ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 304 / C &R L News c o n s e rv a tio n s ta ff on fo u r o th e r c am p u se s — Riverside, San Diego, Santa B arb ara, and San Francisco. Staff trained by the Project will study p r a c tic a l a p p ro a c h e s to p la n n in g , d e c is io n ­ making, and im plem entation of conservation goals and policies. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . Profiles Jerry D. Campbell has been nam ed university lib ra ria n and vice provost for lib rary affairs at Duke University, effective July 1. Cam pbell is c u r­ rently director of the Bridwell L ibrary and associ­ ate professor at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, a post he has held since 1980. Prior to his assuming his present duties, he was director of the Ira J. Taylor L ibrary and as­ sistant professor at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Cam pbell received his m aster’s of divinity de­ gree from the Divinity School at Duke University in 1971. He earned an MLS at the G raduate School of L ibrary Science at the University of N orth C aro­ lina, C hapel Hill, in 1972 and was aw ard ed a Ph.D . in American history by the University of D enver in 1982. Cam pbell served as the president of the American Theological L ibrary Association in 1981-1982. He has had extensive experience w ith the preservation of library m aterials and the autom ation of library services. Lawrence Dowler, associate librarian of H a r­ v a rd C o lleg e, b ecam e lib r a r ia n of H a rv a rd 's H oughton L ibrary on May 1, succeeding W illiam H. Bond who had retired in 1982. Dowler cam e to H arvard in 1982 from Yale Uni­ versity L ibrary, w here he had been associate li­ b rarian and acting director of the Beinecke Rare Book and M anuscript Library. He had been at Yale since 1970 and had also served as supervisor of processing in the D epartm ent of M anuscripts, Ster­ ling M em orial L ib ra ry ; assistant h ead , actin g head, and head of th a t D epartm ent; and associate librarian for m anuscripts and archives. He holds a doctorate in American history from the University of M aryland, and his m any profes­ sional activities have included participation in the N ational Inform ation Systems Task Force on Auto­ m ation, the Society of American Archivists, the N a tio n a l H isto ric a l P u b lic a tio n s an d R ecords Commission C onnecticut State Advisory Board, an d th e R esearch L ib raries G ro u p /R L IN Task Force on Autom ation of M anuscript Cataloging. Dowler has also been appointed special assistant to the director for special collections, a new posi­ tion in w hich he will advise the director on the co­ ordination of the University L ib rary ’s m any activi­ ties concerning special collections and help bring p o tential donors in touch w ith the ap p ro p riate H arvard library. People in the news Catharine Heinz, director of the Broadcast Pio­ neers L ibrary, W ashington, D .C ., was presented w ith a 1985 Broadcast Preceptor A w ard at San Francisco State U niversity’s B roadcast In d u stry Conference on April 27. The aw ard was given for her invaluable contribution to the preservation of broadcast history. Tze–CHUNG Li , dean of the Rosary College G rad ­ uate School of L ibrary and Inform ation Science, River Forest, Illinois, has been elected president of the American chapters of the Phi T au Phi Scholas­ tic H onor Society, w hich was founded in C hina in 1921. The purpose of the Society is to encourage scholarship, stim ulate research, rew ard academic achievement and form a professional network of li­ brarians around the world. Appointments (A ppointm ent notices are taken from lib rary newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap ­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure th a t your appointm ent appears, w rite to the E ditor, ACRL, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) Fran Allegri has been appointed director of in ­ form ation m anagem ent education services at the H ealth Science L ibrary of the University of North C arolina at C hapel Hill. Duane W. Arenales has been nam ed chief of the Technical Services Division at the N ational Li­ brary of Medicine, Bethesda, M aryland. Helen Berg is now access services librarian at K utztown University, Pennsylvania. Sue Burkholder has been appointed library di- Ordering books shouldn’t be a maddening experience. Dealing with an inflexible book supplier is no tea party. 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D ’ANDRAiA has been appointed head of the Technical Services Division of the General Li­ brary at the University of California, Riverside. John Dean is now conservation officer for the Cornell Libraries, Ithaca, New York. Susan H. DeGregory has been appointed bib­ liographic instruction librarian at the University of North Alabama, Florence. Linda L. Dotzheimer has been appointed cata- loger at the University of North Alabama, Flor­ ence. Rochelle Elstein has been appointed art bibli­ ographer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Georgene Fawcett has been appointed serials librarian at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Ramona Fox has been appointed acting assistant head of the Optometry Library at Indiana Univer­ sity, Bloomington. Richard Frieder has been appointed conserva­ tion officer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Kathy Garner is now reference librarian at the School of Law Library, Southern Illinois Univer­ sity, Carbondale. Evalyn Greene is now research and reference librarian at Case Western Reserve Law School Li­ brary, Cleveland. William H. Griffin has been appointed acqui­ sitions librarian at Southwest Texas State Univer­ sity, San Marcos. Judith Harper has been appointed head of the Engineering Library at the University of Mani­ toba, Winnipeg. Merri Hartse has been appointed chairperson of circulation services at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Stanley Horton has been named librarian at Everett Community College, Washington. Sam Huang is the new reference and media ser­ vices librarian at McGeorge School of Law, Sacra­ mento, California. Phoebe Janes is now reference librarian in Mof­ fitt Undergraduate Library, University of Califor­ nia, Rerkeley. June 1985 / 307 Gail Junion has been appointed head of the C at­ alog D epartm ent at the University of Rochester, New York. Abolghasem Khosh–Khui has been appointed serials cataloger at Southwest Texas State Univer­ sity, San Marcos. Mary Krutulis has been appointed visiting state documents librarian in the Government Publica­ tions D e p a rtm e n t, I n d ia n a U n iv ersity , Bloomington. Millie Kwan has joined the Washington Uni­ versity Libraries, St. Louis, as data processing li­ brarian. Eva–Marie Lacroix has been named chief of the Reference Services Division at the National Li­ brary of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. Michele Laing has been appointed head of the Architecture and Fine Arts Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Elizabeth Logan has been appointed assistant professor in the Baxter School of Information and Library Science, Florida State University, Talla­ hassee. W illiam M. MacDonald is now information resource center librarian at Serono Laboratories, Randolph, Massachusetts. Charles McFadden is now technical services li­ brarian at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. Grace Malsin is the new documents librarian at the University of Washington Law Library, Seat­ tle. Anton Masin has been appointed head of rare books and special collections at Indiana State Uni­ versity, Terre Haute. James Edmund Maynard has been named acting director of the Daniel Library at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, Charleston. Linda K. Nelson has been appointed catalog li­ brarian at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. Joyce Nevins is now half-time public services li­ b ra ria n in th e S cience-E ngineering L ib ra ry , Northwestern University, Evanston. Karen Nipps is the new rare books cataloger at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Richard W. Oram has been named director of the W ard M. Canaday Center for Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Toledo. Theophil M. Otto has been named assistant di­ rector for public services at Eastern Washington University, Cheney. Linda Pierce has joined the staff of the Univer­ sity of Idaho College of Law Library, Moscow, as technical/public services librarian. Richard Riley has been appointed chief adm in­ istrative services librarian at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos. Herbert Safford has been named director of li­ brary services at Kutztown University, Pennsylva­ nia. Barbara Trippel Simmons has been named cura­ tor of manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom W. Sloan has been appointed documents librarian at the University of North Alabama, Flor­ ence. Jean Smith is the new reference librarian in the Undergraduate Library at the University of Cali­ fornia, San Diego. Anita Sprankle is now readers’ services librar­ ian at Kutztown University, Pennsylvania. Richard Stewart has been appointed serials cataloger at Southern Illinois University, C arbon­ dale. Roger Stoddard has been nam ed curator of rare books in the H arvard College Library. Joseph Thomas has been appointed cataloger for the Retrospective Conversion Project at the Indi­ ana University Law Library, Bloomington. Judith Tribble has been appointed reference li­ brarian at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. Jeanie Welch has been appointed head of refer­ ence at Lam ar University, Beaumont, Texas. Nethery Wylie has been appointed science ref­ erence librarian at the University of Colorado, Col­ orado Springs. G ail Yokote has been ap p o in ted associate biomedical librarian at the University of Califor­ nia, Los Angeles. Retirements Mary Canada, head of the Reference D epart­ ment at Duke University, will retire on June 30 af­ ter 42 years of service. She started at Duke in 1942 as an assistant in the Circulation D epartm ent, and served as undergraduate librarian in 1945-1955. After obtaining an MLS at the University of North Carolina she returned to Duke as a reference li­ brarian in 1956. She was appointed assistant head of reference in 1967, then head in 1979. Kenneth La Budde, director of the University of Missouri at Kansas City L ibrary, retired in the spring. Esther Greenberg, coordinator for library sys­ tems at Case Western Reserve University, retired this spring after 22 years of service. James M. Hillard, director of library service at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina for 28 years, will retire on July 1. He holds the rank of Colonel. Yadwiga Kuncaitis, head of the Freiberger Li­ brary Reference D epartm ent at Case Western Re­ serve University, retired this spring after 25 years of service. J ennie Levey, science reference lib ra ria n at Case Western, retired this spring. Elmer Newman, assistant head of reference at Case Western, retired after 16 years. Mattie Russell, c u ra to r of m an u scrip ts at Duke University, retired on May 31 after 37 years of service. She joined the staff as assistant curator in 1948, becoming curator in 1952. As an associate professor in the University of N orth C arolina School of Library Science she taught a course on a r­ chives and manuscripts from 1969 to 1978. Long active in the Historical Society of North Carolina, she was its president in 1974-1975. M a r j o r i e W h e e l e r , head of the Reference De­ partment at Lam ar University, Beaumont, Texas, retired January 31 after 15 years of service. Deaths Z i n a i d a C a r r , formerly at Lane Medical L i­ brary, Stanford University, died on March 10. M a r v i n W i l k s M c F a r l a n d , retired chief of the Science and Technology Division at the Library of Congress, died on February 25. He had come to LC in 1948 as an aeronautical historian after serving during World W ar II as chief archivist with the U.S. Strategic Air Forces and staff archivist to the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces. He was named assistant chief of the Division in 1963 and chief in 1966. J u l i a W a l d e n P l u m m e r , library director at L a ­ mar University from 1936 to 1967, died on April 6. C a t h a r i n e R e y n o l d s , former head of govern­ ment documents at the University of Colorado’s Norlin Library, died on April 18. She had retired in June 1984 after serving in that position since 1966. For 16 years before that she had been head of the Government Documents Library at the University of Iowa. ■ ■ NEW TECHNOLOGY •At the American Qptometric Association Sym­ posium on Vision in the High Tech Society in Washington on March 20, optometrist Vince King spoke on the hazards associated with video display terminals (V D Ts). Common eye complaints of V D T operators include headaches, blurred vision at near and far seeing distances, itching and burn­ ing eyes, eye fatigue, flickering sensations, and double vision. King said that routine data entry tasks create the most complaints about vision, and that bifocal wearers may be the most susceptible because the traditional bifocal is positioned too low and is probably too strong a power for looking at a V D T . King said that eyestrain can be reduced by restructuring mundane tasks, and he cited one study in which productivity improved and com­ plaints decreased when data entry was divided into 40-minute batches. Breaks were spent looking into the distance or doing tasks requiring minimum vis­ ual effort. •The Biblio-Techniques Library and Inform a­ tion System (BLIS) has been acquired by Indiana University for its circulation and technical process­ ing. W hen fully operational, the software will serve all Indiana University campuses. • Micrographic Systems of Connecticut, New Haven, has contracted with the Women’s History Research Center in Berkeley, California, to pro­ duce the Center’s publications on silver film. The Center distributes materials on women and his­ tory, law, health, and mental health. For more in­ formation, contact the Women’s History Research Center, 2325 Oak St., Berkeley, CA 94708; (415) 548-1770. •The New York Library-Line (NYLINE) began operating on May 1 when over 50 libraries and li­ brary systems in the state launched a subset of the American Library Association’s electronic infor­ mation service, ALANET. NYLINE members can use ALANET for electronic mail service and obtain the New York State Library’s electronic newsletter, NYLINE News. The costs for the network are be­ ing supported by Title III Library Services and Construction Act funds. NYLINE members cur­ rently include 22 public library systems, 9 research library systems, and 12 school library systems. • The Pine Cone is marketing a light-weight vacuum cleaner called Mini-Vac that is designed for cleaning the hard-to-reach areas of microcom­ puters, typewriters, and other office equipment. Mini-Vac runs on a 9-volt alkaline battery, has two d iffe re n t in te rc h a n g e a b le w ands and b ristle brushes, and is only 5 inches long. The machine costs $29.95 (plus $2 handling) and may be ordered from the Pine Cone, Blake Building, Dept. CRN- 85, Box 1378, Gilroy, CA 95021. •The University of Michigan Library, Ann Ar­ bor, has acquired seventy Zenith-150 microcom­ puters for staff use from Zenith D ata Systems. Each 320K, dual-disc machine includes an internal modem, printer, and integrated software package. The selection of Zenith equipment was based on a review of available hardware by library staff and available pricing agreements for computer equip- 308 / C&RL News