ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries February 1991 / 117 PEOPLE Profiles Clarence E . C hisholm has b e en appointed to the position of chief o f access services at Penn State’s University Libraries in University Park. Before coming to P enn S ta te , C h is h o lm w as head of circulation and interlibrary loan at Ohio U n iversity in A thens. Prior to 1988, he held lib r a r y p o s itio n s at Clinch Valley College of th e U niversity o f V ir­ ginia, E astern Michigan U n iv e rsity , V o o rh e e s College in South C aro­ lin a , N o r th C a ro lin a A&T State University, Clarence E. Chisholm W ilberforce U niversity in Ohio, th e public li­ brary o f Colum bus and Franklin C ounty in Ohio, and the M artin L uther King C e n te r for Social Change. Chisholm received his bachelor’s degree from Johnson C. Sm ith University in Charlotte, N orth Carolina, with a m ajor in English and a m inor in education. H e holds an MLS from Atlanta University and a m aster’s degree in English and Afro-A m erican lite ratu re from N o rth Carolina A&T State University. Adele S. D endy is th e new director o f the Robert J. T erry Library at Texas Southern Univer­ sity in H ouston. She was form erly director o f li­ brary services at Prairie View A & M University in Texas. She has also b een director of university li­ braries and satellite centers at H am pton University in Virginia, education librarian and head o f the education library at Indiana University in Bloom­ ington, and m edia librarian at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is a m em ber o f th e LAMA com ­ m ittee for Planning and Evaluation o f Library Services. A native o f Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, D endy has a bachelor’s degree from T em ple U ni­ versity, an MLS from th e University o f Pittsburgh, and both a m aster’s degree in education and the E d.D . in higher education adm inistration from In ­ diana University, Bloomington. C laudia A . Perry has been appointed head librarian at th e State University of New York, State College of O ptom etry. Perry previously served as h ead o f the R eference D ep artm en t at the New York Academy o f M edicine Library in New York. She is a form er reference librarian in the health sciences at the University o f Rhode Island and has served as an instructor for th e National Library o f M edicine’s online training program . A form er book review editor for Library Hi Tech, she has p u b ­ lished num erous articles in library publications. She is a graduate o f T rinity College in Connecticut and received h e r MLS from th e University of R hode Island. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D . in com m unication, inform ation and library studies at R utgers University. People in the news Rachael K . Anderson has been appointed to the Board o f Regents of the National Library of M edicine. A nderson has b e en d irec to r o f the H ealth Sciences Library at C olum bia University since 1979. She has served on, and chaired, the Regional Medical Library Advisory C om m ittee for Region 1. She also chaired N L M ’s Biomedical L ibraiy Review C om m ittee, a panel th at reviews applications for grants. B etty Jo Irvine, h ead o f th e fine arts library at Indiana University, Bloomington, has been elected vice-president, president-elect of th e Art Libraries Society o f N orth America (ARLIS/NA). She began h e r three-year term on the executive board last m onth. D erorah Jakurs, h ead o f the International and Area Studies D ep artm en t at Perkins Library, D uke University, has b e e n e le cte d p re sid e n t o f th e 118/ C &RL News Seminar on the Acquisition o f Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) for 1990-1991. Jakubs, who is also the Ibero-American bibliogra­ pher at Duke, has served SALALM previously on the Subcommittee on Library/Bookdealer/Pub- lisher Relations, the Committee on Interlibrary Cooperation, the Executive Committee, as chair o f the Subcommittee on National-Level Coopera­ tion, and as vice-president. She is organizing SAL- ALM ’s June 1-6, 1991 conference, co-hosted by the University o f California at San Diego and San Diego State University. The theme will be “ Latin American Studies into the 21st Century: New Focus, New Format, New Challenges.” N a n c y O ’ B r i e n , education subject specialist and acting head o f the Education and Social Sci­ ence Library at the University o f Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, has received a $5,000 Whitney-Car- negie Award from ALA. The award will fund pub­ lication o f Alice, Jerry, Dick and Jane: Catalog of Historical Curriculum Materials at the University o f Illinois, 1821-1940. The compilation will be a descriptive record o f materials that reflect the educational history o f the United States, as seen in the library’s historical collection o f 29,860 text­ books. Publication is expected in 1992. Jam es P . O ’ C o n n o r , manager o f the corporate technology information center at Kennametal Inc., has been elected president o f the board o f trustees o f the Pittsburgh R e­ gional Library Center, which serves more than 100 libraries in western Pennsylvania, West Vir­ ginia, and western M aryland. M ild red Moyers, West Virginia University, was elected vice-president; Steve C r o c c o , Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, secretary; and Charles Julian, West Virginia James P. O’ConnorNorthern Community C o lle g e , treasurer. Among the newly elected trustees are: David Gillespie, Frostburg State University; William Ros- selle, University o f Pittsburgh; and Mary Stubbs, Westmoreland County Community College. W. D a v id P en n im a n has been named the fourth president o f the Council on Library Resources, succeeding Warren J. Haas, who retired at the end o f 1990. Penniman was director o f the information services group at AT&T Bell Libraries before as­ suming his new post in January 1991. He has published many articles on information technology and the application o f that technology to library management and information services. M a r i l y n J. S h a r r o w , university librarian at the University o f California, Davis, was installed as president o f the Association o f Research Libraries (ARL) at the conclusion o f the 117th member­ ship meeting. She suc­ ceeds Martin Runkle, director o f libraries at the University o f Chi­ cago, who continues on the ARL board o f direc­ tors as past president. Sharrow, who was presi­ dent o f the Canadian As­ sociation o f Research Li­ braries in 1985, cu r­ rently serves on the board o f the U nited Marilyn J. Sharrow States Agriculture Infor­ mation Network and the Center for Research Li­ braries Program Committee. Elected to the ARL board o f directors for three-year terms were Jerry D . Cam pbell, university librarian at Duke University; Joan Chambers, director o f the Colo­ rado State University Library; and Emily R. Mobley, dean o f libraries at Purdue University. 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, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) J o s e p h J . A c c a r d i has been named associate university librarian for systems and access services at the Ronald Williams Library, Northeastern Illi­ nois University, Chicago. D ia n a L. Ac c u r s o has been appointed social sciences reference librarian at Auburn University, Alabama. Susan M . A l l e n has been appointed head o f the Special Collections Department at Honnold/ Mudd Library, one o f the libraries o f the Clare­ mont Colleges in California. M a r k A n d e r s e n has been appointed a resident librarian at the University o f Illinois at Chicago, where he is working in the Collections Develop­ ment Department. E l i z a r e t h A n d r e w s has assumed her duties as reference archivist in archives and special collec­ tions at Massachusetts Institute o f Technology, Cambridge. February 1991 /1 1 9 S a n d r a J . B e i d l e r has been named head o f special collections at the Chester Fritz Library, University o f North Dakota, Grand Forks. T o m B i c k l e y is the new director o f circulation at the Houston Academy o f Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. J a n e B i e w a r has been appointed a resident librarian at the University o f Illinois at Chicago, where she is in the Information Services Depart­ ment at the Library o f the Health Sciences. W e s B r o w n i n g has been appointed online serv­ ices librarian at the Houston Academy o f Medi- cine-Texas Medical Center Library. K a r e n F. C a r y is the new business reference librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. J o h n C a s i l l o has joined the staff o f the Hous­ ton Academy o f Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library as director o f systems. J a y B . C l a r k has been appointed library direc­ tor o f the Central Campus o f San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas. R i c h a r d C . D a v is has been appointed manu- scripts-archives librarian in the Special Collections and Archives Department at the University o f Idaho Library. F r a n c i n e M . D e F r a n c o has assumed her du­ ties as social work reference librarian at the Trecker library o f the University o f Connecticut at Hart­ ford. M a r y C . E n g l i s h has been appointed cataloger for humanities and medieval studies at the Univer­ sity o f Notre Dame, Indiana. M a r l e n a F r a c k o w s k i has a one-year appoint­ ment as visiting assistant librarian and regional campus libraries cataloger in the Music Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. B r i n l e y R . F r a n k l i n is now associate director for administrative services at the Homer Babbidge Library, University o f Connecticut, Storrs. R i c h a r d F y f f e is the new curator o f literary and cultural archives at the Homer Babbidge Library, University o f Connecticut, Storrs. R o b e r t G a r z i l l o has been appointed technical services librarian at the Rhode Island School o f Design in Providence. F r e d G e r t l e r has been appointed systems implementation librarian at the Orradre Library, Santa Clara University, California. T u l a G i a n n i n i has been appointed collection management librarian at Adelphi University, Gar­ den City, New York. R o d n e y K . G o i n s has accepted a position as head o f acquistions at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. D a n u t a G ó r e c k i has been selected to serve as the classics librarian at the University o f Illinois, Urbana-Champaign through August 20, 1992. F r a n c e s G r o e n has accepted the new post o f associate director o f libraries at McGill University. M a r g a r e t W . J a c k s o n has been appointed ref­ erence librarian at the Stamford Regional Campus Library o f the University o f Connecticut. T h o m a s H . K r e n e c k has been appointed spe­ cial collections librarian and archivist for the Uni­ versity Library, Corpus Christi State University, Texas. W e n - C h i e h K u n g has been appointed cata­ loger at Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachu­ setts. M a r t a K u s z c z a k has been appointed a resident librarian at the University o f Illinois at Chicago, where she is working in the Documents Depart­ ment. J a n e M . L a w l e s s has assumed her duties as head o f circulation at the Stamford Regional Campus Library o f the University o f Connecticut. T a m e r a P . L e e has been named head o f the Veterinary Medical Library at Auburn University, Alabama. W e n - l i n g L i u is the new East Asian languages cataloger at Indiana University Libraries, Bloom­ ington. E l i z a b e t h L o r e n z e n has been appointed Ca­ reer Center librarian at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. K a t h l e e n M a r t i n has been appointed a resi­ dent librarian at the University o f Illinois at Chi­ cago, where she is working in the Reference D e­ partment. D u n c a n M c C l u s k y has been named science and technology reference librarian at Auburn Uni­ versity, Alabama. C a r o l M c C r a r y has been appointed informa­ tion services librarian at Walker Management Li­ brary, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennes­ see. S y l v i a M c D o w e l l has becom e assistant to the director at Radcliffe College’s Arthur and Eliza­ beth Schlesinger Library on the History o f W om en in America. S t e p h e n M c G i n t y has been appointed head o f acquisitions in the Littauer Library o f Harvard University. M a r i a n n e M c G o w a n has been appointed teach­ ing resources librarian at Lesley College, Cambr­ idge, Massachusetts. T a n y a W o o d M o l l e n a u e r has been appointed outreach services librarian at Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. E l l e n N a g l e has been named director o f the University o f Minnesota’s Bio-Medical Library in Minneapolis. P a t r i c i a E . P a l m e r has been appointed preser­ vation librarian at Virginia Commonwealth Univer- sity, Richmond. D e n a P l a i s t e d has been appointed director o f photocopy and interlibrary loan at the Houston 120 / C&RL News Academy o f Medicine-Texas Medical Center Li­ brary. B a t n a R e v a n k λ h has joined the staff o f the Houston Academy o f Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library as an information services librarian. T e d R i e d i n g e r has accepted a faculty appoint­ ment at Ohio State University, Columbus, where he will be responsible for Latin American and Iberian collections. R u t h R o s e n b l o o m has been promoted to head o f technical services at the Frances Loeb (Design) Library at Harvard University. C a r l i n S a p p e n f i e l d has been named science and engineering reference librarian at the Sara Shannon Stevenson Science Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. E l i z a b e t h S i e g e l has been appointed a resi­ dent librarian at the University o f Illinois at Chi­ cago, where she is in the Information Services Department at the Library o f the Health Sciences. H i n d a S k l a r has been promoted to head librar­ ian o f the Frances Loeb (Design) Library at Har­ vard University. D e n y s e S t u r g e s has been appointed a resident librarian at the University o f Illinois at Chicago, where she is serving in the Special Collections Department. Let there be light Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsyl­ vania, has found a different way to throw light on the subject in its new Harry C. Trexler Library. The designers wanted to use a single system to light both the stacks and the study carrels, in a setting complicated by many soffits, step-downs, and ducts. Engineers at Hubbell Lighting suggested using the familiar Value System 800, a direct/indirect, school/drafting room luminaire, but with the fixtures running perpendicular to the stacks, rather than parallel to them. Paul Becker o f Wallace and Watson Associates o f Allentown, who designed the in­ stallation, says that "the spines on the books on the lowest level o f the stacks can be read, and with the lights run at right angles to the stacks, the bookshelves can be relocated without hav­ ing to reposition the lighting.” Patricia Ann Sacks, director o f libraries at Muhlenberg, is enthusiastic. “This lighting does meet all our criteria,” she says. “You aren’t aware o f the light source because there are no glaring reflections o ff paper or the computer screens.” Actual light levels in the finished jo b measure 75 footcandles on the study carrels. Energy usage runs at an efficient 1.2 watts per foot. M a r g a r e t J . W a r n e r has been appointed refer­ ence and bibliographic instruction librarian at the Southwest Texas State University Library in San Marcos. M a r k W e i m e r has been appointed curator o f special collections at the Syracuse University Li­ brary, New York. M a r g a r e t W . W e s t l a k e has been appointed catalog librarian at the Medical Center Library o f Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Retirements D o n n a B . H a r l a n , associate librarian and archi­ vist at the Franklin D. Schurz Library, Indiana University at South Bend, retired in December after 24 years o f service. Jam es W i l s o n M c G r e g o r , acquisitions librar­ ian at the Ronald Williams Library, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, retired December 31, 1990. After coming to the university as a cataloger in 1966, he became head o f cataloging in 1969, head o f technical services in 1971, and assistant university librarian for technical services in 1976. In 1984 he was promoted to associate university librarian for technical, financial, and automation services, a post he resigned in 1987. E v a n g e l i n e M i s t a r a s , reference librarian at the Ronald Williams Library, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, retired December 31, 1990. She joined the university in 1966 as periodicals librarian. Mistaras was head o f the Reference Department from 1972 until September 1990, when she resigned from that position. During her tenure at Northeastern she was also bibliographer for social sciences and history. E l i z a b e t h S h e n t o n retired at the end o f June 1990 after 23 years as assistant to the director o f the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in Cam­ bridge, Massachusetts. Her services were recog­ nized at a presentation during the May meeting o f the library’s advisory committee and a gala “Cele­ bration o f Betsy Shenton” on June 21. Deaths D o r o t h y B l a c k , former reference librarian at the University o f Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, died in Urbana on November 16,1990, at the age o f 90. She was bom in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was a graduate o f the University o f Arkansas. She re­ ceived her MLS from the U o f I in 1928. She joined the staff o f the Reference Department in 1926 and was assistant head o f the department at the time o f February 1991 /121 her retirement in 1968. Black specialized in select­ ing reference books and was particularly noted for her expertise with government documents. She was the author o f Guide to Lists o f Master’s Theses, published in 1966. A longtime member o f the Audubon Society, she was an enthusiastic bird­ watcher, and travelled extensively before and after her retirement. H i l d a C o n l a n , former interlibrary loan librar­ ian in the Harvard College Library, died October 11, 1990. Her Harvard service began in July 1924, and she retired in June 1972. D o r o t h y K e l l e r , who was in charge o f re­ search collection development at the University o f California at Berkeley for 28 years, died in D ecem ­ ALAO fall conference sets record A record-breaking 307 participants attended the 1990 Academic Library Association o f Ohio annual conference, November 8 and 9 at C o­ lumbus, Ohio. The preconference workshop, “ Power o f Creative Thinking,” partially funded by an ACRL Special Program Grant and facili­ tated by Hal Carnes o f International Manage­ ment Institute, taught techniques for solving problems and promoting team-building. On Friday, Herbert White gave a keynote address, “Academic Libraries into the 21st Century: Crossroads, Opportunities, Dangers, Challenges.” The luncheon speaker, U.S. Con­ gressman Major Owens, spoke on how librari­ ans can and must impact the legislative process, with “What’s Good for Libraries Is Good for the Country: Shaping the White House Con­ ference Agenda.” The remainder o f the pro­ gram was a full lineup o f exhibitors, posters, and concurrent sessions on topics including preservation, job satisfaction, critical thinking, C D -R O M training, and the pluralistic campus. CRL records online The Center for Research Libraries now has machine-readable bibliographic files contain­ ing over 235,000 bibliographic records on four reels o f de-duped, authority-checked tapes. The census includes the current supplementary tape o f 92,000 records, issued in fall 1990. For information contact: Maηorie Bloss, Director, Technical Services Division, CRL, 6050 South Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. ber. She had come to Berkeley as head o f what was then called the Accessions Department in 1941 and retired in 1969. J a c k M c D o n a l d J r . , chief o f the Library Serv­ ices Division in the Congressional Research Serv­ ice, died at his home in Washington, D.C., Novem­ ber 6, at the age o f 54. McDonald had headed Library Services, the information support arm o f CRS, since July 1979. H e joined the Library o f Congress in 1961 as a searcher-editorin the former Union Catalog Division. K a t h e r i n e S p in n e y , librarian o f the Hotel Administration Library at Cornell University from 1960 to 1979, died in November. She had come to Cornell in the early 1950s as catalog librarian in the Industrial and Labor Relations Library and subse­ quently took a position with the Industrial Rela­ tions Counsellors in New York City as librarian. She returned to Cornell to head the Hotel Administra­ tion Library in 1960. A Nova Scotian, she had graduated from Dalhousie University and received her MLS from McGill University in Montreal. She is remembered in Ithaca as one o f the most cheer­ ful and most amiable o f library staff members. E l l i s E . T u c k e r , formerly director o f the D e­ partment o f Library Science at the University o f Mississippi, died on November 6, 1990. After the closing o f the library school, he became a law research librarian at the university’s School o f Law. Tucker received his MLS from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. from Florida State Uni­ versity. He was an alumnus o f the University o f Mississippi, which named him professor emeritus after his medical retirement some weeks before his death. ■ ■ GOVDOC increases document use According to Gary Cornwell, federal docu­ ments librarian at the University o f Florida Li­ brary in Gainesville, a tremendous increase in patron use o f federal documents can be partly attributed to the G O V D O C service from OCLC. Through GOVD O C, O C LC produces monthly O C LC M ARC tapes or catalog cards for items distributed through the federal de­ pository program. Libraries use a customized order form to indicate which item numbers they want and whether they want tapes, cards, or both. For member and nonmember librar­ ies, O C LC also will attach their OC LC institu­ tion symbol to the record in the database. In the 10 months since the cataloging service was introduced, 130 federal depository libraries have signed up for it.