ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


made soon. Forms are still available from: Peter 
Goy, Editor, Directory of Slavic and Central 
European Librarians, c/o City College Library, 
Room 312, New York, N.Y. 10031.

U N I V E R S I T Y  L IB R A R IE S  
S E C T IO N

“The Undergraduate Library: A Time for 
Assessment” is the title of the Conference pro­
gram planned for the University Libraries Sec­
tion of the Association of College and Research 
Libraries a t the annual conference of the 
American Library Association in Detroit this 
summer. Dr. Roscoe Rouse, Chairman of the 
Section and Director of the Library, Oklahoma 
State University, announced the program ob­
jective to be a consideration of service to under­

graduates in the university library and an eval­
uation of the degree of success attained by 
undergraduate libraries within universities.

John Haak, Undergraduate Librarian at the 
University of California at San Diego, will 
serve as program chairman. Billy R. Wilkinson, 
Ph.D. candidate at the School of Library Ser­
vice, Columbia University, will present four 
case studies in reference service to undergrad­
uate students. Kenneth Toombs will speak on 
the experience of the undergraduate library at 
the University of South Carolina, and a pre­
sentation by Mrs. Norah E. Jones will be en­
titled “The College Library at U.C.L.A.” Au­
dience response and participation is expected 
to be a part of the overall program plan.

A brief business session will precede the pro­
gram, Dr. Rouse said.

Personnel
A P P O I N T M E N T S

Henry L. Alsmeyer, Jr., is now assistant 
director for technical services at the Texas 
A&M University library.

Mrs. Josephine F. Berg has been appointed 
head of the humanities and social sciences di­
vision at the Texas A&M University library.

Edmund Berkeley, Jr., is now curator of 
manuscripts at the University of Virginia li­
brary.

Judith Chien is assistant catalog librarian in 
the card preparation unit and instructor in li­
brary science, Purdue University libraries.

Edward S. Cohen has been appointed as­
sistant librarian and documents librarian at 
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, effective 
July 1, 1970.

Mrs. Patricia E arnest has been appointed 
assistant reference librarian in the general li­
brary and instructor in library science, Purdue 
University libraries.

Sherry E itel has joined the staff of the cat­
alog department at Northeast Missouri State 
College, Kirksville.

Patricia C. Farrell has been appointed 
supervising librarian at the Bio-Agricultural Li­
brary, University of California, Riverside.

Laurence M. F eldman has accepted the 
position of head librarian of the Becton Engi­
neering & Applied Science Library at Yale Uni­
versity, New Haven, Connecticut.

Arthur C. F landreu has been appointed 
library director of the new Richard Stockton 
State College, Galloway Township, New Jer­
sey.

Mrs. Marta G. F ranco has been appointed 
a lecturer in the York College library, City 
University of New York.

Cornelia Hadley is now assistant catalog 
librarian in the catalog unit and assistant pro­
fessor of library science, Purdue University li­
braries.

T. Mark H odges is now associate librarian 
for the Southeastern Regional Medical Library 
Program, A. W. Calhoun Medical Library, 
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Francis A. L anger is now director of li­
braries at Salem College, Salem, West Virginia.

Hugh C. Larimer is reference librarian in 
the Krannert Graduate School of Industrial Ad­
ministration and instructor in library science, 
Purdue University libraries.

Frank N. Magill has been elected to his 
third term as president of Libraria Sodalitas, 
support group for the University of Southern 
California’s Graduate School of Library Sci­
ence, Los Angeles.

D eidre D exter Malarkey has received an 
appointment as reference librarian, instructor in 
library administration, University of Oregon li­
brary, Eugene.

Donald E. Oehlerts has been appointed 
director for public services, with the rank of 
associate professor, in the M. D. Anderson Me­
morial Library at the University of Houston, 
Houston, Texas.

Leroy Ortopan has been named director of 
the Library Technology Program of the Ameri­
can Library Association, Chicago.

Ernest Perez is head of acquisitions at the 
Southwest Texas State University at San Mar­
cos, Texas.

Mrs. Elizabeth K. Porsche joined the De­
partment Library as cataloger in the technical 
processing section, Department of Health, E du­
cation and Welfare Library, Washington, D.C.

Edwin L. Posey is the new engineering li­

165



brarian and assistant professor of library sci­
ence, Purdue University libraries.

Mrs. Michal D eHaven Steγanacci is the 
newly appointed cataloger and instructor in li­
brary science at the University of Louisville, 
Louisville, Kentucky.

Samuel Yee Sung has been appointed as­
sistant professor and cataloger, Mitchell Me­
morial Library, Mississippi State University.

Daria Tu was appointed assistant serials li­
brarian in the serials unit and instructor in li­
brary science, Purdue University libraries.

Thomas G. Tyler has joined the library 
staff a t Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 
as assistant reference librarian.

Pauline M. Vaillancourt has been named 
an associate professor, school of library science, 
State University of New York at Albany.

Richard W. Vierich is now head of the sci­
ence processing division for all of the science 
branch libraries, University of California, River­
side.

N E C R O L O G Y

Edna L ouise Lucas, head of the Harvard 
Fine Arts Library until her retirement in 1964, 
died January 24, 1970, in Rockport, Massa­
chusetts. Following her retirement Miss Lucas 
continued to be professionally active and com­
pleted her Art Books: A  Basic Bibliography on 
the Fine Arts (1968).

R E T IR E M E N T S

Mrs. Margaret B. Andrews, head of the 
department of rare books, manuscripts, and ar­
chives at the University of Rochester library, 
Rochester, New York, retired March 1, 1970. 
Mrs. Andrews joined the library as an assistant 
classifier in 1929 and held a number of posi­
tions in the library before her appointment in 
1955 as head of the department of rare books, 
manuscripts, and archives.

Mrs. Mary M. Gillham, university librari­
an, professor of library science, and chairman 
of the department of library science, has re­
tired after forty-eight years of service to the 
University of Toledo.

F elix Reichmann, considered by many li­
brarians to be one of the world’s greatest book­
men, will retire June 30, 1970, as assistant di­
rector of libraries at Cornell University after 
twenty-three years of service to Cornell. He 
joined Cornell in 1947 as head of the library’s 
acquisitions department and was named direc­
tor in charge of technical services in 1948. Mr. 
Reichmann was responsible not only for the ac­
quisition of several important collections for the 
university library, b ut also began and super­
vised Cornell’s reclassification project. This 
project, begun in 1948, should be completed in 
two more years.

Mrs. Margaret K. Toth retired as head of 
the department of acquisitions at the University 
of Rochester on April 1, 1970. Mrs. Toth joined 
the library staff in 1944 and held a number of 
positions in the library. She also served as edi­
tor of the American College and Research Li­
braries’ Microcard Series from 1956 to 1967.

Classified Advertising

Classified advertising orders and copy, and 
cancellations, should be addressed to the Ad­
vertising Department, 50 East Huron Street, 
Chicago 60611, and should reach that office 
before the tenth of the month preceding pub­
lication of issue desired. Copy received after 
that time may be held for the next issue.

Rate for classified advertising is $1.25 per 
printed line. No additional charge is made for 
nonmember advertising.

FOR SALE

LC CARD NUMBER Indexes to the National 
Union Catalog. Cut your NUC searching time. 
LISCO, 34 Smith Street, Marblehead, Mass. 
01945.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS mailed to 
you within 3 days. SuDocs price plus postage. 
Capital Documents Service, Box 4922, Wash­
ington 20008.

BOOK LANDERO, THE PERIPLUTIC BIB- 
LIODICIST, 11501 Sherman Way, North Hol­
lywood, Ca. 91605, specializing in OP tomes 
in Literature, Social Sciences, Humanities, es­
pecially as listed in BCL, Lamont, Essay Index, 
Granger, etc. Catalogs Issued. Wants searched 
through personal peregrinations and PAN­
ANABASES.

BUILDING SPECIAL COLLECTIONS is one 
of our specialties. Foreign books and periodi­
cals, current and out of print. Albert J. Phiebig, 
Inc., Box 352, White Plains, N.Y. 10602.

COLONIAL BOOK SERVICE-Specialists in 
supplying the out-of-print books as listed in all 
library indices. (Granger poetry: Essay and 
General Literature; Shaw; Standard; Fiction; 
Biography; Lamont; Speech; etc.) Catalogues 
on request. Want lists invited. 23 East 4th St., 
New York, N.Y. 10003.

WANT LISTS get prompt attention, wide 
search, reasonable prices from International 
Bookfinders, Box 3003-CRL, Beverly Hills, 
California.

166

1967.ee