ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries May 1991 / 331 •EPOPL E • Profiles K e n n e t h C o r Y has been appointed assistant professor in the Wayne State University library science program. Prior to joining the WSU faculty, Cory was head academic librarian at Western Montana College for 14 years. In 1985, while pur­ suing his Ph.D. in information studies at the Uni­ versity of Michigan, he was acting head of the University of Michigan’s Fine Arts Library, and for the past two years he has been involved in market­ ing document storage, retrieval, and transmission systems. His research interests include information control and cultural consequences of implement­ ing new technology. K a t h l e e n E i s e n b e i s has been appointed assis­ tant professor in the Wayne State University library science program, where she will be teaching Mas­ ter’s Essay and Research Methods and Govern­ ment Information Policy and Resources. Eisenbeis is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University o f Texas at Austin. For her dissertation she is using the Land Remote Sensing Commercialization Act o f 1984 as an example of how turning data over to the private sector affects academic research. Her preliminary findings indicate that geographers in remote sensing are no longer able to afford data from the federal government’s Landsat satellite and have changed their research interests as well as the data they use in remote sensing courses. Aca­ demic geography departments are greatly reducing their purchases and have switched to alternative types of data. Eisenbeis’s study is unique in that it attempts to measure qualitative and quantitative impacts on users of information which was previ­ ously available from the federal government. M a r y B e r c h a u s L e v e r i n g was recently named executive director of the Federal Library and In­ formation Center Committee after serving 20 months as acting executive director. Levering has held increasingly responsible positions at the Li­ brary of Congress since 1966, when she was se­ lected for the Special Recruit (now Intern) Pro­ gram in the Program for Outstanding Library School Graduates. She has a B.A. in English and education from the University of Portland, an MLS from the University o f Washington Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, and a J.D . degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was senior editor of the law journal, L aw and Policy in International Business. She is active in professional organizations and has chaired several ALA committees and ALA’s Na­ tional Library Week National Partnership Task Force. On May 1, R i c h a r d H u m e W e r k i n g joined the United States Naval Academy as librarian, associ­ ate dean, and professor of history. He succeeded Richard A. Evans, who retired after twenty-four years of service as the Academy’s librarian. Werking came to the Academy after ten years at Trinity University in San Antonio, where he served the last eight years as director of li­ braries and previously as associate director for collection development. From 1977-81 he was R ichard II. Werkinghead o f reference, assis­ tant director for refer­ ence and collection development, and acting di­ rector at the University of Mississippi Library, and from 1975-77 was a reference librarian at Law­ rence University. Earlier he spent two summers at the U.S. Department o f State in Washington, taught history at Northland College in Wisconsin, and worked as a Personnel Staffing Specialist for the U.S. Civil Service Commission. He received his B.A. from the University of Evansville, his M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin, and his M.A. in librarianship from the University of Chicago on a postdoctoral program sponsored by the Council on Library Resources. 332 / C &RL News An active m em ber of ACRL, Werktag served as chair of the College Libraries Section for 1987-88, as the first editor of the CLS Newsletter, as chair of ACRL’s continuing education committee during 1977-79, and as a m em ber of ACRL’s Publications in Libraríanship editorial board, the doctoral dis­ sertation fellowship committee, and the appoint­ ments and nominations committee. H e has been a m em ber of the board of consultants o f the National Endowment for the Humanities, and o f advisory boards for the Library Quarterly and the Texas Woman’s University Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. H e was a UCLA Senior Fellow in 1989 and is the incoming chair of O CLC ’s Advisory Com m ittee on College and University Libraries. Werktag is the author o f The Master Architects: Building the United States Foreign Service, of “Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft,” in the William and Mary Quarterly, and o f articles and essays on the history of U.S. foreign relations in Pacific Historical Review, Business History Re­ view, Diplomatic History, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Reviews in American History. His interests in bibliographic instruction, collection development, library administration, and higher education are reflected in pieces that have ap­ peared in Library Trends, Journal o f Academic Libraríanship, The Library Quarterly, Library Hi Tech, and College and Research Libraries. L a w r e n c e A. W o o d s , formerly at the universi­ ties of Notre Dame and Purdue and Dartmouth College and, most recently, with RMG Consultants as vice president and senior consultant, has been named director o f Information Systems and Tech- nology at the University of Iowa Libraries in Iowa City. H e will have administrative responsibility for all aspects of library computing. In addition, he will have administrative responsibility for the Univer­ sity Libraries’ Science Division, which includes eight science branch libraries. Woods has held leadership positions in ALA and the American Society for Information Science and has several publications on the topic of library systems. People in the news D e a n a L . A s t l e and C h a r l e s A . H a m a k e r will receive the Association for Library Collections and T echnical Services (ALCTS) Serials Section Bowker/Ulrich’s Serials Libraríanship Award at the ALA conference in Atlanta. Astle, head o f technical services at Clemson (S.C.) University, and H a­ maker, assistant director for collection develop­ m ent at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, will each receive $1,500 and a citation donated by the R.R. Bowker Company in recognition of their contributions to serials libraríanship. They are credited with focusing international attention on the pricing policies of serial publishers. L e n o r e C o r a l , music librarian at Cornell Uni­ versity, is the youngest person to have received a citation, the highest honor bestowed by the Music Library Association. Presented at the MLA m eet­ ing in February, the citation honors Coral for “dis­ tinguished service to music libraríanship,” “vigor­ ous, timely, far-reaching achievements in music bibliography and descriptive cataloging,” “highest standards of intelligence, skill, courage, and integ­ rity,” and “persistent encouragement of associa­ tions, colleagues and students.” J o a n n e R . E u s t e r , vice president for Informa­ tion Services and University Librarian at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, was named the 1990 recipient of th e Distinguished Alumnus Award from the U niversity of Washington’s Gradu­ ate School of Library and Information Science. S r. D e b o r a h H a r m e l i n g received the Distin­ guished Service Award from the Academic Library Association of Ohio, an ACRL chapter, for her years o f service to ALAO and other professional organizations. U nder her editorship, the ALAO Newsletter grew into a quarterly publication with consistent deadlines and a professional character. H . G . J o n e s , curator of the North Carolina Col­ lection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was the 1990 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service in Documentary Preser­ vation and Publication from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. A r t e m i s G. K i r k , director of libraries at Sim­ mons College in Boston, has been selected as an ALA Library/Book Fellow. H er three-m onth ap­ pointment at the Hong Kong Urban Council Public Libraries will begin in June. She will provide assis­ tance and recommendations for reference serv­ ices; advise on building and staffing for the new Central Reference Library in Hong Kong; advise and train staff in the use, selection, and procure­ m ent of American reference tools; and train staff in the use of microcomputer technology to upgrade reference services. J a n i c e K o y a m a , head of the Moffitt U nder­ graduate Library at the University of California at Berkeley, has been elected president of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American Library in May 1 991/ 3 33 San Francisco. Janice is past president of the Cali­ fornia Library Association and chair of the Univer­ sity Libraries Section of ACRL. C a r o l L e o n g , principal serials cataloger at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is on leave of absence, having been invited to set up the serials unit in the library of a newly created univer­ sity in Hong Kong. M a r g a r e t M a x w e l l , professor at the Graduate Library School of the University of Arizona, was feted at a reception in Tucson after receiving this year’s Margaret Mann Award, given by ALA for outstanding professional achievement in catalog­ ing and classification. S e n a t o r C l a i b o r n e P e l l of Rhode Island was honored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) at its February Board of Directors meeting for his many accomplishments on behalf of the libraiy and education communities. Pell played a significant role in the passage of the Higher Educa­ tion Act of 1965, the Library Services and Con­ struction Act, the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, and subsequent reauthorization of each of these pieces of legisla­ tion. His efforts to establish a national policy on permanent paper are unparalleled. Libraries and scholars have Pell to thank for increased access to individual tides in research libraries, acquisition and preservation of specialized and rare materials to enhance library collections, creation of ma­ chine-readable records as a result of Title II-C of the Higher Education Act, and many other pro­ grams that significantly benefit research and schol­ arship as well as projects in the arts and the humani­ ties. J o h n V . R i c h a r d s o n J r . , associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UCLA, has won two prizes for his writ­ ing. He received the 1990 Justin Winsor Prize, the highest award granted by ALA for historical writ­ ing, for his paper, “Teaching General Reference Work: The Essential Paradigm, 1890-1990.” He also won the 1991 Research Paper Competition sponsored by the Association for Libraiy and Infor­ mation Science Education, for his paper, “The Architectural Logic of General Reference Work: Basic and Subordinate Level Knowledge.” Both prizes included certificates and cash awards. T h o m a s A. T o l l m a n , reference librarian at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, spent February and March in Quito, Ecuador, as a Fulbright Lec­ turer in library science. He reports enthusiastically that the experience was “fascinating and worth­ while.” Appointments (Appointment notices are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices and appointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) R e b e c c a A l b i t z has assumed the position of media services librarian in the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. J o s e p h i n e C . A n e m a e t has joined the staff of Oregon State University Libraries as a catalog li­ brarian. C r a i g W. B e a r d has been appointed head of reference services at the Mervyn H. Sterne Li­ brary, University of Alabama at Birmingham. P a t r i c i a B e r n t s e n has been named assistant director of public services at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. S h i r l e y B l a c k has been appointed lecturer in the Wayne State University library science pro­ gram. S u s a n F . B l a i n e has been named head of the Preservation Services Department at the Smith­ sonian Institution Libraries. B a r b a r a D e w e y is now director of the new Administrative and Access Services division at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. S a l l y D o c k t e r has been appointed humanities and social science reference librarian and bibliog­ rapher at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. S t e v e G a s s has been promoted to head of the Engineering Library and bibliographer for engi­ neering at Stanford University. R o d n e y K . G o i n s is now head of the Acquisi­ tions Division at Oregon State University Libraries. B . F a y e G r e e n has joined the staff of the Medi­ cal Center Library at Vanderbilt University as a reference librarian. K a r e n G r e i g is the new assistant engineering librarian at Stanford University. A n t h o n y H a r d y is now Indonesian language bibliographic associate at the University of British Columbia Libraries. A l e x a n d e r H a r t m a n n has been appointed tem­ porary reference librarian and instructor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. J a n e t H e e k i n has been appointed temporary reference librarian in Woodward Library at the University of British Columbia. C a r o l H u d s o n has joined the technical services staff of the University of Cincinnati. G a r y W. I v e s has been named head of access services at the University of Texas at El Paso. J o h a n K o r e n has been appointed lecturer in the Wayne State University library science program. 334 / C &RL News L e y l a L a u L a m b is the new library conservator at the University of Michigan Conservation Lab in Ann Arbor. J a n i s L e a t h has been promoted to assistant collection development officer at the University of Wyoming Libraries. S a m L e e has been appointed a technical services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston. D o u g l a s L o n o w s k i has joined the staff of the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, as their first systems analyst. T im M c A d a m has been named head of acquisi­ tions at the University of California, Irvine library. R e g i n a M c B r i d e has been named head of the Catalog Departm ent of Pius XII Memorial Library of St. Louis University in Missouri. J o y c e A . M i l l e r has been appointed public services librarian at Trinity College of Vermont in Burlington. M i c h a e l M i l l e r has been promoted to head of Meyer Library at Stanford University. R o b e r t a P i l e t t e has joined the staff of the New York Historical Society Library as the senior book conservator. J o h n B. P i t c h e r has been appointed assistant director of automation and technical operations at BloomsburgUniversityin Bloomsburg, Pennsylva­ nia. E d w a r d B i e d i n g e r has accepted a position as bibliographer for Latin America and Iberia at Ohio State University. A l i c e B h o a d e s has been appointed a technical services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston. M s . D a l e B . R i o r d a n is the new reference li­ brarian for the life sciences at the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University o f North Carolina, Char­ lotte. R u t h R o g e r s has been appointed librarian of Special Collections at Wellesley College in Massa­ chusetts. M a r i a n n e R y a n has been named a government publications librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries in Iowa City. L o u i s e S a u l has joined the Information Serv­ ices staff at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and Information Center, Seattle. F r a n k L. S l a t e r has been named assistant di­ rector of administration and operations at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. M o h a m e d T a l e b is temporary systems librarian at the University of Arizona in Tucson. D a v i d T a m b o is now head of special collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara. R u t h A . T h o m a s has been appointed field direc­ tor of the Library of Congress office in Nairobi, Kenya. L y n n e T o r ib a r a h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d h e a d o f t h e Cataloging D epartm ent at the Orradre Library, Santa Clara University. C a r l P a t r i c k V e n t o r n e has been named di­ rector of the Cincinnati Technical College Learn­ ing Resources Center. H u n g s e n W e n g has been appointed a technical services librarian at Texas A&M University at Galveston. M e l a n i e W i l s o n is now health science librarian for collection management at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. L y d i a W o n g has joined the Reference D epart­ ment at North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh. Retirements M a x y n e M . G r i m e s , assistant director for tech­ nical services at the Health Sciences Center Li­ brary, University of South Florida, retired on Val­ entine’s Day. Grimes, whose MLS is from Louisi­ ana State University, began her career in 1947 as catalog librarian at the Mississippi D epartm ent of Archives and History. After holding several posi­ tions in Mississippi, she joined the staff of the newly established medical library at the University of South Florida, where she has been the first cata­ loged the first head of technical services, the only assistant director for technical services, and acting director twice. She claims, in fact, to hold the world’s record for the position of acting director, having held the position February 1984-February 1985 and November 1987-November 1989. Chal­ lengers are welcome to report in. S a r a D u n l a p J a c k s o n has retired after a long and distinguished career at the National Archives and the National Historical Publications and Rec­ ords Commission. She began 46 years of unbroken employment with the National Archives in June 1944, when she accepted a position with the Mili­ tary Records Division of the Archives. Deaths W i l m e r H . B a a t z , former assistant director of Indiana University Libraries, died in February at the age of 75. Since his retirem ent in 1985, Baatz had been working part-time in the IU Black Cul­ ture C enter library, which he was instrumental in establishing. He was tireless in his efforts to build IU ’s Afro-American collections. The author of several books and many articles, Baatz played a key role in initiating the Cooperative Four State Uni- May 1 9 9 1 / 3 35 versity Project, which allowed faculty of participat­ ing institutions to use each other’s library re­ sources. H e was a native of Indiana and a graduate of IU, where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English. H e subsequently earned a degree in library science at the University of Chi­ cago, after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps and Air Force. Before returning to Indiana he headed libraries at the Federal Aviation Agency and the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C., was chief of technical services in the Milwaukee Public Library, and worked at Beloit College and the University of Rochester. J o s i a h Q u i n c y B e n n e t t also died in Blooming­ ton, Indiana, in February. H e had come to Indiana University in 1965 to work with David Randall at the Lilly Library, technically as a cataloger, but in practice also as an authority on early printed books, Latin and Greek texts, Renaissance church history, the history of science, and bibliography. For many years he also taught analytical bibliography in the School of Library and Information Science. He held no university degree, having come to IU after a long career in the rare book trade which began in 1939 with Hamer’s Book Service in Detroit, Michi­ gan, and ended in 1965 when he left the book department at Parke Bernet Auction Galleries. After less than two years at Lilly Library he pub­ lished two books, one of them an important contri­ bution to the study of incunabula: The First Twenty-five Years o f Printing, 1455-1480. He sub­ sequently wrote The Cataloguing Requirements o f the Book Division o f a Rare Book Library and Call for Sci/Tech abstracts ACRL’s Science and Technology Section’s Forum for Science and Technology Library Research solicits abstracts of recent research or work in progress relevant to science and tech­ nology librarians. Members of the Forum will select individuals to present reports of their research at the 1992 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco. The research should focus on timely, relevant, and significant aspects of sci­ ence and technology libraríanship. Proposals should be limited to one page and should include the researcher’s name, institu­ tion, phone number, e-mail number, and an abstract of not more than 250 words. The dead­ line for submission is January 1, 1992. Partici­ pants will be chosen during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January 1992. Send proposals to: Katie Clark, Head, Life Sciences Library, E205 Pattee, Pennsylvania State University, Univer­ sity Park, PA 16802; (814) 865-3708. collaborated on Exotic Printing and the Expansion o f Europe, 1492-1840. After his retirement in 1984 he remained active as an emeritus librarian. G e r t r u d e M . S h a w , a mainstay of the Re­ sources and Acquisitions Department in Widener Library at Harvard University for nearly four dec­ ades, died in February after a brief illness. She was a graduate o f Cambridge Latin School and of Radcliffe College, where she took the A.B. cum laude in English in 1915. In 1917, she received the B.S. in secretarial science from Simmons College. H er first position was with the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission, located at the Medical School, but in 1918 she started work in what was then called the O rder Departm ent in Widener. Eventually she became responsible for most selec­ tion of English and American books, worked closely with faculty members concerning their rec­ ommendations, and was given the title o f chief bib­ liographer. She retired in 1957, but for several years thereafter continued to work part-time on the Foreign Newspaper Microfilm Project. She was secretary of the Radcliffe Class of 1915, a director o f the Radcliffe Alumnae Association from 1955 to 1958, and a member of the Cambridge Musical Club. She lived her entire life in Cambridge, in the Victorian house in which she was bom on May 1, 1892, according to retired associate university li­ brarian Foster Palmer. ■ ■ Inter-A m erican Bookfair sch ed u led The 1991 San Antonio Inter-A m erican Bookfair and Literary Festival will celebrate its fifth year from O ctober 25 through 27, at Hemisfair Park. Writers scheduled for major readings, panels, and workshops include Pulit­ zer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos, Argentinian fiction writer Luisa Valenzuela, and major American poets Robert Bly and June Jordan. There is also a tentative agreement with Peruvian novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa for a special presentation at the Bookfair. Other plans include an expanded children’s program and exhibits by more than 90 U.S. and Latin American presses. The Guadalupe Cul­ tural Arts C enter is calling for manuscripts for the Guadalupe Review, a new multicultural journal of contemporary literature that will make its first appearance at the Bookfair. The deadline for submissions—poetry, fiction, es­ says, translations, interviews, and reviews by writers from all over the world—is June 15, 1991. Contact: Ray Gonzalez, 1300 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX 78207. ♦ Bibliographic Instruction in a Multi-Cultural Environment June 28, 1991 Bibliographic Instruction Section ♦ Excellence Through Cultural D iversity Accreditation Workshop Friday, June 28, 1991 Atlanta University Historically Black Colleges and Universities Section ♦ K eeping the Facts in Artifacts: Conserving the Physical Evidence o f Special Collections Materials and its Impact on Research June 25 - 28,1991 Chapel Hill, NC Rare Books and M anuscript Section ♦ Professional D evelopm ent Courses Friday, June 28,1991 • Accommodating Change T hrough T raining and Education • M easuring Academic Library Performance • Time M anagem ent for Academic Librarians • C ultural Diversity in the Academic Library • Financial and Cost Accounting for Librarians • N ew Technologies, N ew Services: Com m unicating O ur Needs to the U niversity Com m unity