books and library services and the lack of proper preservation methods as fac­ tors ham pering independent scholarship at the graduate level. The Commission m ade th e following recom ­ mendations to enhance library quality in graduate institutions: • T h e fe d e ra l g o v ern m en t sh o u ld increase grants for operating support to all college and uni­ versity libraries, w ith m uch larger grants to major research universities. • T h e federal governm ent should encourage and support interlibrary cooperation and network­ ing to ensure the widest possible use of scholarly materials. •Incentives for business and industry to donate equipm ent to colleges and universities should be extended to apply to library materials and research collections. Again, safeguards would be necessary to prevent the use of such incentives for donations of m aterials of little value to scholars. • T h e National Commission on Libraries and In fo rm a tio n Science should con tin u e to w ork closely w ith the L ibrary of Congress in monitoring and assessing the quality of the nation’s libraries. • T h e L ibrary of Congress should take a leading role in assisting libraries across the country to pre­ serve deteriorating collections. The Commission supports the L ibrary’s program of research into methods of preservation and encourages the Li­ brary’s National Preservation Office in its plans for w ider dissemination of inform ation. •E xisting programs th a t support the preserva­ tion of scholarly materials, such as the one adminis­ tered by the National Endow m ent for the H um ani­ ties, should be continued. • T h e L ib r a r y C a re e r T r a in in g p ro g ra m s should be extended to support advanced study in m o d ern in fo rm atio n technology such as com ­ puters, library networking, and the preservation of older library m aterials. Minority participation in the program should be encouraged. ■ ■ Media centers need help, too The Division of Educational Media Manage­ m ent of the Association for Educational Com ­ munications and Technology has issued a study th a t examined trends in budgeting, staffing, program support, and services in m edia centers at 196 institutions representing all levels of higher education. Their survey found th at cen­ ters at public colleges and universities appear to have suffered serious budgeting and personnel cutbacks in the period 1977-1983, while reduc­ tions at private institutions appear to have been less severe. The d ata were collected during the 1982-83 school year by the AECT/DEM M Task Force on the Status of Media Centers in Higher E d u ­ cation, chaired by Michael J. Albright of Iow a State University. A copy of the 94-page final re­ port m ay be obtained from Lynn Milet, Media Center, Linderm an L ibrary 30, Lehigh Uni­ versity, Bethlehem, PA 18015. The cost is $10 a copy, payable to DEMM. 368 / C&RL News sity librarian at W illam ette University, Salem, O r­ egon. Lofton Wilson is now project librarian in the H arvard College Library. Robert Yontz is now library director at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri. Retirements William B. Ernst, Jr., professor of library ad­ ministration at the University of Illinois at Chi­ cago, will retire on August 31. Joan Margaret Gibbs retired recently as senior assistant librarian at the University of London, E n ­ gland. Mary L. Hanley, chief serials cataloger at the H arvard College Library, retired April 30 after 37 years of service. Deane W . Hill, former director of the Instruc­ tional Materials Center at the University of Wis­ consin School of Education, retired on June 1. She was chair of the Learning Resource Center, Lin­ coln Land Community College, Springfield, Illi­ nois, from 1968 to 1977, and director of the library at Arya-Mehr University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, from 1977 to 1979. Emma Lou Kopp is retiring after 31 years of ser­ vice at the University of Kansas Medical Center Li­ brary, Kansas City. Elizabeth Newland will retire late this summer after serving as head catalog librarian at the Uni­ versity of N orth C aro lin a at G reensboro since 1972. Dolores B. Owen retired from the University of Southw estern Louisiana L ibrary, L afayette, on July 1. She held the position of government publi­ cations librarian there for 12 years. She was the 1982-83 Louisiana Library Association President and was recently elected as the Southeastern Li­ brary Association’s representative for LLA. George E. Potter, public services librarian at the H arvard-Yenching Library, retired at the end of June after 20 years of service. Adam Sebestyen, assistant to the university li­ brarian for collection development at the Univer­ sity of California, Santa Barbara, Library since 1968, retired May 15. Gaston Somoshegyi-Szokol retired on May 7. Pie served as librarian for Hispanic and Hungarian collections at the University of California, Berke­ ley, since 1971. Daisy Hsien Tao, senior Chinese cataloger at Harvard-Yenching Library, retired at the end of June after 20 years of service. F lorence Tayian, cataloger in th e H arv ard Law School Library, will retire in September after over 40 years of service to H arvard. Beverly Toy, associate university librarian at the University of C alifornia, Irvine, will retire June 30 after 12 years at UCI. July/August 1984 / 369 Deaths Valmai Kirkham Fenster, assistant professor of library science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Library School, died on May 13 after a long illness. Bella E. Schachtman, former associate univer­ sity librarian for technical services at the University of California, Berkeley, died in April. ■ ■ PUBLICATIONS Notices • The Acquisition and Cataloging of Music and Sound Recordings: A Glossary, compiled by Su zanne E. Thorin and Carole Franklin Vidali, has been published as MLA Technical Report numbe 11. The glossary includes terms used in both cur rent and earlier LC practice, as well as words and abbreviations commonly found on title pages o scores, on labels and containers of sound record ings, and in bibliographic and descriptive sources utilized for acquisition and cataloging these mate rials. Nearly 600 English and foreign words and abbreviations are covered. The glossary is avail able for $14 ($11.25 for MLA members) from the Music Library Association, P.O. Box 487, Canton MA 02021. • Automated Circulation: An Examination o Choices, edited by Joseph R. Matthews and Kevin E. Hegarty (126 pages, 1984), contains the pro ceedings of a preconference sponsored by the Cir culation Services Section of ALA’s Library Admin istra tio n and M anagem ent Association in Philadelphia, July 8-9, 1982. Most of the informa tion is very practical and covers such areas as speci fications and contract negotiations, shared sys tems, and alternative financing. Copies may be ordered for $15 from ALA Publishing, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0402-5. • Bibliographic Services and User Needs, com- piled and edited by Paul Peterson (1984), presents the opening session, papers, discussion group re ports, and recommendations of a conference held at Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, in December 1983 to review the progress of the Bibliographic Service Development Program of the Council on Library Resources. Four papers were contributed by Thomas Martin, Syracuse University; Douglas Ferguson, Stanford University; Nina Matheson National Library of Medicine; and Carlton Ro- chell, New York University. A background paper providing information on the Program’s progress, a bibliography of Program publications, the meeting ­ agenda, and a list of participants are included as appendixes. The report may be ordered for $10 r from CLR, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W ., ­ Washington, DC 20036. • Bilindex (533 pages, July 1984), a new f Spanish-English subject heading thesaurus pub­ ­ lished by the California Spanish Language Data Base, offers standardized Spanish equivalents to ­ over 13,000 current LC subject headings. Special features of this thesaurus are: cross references, ­ scope notes, children’s subject headings, standard subdivisions, an English to Spanish index, regional , variants, and technical terms. The book will allow libraries to maintain an adequate catalog and sub­ f ject access to Spanish and bilingual collections. The cost is $65 and may be ordered from Vivian Pisano, ­ California Spanish Language Data Base, P.O. Box ­ ­ Microcomputer Services ­ Discussion Group forms­ ­ The formation of a new ACRL discussion group, Microcomputer Services in Academic Libraries, was approved by the ACRL Board of Directors at its Midwinter meeting in Washing­ ton, D.C. The purpose is to facilitate the shar­ ing of ideas and experiences among librarians in ­ academic libraries offering their patrons access to microcomputers and/or circulating collec­ tions of microcomputer software. ACRL mem­ bers who would like to be included in the activi­ ties of this group should write to the chair: Linda Piele, Library/Learning Center, Univer­ sity of Wisconsin-Parkside, Box 2000, Kenosha, , WI 53141.