ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries April 1991 / 265 a com puter screen, the s t u d e n t re a d s a d e ta ile d , written explanation o f everything happening in the music while listening to the composition on head­ phones. T he listener can also elect to read informa­ tion about the com poser’s life and tim es or an explanation of the art o f listening. T he new encyclo­ pedias are packaged on interactive m ultimedia compact discs that employ H yperC ard program ­ ming to shift from one section of the text to another. • At the U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s , C h a m p a i g n , a Hypertext-based tour o f the library is now avail­ able. H Y PE RTO U R was developed by Tania Gottschalk to provide an introduction to the library and its services. • Staff from the U n i v e r s i t y o f M i n n e s o t a L ib ra rie s, M inneapolis, and th e un iv ersity ’s Carlson School of M anagem ent a n d Hum phrey Institute o f Public Affairs have won the 1990 Spe­ cial Research Award given by the Association for Library and Inform ation Science Education (AL- ISE). A n interdisciplinary team supported by a grant from th e Council o n L i b ra ry Resources stud­ ied issues involved in integrating a d m in is tra tiv e and scholarly information services in an academic setting. The team developed a model Integrated Inform ation C enter f o r the university and has re­ cently received a three-year H E A Title II-D g ra n t to im plem ent the model. T he research p a p e r s describing the team ’s efforts and findings was scheduled to be published by the J o u r n a l o f the A m erican Society for Inform ation Science in M arch 1991. • V i r g i n i a C o m m o n w e a l t h U n i v e r s i t y , Richmond, has received its 19th endow m ent for the Libraries, bringing the total dollar am ount of library endow m ents to over o n e -h alf million. Funds from the new endowment, donated by an alumna, will be used to help purchase materials for the general collections. ■ ■ P E O P L E Profiles Kathleen G arland has joined th e faculty o f the University o f Michigan School o f Inform ation and Library Science, Ann Arbor. She will serve as the advisor and coordinator of the School Library M edia Specialist program , and will pursue teaching and research activities in that area. She recently received a grant from th e D epartm ent of E duca­ tion to conduct a research project on the use o f children’s materials in school and public libraries. Garland received her B.S.Ed. f r o m Ohio Univer­ sity and her MSLS and Ph.D. from Case W estern R eserve U niversity. H e r exp erien c e includes teaching and research at the School of Inform ation a n d Library Studies at the State University o f New York at Buffalo. She has been assistant chair o f the D epartm ent o f Library and Inform ation Science at Ball State University as well as assistant professor in th e School o f Communication, Information, a n d Library Studies at Rutgers University. She also has eight years experience as a school m edia specialist. N eil J . M cE lroy was recently appointed direc­ tor o f libraries a t Lafayette College in Easton, P e n n sy lv a n ia , S in c e 1986 he has been head o f re a d e rs' services at the H oover Institution Library at Stanford Uni­ versity. Previously, he held various positions in th e C ornell University Library, including head o f access services, p h i­ losophy and religion bib­ liographer, coordinator o f database services, and Neil J. McElroyreference librarian. He 266 / C&RL News holds an MLS from Simmons College and a mas­ ter’s in theological studies from Harvard Univer­ sity. McElroy currently serves on the ACRL Budget and Finance Committee, the ALCTS Committee on Planning, and the Computer-Based Methods and Resources Committee o f the RASD Collection Development and Evaluation Section. E v e l y n R i c h e O u v i e r was recently promoted to assistant director for administration at the Li­ brary o f the University o f Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Olivier was most recendy the administrative services librarian with responsi­ bilities for library facilities planning, special proj­ ects, personnel coordination, financial manage­ ment, and public relations. She joined the staff in 1976. An active member o f ALA, she currently serves on the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Committee as well as the Public Affairs Committee o f LAMA. D a v i d G r a y R e m i n g t o n has begun work in Olympia as deputy state librarian for the Washing­ ton State Library. Remington, who has 25 years o f administrative experience in varied libraries, has for the last six years been director o f the Pend Oreille County Library, a rural public library sys­ tem in northeast Washington. Prior to that, he was chief o f Cataloging Distribution Service at the Library o f Congress. R i c h a r d C. W o o d has been named director of the Library o f the Health Sciences at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, succeed­ ing the library’s founding director, Charles W. Sargent, who retired after 18 years at the health sciences center in Lubbock. At the time o f his appointment, Wood was associate director for public services at the Texas College o f Osteopathic Medicine Library in Fort Worth as well as an assis­ tant professor of medical education at TCOM. Previously, Wood worked as a medical librarian at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth and as head o f cataloging at the Wofford College Library in Spartanburg, South Carolina. People in the news W i l l i a m G o s l i n c , assistant director for Techni­ cal Services at the University o f Michigan Library, was recently elected to a two-year term as chair of the CONSER Policy Committee. He will also serve on the CONSER Executive Committee. Gosling assumed his current position at the University o f Michigan Library in 1986. Prior to that, he worked at Duke University Library and at the Library o f Congress. He holds an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. in history from Bates College. I z a L a p o n c e , the political science reference li­ brarian in Main Library at the University o f British Columbia, has received a $36,800 grant to con­ tinue work on her Canadian Politics Bibliography. The computerized bibliography contains more than 16,000 entries (articles, books, dissertations, conference papers, and book chapters) on Cana­ dian federal and provincial politics and related social, cultural, and economic issues. The grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council o f Canada will enable the retrospective coverage o f the bibliography to be extended from 1929 to 1960, and will enlarge the database to ap­ proximately 23,000 items. A l l e n R . V e a n e r , principal o f Allen B. Veaner Associates in Toronto, Ontario, will be presented this month with a Distinguished Alumni Award by Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1949. Veaner previously received the Alumni Achievement Award from Simmons College’s Graduate School o f Library and Informa­ tion Science (1981) and the Special Libraries Asso­ ciation’s President’s Award for Exceptional Service (1988). Appointments (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and appointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, CírRL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) J o h n P . A b b o t t has assumed the position of associate head o f the Collection Management Department at North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh. G i s e l a A h a d i is now a catalog librarian at Wash­ ington University in St. Louis. P e n n i n g t o n A h l s t r a n d has been appointed as­ sistant librarian for special collections at the Cali­ fornia Academy o f Sciences Library, San Fran­ cisco. M a r l e n e K. A n d e r s o n is now a catalog librar­ ian at Washington University in St. Louis. M a r g a r e t A y c o c k has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in International legal studies in the Law School Library at Harvard University. M a d e l e i n e B o m b e l d has been appointed ref­ erence librarian at the Randall Library, University o f North Carolina at Wilmington. J e a n n e B r o w n has been named architecture li- April 1991 / 267 brarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. K a t h l e e n R . B r o w n is now head of the Acqui­ sitions Department at the North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh. W i l l i a m E . B r o w n , J r . , has been appointed head of Archives and special collections at the Uni­ versity of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. S a r a h B r y a n is a new library assistant in special collections at Baker Library of Harvard University. B a r r a r a B u t l e r has been appointed coordina­ tor o f the Biodiversity Resource Center at the Cali­ fornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. M e l i n d a S . C h e s b r o has been appointed sys­ tems librarian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. K a t h a r i n e E . C l a r k has been appointed head of the Life Sciences Library at Penn State Univer­ sity Park campus. D e a n W . C o r w i n has joined the staff of the University Libraries at the Üniversity of Nebraska- Lincoln. M i t c h e l l C o u n t s has been appointed assistant librarian for reference and computer services in the Law Library at Indiana University-Bloomington. D o n a l d C . C u r r a n has been named associate librarian for Constituent Services at the Library of Congress. D a r l e e n D a l y has been appointed head of the Catalog Department at the University of Cincin­ nati, Ohio. W a n d a D o l e is the new assistant director for collection management and development at the State University o f New York at Stony Brook. A d a D u c a s has been named head o f the Science Library at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. A n n M . E a g a n is the new librarian for the physical sciences at the University o f Nevada, Reno. R o s e m a r y F r a n k l i n has been appointed refer­ ence librarian and bibliographer for English litera­ ture and language at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. D o n n a J e a n G u n t e r has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the Randall Library, University oí North Carolina at Wilmington. B e t s y H a r r i s o n is now cataloger and senior as­ sistant librarian at the University o f Wyoming in Laramie. N a n c y H e n r y has been appointed health sci­ ences librarian for the University Libraries at Penn State University Park campus. T o m H i n d e r s has been appointed serials cata­ loger at Oberlin College, Ohio. J u l i e H o f f has accepted the position of assis­ tant government documents and map librarian at the University o f Kansas Libraries, Lawrence. D e n a H u t t o has been appointed serials cata­ loger for the University Libraries at Penn State University Park campus. A u d r e y M . J a c k s o n has been appointed head of the Engineering and Math Sciences Library at the University o f California, Los Angeles. M a r y E l l e n L e m o n has been named IAMS (in­ tegrated Academic Information Management Sys­ tem) project manager at the University ofWashing- ton Health Sciences Library and Information Center, Seattle. B a r b a r a L e v y is the new assistant reference li­ brarian at the University of North Texas, Denton. W e n - l i n g L i u has been appointed East Asian cataloger at Indiana University-Bloomington. M a r y L o c h h e a d has been appointed head of the Architecture and Fine Arts Library at the Uni­ versity of Manitoba in Winnipeg. H e a t h e r L y l e has been appointed access serv­ ices and reference librarian at the Evansdale Li­ brary, West Virginia University in Morgantown. A jnne M a r a g i o g l i o has been named branch co­ ordinator of the Medical Sciences Library at Indi­ ana University-Bloomington. E l a i n e M a r t i n is now associate director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Center at the University of Washington, Seattle. M a r c i a J . M a r t i n has been named head of bibliographic instruction and reference librarian for University Libraries at the University of Cincin­ nati, Ohio. T o m M i r c o v i c h has been appointed reference librarian and business and hotel bibliographer at the University o f Nevada, Las Vegas. K e i t h M o r g a n is a new assistant Dewey librar­ ian at Massachusetts Institute o f Technology. L i n d a N e u s w a n g e r has been appointed refer­ ence and information services librarian at the Theodore Lownik Library, Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle. K a t h r y n O ’ G o r m a n has been appointed head o f acquisitions for University Libraries at the Uni­ versity of Cincinnati, Ohio. J a n e t W . O w e n s has joined the staff of Thomas Cooper Library, University o f South Carolina, Columbia, as assistant reference librarian. E l i z a b e t h P a r a n g has been appointed head se­ rials librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A n n P a s q u a l e has been named head o f special collections at the New York Academy of Medicine Library in New York City. B e t s y P o r t e r is now head of the Coe Library Reference Department at the University of Wyo­ ming in Laramie. F. O r i o n P o z o has assumed the position o f col­ lection manager for engineering and physical sci­ ences in the Collection Management Department at North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh. R . J e f f r e y B a n d l e s is now a systems librarian in the Libraries’ Computing and Telecommunica- 268 / C&RL News tions Unit at Washington University in St. Louis. L i n d a R i c h e r has been named music mono­ graphs cataloger at Oberlin College, Ohio. K i t h R o g e r s has accepted a position at Welle­ sley College as special collections librarian. A d a m L . S c h i f f has been appointed associate librarian for user services at the California Acad­ emy o f Sciences Library, San Francisco. Ś h a r o n S c o t t is now serials librarian at the Uni­ versity of Nevada, Reno. M a r y A n n S h e b l e has joined the faculty at the University of Alabama Libraries (Tuscaloosa) as serials catalog librarian. L y n n S h i r e y has been promoted to bibliogra­ pher for Latin American law in the Law School Library o f Harvard University. N a n c y S t a n l e y has been named head o f the Receiving Section in Acquisitions for the Univer­ sity Libraries at Penn State University Park cam­ pus. M a l l o r y St a r k is a new assistant Dewey Li­ brarian at Massachusetts Institute o f Technology, Cambrdge, Massachusetts. J o h n H . T e b o has been named head o f the Mathematics Library at the University o f Cincin­ nati, Ohio. L a r r y A . T h o m p s o n has joined the staff o f the University Libraries at the University o f Nebraska- Lincoln. T h e r e s a A. T o b i n has been promoted to hu­ manities librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambrdge, Massachusetts. J a n D a v i s T u d o r has been appointed assistant librarian at the Mark O. Hatfield Library, Wil- liamette University, Salem, Oregon. A d r i e n n e W i t h e r s p o o n has a one-year appoint­ ment as research associate for Development and Publications at North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh. L y d i a W o n g joined the Reference Department as reference librarian, North Carolina State Uni­ versity. L o u i s a W o r t h i n g t o n has been appointed as­ sistant science librarian for life sciences and Scher­ ing-Plough Librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambrdge, Massachusetts. Retirements J a c o b D . K o r e v a a r , associate librarian at the Law School Library at Harvard University, retired at the end of February. He had been head of international legal studies since 1983. L u c i a J . R a t h e r retired in January after 33 years at the Library of Congress, the last 14 as head o f cataloging. R i c h a r d R e i c h , associate librarian at Indiana University Northwest, has retired. He served as head librarian at IU Northwest from 1968 until 1980. During that time the collection grew to 150,000 volumes, and the facility which houses the library was built. J i n d r a K . S o u k u p , cataloger at the Thomas Cooper Library, University o f South Carolina at Columbia, has retired after 12 years o f service. Previously she was a multilingual cataloger at Prin­ ceton University. Deaths C h a r l e s M a r s h a l l A d a m s , 83, o f High Point, North Carolina, died on December 8, 1990, of cardiac arrest. Adams was Librarian Emeritus, University o f North Carolina at Greensboro, and a past president (1950-51) o f ACRL. Born at Lamoure, North Dakota, August 24, 1907, Adams gradu­ ated from Amherst Col­ lege in 1929 and then took graduate degrees in English and Libraiy Sci­ ence at Columbia Uni­ versity, New York. From 1934—38 he worked at Charles Marshall the New York Public Adams Library and from 1938-45 he was assistant to the director and librar­ ian in charge o f special collections, Columbia Uni­ versity Library. In 1945 he became library director at the Woman’s College (which became the Uni­ versity o f North Carolina at Greensboro), a posi­ tion he resigned in 1969 to become director of the Sinclair Library, University o f Hawaii. He retired in 1973. In 1978 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters by UNCG. In addition to his many professional articles and reviews, particularly in regard to design o f college libraries, Adams was a distinguished bookman. His personal collections o f the works o f Randall Jarrell and writers o f the Southern Appalachians were given in recent years to the Amherst College Li­ brary, and he authored the first published bibliog­ raphy of Jarrell’s poetry and criticism in 1958. Jarrell later paid tribute to Adams’ administration o f the UNCG library: “I’ve never seen a library whose whole spirit is more humane and kindly, good-humored and good-hearted, more free of anxiety and pettiness.” One example of this spirit was Adams’ order that black students were to be April 1991 / 269 admitted for the first time through the front en­ trance o f the UNCG Library, a controversial step at that time. Memorial contributions may be made to the Friends o f the Library at UNCG, a group founded by Adams in 1958. J u l i e B l a t t n e r , chief documents librarian in the Harvard College Library since 1983, died on January 24, 1991. From 1978-83 Blattner was librarian in the Center for International Affairs in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and in the Harvard Institute for International Development. “Julie never forgot what we are here for: people, the people we work with and the patrons we work for,” said Carrrie Kent, assistant to the associate librar­ ian of Harvard College for Public Services. R o b e r t B i n c h a m D o w n s , 87, library dean emeri­ tus and library school dean emeritus of the Univer­ sity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, died Febru­ ary 24, 1991, of pneu­ monia. “As a scholar, infor­ mation scientist, and de­ fender o f intellectual freedom, Robert Downs had few equals. He was a man o f vast intellect, in­ tegrity and conviction. For myself and for many others he was a distin­ guished role model and friend who will be greatly missed,” said Robert Bingham current ALA President, Downs Richard Dougherty. It was during Downs’s long tenure as library dean, from 1943-1971 that the University o f Illi­ nois library at Urbana-Champaign grew to its present position as the third largest American uni­ versity library and the largest state university li­ brary in the U.S. During the height o f the Mc­ Carthy era, Downs lead an effort against what he Chinese American scholarship The Chinese-American Librarians Associa­ tion has established the Sheila Suen Lai Schol­ arship o f Library and Information Science for students of Chinese heritage. The annual $500 scholarship will be awarded to a student en­ rolled in an ALA-accredited library school as a full-time student. Application deadline: May 1, 1991. For application forms and information: Cecilia Chen, Chair, 1991 CALA Scholarship Committee, California State University, Dom­ inguez Hills University Library, 800 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747. called “the current wave o f anti-intellectualism, manifesting itself in attacks on books, on freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, freedom to teach and all those rights we have long held to be guaran­ teed by the 1st Amendment.” His strong public statements against censorship, made while presi­ dent o f ALA from 1952-53, led to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1953 "Don’t Join the Bookbun ers” speech. Downs authored more than 40 books and 400 articles. To the general public, Downs is probably best known for his 1956 best-seller, Books that Changed the World, that was translated into 17 languages, expanded and revised twice, and sold several million copies. Downs was the recipient of numerous awards including the Japanese “Order of the Sacred Treas­ ure” for his work on establishing the Japanese Li­ brary School and National Diet Library. ALA hon­ ored him with the Melvil Dewey Medal for creative professional achievement and the Clarence Day Award in 1963, saying, “No librarian has reached such a wide audience and no librarian has made a richer contribution to an understanding o f books for their enjoyment and for their significance in our time.” A high school drop out, Downs went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from the University o f North Carolina and a second bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Columbia University. He worked at the New York Public Library, Colby College, the University of North Carolina, and served as the di­ rector o f libraries at New York University from 1938-43. P e r n a S. L o h , 87, head librarian at Wartburg College from 1943-1968, died February 1 in Wav- erly, Iowa. Lohn was instrumental in developing the Engelbrecht library at Wartburg. ■ ■ New publication on federal roles in support of libraries The Federal Roles in Support o f Academic 6- Research Libraries prepared for ACRL’s White House Conference Committee by R. Kathleen Molz is now available from ALA Publishing Services. This booklet is the third in a series designed to prepare delegates participating in the White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services scheduled for July 1991. Copies o f the 28-page booklet are available from ALA Publishing Services at a cost o f $7.50; ALA member price $6.75. Bulk discounts of up to 50% are available. To place an order: call (800) 545-2433; fax: (312) 440-9374, or send to: ALA Order Dept., 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. (ISBN 0-8389-3393-9.)