ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 77 People PROFILES LOUIS A. S a s s o , assistant to the director for personnel, Boston Public Library, has been named editor of C hoice, replacing Richard K. Gardner, who resigned to accept a position on the faculty of the Grad­ uate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Sasso graduated from Boston College in 1957 with a B.S. in education and received an M.A. degree in history from Harvard University in 1958. He received his M .L .S . degree from Louis A. Sasso Columbia University in 1962 and returned to Harvard as administrative assistant in the reference and circulation depart­ ment in the Harvard College Library. While in that department, he became assistant librarian for reference and circulation and also was acting li­ brarian of the Lamont Library and acting curator of the Woodbury Poetry Room in Lamont. In 1967 he was appointed assistant university librar­ ian on the staff of the university librarian. He has served as editor of HUL Notes, the Harvard staff newsletter, and the H arvard Librarian. Sasso left Harvard in December 1969 and joined the Bos­ ton Public Library in January 1970. He has had poems published in several little magazines, including A rion s’ Dolphin, Cardinal, Isinglas Review, E ncore, and Ab Intra and has taught poetry and literature courses at the Cam­ bridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He participated in the Boston Public Library’s Young Adult Creative Writing Program and has reviewed poetry books for Li­ b rary Journal. Sasso’s main outside interest is hiking, and he is a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club. P a u l M . G h e r m a n has been appointed as­ sistant director for administrative services at the Iowa State University Library in Ames. Before coming to Iowa State, Gherman was personnel officer at the Pennsylvania State Uni­ versity Libraries, University Park, Pennsylvania. In that position, he was responsible for all profes­ sional recruitment, personnel records and policy, control of the promotion and tenure process, the writing and implementation of the library’s affirmative action plan, mediation, and staff de­ velopment and training. He also acted as an adjunct administrator and was involved in all library-wide decisions. Gherman began his library career as library as­ sistant in the circulation department, Wayne State University Library, Detroit, in 1969. After receiving his graduate degree from the University of Michigan, he served as acting head, humanities division, at Wayne State University and in 1972 became circulation librarian. In 1966-78 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, South America, where he developed programs in cooperative development, organizing agricultural marketing and clothing manufacturing cooperatives. He has been active in state library associations, serving with the Michigan Library Association In­ tellectual Freedom Committee and the Pennsyl­ vania Library Association College and Research Library Division’s Recruitment Committee. He has served as secretary of the Executive Commit­ tee of the Wayne State University Chapter of AAUP and was a member of the Committee on Staff Development and Training of ARL Librar­ ies. Currently he is chairman of the personnel officers of ARL Libraries. D . KAYE G a p e n is the new assistant director for technical services at the Iowa State University Library in Ames. She was previously the head of quick editing and a member of the library faculty at The Ohio State University, Col­ umbus. At Ohio State, she supervised monographic searching and cataloging utilizing both the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) and the pio­ neering university’s li­ brary control systems. She chaired the OSU Libraries Task Force on D. Kaye Gapen the Change-Over to an On-Line Catalog, the Faculty Advisory Commit­ tee on Research, and the Flow of Materials Im­ plementation Committee and served as a member of the faculty committees on University-Wide Elections and Benefits, Privileges and Respon­ sibilities. In 1974-75 she was president of the OSU library staff association, a member of the search committee for the director of OSU Librar­ ies (1976), and was an alternate to the OSU Fac­ ulty Senate. During 1975-77 she was a learning consultant to represent Libraries on the Univer­ sity Task Force on Learning. In 1971-72 she was a general cataloger at the Earl Greg Swem Library, 78 College o f W illiam and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Gapen has been a continuing speaker at the Kent State University institutes on the effective use of OCLC and has been a consultant to SOL­ INET and Field Enterprises. She has also been an advisor to the OCLC P eer Council and a number of other OCLC committees. She has been actively involved in research, notably in the areas of cost analysis o f com­ puterized cataloging systems, on attitudes in­ volved in booktheft, and on library faculty re­ search methodology. Her writings have or will soon appear in the Jo u rn al o f Academic L ib rar­ ianship, the O hio L ib ra ry Association Bulletin, C o lleg e a n d R e s e a r c h L ib r a r ie s , L ib r a r y R e­ sources & Technical Services, and as a chapter in a forthcoming book tentatively titled OCLC: Its Im pact on Librarianship. Gapen is a member of both the Ohio and Iowa Library associations, American Library Associa­ tion, ASIS, AAUP, and the Academic Library As­ sociations of Ohio. She holds the master’s degree in library science from the University of Wash­ ington, and her undergraduate work was also done at Washington, with major studies in sociol­ ogy- APPOINTMENTS J e a n n e B u c k l e y — circulation librarian— C o l l e g e o f W i l l i a m a n d M a r y , Williamsburg, Virginia. THOMAS J . D a n i SIE W IC Z —administrative as­ sistant to the university librarian— BOSTON UNI­ V ER SITY , Massachusetts. B E T T Y B . D a v i s — technical services librar­ ian— SALEM C O L L E G E , Winston-Salem, North Carolina. M a r y E l i z a b e t h F e e n e y —librarian, Medi­ cal Library— Y A LE U N IV E R S IT Y , New Haven, Connecticut. R a l p h A. G a b b a r d — monographic acquisi­ tions librarian— S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y O F N e w Y o r k a t B i n g h a m t o n . R o b e r t S. G o r i n — evening librarian— S t a t e Un i v e r s i t y o f N e w Y o r k a t St o n y B r o o k . BA RBA RA C. GOVON I— assistant documents librarian, reference departments—Y A L E U N I­ V ER SIT Y , New Haven, Connecticut. V A LE R IE A. H E IN E — technical services librar­ ian, Norris Medical Library— U N IV E R SIT Y O F S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a H e a l t h S c i e n c e s C a m p u s , Los Angeles. L O U IS A. H i e b — head, special collections — U n i v e r s i t y o f Ar i z o n a , Tucson. R a n d a l l C. J i m e r s o n — archivist, historical manuscripts and archives— YA LE U N IV ER SIT Y , New Haven, Connecticut. E L A IN E K . K E L L Y — head, library support systems— F l o r i d a A t l a n t i c U n i v e r s i t y , Boca Raton. L e s l i e KONG— a s s is ta n t so c ia l s c ie n c e an d b u s in e s s a d m in is tr a t io n r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i a n — C a l i f o r n i a St a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Sacram en to . D ELM A S W . M O O R E— assistant reference li­ brarian— C o l l e g e o f W i l l i a m a n d M a r y , Williamsburg, Virginia. An n C. N EW H ALL—archivist, historical man­ uscripts and archives—Y a l e UN IV ERSITY, New Haven, Connecticut. M a r t h a R u d y k —cataloger, Slavic cataloging division—Y a l e U N IV ER SIT Y , New Haven, Con­ necticut. J U D I T H R y C O M B E L — assistant referen ce librarian— D e P a u l U n i v e r s i t y , Chicago, Illi­ nois. G l o r i a D . S c h w a r t z —librarian, W. Palm Beach Center— F l o r i d a A t l a n t i c U n i v e r ­ s i t y , Boca Raton. D OROTH Y M. S h a v e r — assistant director for administration— W ASHINGTON S T A T E U N IV ER­ SIT Y , Pullman. M e r r i l y E . T a y l o r —special assistant to the university librarian—Y A L E U N IV E R SIT Y , New Haven, Connecticut. G r E T C H E N W A L C H — head, African Studies Library— BOSTON U N IV ER SIT Y , Massachusetts. D A N IE L K . W A L S H — reference librarian— BOSTON U N IV ER SITY, Massachusetts. RETIREMENTS D o n a l d M . P o w e l l , head, special collec­ tions, U n i v e r s i t y o f A r i z o n a , Tucson, has retired after thirty-one years of service to the university library. W a n d a K e l l a r S i v e l l s , director of the J. M. Hodges Learning C e n te r at W H A R T O N C o u n t y J u n i o r C o l l e g e , Wharton, Texas, retired on August 31, 1977. DEATHS E s t h e r G r e e n e , librarian emeritus of B a r ­ n a r d C O L L E G E , died on December 26, 1977. From 1944 until her retirement in 1967, she was the head librarian of Barnard College. Freeb ie s for the Faculty We have received a letter from a librarian telling us that a specialty publisher has sent faculty members an announcement of forth­ coming publications, including a statement that the faculty member will receive a free copy of each title ordered by the college li­ brary. Apart from the mechanics of the offer (what if two faculty members ask the library to ord er the title and only one copy is ordered— do we cut the freebie in half?), there do seem to be ethical questions in­ volved. Our correspondent hopes that librar­ ies will be made aware of this strategem.— J.V .C . ____ ______