ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL N ew s ■  N o v e m b e r 2000 /  953

R ichard Bopp, assistant map and geography 
librarian at the University o f Illinois at Ur- 
bana-Cham paign, has retired after 22 years 
o f service.

J a n e  Garner, head o f  Manuscripts and Ar­
chival Processing, B enso n Latin American Col­
lection, retired after 36 years with the Uni­
versity o f T exas at Austin.

Jean  Geil, music special collections coordinator 
at die University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
has retired after 29 years of service.

Nelson J .  Gilman has retired from  his p osi­
tion as director o f  the University o f Southern 
California University Health Scien ces Librar­
ies and the Norris Medical Library after 29 
years o f service.

M arcy Jo n c ic h , referen ce librarian at the 
University o f  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
has retired after 2 9  years o f  service.

Robert Jones, cinema studies and theater librar­
ian at the University o f Illinois at Urbana- 
Champaign, has retired after 30 years o f service.

A d v e r t is e r  in d e x

ACM $41
ACRL 889, 918, 950
Am erican Chemical So ciety 932
American Psychological Assoc. 937
Am erican T heological Library 926 

Association
Chemical Abstracts Svc C over 2
CHOICE 901, 911
D ialog Corporation 893
EBSCO Cover 4
E-G lobal Library 908
Endeavor Inform ation Sys. Cover 3
Haworth Press 944
H. W. W ilson 8 8 4
InfoUSA 9 2 7
Lexis-Nexìs 881
OCLC 921
Scholarly R esou rces 9 4 7
SWETS/Blackwell 912
T heatre Research D ata G roup 939

B arb ara Loom is, assistant engineering librar­
ian at the University o f  Illinois at Urbana- 
Champaign, has retired after 30 years o f ser­
vice.

Lois P ausch, geology librarian at the Uni­
versity o f  Illinois at Urbana-Cham paign, has 
retired after 28 years o f service.

Walter Stubbs has retired as the documents 
librarian/assistant social studies librarian at 
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), 
after 32 years o f service to Morris Library. 
Stubbs joined the library ’s faculty in 1968 as 
assistant social studies librarian and becam e 
the documents librarian in 1974. H e was ac­
tive on several library committees, the Illinois 
D ocum ents Coordinating Council, and had 
given presentations on government publica­
tions and the Internet. In 1985, Greenw ood 
Press published his bo o k  entitled Congres­
sional Committees, 1789-1982: a  Checklist.

D e a t h s

A lm a B en nett, retired head  o f  the Social 
Scien ce departm ent at the University o f  Mis­
souri-Colum bia (UMC), has died. In 1941, 
B enn ett began w orking as an exten sion li­
brarian for Emporia State University. Six years 
later, she b e ca m e social scie n ce  librarian at 
UMC, later b ecom in g head o f the social sci­
en ce department at UMC, and retiring in 1975. 
She was a m em b er o f  the ALA.

Ja c k  Dalton, dean o f the School o f Library 
Service at Columbia University (1 9 5 9 -7 0 ), has 
died. Dalton began his library career at the 
University o f Virginia, w here he was assistant 
reference librarian (1934—35); reference librar­
ian (1 9 3 6 -4 2 ); associate librarian (1 9 4 2 -5 0 ); 
and librarian (1 9 5 0 -5 6 ). From 1956 to 1959, 
he was director o f the International Relations 
Office o f ALA, was a member o f Council (1 9 6 4 - 
68), and was chair o f the Ethics Committee. 
He was director o f the Library Development 
Center at Columbia University (1970-78), which 
focused on the needs o f those w ho have lim­
ited access to library service. In 1954, Dalton 
received the J. W. Lippincott Medal and was 
awarded an honorary lifetime m em bership in 
the ALA in 1983. ■