ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C &RL News / 393 People PROFILE B r a n t l e y H . P a r s l e y has been named director of library services at Mobile College, Alabama, ef­ fective July 1. Prior to this appointment he served as library director of Campbellsville College, Ken­ tucky, for the past 16 years. During this time he was chairman of the Academic Section of the Ken­ tucky Library Association and first chairman of the Librarians of the Council of Independent Ken­ tucky Colleges and Universities. Parsley developed a media program for the Tay­ lor County Baptist Association and was elected di­ rector of training for the association. He also served as president of the Central Kentucky Arts Series. Parsley received his MLS from Emory University and has a Master of Religious Education degree and a Bachelor of Divinity degree from New Or­ leans Baptist Theological Seminary. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS J o h n D a v id M a r s h a l l , professor at the Todd L ib rary , Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, has been elected a Churchill Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. Churchill Fellows serve in an advisory capacity to the board of trustees and the president of Westminster College on matters relating to sup­ port, operation, and overall management of the Memorial and Library. N a n c y M a r s h a l l , associate director of libraries for public services at the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was honored as Librarian of the Year by the Wisconsin Library As­ sociation at its state convention October 27-29 at Mount Telemark. The award is given in recogni­ tion of outstanding leadership and accomplish­ ment in library service. The recent revision of the U.S. copyright law is one of Marshall’s areas of ex­ pertise. She has served as president of ALA’s Refer­ ence and Adult Services Division and is an elected member of ALA Council. APPOINTMENTS (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.) Sh i r l e y K . B a k e r has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge, as assistant director for public services. R a e l a i n e B a l l o u h a s b e e n a p p o in te d h e a d o f the Engineering and Technology Library, Temple University, Philadelphia. W a y n e B e l l has been promoted to associate dean of library services at the Hofstra University Library, Hempstead, New York. St e p h e n C. B l o o m is now acting art and archi­ tecture librarian at the University of Illinois at Chi­ cago. J a n e t t e E . B o l t o n has been appointed junior li­ brarian at the Biomedical Library at the University of South Alabama, Mobile. St e v e n E . B r e w s t e r has joined the staff of the Moffitt Undergraduate Library, University of Cal­ ifornia, Berkeley. H e l e n S. B u t z has been appointed acting head, Department of Rare Books and Special Collec­ tions, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor. T . C a n in i has been appointed serials cataloger at the University of Waterloo Library, Ontario. C y n t h ia C o c k e r h a m has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Illinois, Urbana. R a n d a l l L . C o l l v e r , formerly library director at the College of Great Falls, Montana, has been appointed assistant director for technical and com­ puter services at the Lewis and Clark College L i­ brary, Portland, Oregon. B a r b a r a C e l o n e is now reference librarian at the Cubberley Education Library, Stanford, Cali­ fornia. T h o m a s C e s a r z is the new circulation librarian at Northeastern University, Boston. C o n s t a n c e J . C l a r k has been appointed law li­ brarian at Old College, Reno, Nevada. R e b e c c a W . D a v i d s o n has been appointed head, Bibliographic Searching Section, Acquisi­ tions Department, at the University of North Caro­ lina, Chapel Hill. R o b e r t D a v is has been named chief of the Ac­ quisitions and Processing Division of the Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington. L o u i s e D e n n e t t is now periodicals librarian at Northeastern University, Boston. T h o m a s J . D o n a h u e has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the Pullen Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta. J u d i t h Du C h a r m e has been appointed referen­ ce/information services librarian at the University Erratum George Charles Newman is director of the Edward H. Butler Library at the State Univer­ sity of New York C ollege at Buffalo rather than at SUNY/Buffalo, as reported in C &R L News, October, p. 321. 394 / C&RL News of New Mexico Medical Center Library, Albuquer­ que. V a l e r i e J a c k s o n F e in m a n has been appointed head of the Academic Technologies Division at Adelphi University Library, Garden City, New York. E l m a F e n n e l l has been appointed special col­ lections librarian at Texas Tech University, Lub­ bock. B e t s y F l o r e s is the new assistant to the acting chief, Central Circulation Department, Stanford University, California. D a v id B . F r a l e y has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle. So p h ia G a l if a r o has been appointed assistant chief for monographic acquisitions at Stanford University, California. W i l l i a m G a r r is o n has been promoted to the po­ sition of head of Catalog Management and Mark­ ing, Northwestern University, Evanston. B e t s y H a b ic h has been appointed Reserve Rook Room librarian at Northeastern University, Bos­ ton. A n n H a g e d o r n has been appointed research and development librarian, New York University Libraries. J u d i t h H e r s c h m a n is now head of reference in the Central University Library, University of Cali­ fornia, San Diego. J a m e s H o d g s o n has been appointed acting li­ brarian of the Fine Arts Library, Harvard Univer­ sity. M a r y M . H o r r e s has been appointed biomedi­ cal librarian at the University of California, San Diego. P a m e l a H o w a r d has been appointed cataloger in the Central University Library at the University of California, San Diego. W i l l i a m J . J a c k s o n has been appointed librar­ ian for economics/hotel and restaurant manage­ ment at the University of Houston Libraries. E l l i o t K a n t e r is a new reference librarian/bib­ liographer at the Central University Library, Uni­ versity of California, San Diego. J a n i c e K r i e g e r is the new physical sciences bib­ liographer at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. W i l l i a m J . K r i s t i e has been appointed assistant social science and business administration refer­ ence librarian at California State University, Sac­ ramento. M a r y L a n g f o r d has been appointed circulation librarian in the Vanderbilt University Law L i­ brary, Nashville. K a t h e r i n e S. L a u r e n c e has joined the staff of the Ithaca College Library, New York, as reference librarian. L in d a L o t t has been named head librarian at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York. K a r i M a r i e L u c a s joined the staff of Baylor Uni­ versity’s Moody Memorial Library, Waco, Texas, as a reference librarian. D e b o r a h M c B e t h is the new head of technical services at the University of Albuquerque, New Mexico. J o h n M c C ro ssa n has been appointed to another three-year term as chairperson of the Graduate De­ partment of Library, Media, and Information Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa. K a r e n N e l s o n M c F a r l a n has been named uni­ versity personnel librarian at the Harvard Univer­ sity Libraries. E l l e n M i c h a l o v e has been appointed cataloger at the Transportation Library, Northwestern Uni­ versity, Evanston, Illinois. P a m e l a A nn M o f j e l d has been appointed natu­ ral sciences reference librarian at the University of Washington Natural Sciences Library, Seattle. Jo -A n n e N a s l u n d has been appointed reference librarian in the Curriculum Laboratory, Univer­ sity of British Columbia, Vancouver. St e v e n C. N e w s o m e is now acting reference li­ brarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. N a n c y B . O l s o n has been named visiting scholar for five months at O C LC ’s Office of Research, Dublin, Ohio. R ic h a r d P a l l o w i c k has accepted a position as assistant librarian at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. C h r is t o p h e r A nn P a t o n has been appointed ar­ chival associate at the Pullen Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta. M a r y G i l e s P e r e s i c h is now junior librarian at the Biomedical Library, University of South Ala­ bama, Mobile. M a r y M a r g a r e t P in c k a r d is now assistant head of Science Reference at Arizona State University, Tempe. A l v is P r i c e has joined the staff of the Manage­ ment Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. J a n e P r i c e has been appointed coordinator of the Health Sciences Library Network, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. L a r r y R ic h a r d s o n is now instruction and orien­ tation librarian at Arizona State University, Tempe. J o h n S l e e m a n is the new systems librarian at Temple University, Philadelphia. T h o m a s G . Sp a it h has been appointed acquisi­ tions/reference librarian at the University of Akron Law Library, Ohio. V ir g in ia Sy l v e s t e r has been appointed circula­ tion librarian at Arizona State University, Tempe. J a c k T o b in is now reference and administration librarian in the International Legal Studies L i­ brary, Harvard University. J e a n T r u m b o r e has been appointed acquisitions librarian at Langston Hughes Memorial Library, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. L o r i G . V o e g e l i is now visiting assistant refer­ ence librarian at the University of Illinois at Chi­ cago. C&RL News / 395 T e r r a n c e L . W a s ie l e w s k i has been appointed assistant librarian for reference/documents at the Stephen B. Luce Library, SUNY Maritime Col­ lege, Bronx, New York. B i l l W a tso n has been appointed assistant uni­ versity librarian for public services at the Central Library, University of British Columbia, Vancou­ ver. A nn C . W e l l e r has been promoted to director of the Department of Reference Services at the American Medical Association Library, Chicago. T im o t h y L . W h e r r y has been appointed science information specialist in the Engineering and Sci­ ence Library, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pitts­ burgh. J o s e p h W i b l e is now reference/catalog librarian at the Lane Medical Library, Stanford University, California. F r a n c is R . W ih b e y has been appointed head of the Government Documents Department, Fogler Library, University of Maine at Orono. P e t e r W o o d has been appointed assistant in­ struction librarian at Northeastern University, Boston. Susan Y a t e s is now interlibrary loan/instruction librarian at Northeastern University, Boston. RETIREMENTS M e d a B o u t w e l l has retired from her position as director of the Library and Learning Resources Center at Eastern New Mexico University, Clovis, where she had held that position since 1969. F o r r e s t F . C a r h a r t , J r ., retired on September 30 as executive director of the New York Metropoli­ tan Reference and Research Library Agency after 50 years of library ser­ vice. Carhart was ap­ pointed as M E T R O ’S first full-time executive director in 1972. Carhart held admin­ istrative positions at the West Virginia Univer­ sity Library, the Iowa State College Library, and the University of Denver Libraries. He served as staff librarian at the Air Force Person­ nel T raining and R e­ Forrest F. C arhart‚ Jr. search Center, and from 1955 to 1959 he was deputy director of the U.S. Air Force Academy Library. In 1959-1972 Carhart was assistant director and then director of the American Library Association’s Library Technol­ ogy Program. During this time LTP developed a major book publishing program and new products and services for which fourteen countries granted patents on five inventions. Carhart served as chair of the American National Standards Institute Committee Z85 and was a member of the National Microfilm Association Standards Committee on Supplies and Materials. Included in his consulting work was membership on National Science Foundation oversight commit­ tees. His MLS is from the University of Michigan. E l e a n o r J . C a r m i c h a e l , technical services li­ brarian at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indi­ ana, retired on June 30 after 22 years of service. K a t h r y n L e w i s retired as special collections li­ brarian at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. M o m o k o M u r a k a m i retired as law librarian of the Law Library, University of California, Los An­ geles, with over 25 years of service. W i l b u r C . T r a u t m a n has retired from the posi­ tion of head of administrative services at Temple University, Philadelphia, where he has served since 1970. H a r r ie t C . V e n a b l e retired as director of Troy State University’s branch libraries at Dothan and Fort Rucker, Alabama, on September 1. DEATHS H a r l a n C. B r o w n , who was director and associ­ ate director of libraries at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, from 1939 until his retirement in 1971, died on October 10. F r e d e r i c k R . G o f f , chief of the Library of Con­ gress Rare Book Division from 1945 to 1972, died in London on September 26. Appointed curator of Rare Book Collections in 1940, he was promoted to assistant chief the next year and to chief in 1945. A graduate of Brown University, where he earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees, he worked during the years at Brown as assistant to Margaret B. Stillwell on the compilation of Incu­ n abu la in A m erican L ib r a r ie s : S econ d Census (1940). At the Library of Congress he continued to develop a specialization in 15th-century books. In 1964 he published a third census of incunabula and a supplement in 1972. His many honors included a doctor of letters de­ gree from Brown University in 1965. In addition to membership in most of the major bibliographical and collectors’ organizations, he served as chair of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section in 1961 and as president of the Bibliographical Soci­ ety of America in 1968-1970. M i l d r e d W i l s o n , who retired in 1962 as head cataloger in the Mann Library, Cornell University, died recently in Sarasota, Florida. ■ ■