ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 1 l l People PROFILES DR. Russell Shank, director of libraries of the Smithsonian Institution, will be the new librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles, it was an­ nounced by Chancel­ lor Charles E. Young following action by the board of regents. Dr. Shank, who will succeed Librarian Page Ackerman on July 1, is a former president of the As­ sociation of College and Research Librar­ ies and of the Infor­ mation Science and Russell Shank Automation Division of the American Li­ brary Association. Lib ranan Ackerman will retire at tne end ot June after four years as one of the few women to be head librarian at a major university. In announcing her successor, Chancellor Young said, “UCLA has one of the great re­ search collections in the nation with more than 3,500,000 volumes, and we have found a li­ brarian to match its stature.” Dr. Shank, a specialist in reader services of­ fered by large research libraries, is also well known for his work in library automation and in cooperative library services, particularly for his 1968 study, “Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information: A Program for Ac­ tion in the New York Metropolitan Area.” He has been director of libraries at the Smithsonian Institution since 1967. Previously he had been a senior lecturer and associate pro­ fessor in the Columbia University School of Library Service, an assistant university librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, and a supervising librarian for engineering and physical sciences at Columbia, as well as serv­ ing in other library posts at the Milwaukee Public Library and the Universities of Wiscon­ sin and Washington. A graduate of the University of Washington, he earned a master of business administration degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1952 and a doctor of library science degree at Co­ lumbia University in 1966. He is a member of the executive board of the American Library Association and of the board of directors of the Association of Research Li­ braries. He has also served on numerous other pro­ fessional committees, including the Task Force on a National Periodicals System of the Nation­ al Commission on Libraries and Information Science. In 1968 he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Washington School of Librarianship. Eleanor Montague, who helped form a western states library network to help libraries of all types share their resources, has been named university librarian at the University of California, Riverside, Chancellor Ivan Hinder­ aker has announced. The new UCR librarian spent the past year as director of the Western Interstate Library Changes in HEGIS-LIBGIS Forms This fall academic librarians will face several changes in the HEGIS-LIBGIS forms collecting statistical data from col­ lege and university libraries. Members of the LAD/LOMS Statistics for College and University Libraries Committee dis­ cussed the draft of the new survey form at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January. Several federal agencies have asked that new sections be added, including the National Library of Medicine, with questions on library holdings in the health sciences, and the National Agri­ cultural Library, with questions on hold­ ings in the field of agriculture. The National Commission on New Technolog­ ical Use of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) has added questions on the number of photocopies made for patrons, as well as photocopies made for and re­ ceived from other libraries. Copies made of articles from periodicals and from non­ periodical sources are to be separately recorded, and libraries are to give totals of such transactions for a typical week in 1977. A new section replaces a report for­ merly submitted separately by academic libraries— expenditures for fiscal 1976 under the College Library Resources Pro­ gram, HEA Title IIA. Libraries will receive the survey forms in late summer with return to the Nation­ al Center for Education Statistics by Oc­ tober 1. 112 Coordinating Organization (WILCO) at Boul­ der, Colorado. WILCO facilitated cooperative network development in the West, consistent with national network planning, and provided a clearinghouse and information exchange on continuing education in library and information science. Prior to joining WILCO, Montague spent seven years at Stanford University, Stanford, California, where she served as assistant man­ ager of Project BALLOTS (Bibliographic Au­ tomation of Large Library Operations Using a Time-Sharing System). She has served as head of the chemistry li­ brary at the University of Chicago, Illinois, law cataloger for the University of Chicago Law School Library, and lecturer in the Department of Librarianship, San Jose State College, San Jose, California. Montague participated in two projects initiat­ ed by the California State Library—PLAN (Public Library Automation Network) and the CLASS (California Library Authority for Sys­ tems and Services) Planning Committee. “I hope to make the UCR campus and the general community more aware of the library and its resources and services,” Montague said. “We must emphasize the need for personal con­ tact with the library user as a means to this end.” A 1964 anthropology graduate from the Uni­ versity of Chicago, she earned her M.A. at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in 1967 and her M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara, California, in 1974. A P P O IN T M E N T S Robert T. Bruns—acquisitions librarian— Boston C ollege, Chestnut Hill, Massachu­ setts. Leigh A. Chatterton—chief serials librari­ an—Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massa­ chusetts. Alice Cotten—reference historian, North Carolina Collection—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Murlin Croucher—Slavic bibliographer— University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dana C. Ellingen—cataloger—University of Tennessee, Knoxville. D ouglas Freeman—head, automated pro­ cessing department—University of Tennes­ see, Knoxville. D avid Gleim—science cataloger—Univer­ sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Laurel A. Gregory—information retrieval specialist—University of Idaho, Moscow. Mary Jane Goldthorpe—serials liaison of­ ficer—State University of New York, Al­ bany. Janice Holliday—librarian, Science and Engineering Libraries— University of Roch­ ester, New York. D ennis R. Hyatt—assistant professor, asso­ ciate law librarian—University of Oregon, Eugene. Steven L. Ifshin—instructor and head ref­ erence librarian, Health Sciences Library— University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville. Pat Kane—serials librarian, School of Med­ icine Library—Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Laura Levy—cataloger—Montclair State College, New Jersey. William B. Massa—acting archivist, School of Medicine Library—Washington Universi­ ty, St. Louis, Missouri. Katherine C. Montgomery—cataloger— University of Science and Arts of Okla­ homa, Chickasha. Patrick Finbarr O’Dwyer—serials cata­ loger—Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massa­ chusetts. Barbara O’Neill—visiting instructor, gen­ eral cataloger— University of Oregon, Eu­ gene. Karol Pekar—cataloger—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Henrietta G. Pew—cataloger— University of Idaho, Moscow. Celia Poe—map librarian—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Virginia Reeves—reference librarian—Uni­ versity of Tennessee, Knoxville. William Z. Schenck—head, acquisitions department—University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Eleanor Viviani—cataloger—Montclair State College, New Jersey. Martha Woltz—reference librarian—Uni­ versity of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha. RETIREMENTS Alice Taylor Moynahan has retired as business librarian of the John L. Firmage Li­ brary, University of Utah libraries, Salt Lake City. Minnie P. Schaberg—head acquisitions li­ brarian at the University of North Caro­ lina, Chapel Hill, retired on June 30, 1976. Margaret Umberger—head reference li­ brarian at the State University of New York, Oneonta, has retired after thirteen years of service. DEATH Louise Mullins—retired acquisitions librari­ an at Boston University libraries died on De­ cember 25, 1976. ■■ REQUEST-A-PRINT th e most efficien t way to make your reprint requests. Why? The reason is simple. No other reprint request card we’ve ever seen— and we receive a lot of them from all over the world—incorporates all the features that make REQUEST-A-PRINT so easy to use. And so very likely to bring you that reprint.