ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 6 7 6 / C&RL News Advertiser index AMIGOS 628 Bowker 636 Cambridge Scientific 633 Chadwyck-Healey 667 EBSCO cover 4 Faxon 639 Graphics Press 625 Interflo 645 Library Corp. 641 Meckler 645 OCLC 665 Rothman cover 2 Sociological Abstracts 644 H.W. Wilson cover 3 S haron R ogers has been nam ed associate vice president for academic affairs at the George W ashington University, Washington, D.C. Larry S chankm an is now reference librar­ ian at Valdosta State College, Georgia. D iane Shaw has been appointed rare book cataloger at the Smithsonian Institution Librar­ ies, Washington, D.C.. P am ela J. S herbert has b een appointed systems librarian at the Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. J an ice Stagnitto is now conservator in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Book Conser­ vation Lab, Washington, D.C. Gil Taylor is now librarian of the Museum Support Center Branch of the Smithsonian In­ stitution Libraries, Washington, D.C.. Ann Weaver is now reference librarian, Loop Campus, DePaul University, Chicago. R etirem ents Robert W. Baumgartner retired from the Gov­ ernm ent Publications Department at Northwest­ ern University (NU) after 33 years of service. He began at NU in 1959 as a professional assistant in Government Publications; in 1961 became head of the Business Library; in 1963 became head of G overnment Publications then gave that position u p in 1988 for the less stressful position o f assistant head. Ed Davy, Dewey librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 20 years, retired last summer. W illiam C. Pollard, librarian at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, since 1977, retired on June 10, 1992. He had also served as librar­ ian at Old Dominion University and the Col­ lege of William & Mary, and is a former presi­ dent of the Virginia Library Association. Deaths C larence Edward C h ish olm , associate librar­ ian and chief o f access services at Penn State University, died on July 16. Before joining Penn S tate, C h ish o lm w as head o f circulation and interlibrary loan at Ohio University in Athens. He also held various posi­ tions at Clinch Valley College of the Univer­ sity of Virginia, Eastern M ichigan U niversity, Voorhees College, North Carolina A&T State Uni­ versity, Wilber-force Uni­ Clarence Chisholm versity, Columbus Met­ ropolitan Library, and the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change. A graduate of John­ son C. Smith University in North Carolina, Chisholm later earned an MLS from Atlanta University and an M.A. in English/Afro-Ameri- can literature from North Carolina A&T State University. He w as a m em ber of ALA’s Black Caucus and was active in ACRL. N ellie M. H om es, former librarian at Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri, died July 3, 1992 at the age of 93. Homes received her B.S. and MLS from Case Western Reserve University. She was librarian at Cottey College from 1945 to 1966, w hen she retired. After that she spent two years as librarian in geography, history, philosophy, and religion at the University o f Missouri-Columbia. She followed that with two years of service at the Kansas City Public Li­ brary, before retiring in 1970. Her professional memberships included ALA, ACRL, the Missouri Library Association, and the American Associa­ tion of University Women. ■