ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


June 1984 /  291

JoAn Segal to be next executive director of A C R L

JoAn S. Segal, currently executive director of the 
Bibliographic Center for Research (BCR) in D en­
ver, will become ACRL executive director on Sep­
tem ber 1, 1984. She suc­
ceeds J u lie  C a rro ll 
V irg o , w ho leaves 
ACRL on June 30 to be­
come vice-president of 
th e  C a r r o ll G ro u p , a 
m anagem ent consulting 
firm.

Segal has been at BCR 
since October 1978, first 
as a re so u rc e  s h a rin g  
p ro g ram  m a n ag er and 
later as interim  execu­
tive d irecto r. She was JoAn S. Segal
nam ed executive direc­
tor in 1981. In th a t posi­
tion she was in charge of operations and carried out 
planning activities for the Center. BCR is a re­
gional cooperative of libraries offering products 
and services which help its members provide better 
library and inform ation service.

After earning a B.A. degree in library service 
from Rutgers University, Segal w ent on to earn an 
MLS from C olum bia University in 1955 and a 
Ph.D . in com m unication from the University of 
Colorado in 1978. The title of her Ph.D . disserta­
tion, “G roup Development in T heater Casts,” re­
veals her still active interest in dram a.

Dr. Segal has worked in m any different library 
settings ever since she started work as a library as­
sistant at the New Jersey College of Agriculture Li­
brary in 1949. She has also held professional posi­
tions a t th e  U.S. D e p a rtm e n t of A g ric u ltu re  
L ibrary, C arter Products, C olum bia University 
Teachers College, Bergen Junior College, the Co­
lum bia University College of Physicians and Sur­

geons, and the Institute of M athem atical Sciences.
From 1970 to 1976 she was librarian at the W est­

ern Interstate Commission for Higher Education in 
Boulder, Colorado, where she established a cata­
loging and classification system for the docum ent 
collection and established a collection on grants in­
form ation. W hile working on her P h .D ., she was a 
graduate teaching assistant for several com m uni­
cations courses at the University of Colorado and 
did consulting work for a health planning organi­
zation in Denver.

In 1976-1978 Segal was a consultant on the de­
velopment of a handbook on terminology7 for classi­
fying and describing th e le arn in g  activities of 
a d u lts, p u b lish e d  by th e  N a tio n a l C e n te r for 
Higher Education M anagem ent Systems in Boul­
der.

She has w ritten numerous articles for such peri­
odicals as Library Journal, Resource Sharing and 
Library Networks, Education Libraries, and Colo­
rado Libraries, and has co-authored several mono­
graphs, including Western States Resource Sharing 
D irectory (1980), a Library M anual fo r  JJealth 
Planning Agencies (1978), and a Library Manual 
in Lifelong Learning (1978).

Last October she taught a one-credit course in 
networking at the University of Iowa G raduate L i­
brary School. She has also conducted microcom­
p u ter workshops and telecom m unications semi­
nars at BCR.

Segal said she was excited ab o u t com ing to 
A C R L a n d  “ le a r n in g  a new  p ro fe s sio n — 
association m anagem ent. This extremely attrac­
tive opportunity to be active at a national level will 
be a challenge,” she said, “but I feel supported by 
the m any academic librarians in the BCR region 
who have become my friends.”

The ACRL officers, staff, and membership ex­
tend an enthusiastic welcome to Dr. Segal. ■ ■

Z 39 changes its nam e

In February the 45 voting members of the Amer­
ican National Standards Comm ittee (Z39) voted to 
renam e their association the National Inform ation 
Standards Organization (Z39). The group will con­
tinue its program  of national and in ternational 
standards development first set in 1939 when it was 
created by representatives of ALA, the American 
Association of Law  Libraries, the Medical Library 
Association, and the Special Libraries Association.

W hen Z39 was incorporated as a not-for-profit 
educational association in early 1983, the officers

voted to consider a new nam e th a t would clearly 
describe the organization’s mission to develop vol­
u n tary  technical standards for the inform ation 
community. A national nam e contest was held to 
solicit new names. The winning entry was subm it­
ted by Ron Buchan, a lexicographer w ith the N a­
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration.

NISO (Z39) is located at the U.S. D epartm ent of 
Com m erce, N ational B ureau of Standards, Ad­
m inistration Building, Room E-106, W ashington, 
DC 20234; (301) 921-3241. ■ ■



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