ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 173 People PROFILES Alphonse F. Trezza is leaving his post as ex­ ecutive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) tc direct a study of federal lib rary reso u rces and services. T he study, jo in tly sponsored by NCLIS and the Library' of C ongress, will be funded by NCLIS and carried out w ithin the fram ew ork of th e F ederal Library Com­ m ittee, w hose secre­ tariat is in the Library of Congress. Trezza, who is leav­ ing the Commission on Alphonse F. Trezza June 30, has b een NCLIS executive director since 1975. He served as director of the Illinois State Library from 1970 to 1975, ALA associate executive director for administrative services from 1967 to 1970, and ALA associate executive director and executive secretary of the Library Administrative Division from 1960 to 1967. He was executive director of the Catholic Library Association from 1956 to 1960. From 1945 to 1956 Trezza held library posi­ tions at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Villano- va University, and the University of Pennsyl­ vania, where he was head of the Circulation D e­ partment from 1950 to 1956. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he holds a library certificate from Drexel Uni­ versity and an M.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a lecturer in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sci­ ence at Catholic University since 1975. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Harold Billings, director of General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin, has been elected chair of the Council of Academic Re­ search Libraries in AMIGOS. AMIGOS, an orga­ nization of more than 100 libraries in the South­ west, provides computer-based library services. The Council of Academic Research Libraries is a newly established consortium of twelve major academic libraries. Evan Ira Farber, librarian of Earlham Col­ lege, Richmond, Indiana, and past president of ACRL, received an honorary degree from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, on June 1 for his leadership in the field of librar- ianship. Laura Gutierrez-Witt, head librarian at the University of Texas Benson Latin American Col­ lection, is vice-president and president-elect of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). Irving M. Klempner, professor at the School of Library and Information Science, State Uni­ versity of New York at Albany, has been selected to receive the 1980 Professional Award of the Special Libraries Association. Marcus A. McCorison, director and librarian of the American Antiquarian Society was elected president of the Bibliographic Society of America at its annual meeting on January 25 in New York City. Robert B. Palmer, director of the Barnard College Library, Columbia University, New York City, since 1967, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to Kathmandu, Nepal, for the fall semester of 1980. He will serve as a library consultant/ adviser at Tribhuvan University. APPOINTMENTS Patricia Ackerman has been appointed to the position of archivist in the New York University Archives. Carol B. Allred has been appointed assistant librarian for public services in the Underwood Law Library of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Benjamin T. Amata has accepted a temporary appointment as assistant librarian, Government Documents Department, University of California, Berkeley. Stephen Babich has been appointed to the position of cataloger at State University of New York College at Purchase. John S. Baky, formerly principal editor of The Early English Newspaper Collection, 1622-1820, published by Research Publication, Inc., has been appointed collection development librarian, David Leo Lawrence Memorial Library, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Susan Baughman has been appointed assistant librarian for program coordination in the Gutman Library, Harvard University. David P. Becker, assistant curator in the De­ partm ent of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, has been awarded a Chesterdale Fellowship in the Depart­ ment of Prints and Photographs of the Metropoli­ tan Museum of Art in New York City. Peter Berry has been named reference librar­ 174 ian and book selector in th e Scandinavian lan­ guages in the New York Public Library. Teri L. Blasko has begun work as assistant librarian at the Altoona Campus of the Pennsylva­ nia State University. She was previously a refer­ ence librarian at the undergraduate library, State University of New York at Buffalo. Tine Brouwer has joined th e Graduate School of Management Library, University of California, Los Angeles, as associate librarian with responsi­ bilities for reference and collection developm ent/ acquisitions. Kenneth E. Carpenter has been appointed research and publications librarian in the Harvard University Library. H e has been curator of the Kress Library of Business and Economics in the Baker Library of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration since 1968. Marjorie Sylvia Carson has been appointed assistant librarian, Systems D evelopm ent D epart­ ment, Pennsylvania State University Libraries. James E. Curry is governm ent documents re­ ference librarian, instructor of bibliography, Uni­ versity of Oklahoma at Norman Libraries. Mary Dudman has been appointed architecture and fine arts librarian, Auburn University Librar­ ies, Alabama. She formerly served as order librar­ ian in the Acquisitions D epartm ent at Auburn. Calendar of ACRL/ALA Events Ju n e 24-28, 1980— ACRL R are Books and M an u scrip ts S ection, In te rn a tio n a l Rare Books Conference, Boston. June 26-28, 1980— ACRL Preconference on Designing Staff D evelopm ent Programs in Academic Libraries, New York City. June 27-28,1980— ERIC Users Preconference for Academic Libraries, New York City. June 28-July 4, 1980— ALA Annual C onfer­ ence, New York City. F ebruary 1-7, 1981—ALA M idw inter M eet­ ing, Washington, D.C. Ju n e 1981 (prior to ALA A nnual)— RBMS, BIS, & CJCLS Preconferences, San F ran­ cisco. June 28-July 4, 1981— ALA Annual C onfer­ ence, San Francisco. S e p te m b e r 3 0 -O c to b e r 3, 1981— A CRL National Conference, Minneapolis. January 21-29, 1982—ALA Midwinter M eet­ ing, Denver. July 7-17, 1982— ALA A nnual C onference, Philadelphia. January 7-14, 1983— ALA M idw inter M eet­ ing, San Antonio. June 23-July 1, 1983—ALA Annual C onfer­ ence, Los Angeles. Rocer Flynn, lectu rer, U niversity of P itts­ burgh School of Library and Information Science, has been prom oted to assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary D epartm ent of Information Sci­ ence. Tamara U. Frost, head of the Cataloging D e­ partm ent at State University of New York at Buf­ falo, has accepted th e position of ch ief of the Catalog D ep artm en t at th e Stanford University Libraries. Mary M. Gilbert is technical services refer­ ence librarian, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Pub­ lic Affairs Library, University of Texas at Austin. Christina Hanson is interlibrary service librar­ ian, University of Texas at Austin. Coy L. Harmon is associate director for tech­ nical services and associate professor of bibliogra­ phy, University of Oklahoma at Norman Librar­ ies. Robert Hauptman is humanities/fine arts ref­ erence librarian and instructor of bibliography, University of Oklahoma at Norman Libraries. Robert P. Holley has been appointed assis­ tant librarian for technical services at the Uni­ versity of Utah, Salt Lake City. H e was previous­ ly in the Catalog D epartm ent at Sterling Memo­ rial Library, Yale University. Bobby E. Holloway has been appointed assis­ tant university librarian for technical services, A uburn University Libraries, Alabama. H e was formerly director of libraries at N orthern Ken­ tucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky. Steven P. Johnson is archivist for th e New York Botanical G arden and the New York Zoo­ logical Society. Suzanne Grebe Kemple has been appointed reference librarian in the Hilles Library, Harvard University. She goes to Harvard from Pine Man­ or College, w here she has been reference librar­ ian. Norma G. Kobzina has been appointed assist­ ant librarian, Agriculture Library, University of California, Berkeley. Yvonne Kozlowski has been prom oted to head of the Social Sciences D epartm ent, Auburn Uni­ versity libraries. She was Architecture and Fine Arts Librarian at Auburn. Gary Kraske, assistant to the dean and senior lib rarian at In d ian a S tate U niversity in T erre Haute, has been named assistant to the director for Planning and Budget, University of Maryland, College Park. Lee W, Leighton, assistant for administration in the Cataloging and Processing D epartm ent of the College Library and head of the shelflisting section, has been appointed head of cataloging in the Law Library, Harvard University. Linda Lohr has recently b een appointed to th e position of technical assistant in the Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Michael Lordi has been appointed coordina­ 175 tor for library services at the New School for So­ cial Research, New York City. Kathryn Massingill has been appointed refer- ence/circulation librarian at Bee County College, Beeville, Texas. Nancy McAdams has been named associate director of the Office of Planning Services, Uni­ versity of Texas at Austin. She was formerly assis­ tant director for facilities and planning in the University’s General Libraries. John M. Meador has been appointed assistant director for information and instructional services at the Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He goes to this new position from the University of Houston, Texas, where he was the head of general reference. Carolyn Miller, formerly science librarian, Ellis Library, University of Missouri, Columbia, has been appointed head of the Science Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. Evelyn A. Moore, associate professor of li­ brary science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has accepted a position as director of information services at Edgehill Newport, Inc., a new alcoholism treatm ent facility in Newport, Rhode Island. Maureen Neff, formerly special collections librarian at the Case Western Reserve University Libraries, Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed to the position of curator of Special Collections. Barbara Nelson has been appointed order librarian in the Acquisitions Department, Auburn University Libraries. She was formerly gifts and exchange librarian at Auburn. Kathryn W. Nesbit has been appointed refer­ ence lib rarian in th e F rancis A. C ountw ay Library of Medicine, Harvard University. Holly A. Phelps has been appointed cataloger for the Eighteenth C entury Short Title Catalog for North America, Middleton Library, Louisiana State University. Ralph E. Rohrer has been named assistant reference librarian, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago. Barbara Scheele has been named coordinator of on-line bibliographic searching at Brooklyn College, New York. Philip J. Schwartz is social sciences reference librarian, instructor of bibliography, University of Oklahoma at Norman Libraries. Judith C. Singleton has been appointed assis­ tant director for the Eighteenth C entury Short Title Catalog for North America, Middleton Li­ brary, Louisiana State University. Previously she was cataloging supervisor at the Lilly Library of Indiana University. Stephen Solvasky has been appointed catalog librarian at M iddlebury College, M iddlebury, Vermont. Harmon Straiton has been appointed micro­ forms and government documents librarian, Au­ burn University Libraries, Alabama. Richard Teller is assistant reference librar­ ian, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecti­ cut. Joanna Tousley-Escalante is serials cataloger, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin. Robert S. Treppa is assistant to the staff and fiscal services librarian, University of Texas at Au­ stin. Nancy J. Van Cleve is serials cataloger, Uni­ versity of Texas at Austin. Guy T. Westmoreland, Jr., is reference and data services librarian, G eneral Reference D e­ partment, Stanford University. He was previously co o rd in ato r of co m p u ter search services and general reference librarian at Northwestern Uni­ versity. Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., has joined the library faculty as affiliate librarian, reference librarian for Rare Books and Special C ollections, Lilly Li­ brary, University of Indiana, Bloomington. Linda F. Williams is assistant serials librarian, University of Texas at Austin. Billie Ruth Wood has been appointed gifts and exchange librarian, Auburn University Li­ braries, Alabama. Blanche Woolls, associate professor, U ni­ versity of Pittsburgh School of Library and In­ formation Science, has been prom oted to the rank of professor in the D epartm ent of Library Science. Jeanette Yackle, formerly a reference librar­ ian at the University of Alabama Law School has b een ap p o in ted to th e position o f referen ce librarian at the University of Texas Law School Library (Tarlton Law Library). Yackle received both her library and law degrees from the Uni­ versity of Alabama and is a member of the Alaba­ ma Bar. RETIREMENTS Benjamin A. Custer, editor and chief of the Decimal Classification Division at the library of C ongress since 1956 has re tire d after almost tw enty-seven years of federal service. C uster presided over the publication of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth editions of the Dewey Decimal Classifications. In 1959 he was the recipient of the Melvil Dewey Award for creative professional achievement. Wendell Simons, associate university librar­ ian, University of California, Santa Cruz, has re­ tired after thirty years of service at the University of California. But, “his is really not retirem ent,” says Santa Cruz Librarian Emeritus Donald C. Davidson, “for he left immediately to take on the task of developing the library for Judson Baptist College in Oregon, a two-year college beginning to evolve into a planned four-year college. In his own words: On to smaller and better things.' ” If you think that retrospective conversion is a long way down the road . . . The REMARC Database The MARC program has enabled librarians everywhere to benefit from access to about one-sixth of L C s total cataloging efforts. REMARC offers access to the remaining five-sixths. You know the contents of the more than one million MARC records. Here’s what the more than five million REMARC records will contain: pre-1968 materials in all languages. 1968-1971 materials in all languages other than English, 1972- 1973 materials in all languages other than English and French, 1973- 1974 materials in all languages other than English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and, 1975-1978 materials in all languages using other than the Roman alphabet. Libraries, service bureaus, and other customers will receive “ hit" records (which match libraries' holdings) on a quarterly basis beginning October, 1980. Production will proceed at a rate of some 1.4 million records per year until the scheduled completion date in 1984. The main database covers all LC records cataloged prior to December 31, 1978 Annual supplements will update the collection. The records will be offered online via established telecommunications services, and offline on magnetic tape, COM, computer printout, and catalog cards. They may be purchased directly from Carrollton Press or indirectly through service bureaus networks, or circulation control systems contractors. for your library . . . now is the time to Find out how far THE REMARC DATABASE can take you. You may want to start soon er. The REMARC Record REMARC records are designed for use in both online catalogs and circulation control/ILL systems. Although it will not contain all of the detailed data in a full MARC record, the REMARC record will include the following items in MARC format: complete main entry; including author’s dates and other descriptors; full title up to the first major punctuation; edition statement; place of publication; publisher; date of publication; designation of transliterated entries; full tracings, including subject, series, title, and author added entries (each tagged separately); complete LC call number (including brackets and suffixes); the full LC card number; and finally, the most common diacritical marks will be included on main entries, titles, and tracings (for printout on equipment with appropriate character sets). In the case of non-Roman records, only those fields which have been transliterated will be included. In offline retrospective conversion projects, the price per record will vary with the size of the collection and with the method of identifying the non-MARC records to be converted. In most cases however, this price should not exceed fifty cents per “ hit” (the transfer of the REMARC record (on magnetic tape) to a library or its service bureau for use within a specified constituency). The prices for abbreviated records and offline printouts should be even lower. Carrollton Press, Inc., 1911 Ft. Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22209 (703) 525-5940 Please visit us at Booth 2818 at the 1980 ALA Annual Meeting 178 DEATHS Martha Marie Berhel, director of the library, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Flor­ ida, died March 25. She had served as director at B e t h u n e - C o o k m a n since 1942. Berhel earned a B.S. d eg ree in 1936 from S outhern M ethodist U niversity and a B .S .L .S . d eg ree in 1937 from the Hampton In s titu te . She began h e r library ca re e r as assistant librarian and librarian of the Demon­ stration High School at S outhern U niversity. She la te r served as Martha Marie Berhel head lib rarian at E d­ ward Waters College, Jacksonville, Florida, for two years until her appointment as library direc­ tor at Bethune-Cookman. She has served as an instructor of library sci­ ence for state certification in Louisiana, partici­ pated as a member of more than seventy-five eva­ luation teams for the Southern Association of Col­ leges and Schools, taught at Grambling College in Louisiana, and helped to organize libraries in Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Florida. Richard Blackwell, chairman of B. H. Black- well, L td., and a director of Blackwell North American, Inc., of Portland, Oregon, died of can­ cer on February 26 in Oxford, England. He was sixty-two years old. Educated at Winchester and New College, Ox­ ford, which he left to enter the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War II, he joined the family business in 1946, becoming managing director twenty years later, and chairman in 1969. Richard Blackwell was the architect of B. H. Blackwell’s postwar expansion, notably overseas. Perhaps the most significant growth nurtured by him involved the opportunities offered by the bankruptcy of the Richard Abel library supply business which he rescued and converted into Blackwell North American, Inc. ■■ S A L ARY GAINS RECORDED FOR ARL LIBRARIANS The salaries of professional staff at ninety-seven university libraries showed a 4.2 percent increase in real purchasing power in 1978-79, according to the ARL Annual Salary Survey, 1978-1979 conducted by the Association of Research Librar­ ies (ARL). That is the good news. The bad news is that the Survey is projecting a 5.1 percent decline in the purchasing power of ARL professionals in 1979- 80. The median professional salary earned by ARL university librarians in 1979-80 is $18,910. The median starting professional salary is $12,000. The equivalent figures for 1978-79 were $17,869 and $11,450. A median figure, of course, is a midpoint—half of the salaries lie above the mid­ point and half are below. The average salary recorded by the Survey for university lib rary d irecto rs in 1979-80 was $43,890. For associate directors the average sal­ ary was $34,008. Subject specialists averaged $19,575. Reference department heads earned an average salary of $21,961. W hat institutions paid the highest median salaries? Five C anadian U niversity libraries and five University of California Libraries made up the top ten. The University of California, San­ ta Barbara, was number one with a top median professional salary of $26,500. In general, libra­ rians in the West Coast region earn more than li­ brarians from o ther regions, and librarians at public institutions tend to earn more than their counterparts at private institutions. ■■