ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July/August 1989 / 599 P EO P L E Profiles Judith Messerle has been named librarian of the Francis A. C ountw ay L ib rary of M edicine, H arvard University. Messerle has been the director of the Medical C enter Library at St. Louis Univer­ sity in Missouri since 1985. Before coming to St. Louis, Messerle served for eighteen years in a num ­ ber of positions at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Alton, Il­ linois, including librarian for the nursing school, director of the medical inform ation center, direc­ tor of inform ation services, director of educational resources and comm unity relations, and director of administrative services. She is past president of the M edical L ib ra ry Association and served on its board of directors for two terms. She was recently appointed to th e Biomedical L ibrary Review Com­ m ittee of the National L ibrary of Medicine. D ur­ ing her career, Messerle has belonged to a num ber of professional lib r a r ia n associations a n d has served on numerous advisory committees, includ­ ing the St. Louis Medical Librarians Association, the Illinois State L ibrary Advisory Com m ittee, the Association of Academic Health Science Library Directors, th e American Association of Medical Systems and Informatics, the University of Mis­ souri School of L ibrary and Inform ation Sciences Advisory Com m ittee, and the Advisory Group on Resource G rants to the National Library of Medi­ cine. Messerle received a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Southern Illinois University in Alton, Illinois, and an MLS from the University of Illinois, C ham ­ paign. She did post-graduate course work in medi­ cal bibliography at the University of Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago. She is the author and co­ editor of num erous articles, including most re­ cently, “Health Science Libraries: Strategies in an E ra of Changing Economics,” and “Beyond the Edge: Risk & Promise,” both in the Bulletin o f the M edical Library Association, January 1987. Thomas W . Shaughnessy, director of libraries at the University of Missouri-Columbia and profes­ sor in the School of Library and Inform ation Sci­ ence since 1982, has been appointed university li­ brarian at the University of Minnesota. Pending Regents’ approval, Shaughnessy will assume the position effective September 1, 1989. Currently, Shaughnessy manages a library system consisting of a m ain library, six branch libraries, and two storage facilities. Among his notew orthy accom­ plishments at the University of Missouri are: five li­ brary construction and renovation projects; an aw ard-w inning staff development program ; and a $600,000 NEH challenge grant to th e library for a hum anities endowm ent. Shaughnessy contributes a regular column to the Journal of Library A d m in ­ istration. Shaughnessy received his bachelor’s degree from St. Vincent College (Latrobe, Pennsylvania), an from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D . from Rutgers U niversity. E a rly in his career, Shaughnessy held appointm ents at Pennsylvania State Library, Rutgers University, and Chicago Public Library. From 1969 to 1974 he returned to Rutgers University where he served first as assistant dean of the G raduate School of Library Science and then as library director of D ana Library. From 1974 to 1978, Shaughnessy was associate dean at the University of Southern California’s School of L ibrary Science, and from 1978 to 1982 he was as­ sistant director for public services and collection developm ent a t th e U niversity of H ouston L i­ braries in Texas. People in the news C harles A. Bunge is the 1989 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus A w ard from the Library School Association of the University of Illinois G raduate School of Library and Inform ation Sci­ ence. The Distinguished Alumnus Award recog­ nizes an alum nus making an outstanding contribu­ tion to the field of library and inform ation science to the Library School Association or to the G radu­ ate School of L ibrary and Inform ation Science. Charles Bunge is being honored for his significant leadership in the field of library and information science both as a practitioner and educator. Since 1967, Bunge has been a professor of library and in­ form ation studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Al C arlson, director of learning resources at Patrick H enry Com m unity College, is one of 65 se­ lected by the League for Innovation in the Com­ m unity College for funding in its 1989 Com petition for Excellence. The com petition is co-sponsored by IBM and the American Association of Com m unity 600 / C&RL News and Junior Colleges; 250 entries w ere received from com m unity college faculty throughout the U nited States. T he college’s L earning Resource C enter will receive an IBM model 50-Z PS/2 m icro­ com puter, color m onitor, Proprinter and software. Carlson and nine other winners will receive three days of IBM train in g in th e use of Microsoft W in­ dows at C entral Piedm ont C om m unity College in C harlotte, N .C . in early June. Carlson intends to develop software to provide instruction in the cen­ ter’s services and resources. It is to be com pleted by the end of 1990. An abstract of the project will be m aintained w ith IBM and AACJC and the soft­ w are will be distributed w ith W ise-W are or an­ other low-cost m edium . In th e m eantim e Carlson w ould be interested in hearing from those w ith similar activities or ideas. His m ailing address is P. O. D raw er 5311, Martinsville, VA 24115. D avid L. E asterbrook, assistant professor and principal bibliographer in the University of Illinois at Chicago Library, has received th e 1989-90 F u l­ bright Research L ib rarian aw ard. Easterbrook has been a m em ber of th e library faculty since 1983, first as bibliographer for professional studies, and since 1986 as principal bibliographer. He has held positions previously at Indiana University and Syr­ acuse University. This aw ard, the only one of its kind in the Fulbright program , allows an Ameri­ can librarian to undertake a professional appoint­ m ent in a British research library. Beginning in Septem ber and continuing th ro u g h D ecem ber, Easterbrook w ill assume a num ber of collection de­ velopm ent responsibilities at th e L ibrary of th e School of Oriental a n d African Studies, University of London, the pre-em inent A fricana library in the U nited Kingdom a n d one of th e m ost extensive Africana collections in existence anywhere. At the same tim e Easterbrook will be continuing research on the publishing activities of Africans resident in Britain. Easterbrook has participated in a num ber of international conferences and projects in the area of African studies librarianship and was in­ vited by th e D irector G eneral of the British Library in 1985 to give a paper at a conference sponsored by the British L ibrary on the status of African studies worldwide. H e has chaired the three m ajor groups re la te d to A frican studies lib ra ria n s h ip in th e U nited States: th e Archives-Libraries Com m ittee of the African Studies Association, the Cooperative Africana Microform Project of the C enter for Re­ search Libraries, a n d ACRL’s Asian and African Section. Barbara B. F ischler, director of libraries a t In ­ diana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) in In ­ dianapolis, is the recipient of the 1989 Louise B. M axwell A w a rd , p rese n ted to a n o u tsta n d in g alum nus by th e In d ian a University School of L i­ brary and Inform ation Science (SLIS). Fischler, who holds a m aster’s degree from the school, is cur­ rently enrolled in the Specialist Degree program . She was honored for her m an y years of distin­ guished service to the profession and to SLIS. As di­ rector of libraries at IUPUI, she is currently in­ volved in a m ajor expansion of library facilities and services on th e Indianapolis cam pus, including plans for a new central library facility. As an SLIS alum na, she has served as a board m em ber and as president of the school’s Alumni Association, as a m em ber of the D ean ’s Advisory Board, and was in­ strum ental in the expansion of the SLIS program to the Indianapolis campus. Lilli Sentz, history of medicine librarian at the SU N Y /B uffalo H e a lth Sciences L i b r a r y , a n d D orothy W oodson,social sciences subject special­ ist for Lockwood Library, are the recipients of this year’s State University of N ew York a t Buffalo Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Librarian- ship, service to th e university, scholarship and p ro­ fessional growth. Lilli Sentz was credited for her ability to attra c t gifts and endowm ents for the His­ tory of M edicine Collection and working in both public and technical services modes. She was also recognized for m aking the collection accessible by creating m achine readable catalog records, com­ piling two book catalogs, and p reparing exhibits and presentations. D orothy W oodson was noted for extraordinary outreach to her clientele, for be­ ing the best inform ed person on cam pus regarding library resources on Africa, and for m aintaining th e integrity of th e collections under her charge. E lla G aines Yates, state lib rarian of Virginia, has received a Serw a A w ard from th e V irginia Com m onw ealth C hapter of th e National Coalition of 100 Black W omen. The Serwa Awards are given to people w ho have m ade outstanding contribu­ tions in business, education, science, and govern­ m ent in Virginia. The aw ards were co-sponsored by Philip Morris, U.S.A. and are a trib u te to the breadth and diversity of achievem ent am ong black wom en. The Serwa is the symbol of the Virginia C om m onw ealth C h apter of the N ational Coalition of 100 Black W om en. Serwa is a G hanaian w ord m eaning a w om an w ho possesses outstanding qual­ ities; impressive; superiority of m ind and charac­ ter; m agnanimous. Appointments (A ppointm ent notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­ pointees, and other sources. To ensure th a t your appointm ent appears, w rite to th e E ditor, ACRL, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) Bart Austhof has been appointed to the Cen­ tra l Reference Services D epartm ent at the Univer­ sity of Nebraska, Lincoln. D ana H endrix Barnekow is now the collection development lib rarian at the U ndergraduate L i­ brary of the University of Texas at Austin. JO AN Beam has been appointed social sciences and hum anities lib rarian at Colorado State Uni­ versity Libraries, F o rt Collins. Kurt A. Bodling is now assistant librarian, Jo­ July/August 1989 / 601 seph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, at the Henry Francis du Pont W inter­ thur Museum, W interthur, Delaware. D. Scott Brandt is the new associate head for collection management at the Engineering and Sci­ ence Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ ogy, Cambridge. D avid Brinkley has been appointed reference librarian in the Meriam Library at California State University, Chico. E llen Brow has been appointed Basque studies librarian at the University of Nevada-Reno L i­ brary. Bobbie Carr has been appointed associate direc­ tor of libraries, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Post­ graduate School, Monterey, California. H ugo Chapa-Guzman has joined the staff of the Benson Latin American Collection Materials C ata­ loging D epartm ent at the University of Texas at Austin. Sharon Chickanzeff has been named director of the Institute of Fine Arts Library at New York University. Robert Chipok has joined the Catalog Mainte­ nance staff at the New York University Library. F lora Cobb has been appointed science refer- ence/collection development librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacks­ burg. E laine D ay is now social science cataloger at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer­ sity, Blacksburg. Barbara R. D onnelly has been appointed ref­ erence librarian at the U.S. Naval W ar College Li­ brary, Newport, Rhode Island. D avid E nsign has been nam ed director of the University of Louisville Law Library. D oina F arkas has been appointed chair of the Acquisitions D epartm ent at the University of Flor­ ida, Gainsville. Sue F uller is now serials coordinator for the Benson Latin American Collection at the Univer­ sity of Texas at Austin. W illiam F. H afner has been named coordina­ tor of collection development and monograph ac­ quisitions at H unter Library, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. Cristina H anson has been appointed chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences General Refer­ ence D epartm ent at the University of Florida, Gainsville. Janice E. H enderson has been appointed head of technical services at City University of New York Law School at Queens College. Michael H ironymous is now reference librar­ ian at the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. David Hirsch has been appointed Jewish stud­ ies bibliographer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard P. Jasper has been named head of the acquisitions departm ent at the Em ory University General Libraries, Atlanta, Georgia. S. Katherine J ohnson has been appointed assis­ ta n t technical services librarian for Musselman Li­ brary at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. Cynthia A. Kehoe is now Balcones librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. Beth Kerr is now reference/collection librarian at the Undergraduate Library of the University of Texas at Austin. Margaret C. Landrum has been appointed co­ ordinator of library and information science con­ tinuing education at the University of Washington, Seattle. Stephen Littrell has been appointed map li­ brarian in the Reference Services Departm ent of the University of Texas at Austin. D an L uckenbill is now head of manuscripts di­ vision technical processing at the University of Cal­ ifornia Library, Los Angeles. Mark Ludwig has been appointed the BISON applications program m er at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Brian Lym has been appointed assistant librar­ ian for user services at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Susan McG lamery has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Southern Cali­ fornia Law Library, Los Angeles. L en McIver is the new reference librarian in the Curriculum Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. T homas C. Melvin has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Delaware Li­ brary, Newark. Paul D Metz has been appointed principal bib­ liographer at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. Charles J . Myers has been appointed science li­ brarian at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancas­ ter, Pennsylvania. Robert C. Myers has been named library direc­ tor at the College of Eastern U tah, Price. Leslie Navari has been appointed head of the Bibliographic Control Division, Dudley Knox Li­ brary, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Cal­ ifornia. G ail Neely has been appointed cataloger at the Catherwood Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. H olly E wan Nordheden has been appointed assistant OCLC cataloging librarian at the Univer­ sity of Illinois Library, Urbana. Mary Lynn Rice-Lively has been appointed li­ brary and information science collection librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. D avid L. Richtmyer is now a rare/non-book cataloger at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor. Tom Rohrig has appointed coordinator for ref­ erence documents at the Texas Tech University Li­ braries. J effrey Ross has been appointed cataloger at 602 / C & R L News Bobst Library, New York University. Vxveca Seymour is the new head of the Serials Departm ent at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California. R ebecca A. Barker Sorensen has been ap­ pointed associate librarian for the Michigan Infor­ mation Transfer Source (MITS) at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor. John C. Stalker has been named director of the University of Scranton’s Alum ni M emorial L i­ brary, Pennsylvania. Teri Switzer has been appointed sciences and technology librarian at the Colorado State Univer­ sity Libraries, Fort Collins. Judy Tsou is now assistant head of the Music Li­ brary at the University of California, Berkeley. Kent Underwood has been appointed music reference librarian at the New York University Li­ brary. Anne Van Camp has been appointed archivist at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Cali­ fornia. Michael W . W halon has been named associate director of th e University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Molly W hite has been appointed assistant life science librarian at the University of Texas at Aus­ tin. Virginia W hite has been named head of the Loan Division at Green Library, Stanford Univer­ sity, California. D ouglas Young has been appointed science ref­ erence/collection development librarian at Vir­ ginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. Retirements C. D onald C ook retired on June 30 as professor of library and information science at the University of Toronto after 17 years of service. He has been ap­ pointed professor emeritus. His previous positions have included appointments with the Council of O ntario Universities, C olum bia University L i­ braries, and the United Nations Library in Ge­ neva, Switzerland. He has been a member of the ALA Council, the ACRL Board of Directors, presi­ dent of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division, chair of its Cataloging and Classification Section, a member of the board of the Interna­ tional Relations Round Table, and he has served as chair or member of numerous ALA committees. He has also been head of the Technical Services Co­ ordinating Group of the Canadian Library Associ­ ation and a member of the Standing Committee of the International Federation of Library Associa­ tions and Institutions. He was founding editor of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly and has published frequently in the field of cataloging. D elbert Gratz recently retired as librarian at Bluffton College, Ohio, where he had served since 1950. He also served as the librarian of the Menno- nite Historical Library, a special collection at Bluf­ fton. During the 1963-1964 year, G ratz was chair of the library section of the Ohio College Associa­ tion. W arren B. Kuhn, dean of library services at Iowa State University, will be retiring this sum­ mer, closing out 22 years at the library’s helm and 43 years in libraries and lib ra ria n s h ip . K uhn joined the ISU faculty as director of the library in 1967 and was appointed dean in 1971. Kuhn has presided over trem en ­ dous grow th in th e li­ brary system. Technol­ ogy and new services w ere p rio ritie s w hile Kuhn was dean. The li­ brary’s Media Center for audio and video m ateri­ als attracts major use as Warren B. Kuhn does th e specially d e ­ signed microforms rooms. Prior to coming to ISU, Kuhn was assistant di­ rector of libraries at Stanford University and li­ brarian of the J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library, Stanford’s separate undergraduate library. He ear­ lier served as assistant university lib ra ria n of Princeton University, where he developed the Ju­ lian Street Library, Princeton’s first residence hall library similar to H arvard’s “house” libraries. He has also been assistant head librarian at Arizona State University and has held positions at the Uni­ versity of New Mexico and the New York Public Li­ brary. Kuhn has held elective posts with many na­ tio n a l a n d reg io n a l associations, in clu d in g membership on ALA Council and on the board of directors of the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries. He served as president of the Midwest Regional Library Net­ w ork and the Universal Serials and Book Ex­ change, is currently on the board of trustees of the Bibliographical Center for Research, and has just completed service with the Research Libraries Ad­ visory Committee of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). He has been active in state library associations in Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ar­ izona, and California, and as a consultant to li­ braries. He has published widely in professional and popular magazines, and is a decorated veteran of World W ar II and the Korean W ar. Lucy M. Manzi retired recently from her posi­ tion as a curatorial associate in the Harvard Uni­ versity Archives, where she had principal responsi­ b ilities for c a ta lo g in g a n d b u ild in g th e H arv ard ian a collections. M anzi’s em ploym ent w ith H arvard and Radcliffe spans nearly forty years. She first came to the Radcliffe Library in July/August 1989 / 603 1950, and she served successively as a cataloger, reference librarian, and assistant librarian. In 1966 when Radcliffe L ibrary was moved to the Hilles building, she becam e assistant lib ra ria n in the Hilles L ibrary. In early 1974 she was appointed as the acting librarian of both the Hilles and Lam ont Libraries. She served in th a t position until 1977 when she joined th e staff of the University Archives as a curatorial associate. N a nette Sargent, music cataloger a t Texas Tech University, Lubbock, retired in May. L ester Smith recently retired from Founders Memorial L ibrary, N orthern Illinois University, after 16 years service. Smith was head of the H u­ manities and Behavioral Sciences D epartm ent. Deaths Robert Lewis C ollison, a reference librarian known for his m any books and articles on all as­ pects of library science, died April 10, 1989. Born in England in 1914, Collison passed the examina­ tion for election as a Fellow of the L ibrary Associa­ tion by the tim e he was 20. After W orld W ar II he took a job at the Am erican Embassy in London as reference librarian for the United States Inform a­ tion Service. W ithin two years, he had moved to the C entral Reference L ibrary in W estminster. He was invited to America on a Fulbright to the Uni­ versity of C alifornia L ib rary in Los Angeles in 1951. In 1957, Collison was one of the founding members of th e Society of Indexers, becoming its first treasurer and later, for seven years, its presi­ dent. He produced a basic guide to the subject and his Index and Indexing (1953) becam e a standard work, running to several editions. Among his other books was the standard work Library Assistance to Readers (1950), which ran to five editions, the Dic­ tionary o f Dictionaries o f English and Foreign L anguages, a n d A n E n c y lo p a e d ia o f E n cylo - paedias. He became th e BBC lib rarian in 1958 and held th a t post for ten years. In 1968 Collison came to Los Angeles to take up a perm anent post as pro­ fessor at the G raduate School of L ibrary Services at the University of California. L ater, as emeritus professor, he returned to E ngland to head the E al­ ing School of L ibrarianship, his last form al post. About this tim e he conceived his most ambitious project, a series of bibliographies, by individual countries and oceans, th a t w ould cover the entire surface of the earth. He persuaded the Oxford- based Clio Press to take this on and, as editor-in- chief, commissioned m any of the early volumes, himself contributing volumes on E ast Africa. At the tim e of his death 100 of the 160 projected vol­ umes have been published. K aren W . J acob, 52, documents librarian at Colorado State University, died May 1 of lung dis­ ease complications. Jacob was born April 30, 1937, in G reat Bend, Kansas. In 1965 she received her bachelor’s degree in E nglish from C olo­ ra d o S tate U niversity, graduating w ith highest h o n o rs. She a tte n d e d Rutgers University as an NDEA T itle II Fellow, re c e iv in g h e r MLS in 1969. She had been em ­ p lo y e d a t CSU since 1970. A m ong h e r p ro fe s ­ sio n a l a c c o m p lis h ­ m e n ts , J a c o b co­ a u th o r e d th e book C o lle c tio n D e v e lo p ­ Karen W. Jacob m en t and Acquisitions, 1970-80: A n A nnotated Bibliography w ith Irene Godden and Patricia Smith. In 1987, she was one of th e first recipients of th e R eadex/G O D O R - T/ALA C atherine J. Reynolds A w ard for her in- depth study of th e State Census D a ta Centers. She also was a m em ber of th e honorary societies Phi Beta Phi and Beta Phi Mu. She was well-known in the Colorado library com m unity through her work w ith the G overnm ent Documents R oundtable of the Colorado L ibrary Association. Robert T almadge, associate director of techni­ cal services in th e University of Illinois Library, died at his hom e in Lawrence, Kansas, on May 6. A fund in m em ory of Talm adge has been established through L ibrary Friends. Adele W hitney, on the staff of th e University of Chicago Library for 28 years and head of th e C a ta ­ loging D epartm ent from 1943-1956, died at U r­ bana, Illinois, on March 20. ■ ■ Advertiser index Book House........................................... 592 Bowker A & l........................................... 581 Bowker Electronic Publishing ............... 607 Chadwyck-Healey........................... 553,585 Data Research ..................................... 567 EBS Books ........................................... 572 Ebsco ............................................. cover 3 Institution of Electrical Engineers ......... 598 Omnigraphics ................................. cover 4 PAIS .......................................................... 575 K.G. Saur......................................... cover 2 Spires Consortium................................. 560 H.W. Wilson........................................... 604