ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July /August 1985 / 361 review and approval of the State University Sys­ te m ’s F lo rid a C e n te r for L ib ra ry A u to m atio n (FC LA ). D uring the same period, tw o m ultitype li­ brary consortia, T am pa Bay L ibrary Consortium (TBLC) and Southeastern Florida L ibrary Infor­ m ation N etw ork (SEFLIN), were reviewed and approved for LSCA Title III planning and startup grants. These three will serve as w orking models during the survey and planning process. • University of U tah students have initiated an $8,000 appropriation of student funds w hich m ay lead to $50,000 in new books for the university’s M arriott L ibrary. The Freshm an Council of the Associated Students of the University of U tah is ad ­ m inistering th e “ G ive–a –Book” cam paign. Area charitable foundations have been asked to double the $8,000 appropriated by the student assembly, and each U tah alum nus will be asked to give at least $25 tow ard a book in a subject area of their choice. Books donated through the cam paign will have the donor’s nam e perm anently inscribed on the inside front cover. If successful, the Give–a– Book cam paign will become a perm anent Fresh­ m an Council project. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . Profiles Charles B. Lowry, director of libraries at the University of South Alabam a, has been appointed director of libraries at the University of Texas at A rlington, effective July 1. L o w ry h as b e e n a t S o u th A la b a m a since 1980, w here he was re­ sponsible for the univer­ sity l i b r a r y a n d tw o branches of the Biome­ d ical L ib ra ry . H e w as instrum ental in the for­ m ation of the N etw ork of A la b a m a A cadem ic L ib r a r ie s , a n d has served as vice-chair and Charles B. L o w rychair-elect of the C oun­ cil of L ibrarians of the A labam a Commission on H igher E ducation and on several Advisory C om m ittees of the A labam a P ub­ lic L ibrary Service. Low ry has served on the Board of D irecto rs of S O L IN E T since 1983 an d was elected vice-chairm an of the Board in 1984. In August 1985 he will be a p articip an t in the Senior Fellows Program at the UCLA G rad u ate School of L ibrary and Inform ation Science. He was also a p articip an t in the ARL/OMS C onsultant T raining Program in 1979. Low ry currently serves on the ACRL Publica­ tions C o m m ittee an d th e LAMA M em bership C om m ittee, and he was chair of the ACRL College L ib rarie s S ection’s M em bership C o m m itte e in 1979-81. He has published articles and com m en­ tary in College & Research Libraries, A labam a L i­ b ra ria n , Jo u rn a l o f A c a d e m ic L ib ra r ia n s h ip , N orth Carolina Libraries, A m erican Jewish His­ torical Quarterly, and Florida Historical Quar­ terly. His previous positions include head lib ra ria n and director of learning resources at Elon College, N orth C arolina (1978-80), social science reference bibliographer and head of reference at the Univer­ sity of N orth C arolina at C harlotte (1974-78), and c h a ir m a n of th e S ocial S ciences D iv isio n a t Faulkner State C om m unity College, Bay M inette, A labam a (1965-69). Low ry received his bachelor’s degree in history from Spring Hill College in 1964. He also has a m aster’s in history from the University of A labam a, Tuscaloosa (1965), an MLS from the University of N orth C arolina, C hapel Hill (1974), and a Ph.D . in history from the University of Florida, Gaines­ ville (1979). James M. Myers has been appointed director of the Tem ple University Libraries, Philadelphia, ef­ fective April 15. He will direct a full-tim e staff of 159 employees and a library system of some 1.8 m illion volum es. F o r th e p ast six years Myers served as associate director of libraries at Stanford University. Before going to Stanford, Myers was assistant di­ rector for technical services at the University of A r­ izona. He has also served as associate lib rarian for E astern W ashington University, Cheney; head of 362 / C&RL News the Acquisitions D epartm ent at Oakland Univer­ sity Libraries, Rochester, Michigan; and head of acquisitions and circulation for the Canisius Col­ lege Library in Buffalo. Myers received a bachelor’s degree in classical languages and literature from Canisius in 1963 and earned an MLS from the University of Illinois in 1968. He has also taken graduate courses in educa­ tion at Canisius and in classics at Gonzaga. Last summer Myers taught m anagem ent of tech­ nical services in the G raduate School of Library and Inform ation Science at the University of Cali­ fornia at Berkeley. He has also taught at San Jose University, the University of Arizona, and Eastern W ashington University. In 1983 he was chair of the ALA Technical Services Directors of Large Re­ search Libraries Discussion Group. Gail Ann Schlachter is now president of Refer­ ence Service Press, a library-oriented reference book publishing company located in Los Angeles. Schlachter comes to the position from ABC-Clio Inform ation Services, where she has served since 1981 as vice-president and general m anager. Prior to th at she worked for over 10 years as a librarian, library adm inistrator, and library faculty m em ­ ber. Schlachter received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a joint mas­ ter’s degree in history and education from the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin, an MLS from the University of W isconsin, an MPA from th e U niversity of Southern California, and a Ph.D . in librarianship from the Universitv of Minnesota. A member of ALA and the California Library Association, Schlachter currently serves on the Councils of both groups. She has been the reference book review editor of RQ for the past seven years. She is a well-known lecturer on statistical/research techniques for libraries, and she recently returned from a six-province lecture tour in C anada spon­ sored by the C anadian Library Association. She is the author of a series of directories of fi­ nancial aid for special needs groups and is the co­ author of Reference Sources in Library and Infor­ m a tio n S ervices, th e w in n e r of th e 1985 Knowledge Industry Publications Award for Li­ brary Literature. People in the news Laszlo L. Kovacs, librarian of the School of Humanities, Social Science and Education at P ur­ due University, was presented the 1985 John H. Moriarty Award for Excellence in Library Science by the President of the University on April 29 at the annual Awards Convocation. Robert Stueart, professor and dean at the Sim­ mons College G raduate School of Library and In ­ form ation Science, was honored as Distinguished Alumnus aw ardee of 1985 at the annual banquet of the Pitt/Carnegie Library and Inform ation Science Alumni Association on March 22. Appointments (A ppointm ent notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure th at your appointm ent appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) Patricia Aranda–Coddou has been appointed re s e a rc h /re fe re n c e sp e c ia list in th e B ritish - American Division of the Library of Congress Law Library. Larry Alford has been appointed assistant uni­ versity librarian for planning and finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kathleen Bergen has been appointed head of the Map Room at the University of Michigan Li­ brary, Ann Arbor. Anne E. Bridges is now reference librarian with specialization in social sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Marifran Bustion has been appointed serials li­ brarian at Texas A&M University, College Station. Epp appointed associate editor of C h oice Ronald H. Epp, assistant professor of philosophy at Memphis State University, began duties as asso­ ciate editor of Choice m agazine, M iddletow n, Connecticut, on July 1. He will have subject re­ sponsibilities in philosophy, the classics, and his­ tory. Choice is the leading book and nonprint re­ view publication for the academ ic library and scholarly book markets and is published by ACRL. Epp received his Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971. He also holds an MLS from Memphis State (1984), a mas­ ter’s in history from SUNY-Buffalo (1968), and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester (1965). He has been assistant professor at Memphis State since 1971, prior to which he had been assis­ ta n t professor in philosophy at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis (1969-1971). He has w ritten extensively for such journals as Metaphilosophy, Philosophia, and the Southern Journal of Philosophy, for which he served as assis­ tant editor. Recently he edited a special num ber of the latter journal entitled “Recovering the Stoics,” which contains an extensive bibliography on Stoi­ cism. ■ ■ July /August 1985 / 363 Beverly Carlton has been appointed reference lib ra ria n at the V anderbilt University M edical C enter Library. Anne Clifford is a new interlibrary loan lib ra r­ ian at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Elaine Cook has been appointed regional sales m anager for the Americas and the F ar East at the C om m onw ealth A gricultural Bureaux, F arnham Royal, England. Karmen N. T. Crowther has been appointed reference librarian w ith specialization in business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Karleen Darr is now head of cataloging in the H ealth Sciences L ibrary, University of California, Davis. Nina Davis–Millis is now music librarian in the H um anities L ibrary at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, C am bridge. Donald H. Dederick has been appointed head of the Interlibrary Loan D epartm ent at the M edi­ cal Research L ibrary of Brooklyn, State University of New York, D ow nstate Medical Center. Mary Anne Denham has been nam ed autom a­ tion project coordinator for the Georgetown Uni­ versity Law Library. Carol Dickerson is now director of the W alker M anagem ent L ib rary at V an d erb ilt University, Nashville. Gorman L. Duffett has been appointed head librarian at H iram College, Ohio. Judith Eannarino has been appointed reference librarian and subject specialist at the G elm an L i­ brary, George W ashington University. Sara Fine has been prom oted to professor in the D epartm ent of L ibrary Science at the University of P ittsb u rg h ’s School of L ib rary and In form ation Science. David G. Gantt has been nam ed coordinator of public services at Tennessee Technological Univer­ sity Libraries, Cookeville. Murray Genoe has been nam ed university li­ brarian at T rent University, Peterborough, O n­ tario. David P. Gillikin has been appointed reference librarian w ith specialization in science at the Uni­ versity of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dorothy Granger has been appointed refer­ ence lib rarian at W heaton College, Norton, Mas­ sachusetts. Kathleen A. Green has been appointed under­ graduate reference librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Marcia E. Grimes is a new reference librarian at W heaton College, N orton, Massachusetts. Phyllis Harland is now architecture librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Melinda Hayes has been appointed senior tech­ nical services librarian at the Hancock L ibrary of Biology and O ceanography, University of South­ ern C alifornia, Los Angeles. Jacquelyn Halverson has been appointed cata- loger at Texas A&M University, College Station. David Hedrick has been appointed special col­ ections librarian for the Musselman L ibrary, G et­ ysburg College, Pennsylvania. Charles Henry has been appointed assistant di­ ector for hum anities and history at the Colum bia niversity Libraries, New York. Stanley Hodge has been appointed chief bibli­ grapher at Ball State University, Muncie, In d i­ ana. William B. Keller has been appointed head of pecial collections at the G elm an L ibrary, George ashington University, W ashington, D .C . Ramune Kubilius has joined the N orthw estern niversity Medical L ibrary, Chicago, as senior ref­ rence librarian. Betty Landesman has been appointed product pecialist at CL Systems, Inc., W est N ew ton, Mas­ achusetts. Elizabeth Laney has been appointed lib rary cience librarian at the University of N orth C aro­ ina, C hapel Hill. Ellen McGrath has been prom oted to head of cataloging at the New York Law School Library. Jean McGruer has been appointed hum anities reference lib ra ria n at A uburn University, Ala­ bam a. Helen S. Pahigian is now project supervisor of the Rom an Jakobson Collection on Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology7, C am ­ bridge. Michael Pate has been nam ed assistant director for public services at M arquette University, Mil­ waukee, Wisconsin. Biddanda P. Ponnappa has been appointed ref­ erence librarian w ith specialization in microforms and government documents at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Janette G. Prescod has been appointed refer­ ence librarian w ith specialization in social sciences and government docum ents, University of Tennes­ see, Knoxville. Ida Reed has been appointed head music lib ra r­ ian at the University of N orth C arolina at Chapel Hill. Lois R. Reibach is a new cataloger at the L u ­ theran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. Lorraine Rutherford has been a p p o in te d preservation librarian at New York University. Laura Salas-Tull has been appointed original m onograph cataloger at Texas A&M University, College Station. Jose Luis Sanchez has been appointed reference librarian and subject specialist at George W ashing­ ton University, W ashington, D .C . Kathleen Sarraino is now reference and public services librarian at W estern State University Law L ibrary, San Diego. Charlotte Slocum has been appointed city and regional planning librarian at the University of North C arolina at C hapel Hill. Denise Sokolowski has been appointed lib rar­ ian of the University of M aryland’s European Divi­ l t r U o s W U e s s s l 364 / C&R L News sion in Heidelberg, West Germ any. Kathleen Stacey has been appointed autom a­ tion project cataloger at Georgetown University Law C enter, W ashington, D .C . Donna J. Thomas has assumed duties as director of the C urriculum M aterials L ab o rato ry in the O klahom a State University, Stillwater. Jack Tsukamoto has been appointed periodicals librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, In d i­ ana. Bernice O. Weiss has been appointed catalog li­ brarian at H arv ard ’s Francis A. C ountw ay L ibrary of Medicine. Catherine C. Wilt has been ap p o in te d re ­ source center m anager at Drexel University’s Col­ lege of Inform ation Studies, Philadelphia. Michael Winter has been appointed b eh av ­ ioral sciences librarian at the University of C alifor­ nia, Davis. Wayne Wolfe has been appointed audiovisual services coordinator at Musselman L ibrary, G et­ tysburg College, Pennsylvania. Retirements Peter W . Hart retired as chief bibliographer at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. E. Jean Holcombe has retired as periodicals li­ brarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Alice Hoover has retired as reference librarian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Marjorie Joyner retired as architecture lib ra r­ ian at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Nancy Scott, special collections lib ra ria n at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, retired in June after 25 years of service. Mary Beth Wilbanks has retired as hum anities reference librarian at A uburn University after 25 years of service. Bichard Zumwinkle, reference librarian at the Auburn wins the space race Auburn University, Alabam a, has contested the UCLA B iom edical L ib ra ry ’s claim (re­ ported in G& RL N ew s, M arch 1985, p.104) of owning the first rare book to be taken on a space mission. An Auburn rare first edition of Oliver G old­ smith’s The Deserted Village (from w hich the line, “Sweet A uburn, loveliest village of the Plain,” was taken) preceded the UCLA book by more th an 16 months. The A uburn volume or­ bited the earth w ith Ken M attingly and H ank Hartsfield, both A uburn alum ni, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on June 27, 1982. Of course, UCLA can still claim to have the earliest im print in space. Their edition of H ip­ pocrates’ Aphorisms was published in 1765, five years earlier than the Goldsm ith first edition. University of C alifornia, Los Angeles, retired in arch. eaths Harold Bloomquist, form er librarian of H a r­ ard ’s Francis W. C ountw ay L ibrary of Medicine, ied on April 20 in A tlanta. He had come to H a r­ ard in 1958 as assistant librarian for resources and cquisitions in the H arvard Medical Library. He elped to plan the C ountw ay L ibrary and was its hief adm inistrative officer from 1969 to 1975. The edical L ibrary Association aw arded him w ith he Janet Doe Lectureship in 1975 and the M arcia . Noyes Award in 1983, for his lasting contrib u­ ions to m edical librarianship. Winston Broadfoot, director of the Flowers Collection of Southern A m ericana at Duke Univer­ ity from 1957 to 1979, died on January 23. He was also a professional art appraiser and served a term as president of the M anuscript Society. Miriam Hawkins Libbey, librarian at the A.W . C alhoun Medical L ibrary at Em ory University, died on D ecem ber 4, 1984, after a long illness. A g ra d u ate of E m ory’s Division of L ib rarian sh ip , Libbey held a variety of positions including chief of public services at Em ory; assistant head of the Ref- erence Section at the National L ibrary of Medi­ cine; lib rarian at the SUNY-Buffalo H ealth Sci­ ences L ib r a r y ; d ir e c to r of th e S o u th e a s te rn Regional Medical L ibrary Program at Em ory; and instructor of medical librarianship at Emory. Gloria Moore, interlibrary loan librarian at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, died in Schenectady on May 19. She had been at Skidmore for 12 years. ■ ■ M D v d v a h c M t C t s German–Americana O n A p ril 2 4 -2 6 , 1986, th e S o ciety for G erm an–American Studies will hold its T enth Annual M eeting and Symposium at the Univer­ sity of C incinnati. The m eeting is sponsored by the University Libraries, the G erm an D ep a rt­ m ent, and the G oethe House. The program com m ittee invites papers on topics in G erm an- Am erican studies relating to history, politics, language, literature, culture, bibliography, a r­ chives, and historical societies. The deadline for subm itting form al tw o-page abstracts is Sep­ tem ber 15, 1985. Prelim inary inquiries should be addressed to Don H einrich Tolzm ann, Ref­ erence D epartm ent, University of C incinnati, C incinnati, OH 45221.