ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 10 People PROFILES Shirley Echelman has been appointed execu­ tive director of the Association of Research Li­ braries, W ashington, D .C ., effective May 15. Echelman has been ex­ ecutive director of the Medical Library Asso­ ciation since 1979 and was p resid en t of the Special Libraries Asso­ ciation in 1977-78. She has also served in many o th er capacities for SLA, including chair of the Division Cabinet, division liaison officer, John Cotton Dana lec­ turer, and chair of the Shirley Echelman Special Com m ittee on Copyright Law Practice and Implementation. From 1966 to 1978 Echelm an was assistant vice-president and chief librarian of the Chemical Bank in New York City. She participated in the W hite H ouse Conference on Library and In­ formation Services as a member of the Advisory Committee and has written a chapter on the con­ ference for the 1980 ALA Yearbook. Eleanor Adams Gustafson, associate college librarian at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has been appointed librarian of the college. A 1946 graduate of Simmons College, Gustafson re­ ceived her MLS in 1964 from Colum bia U niversity’s School of Library Service. Alter graduating from Simmons, Gustafson was a cataloger at the Bryn Mawr College Library until 1948 when she came to W ellesley in the same capacity. Since that time she has served M. J. Ertman as senior cataloger, as­ Eleanor Gustafson sociate librarian for technical services, and associate college librarian. She actively participated in the 1956 and 1975 ren­ ovation projects of the library and planned and trained personnel for the online cataloging system in the library in 1973. Gustafson served a three-vear term as member- at-large of the Cataloging and Classification Sec­ tion of ALA’s Resources and Technical Services Division, and has also been president of the New England Technical Services Librarians. She was recently a member of the Boston Library Consor­ tium Program Committee and a member of the Visiting Committee of the Boston Public Library Research Library Catalog Project. Redmond Kathleen Molz, has been named Melvil Dewey professor of library service at Columbia University. The Dewey professorship, the first endowed chair of librarianship in an American university, was established by Co­ lumbia in 1938 with an endowment fund from the Carnegie Corpora­ tion of New York. Molz has been pro­ fessor of library service at Columbia’s School oí Library Service since 1976. She has master’s degrees from Johns F. J. Grevin Hopkins University in R .K . Molz English and from the University of Michigan in library science, and she 11 receiv ed a d o c to ra te in lib rary science from Columbia. From 1962 to 1968 Molz edited the Wilson Library Bulletin, and later she was chief of planning staff at the Bureau of Libraries and L earning R esources of th e U .S. Office of Education. Long active in ALA, Molz recently completed a four-year term as a member of the ALA Execu­ tive Board. She was chair of the In tellectu al Freedom Committee in 1973-75 and president of the Freedom to Read Foundation in 1977-79. Her book, Federal Policy and Library Support, p u b lish e d by M IT, won th e Ralph R. Shaw Award in 1977 as the year’s most distinguished contribution to the literature of the profession. She has served on the staff of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, the Denver Public Li­ brary, and the Free Library of Philadelphia. OHIO UNIVERSITY HOSTS ASIAN LIBRARIANS Since 1979 Ohio University Library, Athens, has sponsored a number of librarian-interns from Asia for short-term training in American librar­ ianship. U nder the S outheast Asia L ibrarian- Intern Program, Pampimon Koonlaboon, a library science faculty member from Chulalongkorn Uni­ versity, Bangkok, Thailand, spent three months interning in the Southeast Asia Collection of Ohio University Library from August to October, 1979. She was followed by Neena Swasdison, circula­ tion librarian of the Central Library, Chulalong­ korn University, who spent six months from May to October, 1980. Both interns were given the opportunity to learn m odern management con­ cepts, library automation and networking, OCLC systems, online data base searching and other li­ brary operations, services and procedures. At th e re q u e st of F eng Chia U niversity in Taiwan, Republic of China, a new internship for senior librarians from that country has been inau­ gurated. The first intern, King-Shan Ling, associ­ ate university librarian of Feng Chia University was at Ohio U niversity in the fall. Two other librarians from Tamkang University Library are scheduled to arrive in March. Because of the reputation of Ohio University’s internship program and its real value to Asian librarians, the United Nations Educational, Sci­ entific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has expressed an in te re s t in funding two in tern s from Southeast Asia in 1981. According to Hwa- Wei Lee, director of libraries at Ohio University, this will be th e first such program in th e United States to receive international support and recognition. Eugene Neely has been appointed head librar­ ian of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Neely has been head of public services at the General Library of th e U n iv ersity of Missouri at Kansas City for the past six years. Neely has a m asters in library science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and he received a certif­ icate in advanced librar- ianship from Columbia University in 1972. He has served as librarian for Pogan Productions Eugene Neely in New York City, and head of reference at the Public Library of Char­ lotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Neely is currently president of the Heart of America Chapter of the Special Libraries Associa­ tion. He has chaired various committees of the Statistics Section of ALA’s Library Administration and Management Association, and has authored a section of the 1980 Bowker Annual o f Library & Book Trade In fo rm a tio n dealing with library statistical activities. Besides library organization and administration, Neely lists the following areas of interest and ex­ perience: collection development; reference ser­ vices; document delivery systems; library services to the handicapped; and library services designed to enhance th e re c ru itm e n t and re te n tio n of minority and low-income students. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Josette Boisse and Barbara Van Nortwick have recently been awarded U.S. Departm ent of Education HEA Title II-B Fellowships for study in the Doctor of Arts degree program at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Informa­ tion Science, Boston. The fellowships are granted to encourage minorities and women to pursue up­ per-level m anagem ent careers. Boisse has just completed a five-year term as a council member of the American Library Association, and Van Nortwick is library d irector for the New York State Nurses Association. Judith McQueen, principal librarian in the National Library of Australia, has been appointed chief liaison librarian in North America for the National Library. She succeeds Colin Freeman, who has held that post since January, 1978, at the Australian Embassy offices in Washington, D.C. Russell J. Rowlett, Jr., editor of Chemical Abstracts since 1967, has been selected to re­ ceive the Miles Conrad Award for excellence in abstracting and indexing. Rowlett will present the Miles C onrad M em orial L e c tu re at th e 1981 12 Annual Conference of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, March 2-4, at the Crystal City Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Vir­ ginia. Raymond B. Means, lib ra ry d ire c to r at C reig h to n U n iv ersity , O m aha, has b een appointed executive secretary of the Nebraska Li­ brary Association. Means has served as president of NLA and is c u rre n tly a m em ber of ALA’s Standing Committee on Library Education. John L. Sharpe III, curator of rare books at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, has been working on a project in the library of the M onastery of St. John th e Theologian on the Greek island of Patmos in the Aegean. Sharpe has been studying the early medieval incunabula which have re ta in e d th e ir original Byzantine binding structures so that a systematic record of their manufacture may be made. Already the proj­ ect has b ro u g h t to light a th irte e n th -c e n tu ry catalogue with descriptions of the bindings within the collection. The M onastery of St. John was founded in the eleventh century by Christodu- lous, whose books formed the basis of the present library. Sharpe, who has a Ph.D in religion with emphasis in Byzantine manuscript studies from Duke University, will return to Patmos this sum­ mer to com plete research for a publication on Bvzantine bindings which is scheduled to appear in 1982. APPOINTMENTS Ross W. Atkinson has been appointed human­ ities bibliographer at N orthw estern University Library, Evanston, Illinois. Mary Ellen Baas is the new reference librar­ ian at the Medical College of Wisconsin Librar­ ies, Milwaukee. Mary S. Barnard was appointed reference li­ brarian in the Baker Library, Harvard University. Sean M. Barnett has been appointed catalog­ er in the Law School Library, Harvard University. Ann Biersteker is now Africana bibliographer in the Area Studies D epartm ent, Bird Library, Syracuse University, New York. Craig Booher has been appointed chemistry bibliographer at Syracuse U niversity Library, New York. Alice B. Brendel has been appointed bibliog­ rapher and reference librarian for business and economics at Boston University. Sue Burkholder has been named associate director of libraries, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Katharine Calhoun is now reference librarian at Georgia State University, Atlanta. Loretta Caren has been appointed science li­ brarian, Science and Engineering Library, Uni­ versity of Rochester, New York. Ann Carson is now rare book cataloger at 13 Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Is­ land. Susan J. Copeland is the new bibliographer and reference librarian for biology and chemistry at Boston University. Charlotte Corneil has been appointed head of public services at the law library of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State Univer­ sity, Baton Rouge. Edith S. Crockett is now chief of the User Com m unications Section at BIOSIS, Philadel­ phia. Crockett was formerly head of the geology and psychology libraries, Columbia University. Deborah Dawson has been appointed refer­ ence librarian and bibliographer for the physical sciences, University of Houston, Texas. Gemma DeVinney has assumed responsibilities as reference/public services librarian at the law li­ brarv of the State Universitv of New York at Buf­ falo. Melanie Dodson has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at N orthw estern University Li­ brary, Evanston, Illinois. Earnstein Dukes is the new assistant head of the catalog department, Memphis State Universi­ ty Libraries, Tennessee. Martha Eberhart has been appointed interli­ brary loan librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee. John Elsweiler has been appointed reference librarian and head of the Interlibrary Loan Unit, University of Houston, Texas. Sharon Endelman is the new serials records librarian at the University of Houston, Texas. Victoria K. Evalds has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in the African Studies Librarv, Boston University. Meryle Gaston has been appointed Near East cataloger at New York University Libraries. Jackie Glick has been appointed reference li­ brarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin Li­ braries, Milwaukee. Stuart Glogoff, form erly of Pennsylvania State University Library, is now associate librar­ ian and head of the Circulation D epartm ent at the Universitv of Delaware Librarv, Newark. Joan Grant has been appointed director of collection management, New York University Li­ braries. Ann D. Greene has been appointed associate librarian for technical services, Wellesley College Library, Massachusetts. Marsha Gross is the new geology librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Judy S. Henson has been appointed associate director for public services at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne. Pam J. Hobson has been appointed associate director for technical services at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne. Annelle Huggins has been named assistant professor and coordinator of technical services, Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee. Edward Kasinec has been appointed librarian for Slavic Collections at the University of Califor­ nia, Berkeley. Karen Kinney is now head of reference, New York University Libraries. Roberta F. Kirby has been appointed assistant librarian and cataloger at the University of South Alabama Library, Mobile. Nancy Kranich has been appointed director of administrative services, New York University Li­ braries. Joan K. Lippincott is the new chief reference lib rarian of th e G elm an L ib rary , G eorge Washington University, Washington, D.C. Stephen E. MacLeod has been appointed ref­ eren ce librarian, C ubberley Library, Stanford University, California. Joy McPherson has been appointed librarian for reference and collection development in the Kennedy School of Government Library, Harvard University. Guy Thomas Mendina joined the Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee, as assistant professor and head of the circulation department. Joanna Mitchell has been appointed technic­ al services librarian in the Science-Engineering Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illi­ nois. Patricia Morand has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Florida Librar­ ies, Gainesville. Carolyn Morgan is now instructor and bib- lio g ra p h e r/d a ta base d e v e lo p m e n t m anager, Memphis State University Libraries, Tennessee. Lee Murray was appointed public services librarian- for the Engineering and Life Sciences Librarv, Svracuse Universitv, New York. Karen Nagy is the new music cataloger and head of recorded sound services at Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois. David Naylor is now the associate law librar­ ian for public services, Syracuse U niversity, New York. Connie Nisbet has been promoted to the posi­ tion of assistant music librarian for technical ser­ vices, N orthw estern University Library, Evan­ ston, Illinois. Linda Oddan has been appointed associate director for information services, Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee. Richard D. Olson has been named art librar­ ian at N o rth w e ste rn U niversity. Olson was formerly humanities bibliographer there. Marian F. Parker has been appointed associ­ ate director and head of public services in the law library of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Jonathan Penn has been appointed assistant librarian in the reference departm ent with re­ sponsibility for interlibrary loan, University of Delaware, Newark. 14 Lance Query has been appointed personnel librarian at N orth w estern U niversity Library, Evanston, Illinois. Mary Reichel is now re fe re n c e lib rarian , Georgia State University, Atlanta. Shirley Richardson is serials project super­ visor at the University of Houston, Texas. Darel Jay Robb has been appointed associate director for collection development at the Medi­ cal College of Wisconsin Libraries, Milwaukee. Bruce T. Sajdak has been appointed assistant re fe re n c e lib ra ria n , S m ith C ollege L ib rary , Northampton, Massachusetts. Linda Searcy is the new reference librarian and bibliographer for the social sciences at the University of Houston, Texas. Donna Serafin has been appointed assistant librarian in the Serials D epartm ent, State Uni­ versity of New York at Buffalo. Joseph H. Simpson has joined the staff of the Paul M. H e b e rt Law C en ter, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, as head of technical services. Sharron A. Snyder is now an administrative analyst for the Universal Serials and Book Ex­ change, Washington, D.C. Theresa Tobin has been appointed assistant humanities librarian at the Massachusetts Insti­ tute of Technology, Cambridge. Katherine Topulos has been appointed cat- aloger at W ellesley C ollege L ib rary , M as­ sachusetts. Barbara A. von Wahlde has been appointed associate director for technical services at the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor. Robert Watkins is the new serials project cat- aloger at the University of Houston, Texas. Shawn Weldon has been appointed archivist at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Phil­ adelphia. Bill Willmering is now head of the Serials Records Section at the National Library of Medi­ cine, Bethesda, Maryland. Isabel Wingerter has been appointed cata­ loger at th e Paul M. H e b e rt Law C e n te r , Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. James W. Woods has been named director of the National Medical Audiovisual C enter at the National Librarv of Medicine, Bethesda, Marv- land. Steven D. Zink has been named government publications librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno. Working libraries should work for everyone. Here’s how Gaylord m akes a good idea even better. Open your library to all your patrons, with specially designed products from Mar-Line Gaylord. Readers with impaired sight Study Carrel will welcome distortion-free Magnifying Lamps and compact Master Lens® units. The Mar-Line® Study Carrel is wheelchair- accessible and offers adjustable lighting and study surface. And wheelchair users will appreciate Mar-Line Displayers that bring periodicals, paperbacks, newspapers, cassettes and record albums within easy reach. For more inform ation see pages 62 and 63 in the new ’81-’82 Gaylord catalog or call toll-free 800-448-6160. Magnifying Lamp Unit 16 RETIREMENTS Walter C. HAxMNER, special projects officer for the director and acting head of circulation ser­ vices at th e U niversity of M aryland, College Park, will retire on February 1 after 17 years of service. June I. Hicks retired in September as associate director for reader services, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, after 19 years of ser­ vice. Harriet C. Jameson has retired as head of rare books and special collections at the Universi­ ty of M ichigan L ibrary, Ann Arbor. She has served the library at Michigan for 25 years. George Jones, lib rarian of the D arlington Memorial Library at the University of Pittsburgh, retired on September 30. Ann Day McDermott is retiring as head of the Special Collections Department, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. William B. Meredith, associate director for technical services, retired on July 1 after 24 years of service at Dartmouth College. Julian G. Michel retired on September 30 as special projects librarian at the University of Cali­ fornia-Berkeley’s Collection Development Office and General Reference Desk. Michel had also held the position of assistant university librarian at Berkeley. Stephen Shou, head of the social sciences, humanities and business reference departm ent at Oregon State University, Corvallis, has retired af­ ter 28 years of service. Robert D. Stevens, copyright collections coor­ dinator at the Library of Congress, retired on Au­ gust 15 after 25 years of federal service. DEATHS Paul R. Byrne, former director of libraries at the University of Notre Dame, died on Novem­ ber 2 at the age of 91. He served as director from 1922 to 1952 and under his tenure the number of volumes increased tenfold to 300,000. Phillip Greer, re fe re n c e lib rarian at th e U n d e rg ra d u a te L ib rary , In d ia n a U n iv ersity , Bloomington, died suddenly on October 9. William R. Morgan, head of libraries at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Uni­ versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, died on June 15. Jacqueline D. Sisson, head of the fine arts li­ brary and professor of library administration at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, died on O ctober 29 after a long illness. Sisson was responsible for the developm ent of Ohio State’s library research collections in the fine arts over a 34-year career and was the first librarian honored by the university with its Distinguished Service Award. Helen Morison Worden, form er associate university librarian at the U niversity of Cali­ fornia, Berkeley, died on October 20. W orden’s last major building project was the Moffitt Under­ graduate Library for which she received the uni­ versity’s Berkeley Citation in 1970. CLR EXPANDS PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM The Council on Library Resources (CLR) has received a grant of $650,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to meet some of the costs of extending CLR’s program of professional educa­ tion and training. Using a variety of m ethods, CLR will focus a tte n tio n on re c ru itin g highly qualified in d i­ viduals into the field of academic librarianship, encouraging the development of specialized pro­ fessional education programs, and providing addi­ tional opportunities for experience for academic librarians with lead ersh ip p o ten tial. Existing program s aimed at im proving library m anage­ ment, such as the Academic Library Management Intern Program, will continue. In addition, CLR will work to identify the most pressing questions in librarianship, about which more information is needed. Expansion of current programs is intended to make possible a broad look at all aspects of pro­ fessional education and supplem entary training that relate to college and research librarianship. An advisory committee, chaired by John McDon­ ald, director of libraries at the University of Con- necticut, will formulate methods, define the com­ ponents of the program, and review its progress. NEW ARL MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA ADOPTED The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) M em b ersh ip ad o p te d a new “ S ta te m e n t on Criteria for M embership’’ at its May meeting in Salt Lake City. With the adoption of the new criteria, the moratorium on applications for ARL membership was lifted. Developed to help maintain the common focus of the association, the new criteria cover both academic and nonacademic libraries, and incor­ porate the following recommendations from the ARL Board of Directors: 1) that ARL be primarily an association of research libraries; 2) that non- academic research libraries be considered by in­ vitation only, with consideration of how they would contribute to the overall goals of ARL; and 3) that a standing m em bership com m ittee be formed which could consistently interpret non- academic library criteria over time.