ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 4 3 0 / C&RL News Peo p le in th e New s P a m S piegel S h errilyn ne Fuller, direc­ tor of the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of W ashington, has b een ap ­ pointed by President Clinton to the Advisory Committee on High-Performance Com­ puting and Communications, In fo rm a tio n T e c h n o lo g y , a n d th e N ex t G e n e r a ­ tion Internet. Fuller will join 18 o th er com m ittee m em ­ bers w ho will provide guid­ ance to the adm inistration’s efforts to accelerate develop­ m ent and adoption of information technolo­ gies that will impact American prosperity in the 21st century. D oroth y-E llen G ross, former director of li­ braries and associate dean for academic su p ­ port at North Park College in Chicago, has been given the Mel George Award by LIBRAS. The award honors a LIBRAS library, librarian, or other individual currently or previously involved in LIBRAS w ho has m ade a significant contri­ bution to library service and cooperation. Gross retired from North Park in 1996. She served as president of LIBRAS in 1983-84 and 1984–85. She was also active in PALI (Private Academic Libraries o f Illinois), for which she served two terms as president. F. Gerald H am is the w inner o f the 1997 Dis­ tinguished Service Award of the National His­ torical Publications and R e c o rd s C o m m is s io n (NHPRC). T h e a w a rd reco g n izes individuals w h o s e c a r e e r s h a v e demonstrated exemplary accomplishment and ex­ traordinary commitment in forw arding the mis­ sion of the NHPRC and in d iv id u a ls w h o h av e m a d e n o ta b le a c c o m ­ F. Gerald Ham plishments in the fields touched by the commission’s work. Ham re­ tired in 1990 after serving for 25 years as state archivist and head of the Archives Division at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He also served from 1967 to 1992 as adjunct pro­ fessor in the University of W isconsin’s School of Li­ brary and Information Stud­ ies. He began his career as associate cu rato r o f West Virginia Collections at West Virginia University. Dale M ontgom ery, interim associate vice-chancellor for inform ation technology at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse, is the w inner of L ibrary M osaic a n d th e Council on Library Media Technician’s 1997 award for Outstanding Sup­ porter of Support Staff. Montgomery was se­ lected for his local and statewide efforts and commitment to the growth and developm ent o f support staff. In 1994 Montgomery opposed a plan by the state Departm ent of Employment Relations to reclassify and compress library ser­ vices assistant job classifications. He brought the impact of the plan to the attention of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries and to hum an resources offices statewide, and his efforts positively impacted the language and classification levels of the final document. C harles T. Tow nley, dean of the New Mexico State University Library, has been selected O ut­ standing Alumnus of the University of Okla­ hom a School of Library and Information Stud­ ies for 1997. The award is given annually to a graduate w ho has a distinguished record in the field of librarianship. Townley graduated from State the University of Oklahoma in 1969. He has w orked in libraries at the University of Califor nia-Santa Barbara, the National Indian Educa­ Historical tion Association, Pennsylvania State University Society at Harrisburg, and New Mexico State Univer­ of sity. He has served also as a lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Information Studies and as a consultant to the U.S. Depart­ ments of the Interior and Education. Wisconsin F ra n ce s Goins W ilhoit, head of the Journal­ ism Library at Indiana University (IU)-Bloom ington, has been selected as the 1997 recipient of the William Evans Jenkins Award, which rec­ ognizes outstanding contributions to the IU Li­ braries and to the library profession. Wilhoit began her career at IU as head of the Journal­ J u n e 1 9 9 7 / 4 3 1 ism Library in 1975, and also served as curator of the Ernie Pyle papers, as acting collection development officer, and as acting personnel librarian during the early 1980s. She has u p ­ dated, with Eleanor Blum, the standard refer­ ence guide in her discipline: Mass Media Bibli­ ography: A n A n n o ta te d List o f Books a n d Journals fo r Research a n d Reference (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1990). In 1996 Wilhoit received the Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Re­ search Award from the Association for Educa­ tion in Journalism and Mass Communication, which h o n o re d her as “the m ost highly re­ spected comm unication librarian w orking any­ where in the w orld today.” Appointments Cornelia (C o n n ie) E. B akker has been nam ed director of Adirondack Community College’s Learning Resources. Bakker has served for the past three and a half years at the Takoma Park campus of Montgomery College in Maryland as campus director and assistant director of the Office of Information Technology. She has also worked at the University o f Wisconsin-Madi son and b een on the faculty of Ohio State Uni­ versity. She currently serves as secretary/trea­ surer o f th e A sso c ia tio n fo r E d u c a tio n a l Communications and Technology. Susan Swords Steffen has been appointed di­ rector of Elmhurst College’s A. C. Buehler Li­ brary. She had served for the past 12 years as head of N orthw estern University’s Schaffner Library, and before that as reader services li­ brarian at St. Xavier College. A m em ber o f ALA and the Illinois Library Association, Steffen served on the Continuing Education and Biblio­ graphic Instruction Committees of the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries. Phyllis Askey has been nam ed librarian for collection m anagem ent special projects at Har­ vard University. Julianna Claydon is now a temporary science librarian at Bowling Green State University. Kevin Coakley-Welch has been named pub­ lic service librarian at New Hampshire College. M ichelle Collins has joined the H atcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan as serials cataloger. M elanie C ook sey has b e e n nam ed cata loger/librarian at Saint Leo College in Florida. Vickie D oll has b e e n a p p o in te d interim head o f the East Asian Library at the University of Kansas. J u d ith E m d e is now coord in ato r of the Anschutz Science Library at the University of Kansas. P atricia Falk has joined the Bowling Green State University Library as special collections cataloger. Sh aron R. Gleim has been nam ed extended cam pus services/serials librarian at Saint Leo College in Florida. K athy G raves has been appointed interim coordinator of reference at the University of Kansas. M. E la in e H u g h es is n o w assistant d e ­ p a rtm e n t h e a d /re fe re n c e d esk services co ­ o rd in ato r at G eorgia State U niversity’s Pullen Library. M ari M iller has b e e n ap p o in ted general science selector for the Main Library at the University o f California-Berkeley. Marvin E. P ollard is now project m anager for California State University’s Unified Infor­ mation Access System project. J o a n n e R en has b een nam ed the first coor­ dinator for com puter services and cataloging at Emerson College in Boston. Polly Thistlethw aite has been appointed reference/extended university programs librar­ ian at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. A dvertiser in d e x Academic Press 402 ACRL 409 Blackwell’s 411 R. R. Bowker 377 Brodart Pub. 392 EOS International 398 Gale Research 385 Information Quest 413 Library Corp. cover 3 Merck Pub. cover 2 MIT Press 380 OCLC 434 Readmore 419 Routledge 427 SIRSI 422 VTLS cover 4 4 3 2 / C&RL News M asha Zak is now collection m anagem ent project supervisor at Harvard University. R etirem en ts G enevieve W h e e le r retired at the en d o f April as director o f library services at N unez Com­ m u n ity C o lle g e in C h a lm e tte , L o u isia n a . W heeler served in that position since 1992 w hen Elaine P. N unez Technical Institute an d St. Ber­ n a rd P a rish C o m m u n ity C o lle g e (SBPCC) merged. Before that she served as chief library adm inistrator at SBPCC for 10 years. D eaths Betty B re n n e r, periodicals librarian at the New York City Technical College (NYTC) Library since 1982, died last fall after a long illness. B renner had also w orked at Q ueensborough Community College Library and as a librarian for a medical publisher. She taught in NYTC’s bibliographic instruction program an d o rg a­ nized and d eveloped the college’s Menu Col­ lection, w hich is one o f the major collections of its type in the N ew York Area. D o n n a B. H arlan , a librarian at Indiana Uni­ versity (IU) South Bend from 1966 until h e r re­ tirem en t in 1990, d ied D ecem ber 25 at the age of 70. A life m em ber of ALA for 34 years, Harlan served as deputy execu­ tive director of ACRL in 1982–83 and as interim e x e c u tiv e se c re ta ry o f RTSD in 1978. B efore joining IU, she served at Donna B. Harlan th e U niversity o f Pitts­ burgh, the West Virginia Library Commission, and the Michigan State Library. E rn e s t G riffith, director o f the Library of Con­ gress’ Legislative Reference Service (LRS) from 1940 to 1958, died in January at the age o f 100. D uring Griffith’s tim e at LC, the LRS w as greatly ex panded, seeing a 300 p ercent increase in the nu m b er o f congressional requests for inform a­ tion. Before joining LC, Griffith’s served as dean of the G raduate School and professor of politi­ cal science at American University (AU). After leaving the library, h e returned to AU as an educator and administrator, becom ing the first dean of the School o f International Service. Susan M cCallum H askins, retired associate librarian for cataloging at Harvard College, died April 10 tw o days after h e r 90th birthday. Haskins spen t her entire career at the Harvard College Library except for tw o years on leave. She joined the library in 1929 and becam e head cataloger, th en w as nam ed associate librarian for cataloging in 1956, m aking her the first fe­ male officer in the library’s 320-year history. In 1948 H askins took a leave from Harvard to o r­ ganize the U.N.’s library, serving as tem porary head o f the Catalog Departm ent. After retiring from Harvard in 1973, she served as director of the American Congregational Association and w as chair of the Library Committee of the Con­ gregational Library in Boston. G eorge S im or, retired chief acquisitions librar­ ian in the G raduate Center Library at the City Colleges o f New York (CUNY), died last July. Simor served at CUNY for m ore than 20 years. He also taught for 30 years in the library schools o f Pratt Institute and St. Jo h n s University, as well as CUNY. He w as a m em ber o f the New York C hapter o f the Art Libraries Society of North America. C. S u m n er Spalding, general editor of the first edition o f Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR), died in March at the age o f 85. Spalding w as assistant director of the Library o f Con­ g re ss’ P rocessing D ep artm en t in Cataloging from 1968 until his retirement in 1975. He joined LC as a music cataloger in 1940 an d su b se­ quently served as assistant chief of the Catalog M aintenance Division and chief o f the Serial Record and Descriptive Cataloging Divisions. He took a leave o f absence from 1964 to 1966 to edit AACR, and received the Margaret Mann Citation for his w ork o n that book. L. H a rry S trauss, form er d ean o f library ser­ vices at California Polytechnic State University, died last Septem ber. Strauss earn ed his MLS from the University o f Chicago in 1942. Before joining Cal Poly, Strauss served as a sup erin ­ ten d en t o f schools in Michigan. J u n e 1997 / 433 R em em bering W illiam A . M o ffe tt (1 9 3 3 – 19 95 ) W illiam A n d rew Mof­ fett, director of the Hun­ tington Library in San Marino, C a l i f o r n i a , died February 20 after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 62. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Moffett received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College, his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Duke University, and his MLS from Simmons College. Before joining the Huntington, he served as as­ William A. Moffett sistant professor of history at Alma College (1964– 68) and at the University of Massachusetts (1968–74), director of libraries for the State University o f New York/College at Potsdam (1974– 79), and the Azariah Smith Root director of libraries at Oberlin College (1979–90). Moffett was an active m em ber of ALA’s Committee on Intellectual Freedom, the Duke University Libraries Board o f Advisors, and the UCLA Graduate School o f Library and In­ formation Sciences Advisory Committee. He was also active in ACRL, serving as its presi­ dent from 1989 to 1990. The recipient of many p ro fessio n al h o n o rs, M offett w as n am ed ACRL’s Academic or Research Li brarian of the Year in 1993. That sa m e y e a r h e r e c e iv e d ALA’s Immroth Memorial Award for In tellectual Freedom, the Special Li­ braries Association’s Professional Librarian o f 1993 Award, and an h onorary doctor o f laws degree from th e S U N Y /P otsdam . T h e Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science gave Moffett its Alumni Achieve­ m ent Award in 1994. Moffett is probably best known, profes­ sionally, for giving access to the Huntington’s photographic archive o f the Dead Sea Scrolls to qualified scholars in 1991, breaking the 40- year scholarly m onopoly on Scrolls study. At the time Moffett said, “W hen you free the Scrolls you free the scholars. O pening access to the Dead Sea Scrolls is an affirmation of the mission of research libraries: not merely to store and preserve information, but to make it available in as free and unfettered a w ay as possible.” (C&RL News, April 1995) M e m o r i a l r e s o lu t io n h o n o r in g W i l l i a m A . M o f f e t t WHEREAS William Andrew Moffett had a distinguished career in academic librarianship contributing to the developm ent, preservation, and dissemination o f information worldwide; and WHEREAS he was always at the forefront of academ ic and research librarians in movem ents w hose aims w ere to pursue and increase the pow er o f library users, the most notable being providing free and open access to the photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls contained in the collections o f H untington Library; and WHEREAS he w as a widely acknow ledged expert on college libraries, special collections, and library security; and WHEREAS he served the Association o f College and Research Libraries as president in 1989–90 and as chair o f the College Libraries Section in 1984–85; and WHEREAS he was aw arded the highest honor the academ ic library profession gives, the Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award in 1993; and WHEREAS he was a dedicated friend, mentor, colleague, and supporter to all w ho loved books and ideas; and WHEREAS there can be no doubt that his contribution to humanity and to the library profession has been extraordinary; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that members of the Association o f College and Research Libraries: Celebrate his m any accomplishments an d his tireless service to the library profession; Reaffirm within ourselves the principles fo r which he stood a nd fo r which he worked; Remember with jo y his love o f life an d living; Honor his memory an d his continuing influence, and, be it FURTHER RESOLVED that the Association of College & Research Libraries expresses its deepest sympathies to his wife Deborah, his children Pamela, Stephanie, William Andrew, and Charles, and his grand­ children. ■ 4 3 4 / C&RL News