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Personnel
It’s back to the Atlantic for David O. Lane 

who became chief librarian and professor at 
Hunter College in New York City on July 14, 

1969. As assistant uni­
versity librarian at 
UCSD during this past 
year, David has con­
tributed a great deal 
to the management of 
this rapidly expand­
ing library and to its 
efforts to provide a 
faculty, accustomed to 
multi-million volume 
collections, with a rea­
sonable level of re­

Mr. Lane search adequacy. His 
ability to work effec­

tively with faculty, staff, and students will do 
much to assure his success as he takes on the 
challenging assignment of Hunter College. With 
a new building to plan and much-needed li­
brary services to develop, his initiative and 
creativity should result in a library well worth 
watching.

Before coming to UCSD, Mr. Lane was di­
rector of the acquisitions study carried out un­
der the Office for Research and Development 
of the American Library Association with the 
aid of a National Science Foundation grant. 
For a number of years he was assistant director 
of libraries at Boston University. Earlier ap­
pointments included head of public services 
at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, head 
of the government publications department of 
Northern Illinois University and circulation/ 
reference librarian at Flint College, University 
of Michigan.

He is a graduate of the University of Michi­
gan and of its school of library science. He 
was engaged in study under a doctoral fellow­
ship at the graduate library school, University 
of Chicago, when we were fortunate to con­
vince him to come to UCSD. He has pub­
lished a number of articles in library periodi­
cals on government publications, record col­
lections, catalog card production, and selection 
of academic library materials.

When this writer made a move after only a 
brief stay at another institution, a confirmed 
New Yorker noted that while the family might 
be used to frequent moves, he wondered what 
the dishes and piano thought! In David’s case, 
several thousand phonograph records must be 
among the most travelled in the country. Even 
though David has found New York to his lik­
ing, it is probably safe to predict that this

may not be the last move for the recordings. 
If opportunity offers, the many friends he has 
made in California will be happy to welcome 
him back to the West Coast when he has ac­
complished his objectives at Hunter College, 
or has had enough of the Big City.—Melvin J. 
Voigt, University of California, San Diego.

In September A. P. Marshall becomes di­
rector of the library at Eastern Michigan Uni­
versity at Ypsilanti. He is accompanied by 

his wife Ruthe, whom 
he has given to State 
librarianship, although 
she is trained in an­
other profession. His 
Missouri and all-types- 
of-libraries-wide circle 
of close friends have 
appropriately demon­
strated their high es­
teem and personal re­
gard for him before 
his departure. Essen­

Mr. Marshall tially, their message 
was deep regret for

the loss of his professional influence from their 
midst. Faculty and students at Lincoln Uni­
versity, where he has been librarian since 
1950, are searching hopelessly for an equally 
effective replacement who can as capably 
double in brass as A. P. has done as Coordi­
nator of Federal Grant Programs (over $300,000 
in results), Faculty Advisor to Student Govern­
ment Association, and as Executive Secretary 
of the Alumni Association. His capabilities have 
been again illustrated this summer by his 
teaching a course in administration at Missouri 
University’s newly accredited school of library 
and information sciences in Columbia, thirty- 
one commuting miles away.

A. P.’s continually alive and wide-ranging 
interest in library matters—local, state, national, 
academic and older—has properly earned him 
a wide reputation as a wise counselor, a willing 
participant, and an effective leader among pro­
fessionals. He is equally knowledgeable and 
at home as a story teller at a conference for 
children’s librarians as he is as a speaker at 
regional trustees conferences, or as a commit­
tee member planning statewide library growth 
and development. From all personal contacts, 
gained from taking the initiative and expecting 
real progress with the project at hand, has 
emerged the fact that his quality of determina­
tion is balanced with optimism, and his per­



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severance offset by his ready sense of humor. 
His popularity is pleasantly screened with a 
natural modesty. His dedication to librarian- 
ship has not only inspired his staff, but has 
also advanced to the point that he has of­
fered no dissuasion to his daughter’s determi­
nation to convert her profession from teaching 
to librarianship.

A. P. is leaving his bachelor’s degree alma 
mater. It was also there, years ago, that he 
served as assistant librarian in his first pro­
fessional position. The University of Illinois 
gave him both a library degree and an MA 
in history. He extended his stay there to do 
further graduate library work. Since being at 
Lincoln as the librarian he has completed 
more graduate work in history.

His second professional position was that of 
librarian at the State Teachers College in 
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This tenure 
was interrupted by a stint in the Navy during 
World War II, where again he gravitated into 
shipboard library practice.

While at Lincoln, A. P.’s principal concern 
has been to build a collection—it nearly tripled 
in size—and operate a service that meets the 
needs of the students and faculty. He put 
order and good administrative management into 
effect to improve service, then concentrated on 
winning administration approval for higher sal­
aries, more and better prepared personnel, 
and higher book budgets. While they will be 
challenged in his new post, A. P.’s adminis­
trative talents and experience will be better 
utilized in the larger operational scene. He con­
siders administration and surveys as his fortes.

He is a writer, also. He has published a 
history of Lincoln University and was co­
author of North Carolina Libraries. In Mis­
souri he has been the editor of both the 
Missouri Library Association Quarterly and the 
Lincoln University Alumni Bulletin.

Professionally, A. P. is not only a joiner but 
also an active member, and he usually winds 
up with an organizational office. He was both 
secretary and president of the Missouri Library 
Association and chairman of divisions and com­
mittees in the state and national associations. 
He is one of the eight appointed members of 
the National Advisory Council on Library Re­
sources, established by Title II of the Higher 
Education Act, which functions within the U.S. 
Office of Education.

That part of his life outside his professional 
commitments is given over in like manner to 
involvement and action. He has been a mem­
ber of Mayor’s Commissions on Human Rights 
in Winston-Salem and Jefferson City. He is 
still a dedicated Boy Scout leader and a church 
official.

When Michigan receives A. P. Marshall it 
will be getting a fisherman of no mean ability, 
and a baker of fruit cakes par excellence, as

well as an activist in professional and com­
munity affairs. It will be getting truly “a man 
for all seasons.”

When he arrives in Ypsilanti, one of his first 
responsibilities will be to plan an addition to 
a two-year-old library building which must be 
tripled in size to accommodate a rapidly ex­
panding collection and a student body that 
will nearly double in numbers in the next 
decade.

He is “cut out” for the job.—Paxton P. 
Price, St. Louis Public Library.

On August 1, 1969, George Parks assumed 
the position of director of libraries at the Uni­
versity of Rhode Island, thus continuing a rapid 
and very deserved rise in the field of library 

adm in istratio n . His 
success is a tribute 
both to him and those 
library administrators 
who recognized his 
talents and exploited 
them to the advantage 
of everyone.

A graduate of Phil­
lips Exeter Academy 
and a Phi Beta Kappa 
from the University of 
New Hampshire, Mr. 

Mr. Parks Parks began his grad­
uate studies with a

scholarship from Johns Hopkins University. He 
soon discovered, however, the opportunities 
available in libraries to bright and properly am­
bitious young men and joined the staff of the 
Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. The 
library administration there quickly realized 
his potential and awarded him a trainee grant 
which allowed him to pursue graduate library 
work at the University of Michigan, where he 
earned his AMLS in 1962. After returning to 
Enoch Pratt, he rose through a succession of 
increasingly responsible positions to that of as­
sistant to the assistant director.

The next sharp eye to perceive Mr. Park’s 
capabilities and potential for growth belonged 
to John Russell, formerly director of libraries 
at the University of Rochester, who appointed 
him assistant director of libraries at Rochester 
in February, 1966. During the next three and 
one-half years, his talents for university li­
brary management were developed and re­
fined in the crucible of rapid change and ad­
ministrative difficulties. Initially responsible for 
personnel, equipment and buildings, he soon 
came to share with the director and the as­
sociate director the overall responsibilities for 
management of the University library system.

The true test of his mettle was to come in 
mid-1968 when both John Russell and his as-



sociate director “split the scene.” Mr. Russell 
was granted an academic leave during his last 
year as director in order to serve as librarian 
of the American College in Switzerland; his 
associate (this writer) decided to learn for 
himself whether or not there is such a thing 
as “Potomac Fever” and joined Stephen Mc­
Carthy in the office of the Association of Re­
search Libraries in Washington, D.C. Fortu­
nately for the University and its libraries, George 
Parks was there to plug the leaks and man 
the administrative pumps. His year of steward­
ship was characterized by intelligent and sym­
pathetic direction of the staff, improvement in 
salaries, and by more than satisfactory progress 
in the construction of the large new addition 
to the central library. He never faltered as 
walls came tumbling down around him and the 
staff (literally); as water leaks developed in 
the new construction; and as large numbers 
of staff, faculty and students were threatened 
alternately with frostbite and asphyxiation 
from dust.

As a consequence of this trial by fire—there 
also was one of those during the construc­
tion—George Parks brings to Rhode Island in­
telligence, dedication, experience, a maturity 
that belies his thirty-four years—and a lovely 
wife and two daughters. There can be no 
doubt that there are good years ahead for 
both the Parkses and the University of Rhode 
Island Library.-—Louis E. Martin, Association of 
Research Libraries.

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

Cynthia Aldinger has joined the staff of 
the University of Nebraska as assistant librarian 
and instructor, humanities division.

Mrs. Ann Allan has been named head of 
technical services in the library at the Uni­
versity of Akron.

Mrs. Jean Short Allen has been appointed 
cataloger and instructor in library science at 
the University of Louisville.

Lorne James Amey has accepted a position 
as a cataloging and reference librarian at the 
library of the American Museum of Natural 
History.

Judith A. Arnn has joined the staff of 
Texas A&M University as an instructor in li­
brary science and assistant science and tech­
nology librarian.

E dward J. Hachus has been appointed head 
of technical services at Skidmore College li­
brary.

Richard Bellamy has joined the staff of 

Sonoma State College, California, as a reference 
librarian.

F leming Bennett is now assistant director 
for reader services, University of Florida li­
braries.

Mrs elen ill
the Wisconsin State University, Whitewater, 
as assistant acquisitions librarian.

Rodney Rhodes Borlase has joined the 
staff of the University of Nebraska as assistant 
librarian and instructor, humanities division.

E arl M. Boulton has been appointed 
science librarian and audio-visual coordinator 
at the Illinois Wesleyan University libraries.

Paul W. Boytinck has been appointed head 
of the catalog department in the Ellen Clarke 
Bertrand Library at Bucknell University.

Regina Brown has accepted the position of 
head, geology library, and instructor of li­
brary administration at the Ohio State Uni­
versity libraries.

Jorge Luis Carro is now an assistant cata­
loger at Wisconsin State University, White- 
water.

Ronald Cherry assumed his duties as law 
librarian and associate professor of law and 
library administration, University of Oregon, on 
August 1.

Dr. Margaret E. Chisholm has received a 
joint appointment as associate professor at the 
school of library and information services and- 
at the college of education, University of Mary­
land.

James R. Christopher has joined the staff 
of the Wisconsin State University, Whitewater, 
as assistant circulation librarian.

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Sister Joan Connell has been named li­
brarian of Seton Hill College.

Kay Frances Crawford has joined the staff 
of the University of Nebraska as senior as­
sistant librarian and instructor, social studies 
division.

Jinnie Y. Davis has accepted a position as 
Spanish cataloger and instructor of library ad­
ministration at the Ohio State University li­
braries.

Mrs. Joan D iana has been appointed ref­
erence librarian with the rank of assistant pro­
fessor at King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Dr. Donald C. Dickinson, associate li­
brarian and assistant professor of library 
science at the University of Missouri, has been 
named as the head of the new school of li­
brary science at the University of Arizona.

Hendrik E delman will become assistant di­
rector for the development of the collections 
in the Cornell University libraries next July 1. 
He will join the Cornell staff on April 1, 1970.

Alan E vans has accepted the position of 
audio-visual librarian, West campus, and in­
structor of library administration at the Ohio 
State University libraries.

Dr. Josephine Riss Fang has accepted ap­
pointment as associate professor of library 
science at the school of library science, Sim­
mons College, effective with the spring se­
mester of the academic year, 1909-70.

Robert E. F essenden has joined the staff of 
the library, University of California, Santa 
Cruz, to head a newly created collection de­
partment division.

Judith F itzgerald has joined the University 
of Akron library staff as a cataloger.

Sanford W. Goin, Jr., librarian at Holt, 
Rinehart and Winston, is now assistant li­
brarian in the reference department at Teach­
ers College, Columbia University.

Leonard Larry Greenwood has joined the 
staff of the University of Nebraska as assist­
ant librarian and instructor, science and tech­
nology division.

Doyne M. Hahn has joined the staff of 
the Wisconsin State University, Whitewater, 
as assistant reserve librarian.

Dennis Hamilton has joined the staff of 
the reference department, Riverside City Col­
lege, Riverside, California.

Katherine R. Hann is now acquisitions 
librarian at the University of Maryland, Balti­
more County.

Marjorie Harf has been appointed interli­
brary loan lending librarian and assistant head 
of circulation with the rank of instructor of 
library administration at the Ohio State Uni­
versity libraries.

Robert P. Haro will join the faculty of the 
school of library and information services, Uni­

versity of Maryland, this fall as librarian/lec- 
turer.

Dr. Donald C. Henderson, Jr. has joined 
the reference department of the Pennsylvania 
State University with specialization in the field 
of Romance languages.

Ronald Arthur Henze has joined the Uni­
versity of Louisville as cataloger and instruc­
tor in library science.

Larry Lee Kahle has joined the staff of the 
University of Nebraska as assistant librarian 
and instructor, social studies division.

Alvina Mary Kalsch has been appointed 
technical services librarian at SUNY Maritime 
College, Bronx, New York.

Anita S. Kao has accepted a position as 
general cataloger at the Ohio State University 
libraries.

Tuan-Sue Kao is now a reference librarian 
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Coun­
ty-

Nancy Keller has accepted the professional 
intern position with the rank of instructor of 
library administration at the Ohio State Uni­
versity libraries.

Daniel L. Kniesner has accepted a position 
as general cataloger and instructor of library 
administration at the Ohio State University li­
braries.

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Karen Sue Kozak has joined the staff of 
the University of Nebraska as assistant librarian 
and instructor, humanities division.

D ong W han Kwon has been appointed as 
a general cataloger and instructor of library 
administration at the Ohio State University li­
braries.

Ronald Leach has accepted the position of 
librarian, Mansfield campus, and instructor of 
library administration a t the Ohio State Uni­
versity libraries.

Daniel W. L ester will assume the position 
of associate librarian for systems and auto­
mation at Mankato State College, Mankato, 
Minnesota, effective September 15.

J. L. L in has accepted a position as 
Chinese Area Specialist in the library of Ober­
lin College.

Mary McEvoy has joined the University of 
Akron library staff as a cataloger.

Patricia E. Marsh has accepted the po­
sition of reference librarian, health center li­
brary, and instructor of library administration 
at the Ohio State University libraries.

Joseph A. Miller has been named librarian 
of the Henry S. Graves Memorial Library and 
lecturer in forest history at the Yale School of 
forestry, Yale University.

Mrs. Karen Miller has joined the staff of 
the Falk Library of the health professions at

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the University of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Miller will 
be in charge of acquisitions.

Olga Mills is a new member of the cata­
loging staff in the library of the University of 
Akron.

Mrs. L ois Myers has been named assistant 
librarian for public services at the University 
of Akron.

Glen Patton, Jr. has been appointed music 
librarian of the Illinois Wesleyan University 
libraries.

Sarah Phillips has accepted a position as 
general cataloger at the Ohio State University 
libraries.

Olive B. Pistor is now documents librarian 
of Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.

Antonio R. Raimo is now librarian of the 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Lois Reilly has been appointed head of 
reference, Kresge Library, Oakland University, 
Rochester, Michigan.

Dr . Michael M. Reynolds will join the 
faculty of the school of library and informa­
tion services, University of Maryland, this fall 
as associate dean. Dr. Reynolds is presently 
concluding his service as professor at the school 
of library science, SUNY Albany.

Leo R. Rif t has been appointed head li­
brarian of Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.

D onald G. Robertson has been appointed 
acting head cataloging librarian, Idaho State 
University, Pocatello, Idaho.

J. Caryle Ross has been appointed as­
sistant head, audio-visual media center, Uni­
versity of Oregon library.

Mrs. E ris E. Roth has been named as­
sociate librarian for technical services at the 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Susan Marie Rybka is now acquisitions li­
brarian, Kresge Library, Oakland University, 
Rochester, Michigan.

Marthena Scollon has returned to the staff 
of Drexel Institute of Technology library as 
head of the humanities and social science di­
vision in the reference department.

Norman J. Shaffer has been named as­
sistant director for public service and assistant 
professor at the University of Nebraska li­
braries.

Marcia J. Sigler has received appointment 
as senior catalog librarian and assistant pro­
fessor of library administration, University of 
Oregon.

Alvin Skipsna has been appointed acting 
librarian of Skidmore College library.

Elizabeth Snider has accepted the position
as reference librarian, Newark campus, and 
instructor of library administration at the Ohio
State University libraries.

W illiam Snyder has accepted the position 
as reference librarian, Lima campus, and as­
sistant instructor of library administration at 
the Ohio State University libraries.



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Donald S. Tebbetts is the new assistant 
librarian for technical services at Idaho State 
University, Pocatello, Idaho.

Mrs. E lizabeth Titus has been appointed 
reference librarian, Kresge Library, Oakland 
University, Rochester, Michigan.

Paul D. Toner has been appointed chief, 
acquisitions department of the John Crerar Li­
brary.

Joseph C. T seng has joined the staff of the 
University of Nebraska as assistant librarian 
and instructor, catalog department.

Hugh T. Vrooman has been appointed as­
sociate director of libraries, Rensselaer Poly­
technic Institute.

Mrs. Katherine Warkentin has joined the 
staff of the Wilson College libraries, Chambers­
burg, Pennsylvania, as reference librarian.

Hans Wellisch will join the school of li­
brary and information services, University of 
Maryland, this fall as a visiting lecturer. Mr. 
Wellisch is head of the Documentation Centre 
and library and consultant to the Centre of 
Scientific and Technological Information, Tel 
Aviv, Israel.

Lynn Clara Williams has joined the staff 
of the University of Nebraska as assistant li­
brarian and instructor, acquisitions department.

W. Robert W oener has been appointed 
senior assistant librarian and head of the 
Behrend campus library of the Pennsylvania 
State University.

Milton T. W olf, III has been appointed 
assistant librarian in the acquisitions depart­
ment of the Pennsylvania State University li­
brary.

Mohamed El-Zehery has joined the staff 
of the University of Nebraska as senior assist­
ant librarian and instructor, social studies di­
vision.

N E C R O L O G Y

John Austin Parker, librarian of Storm 
King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, 
and formerly audio-visual librarian, USMA li­
brary, West Point, died of a heart attack on 
May 24.

Edgar Weld King, who headed the Miami 
University libraries under various titles from 
1922 to 1956, died May 29 at Christ Hospital, 
Cincinnati, of a heart ailment.

RETIREMENTS

Janet M. Agnew, head librarian at Bryn 
Mawr College, 1947-1969, will retire in Sep­
tember.

Marian M. Allen, head of the University 
of Rochester library’s reference department and 
former librarian of the UR Women’s College,

has retired after forty-two years of service with 
the University. After a month’s vacation, she 
will join the staff of the Colgate Rochester 
Divinity School library on a part-time basis.

Mary Moore Beale, supervising librarian, 
cataloging department, Teachers College, Co­
lumbia University, has retired after twenty-two 
years of service at Teachers College.

Richard K. Dixon, supervising librarian, re­
serve book room, Teachers College, Columbia 
University, retired from full time service on 
June 30.

Mrs. E va E pstein, supervising librarian, cur­
riculum reading room, Teachers College, Co­
lumbia University, has retired after thirty-one 
years of service at Teachers College.

Sister Melania Grace resigned on May 15 
after forty years of service as librarian of Seton 
Hill College.

Virginia A. H usted, music librarian at Il­
linois Wesleyan University, has retired after 
serving the University for thirty years as pro­
fessor of violoncello, theory and music history 
before she became a full time member of the 
library staff in 1960.

Mrs. Katherine Kridl, supervising librarian, 
reference department, Teachers College, Co­
lumbia University, retired on June 30 after 
more than twenty years of service at Teachers 
College.

Marie Scheie retires this year from the El­
len Clarke Bertrand Library at Bucknell Uni­
versity, where she has been head of the cata­
log department since 1948.

Whiton Powell, assistant director of Cor­
nell University libraries since 1961 and librar­
ian of Cornell’s Mann Library since 1952, re­
tired June 30 after 25 years of service.

Mrs. Alleyne B. Vandervoort, humanities 
librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University, has 
retired after ten years of service with the 
University. ■ ■

REM INDER TO COLLEGE, 
UNIVERSITY LIRRARIANS

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U.S. Office of Education’s Fall 1969 survey of 
college and university libraries? Questionnaires 
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maximum utility to all college and university 
librarians.