ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Amy E. Arnold, collection 
development librarian for 
Auburn University at Mont­
gomery, Alabama, was pre­
sented the Blackwell North 
America Research Award for 
her paper “Approval Slips 
and Faculty Participation in 
Book Selection.” The award 
is funded by Blackwell and 
presented annually by the 
College, University, and Spe­
cial Libraries Division o f the 
Alabama Library Association 
to encourage and support 
research with potential significance for academic 
libraries. Arnold holds an MLS from the Uni­
versity o f Alabama, a master’s o f sacred music 
from Wittenberg University, and a bachelor of 
arts from Huntingdon College.

Patricia Battin, president o f the Commissipn 
on Preservation and Access, received the hon­
orary doctor o f humane letters degree from 
Emory University at its commencement ceremo­
nies in May. She was honored for developing a 
coordinated national approach to counter the 
deterioration and disintegration o f millions of 
library volumes and for marshaling congres­
sional appropriations to support the endeavor. 
She became the commission’s first president in 
1987 after serving nine years as vice-president 
for information services and university librar­
ian at Columbia University.

Joanne G. Marshall, associate professor at the 
Faculty o f Library and Information Science, 
University of Toronto, has been honored by 
two professional organizations. On May 13 
Marshall was presented the Member o f the Year 
Award from the Special Libraries Association­
Toronto Chapter for her work on the impact of 
special librarians on corporate decision-mak­
ing. She also received the Ida and George Eliot 
Prize from the Medical Library Association for 
her publication “The Impact of the Hospital 
Library on Clinical Decision-Making: The Roch­
ester Study.”

Linda Thornton, interlibrary loan librarian for 
Auburn University, has received the EBSCO 
Research Award for her paper “Interlibrary Loan 
Workload and Staffing.” The award is funded

by EBSCO and presented 
annually by the College, 
University, and Special Li­
braries Division of the Ala­
bama Library Association to 
encourage and support re­
search with potential signifi­
cance for academic libraries. 
Thornton earned her MLS 
from Clarion University.

Dorothy Woodson, librar­
ian at Lockwood Library, 
State University of New York 
at Buffalo, received a Ful- 

bright Senior Scholar Award for the 1993/94 
academic year. Woodson, whose award is 
within the African Regional Research Program, 
will conduct research and assist in the organi­
zation o f recently unbanned historical manu­
scripts, archives, and newspapers located at the 
Mayibuye History Centre at the University of 
the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. 
Woodson is the author o f Drum: An Index to 
Africa’s leading Magazine, 1951-1965 and De­
cade o f  Discontent: An Index to “Fighting Talk” 
1954-1963.

Appointments
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newsletters, letters from personnel offices and 
appointees, and other sources. To ensure that 
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Valerie R. Hotchkiss, library director at Aus­
tin Presbyterian Theological Seminary since 
1989, has been named director o f the Bridwell 
Library at Southern Methodist University’s 
Perkins School o f Theology. Hotchkiss holds a 
Ph.D. in medieval studies from Yale Univer­
sity, an MLS from Southern Connecticut State 
University, and a B.A. in classical languages 
from the University of Cincinnati. Active in the 
American Theological Library Association, she 
is now serving on its education committee and 
as chair o f the Collection Evaluation and De­
velopment Section. She is also a founding mem-



ber and president-elect of the Southwest Ameri­
can Theological Library Association.

Richard J. Kuhta, university librarian at St. 
Lawrence U niversity since 1986, has b een  
named librarian o f the
Folger Shakespeare Li­
brary in W ashington,
D.C. Kuhta is a gradu­
ate of Swarthmore Col­
lege, with an M.A. in 
S h ak esp eare stu d ie s 
from the Shakespeare 
Institute in Birm ing­
ham, England, and an 
MLS from  C olum bia 
University. His new  
duties w ill b e g in  in Richard J. Kuhta
February 1994.

Gerald R. L owell, associate university librar­
ian and director for technical services at Yale 
University since 1986, w as appointed univer­
sity librarian at the University o f California, San 
Diego. He assumed his new  duties April 1. Prior 
to joining Yale, Lowell served as head of the 
Cataloging Distribution Service at the Library 
of Congress, as a vice-president of the Faxon 
Company, and on the staff of the University of 
Washington Libraries in Seattle. He received 
his B.A. in Russian area studies from Gustavus 
Adolphus College and his MLS from the Uni­
versity of Washington.

Richard W. Oram, public services librarian at 
the University o f Texas (UT) at Austin, has been 
appointed librarian o f the Harry Ransom Hu­
manities Research Center at UT.

Karin W ittenborg, associate university librar­
ian for collection developm ent at the Univer­
sity of California, Los Angeles, has been named 
university librarian for the University o f Vir­
ginia, Charlottesville. Wittenborg received her 
MLS from the State University o f New York at 
Buffalo and her bachelor o f arts from Brown 
University. She has served at Stanford Univer­
sity as chief reference librarian and as curator 
of the social sciences. She was also a Council 
on Library Resources academic library m anage­
ment intern at MIT in 1981-82.

Vicky Adamitis is now preservation officer 
at the University o f Maryland at College Park 
Libraries.

N adine Baldw in has been nam ed assistant 
university librarian for technical services at the 
University o f British Columbia.

Janet Borron is now  reference librarian at 
the Loop Campus Library of DePaul Univer­
sity, Chicago.

David J. Brier has been appointed UHCARL 
technical support librarian at the University of 
Hawaii, Honolulu.

Marsha Carothers is now  half-time assis­
tant dental librarian at the University of Mis­
souri-Kansas City.

Rick L. Castro has been nam ed cataloging 
librarian at the University of Guam, Mangilao.

Tom  C onnors has been nam ed curator of 
the National Public Broadcasting Archives at 
the University of Maryland at College Park Li­
braries.

Leesa D uby has b een  nam ed the Miller 
Nichols Library head of access services at the 
University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Laura Gayle Green is the new  music/me- 
dia librarian at the University Missouri-Kansas 
City.

J o n  G. G rennan is now  rare book catalog 
librarian at Washington University, St. Louis.

E. J en s H olley is now  head of access ser­
vices at Clemson University, South Carolina.

H elen  B. J o sep h in e has been appointed 
associate director of the Office of Technology 
Transfer and Economic D evelopm ent at the 
University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Lee P. K eene has been named access ser­
vices librarian in the Florida International Uni­
versity Libraries at North Miami Campus.

V eronica K enausis is now  reference and 
instruction librarian at Franklin & Marshall Col­
lege, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

C hristine Larson is now  reference librar­
ian in the Lilly Library at Earlham College, Rich­
mond, Indiana.

Cynthia L enox has been nam ed business 
reference librarian at John Carroll University, 
Cleveland.

H aipeng Li has been nam ed reference li­
brarian at Oberlin College, Ohio.

Barbara Lilley has been appointed head 
of the Statewide Conservation Preservation Pro­
gram at the New York State Library.

Charlotte Means is a new  clinical medical 
librarian at the University o f Missouri-Kansas 
City.

Jane P. Mills has been appointed head ac­
quisitions librarian at Southwest Texas State 
University, San Marcos.

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M adison M. M osley Jr. has joined the Ref­
erence D epartm ent at the Stetson University 
College of Law as w eekend/evening librarian.

Lori M urphy has been  nam ed catalog li­
brarian at DePaul University, Chicago.

T im  Pyatt is now  curator of Marylandia and 
rare boo k s at the University o f Maryland at 
College Park.

Steven R iel has been  appointed serials cata- 
loger in the CONSER office o f the H arvard 
University Library.

P atricia J. Seegars has b e e n  a p p o in te d  
media and technical services librarian in the 
Croach Music and Art Library, Baylor Univer­
sity, Waco, Texas.

J o a n  M. S ibley is now  assistant departm ent 
h ead  of the D epartm ent o f Manuscripts and 
Archives at the University o f Texas at Austin.

J o a n n e  T arpley is now  reference librarian 
at the University o f Guam, Mangilao.

P. Steven T h om as has been nam ed instruc­
tional services librarian at Sangamon State Uni­
versity, Springfield, Illinois.

J a c q u e lin e  M. V argo has b e e n  n am ed  
UHCARL technical support librarian at the Uni­
versity of Hawaii, Honolulu.

N an cy S. W eyant has b een  appointed co­
ordinator of reference services at Bloomsburg 
University of Pennsylvania.

D e a th s
F rank C. C am pbell, chief of the Music Divi­
sion of the New York Public Library (NYPL) at 
Lincoln Center until his retirement in 1985, died 
Ju n e 12 at the age o f 76. Campbell began his 
career as a m usic cataloger at the Eastman 
School of Music in Rochester, New York, then 
spent 16 years as a music librarian at the Li­
brary o f Congress. He began his association 
w ith NYPL in 1959- A m em ber and past-presi­
dent of the Music Library Association, Campbell 
also edited the journal Notes from 1971-1974, 
taught music history at W ashington’s American 
University, and w as music critic for the Wash­
ington Evening Star from 1953-1959- A gradu­
a te  o f S alem  C o lle g e  in  N o rth  C a ro lin a , 
Campbell received his master’s degree in m u­
sic from the Eastman School of Music.

Laura D aw n  P oh lm an , a former librarian at 
the New York Public Library, died on May 28

in Virginia Beach. Pohlm an began working as 
a librarian in the Branch Libraries in the early 
1940s. After leaving to join the U.S. Navy dur­
ing World W ar II, she returned to the staff of 
th e Reference D epartm ent Science Division 
w here she advanced to the position o f assis­
tant chief. Later, in her dual capacity as chief of 
the Cooperative Services Departm ent and as­
sistant director o f METRO, Pohlm an w as active 
in prom oting cooperative programs am ong li­
braries through the CARES program  and the 
Research Libraries Group. She retired in 1979.

Ju d ith  T h iele, reference librarian at the Uni­
versity o f British Columbia (UBC) since 1972, 
died o n  April 27 at the age of 49. Thiele earned 
her B.A. and BLS from UBC, and cofounded 
w ith her husband Paul the Crane Memorial Li­
brary at UBC in 1968. She w as internationally 
recognized as an information, technology, and 
braille expert; taught in UBC’s faculty o f ed u ­
cation; and received the Canada 125 aw ard from 
the Canadian governm ent in recognition of her 
contributions to the community.

D avid L. T hom as, a librarian at the Albert R. 
Mann Library at Cornell University from 1956 
until his retirement in 1983, died in June at the 
age of 64. A veteran o f the U.S. Air Force, Tho­
mas received a B.S. from the Cornell College 
of Agriculture in 1955, and an MLS from Syra­
cuse University in 1956. After his retirement, 
Thomas volunteered as a librarian at the Pale­
ontological Research Institute. ■

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