ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 311 People P R O F I L E S J o h n G. H a l l , director of Southern Meth­ odist University’s Fondren Library for the past four years, has been named director of SMU’s Central University Libraries. The appointment consolidates administrative responsibility for Fondren Library and its de­ partmental collections, the Science/Engineer­ ing Library, and the processing services division of the Central Libraries. Only Bridwell Library of Perkins School of Theology and the SMU Law School’s Under­ wood Library remain separate. “This action puts us in a better position to plan and to employ all our resources more ef­ fectively,” Hall said. Devertt Bickston, director of SMU Indus­ trial Information Services ( I I S ) ‚ has assumed the additional duties of Science/Engineering librarian. “The IIS director’s intensive use of the Sci­ ence/Engineering Library to serve the needs of North Texas business and industry during the past eight years has prepared him well to serve SMU students and faculty,” Hall added. “W e intend our emphasis to be on service and access to library materials— wherever found,” he said. H a R r y B o o n s t r a , Ph.D., has been named director of libraries and associate professor of library science at Hope College, according to David G. Marker, Hope College Provost. Boonstra, 41, was bom in The Nether­ lands and is a Cana­ dian citizen with per­ manent U.S. residence status. He is a graduate of Calvin College, where he majored in Eng­ lish. He received the M.A. degree in Eng­ lish from Northwest­ Harry Boonstra ern University in 1963 and the M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1967. Boonstra holds the Ph.D. in English from Loyola University, Chicago ( 1 9 7 3 ). His dis­ sertation topic was “T . S. Eliot and The Nether­ lands; The Critical Reception, A Dutch Parallel and the Translations.” Prior to his appointment at Hope, Boonstra served as associate professor of English at Cov­ enant College, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee (1 9 7 5 -7 7 ); staff writer/editor for the Summer Institute of Linguistics (W ycliffe Bible Trans­ lators), Peru (1 9 7 3 -7 5 ); director of library and English instructor at Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois ( 1 9 6 3 -7 1 ), and as librari­ an and English teacher at South Christian High School, Cutlerville, Michigan ( 1 9 6 0 -6 3 ). He also served in a part-time position teaching English as a foreign language in The Hague, The Netherlands, from 1971-73. Boonstra has published articles in T h e R e­ fo r m e d Journal, Christian Scholar’s R eview , and T h e W ittenbu rg Door. He and his wife Thelma Jean have three daughters: Jeanne 16, Anne 14, and Sarah 11. D o n L. B o s s e a u has been named as the new university librarian at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. The appointment, effective in September, was an­ nounced by Chancel­ lor Douglas S. Yama- mura following action by the board of re­ gents. Bosseau has been, for the past four years, director of li­ braries at Emory Uni­ versity in Atlanta. He has held several other positions in academ­ ic libraries, including D on L . B osseau the directorship at the University of Texas at E l Paso. At the University of California, San Diego, he was head of the systems group from 1966 through 1969 and was promoted in 1970 to assistant university librarian for public ser­ vices (Central University Library) and budget­ ing, a position he held until moving to UTEP in the fall of 1972. Holding undergraduate and graduate degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State Uni­ versity and the University of Kansas, Bosseau worked for seven years in the areas of experi­ mental and theoretical reactor physics. In 1965 he took an assignment in the Technical Infor­ mation Center of General Atomic Nuclear Labs in San Diego before attending the University of Hawaii and earning his M LS degree in 1966. He was a recipient of an Atomic Energy Com­ mission Graduate Fellowship in Radiological Physics in 1960. Bosseau, active in a number of library associ- 312 ations, has been a member of the American L i­ brary Association, ASIS, the Border Regional Library Association, the Georgia Library Asso­ ciation, and the Southeastern Library Associa­ tion and has served in various capacities on a number of committees in these organizations. Since 1972 he has served as editor of the Journal o f L ibrary Automation— T echn ical Communications. He currently serves on the Association of Research Libraries Task Force on Membership Criteria. Bosseau has written and lectured on automated serials systems and, more recently, on COM applications. Bosseau succeeds Stan West, who has retired as head of the 1.6 million-volume library, which supports more than 20,000 students and varied academic and research programs. W i l l i a m J . K i r w a n , director of library ser­ vices at the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies, has been named librarian of Hunter Memorial Library at Western Carolina Univer­ sity (W C U ). The appointment, effective August 1, 1977, has been announced by W CU Chancellor H. F. Robinson. Kirwan is the former director of Loyola- Notre Dame Library Inc., in Baltimore, where he supervised the merger of separate libraries at the two institutions and helped plan a new facility for the combined library. His duties will include directing all functions of the WCU library, which contains some 254,000 bound volumes and more than 100,000 additional microfilm reels, microform units, and government documents. The library staff in­ cludes eleven faculty members and twenty-four other employees. Kirwan is a member of the steering commit­ tee of the West Virginia Library Resources Ad­ visory Board, the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research L i­ braries, the Southeastern Library Association, and the West Virginia Library Association. He holds the bachelor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University and the master’s degree in library science from Drexel University and is a graduate of the library administrators de­ velopment program at the University of Mary­ land. The appointment of A. J o h n L i n f o r d of the State University of New York as director of the New England Library Information Network (N E L IN E T ) was announced on June 15, 1977, by Alan Ferguson, executive director of the New England Board of Higher Education. N ELIN ET, established by NEBHE in 1968, is the first multistate library network specifical­ ly organized to provide computerized services on a cooperative basis. The membership in­ cludes state library agencies, public and private academic libraries, public libraries, and special research libraries and institutions. Sixty-seven New England libraries participate in the N E LIN ET program, which serves, including consortia and branch affiliations, 117 libraries. Before assuming the N E LIN ET directorship, Linford served as assistant director for Library Systems Development at the State University of New York at Albany, where he was instru­ mental in replicating an automated library cir­ culation system modeled upon the one he had helped develop at the Ohio State University. Linford is a graduate of Utah State University and received a master’s degree in library sci­ ence from Western Reserve University, Cleve­ land, Ohio.— M IT L ibrary N otes APPOINTMENTS R i c h a r d G . A k e r o y d —program planning team— N a t i o n a l C o m m i s s i o n o n L i b r a r i e s a n d I n f o r m a t i o n S c i e n c e , Washington, D . C . S a m u e l L . A t m o r e —audio-visual librarian — C o l b y C o l l e g e , Waterville, Maine. B i l l i e A u l — interlibrary loan librarian— S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y C o l l e g e , Geneseo, New York. J o h n B e r l i n g —dean of learning resources and library and audiovisual education— S t . C l o u d S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Minnesota. W i l l i a m F . B i r d s a l l — associate director for public services— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a n i t o b a , Winnipeg. E l a i n e C h a f f i n —head of circulation— S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y C o l l e g e , Geneseo, New York. P e t e r K . C l a r k —humanities bibliographer — U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t C h i c a g o C i r c l e . R o b e r t A . D a u g h e r t y —circulation librari­ an— U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t C h i c a g o C i r ­ c l e . J a m i e K . H a r r i s o n —head serials librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h F l o r i d a , Tampa. D e a n e W . H i l l —director of the library— A r y a - M e h r U n i v e r s i t y o f T e c h n o l o g y , Is­ fahan, Iran. C y n t h i a W . L a G o n —assistant reference li­ brarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t C h i c a g o C i r c l e . H u g h C . L a r i m e r — reference librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a n i t o b a , Winnipeg. S t e p h e n M a c L e o d — reference librarian and bibliographer— C l a r e m o n t C o l l e g e s , Clare­ mont, California. W i l l i a m D . M a t h e w s —staff associate for information technology— N a t i o n a l C o m m i s ­ s i o n o n L i b r a r i e s a n d I n f o r m a t i o n S c i e n c e , Washington, D.C. L a u r e l M i n o t t — assistant reference librari­ an— P e n n s y l v a n i a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Univer­ sity Park. 313 L i n d a M u r p h y — assistant law librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e , Knoxville. D a n i e l F r a n k P h e l a n — reference librarian — U n i v e r s i t y o f M a n γ γ o h a , Winnipeg. L i n d a L . P h i l l i p s — head undergraduate reference librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e , Knoxville. R i c h a r d C. P o l l a r d — associate director of libraries for technical services— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e , Knoxville. D a n i e l L . R e a m —undergraduate reference librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e , Knox­ ville. R e d d y R o d d a —reference and special proj­ ects librarian, Sears Library— C a s e W e s t e r n R e s e r v e U n i v e r s i t y , Cleveland, Ohio. R o r e r t G. S k i n n e r — music librarian— S o u t h e r n M e t h o d i s t U n i v e r s i t y , Dallas, Texas. C a r o l S t e e r —original cataloger— U n i v e r ­ s i t y o f M a n i t o b a , Winnipeg. S u z a n n e S t r i e d i e c k —head serials librarian — P e n n s y l v a n i a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , University Park. S t e p h e n E. W i h e r l e y — assistant reference librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t C h i c a g o C i r c l e . B a r d i e C . W o l f e — head law librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e , Knoxville. M a r n a J o Y o u n g — administrative services librarian— W i c h i t a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Kan­ sas. J o a n Z e n a n — medical librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f N e v a d a , Reno. Publications N O T I C E S • A new publication for library instruction was recently published by the Academic L i­ brary of St. Mary’s University of San Antonio. Entitled Introduction to B ib liography: A H an d b o o k , this 100-page book, tailored for a university collection of moderate size, is the basic text for the one-hour, individualized- instruction course being conducted by the aca­ demic librarians at St. Mary’s University. The H an d bo ok was adapted from the handbook of University of California, Davis, Shield Library. Extensive revisions of such units as government documents and serials, and the addition of two units, “Our Heritage in Books and Libraries” and “Media,” have expanded the H an d b o ok to fulfill the goals of the St. Mary Academic L i­ brary instruction program. The basic goals for the library instruction program are to develop an awareness of the purpose of the college library and its variety and dimensions of learning resources, to devel­ op skill in systematic research methodology, and to become confident in using libraries. Cost of the new publication is $6.50. Pay­ ment must accompany request and be made payable to St. Mary’s University Bookstore. Mail to Instruction Librarian, St. Mary’s Uni­ versity, One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, T X 78284. • The Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials has recently pub­ lished L atin A m erican P ublications A vailable b y G ift or E xchan ge, Part I, compiled and edit­ ed by Marilyn P. Whitmore. Part I includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the coun­ tries of Central America. Cost of the publica­ tion is $4.00. Remittance must accompany order and be made payable to SALALM. Mail to SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin Ameri­ can Collection, SRH 1.108, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, T X 78712. Those sending payment along with their orders should add $.50 per title for handling and postage. • The new A m erican N ational Standard fo r B ib liog rap h ic R eferen ces, Z39.39-1977 is now available. The standard’s rules for the selection, sequence, and punctuation of bibliographic ele­ ments simplifies the task of preparing consistent human-readable references to both print and nonprint informational material. These same rules and guidelines also aid users of biblio­ graphic references to differentiate between vari­ ous works and retrieve needed material. Assistance in applying the standard’s recom­ mendations is provided in a fifty-page appen­ dix. It contains examples of references to all types of informational material covered by the standard— books, journal and newspaper arti­ cles, reports, proceedings, patents, laws, manu­ scripts, maps, printed music, films, sound recordings, microforms, and computer pro­ grams. The price for one to nine copies is $11.50 each. Apply for prices if purchased in larger quantities. Please order from American Nation­ al Standards Institute, Inc., 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018. • The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (A G B ) has published an index to articles in AG B R eports in 1975 and 1976. It is available to members for $1.50 each ($1.00 each for ten or more copies) and to nonmembers for $3.00 each ($2.00 each for