ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 294 1980, at which leaders in the Spanish library and information communities identified the need for systematic analysis of current and future national information manpower requirements. NEWS NOTES • N ELIN ET, I nc., Newton, Massachusetts, has elected three new members to its Board of Directors at its annual spring membership meet­ ing held April 1. Artemis Kirk, director of librar­ ies at Simmons College; Colin McKirdy, systems librarian at Boston College; and Richard Talbot, director of libraries at the University of Mas­ sachusetts at Amherst, assumed three year terms on the board on July 1. Former NELINET Board Chair, Jay Lucker, director of libraries at MIT, was re-elected by the membership to serve a second term on the board. • The Texas A&M University, College Sta­ tion, has announced that a special keepsake pub­ ' lication on artist, illustrator and teacher Harvey Dunn produced for the Friends of the Library has won an award. The keepsake, published in the spring of 1980, was entitled I Am My Work; My Work Is Me, and included some of Dunn’s work as well as a few of his thoughts about art. In a recent regional competition sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the keepsake was selected to be the recipient of the Council’s Grand Award in Special Print Communication. • The University of Texas at El Paso has been authorized by the University of Texas Sys­ tem Board of Regents to begin construction of a new central library building. The total project cost is estimated at $28.8 million. The site will be near the academic center of the campus, conve­ nient to th e public and in an area that will accommodate future expansion. The new building will house 1.2 million volumes, provide seating for 2,420, and fulfill p resen t and anticipated growth for the next ten years. PROFILES Elizabeth M. Corbett has been named librar­ ian at Barnard College, the undergraduate college for women affiliated with Columbia University in New York. Corbett has been acting librarian for one year. She joined the Barnard administration as cir­ culation librarian in 1969. She received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and her MLS from Simmons College. In fall 1977 she was a library consultant for purchases and planning at Silliman University, Dum aguete City, Philip­ pines. Corbett was president of the Academic and Special Libraries Section of the New York Li­ brary Association in 1979-80. Evelyn H. Daniel has been appointed dean of the School of Information Studies, Syracuse Uni­ versity, effective July 1. Daniel joined the faculty of the school in 1976 and formerly served as assis­ tant dean and associate professor. She succeeds Robert S. Taylor, who has headed the school since 1972 and who will continue on the faculty. Before she came to Syracuse, Daniel taught at the University of Rhode Island (1974-76), the University of Kentucky (1972-74), and the Uni­ versity of Maryland (1970-72). She has been a consultant for the University Consortium for In­ structional Development and Technology (1976- 77) and for the Learning Activities Resource Cen­ ter, California State University at Chico (1974— 75). People She holds a master’s and a doctorate in library science from the University of Maryland (1969 and 1974). Daniel is chair of the ALA Library Education Committee, a member of the Amer­ ican National Standards Institute Subcommittee on Revision of Library Standards, and a member of the U.S. Department of Education Office of Libraries and Learning Technologies Task Force charged with defining a research agenda for the 1980s. Ann M. de Klerk has been appointed universi­ ty librarian of the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She comes to Bucknell from Carnegie-M ellon University, Pittsburgh, where she has served in num erous positions since 1965, including associate director from 1978 and head librarian of the Engineering and Science Library from 1975 to 1978. She suc­ ceeds George M. Jenks, who asked that a new librarian be appointed Ann de Klerk so he could devote more time to collection development. De Klerk obtained an MLS from the Universi­ 295 ty of Pittsburgh School of Library and Informa­ tion Science, and a post-graduate certificate in education from the University of London, En­ gland. At Carnegie-Mellon she served on the Faculty Senate from 1972 to 1977 and chaired that body’s Student Affairs Council in 1976-77. De Klerk has been active in local chapters of ACRL, the American Society for Information Sci­ ence, and the Special Libraries Association, as well as the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center. She has presented papers at meetings of ALA’s Library Research Round Table and ASIS, and has written articles for Special Libraries and Library Resources and Technical Services. In 1980 she conducted a feasibility study on converting Car­ negie-Mellon’s card catalog to a machine-readable format, and in 1976 she was editor of a revised edition of Western Pennsylvania Resources, pub­ lished by the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center. Edward D. Garten has been appointed direc­ tor of university lib raries at T ennessee Technological University, Cookeville, effective September 1. Prior to his appointment he was director of library and media services at Northern State College, Aberdeen, South Dako­ ta, from 1979 to 1981; assistant to the director, M oorhead State Uni­ versity, M innesota, from 1977 to 1979; and an intern in university adm inistration at the U niversity of Toledo Edward D. Garten from 1975 to 1977. He has been an ac­ tive m em ber of the Mountain Plains Library Association and the American Association of Uni­ versity Administrators, and has been a consultant to numerous colleges and universities in the Mid­ west in the areas of instructional development, staff and faculty development, and collection de­ velopment. Garten holds a Ph.D. in academic administra­ tion from the University of Toledo, an MLS from Kent State University, a master’s in education from Ohio State University, and a master’s of di­ vinity from the Methodist Theological School. Guy Marco, former dean of the School of Li­ brary Service at Kent State University, has been appointed director of the Division of Library Sci­ ence at San Jose State University. Marco suc­ ceeds retiring director Leslie H. Janke who has served as head of the San Jose program for the past 20 years. Marco has had extensive experience in library education and administration, including service on the staff of the Library of Congress, and visit­ ing lecturer at the University of Maryland and the College of Librarianship at Aberystwyth, Wales. Most recently he has been the director of the North American Division of Library Develop­ ment Consultants in London, England. Marco assumes his duties at San Jose beginning with the Fall 1981 semester. Mary R . Macruder has been named dean of libraries at Kansas State University, Manhattan, effective in the fall. She will be the chief adminis­ trator of the entire sys­ tem, which includes the main Francis David Farrell Library and four major branch libraries. She succeeds G. Jay Rausch, who resigned last fall to enter private business. Magruder has served as associate director of libraries at the Uni­ versity of Saskatchewan since 1975 and prior to Mary Magruder that served as associate university librarian and head of th e Lockwood Memorial Library at SUNY-Buffalo; chief social sciences bibliographer and acting assistant director for collection de­ velopment at SUNY-Buffalo; and Latin American cataloger at the University of Texas Library. A former Fulbright Fellow to the Universidad Nacional in Buenos Aires, Magruder holds an MLS degree from the University of Texas. She has long been involved with the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, serving as SALALM’s president in 1976-77. She has also been active in ACRL’s Personnel Officers of Academic Libraries Discussion Group and serves on the LAMA Personnel Administration Section’s Union Relations for Managers Ad Hoc Committee. In the Canadian Library Association, Magruder was involved in the Committee on the Status of Women, 1975-77. She is also a member of the Latin American Studies Association and the Sas­ katchewan Library Association for which she served on the editorial board in 1978-79. Basil Stuart-Stubbs has been named director and professor at the University of British Co­ lumbia’s School of Librarianship, effective July 1. He had been university librarian at UBC for the past 17 years, overseeing a period of tremendous growth in the size of the library’s collection. His previous positions included head of Special Col­ lections and coordinator of collections at UBC, and reference librarian at McGill University. Stuart-Stubbs obtained his bachelor’s degree in library science at McGill in 1954. His many pub­ lications include articles in the Canadian Library 296 Journal and Library Trends, as well as mono­ graphs on Canadian networking, Canadian inter- library loan, and the early cartography of Canada. C. James Schmidt, university librarian for Brown University and editor of College & Re­ search Libraries, has been appointed executive vice p resid en t of the Research L ibraries Group, Inc., Stanford, California. Schm idt’s career in librarianship has led him to positions at institutions across the country. He has been associate librarian at Southwest Texas State University; head of the Undergraduate Librar­ ies at Ohio State Uni­ versity; and director of C . James Schmidt libraries for SUNY- Albany. He has held his position at Brown since 1979, and has been a member of RLG’s Board of Governors since 1980. A native of F lint, Michigan, Schmidt is a graduate of Catholic University. He obtained an MLS from Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. in library science from Florida State Uni­ versity. Schmidt will continue his excellent work as editor of College & Research Libraries in his new position. BECK JOINS CHOICE STAFF Arthur R. Beck has been appointed advertising/ promotion manager at Choice magazine, effective June 1. Beck comes to Choice from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a textbook publisher, w here he was college textbook promotion manager with responsibilities for the disciplines of en­ gineering, mathematics, computer science, and statistics. He has also worked as a field repre­ sentative for Wiley and as an agent for the Met­ ropolitan Life Insurance Company. Beck gradu­ Arthur Beck ated from the Universi­ ty of Maryland where he focused on business and American history. Choice is the principal reviewing device for scholarly materials in the United States and is lo­ cated at 100 Riverview C enter, Middletown, Connecticut. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Pearce S. Grove will be working with the Re­ search Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1981-82 to initiate a grant program for bibliographic control, inventory, and the preservation of newspapers. This national newspaper program may evolve into a series of grants to each of the 50 states. Grove has been a consultant to NEH for a proposed newspaper program since 1975. Lesley M. Heathcote, director of libraries at Montana State University from 1947 to 1970, has been presented with an honorary doctorate of hu­ man letters from that institution. Robert P. Holley, assistant director for tech­ nical services at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library, has been selected as the American rep­ resentative to a standing committee of the Inter­ national Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Holley was nominated by ALA for a four-year appointment to IFLA’s Classification and Subject Cataloguing Committee based on his expertise and writings in the field. APPO IN TM EN TS Katherine Adams has been appointed assistant head librarian/archivist at the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas, Aus­ tin. Janet V. Addison has been appointed cataloger at the Oberlin College Library, Ohio. Helen Aiello is now serials/microforms librar­ ian at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con­ necticut. Anne Alach has been appointed librarian of the Schering Foundation Library of Health Care, Harvard University. Karen Albert has been appointed reference li­ brarian at the Joseph W. England Library, Phil­ adelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. Burton Altman has been appointed associate university librarian in Special Collections, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Emily J. Alward is now consumer and family sciences librarian for the Purdue University Li­ braries and Audio-Visual Center, West Lafayette, Indiana. Joan Ariel is the new reference specialist in women’s studies, University of California, Irvine. Raelaine Ballou has been appointed assistant science librarian at Paley Library, Temple Uni­ versity, Philadelphia. Bruce Boling has been appointed cataloger at the University of Wyoming Library, Laramie. George Brichtbill is head of Special Mater­ ials at Temple University, Philadelphia. Pamela R . Broadley has been appointed clin­ ical nursing reference librarian at Dana Biomed­ ical Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 297 Ellen Broidy is a new reference specialist in social sciences at the University of California, Irvine. John F. Bundy is now assistant biomedical li­ brarian at Dana Biomedical Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Ellen Burns was appointed reference librarian at Florida State University, Tallahassee. John Calman was appointed assistant universi­ ty librarian in the Science-Technology D epart­ ment, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Gregory Carr is now reference librarian in th e Paley L ibrary, T em ple U niversity, Phil­ adelphia. Chung-Yun Chang has b een ap p o in ted Chinese cataloger for the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections, Princeton University. Lynn Chmelir has been named head librarian at Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. Stephen Clancy has been appointed medical reference librarian in the Biomedical Library, University of California, Irvine. Deborah Wells Clinton has been appointed public service librarian at the Wartburg College Library, Waverly, Iowa. Linda Cohen is now head of technical services in the Law Library of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Morris Cohen has been named librarian and professor of law at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. Carol Collier is the new head of Government D ocum ents, U niversity of Wyoming Library, Laramie. John Corbin is now assistan t d irec to r for administration and systems, University of Hous­ ton Libraries, Texas. Patricia Coty has been appointed associate li­ brarian in the Science and Engineering Library, State University of New York at Buffalo. Deborah Cozort has been appointed the first incum bent in th e newly cre ate d position of archivist of the Scripps Institution of Oceanogra­ phy at the University of California, San Diego. Susan V. Craig has been appointed art librar­ ian at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Jacquelyn Crinion is now acquisitions librar­ ian at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Elizabeth Darrah has been appointed docu­ ments reference librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle. Luren E. Dickinson has been appointed direc­ tor of Ambassador College Library, Big Sandy, Texas. David R . Dowell has been appointed director of information and library resources and associate dean of the School of Advanced Studies, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Judy Droessler is the new reference librarian in science and technology at Texas A&M Uni­ versity Library, College Station. Betty Dusing is now cataloger in the Park Col­ lege Library, Parkville, Missouri. Jon Eldredge has been appointed chief of out­ reach programs at the Medical Center Library, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Michael Engle has been appointed readers’ services librarian at Linfield College, McMinn­ ville, Oregon. Joyce Falk has been appointed reference spe­ cialist in database service and history at the Uni­ versity of California, Irvine. Chris Ferguson has been appointed social sci­ ences bibliographer at the University of Califor­ nia, Irvine. Julia Speakes Folk is now serials librarian at Vanderbilt Medical C enter Library, Nashville, Tennessee. Kenneth Fones-Wolf has been appointed assistant curator of urban archives, Temple Uni­ versity, Philadelphia. Harold M. Forbes has been appointed associ­ ate curator of the W est Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Li­ brary, Morgantown. Rachael Fortune is the new cataloger/refer- ence librarian at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Anne Foshee has been appointed librarian in the Documents Department, Florida State Uni­ versity Libraries, Tallahassee. Beverlee French is the new head of the Sci­ ence and Engineering Library, University of Cali­ fornia, San Diego. Tara Fulton has been appointed reference li­ brarian at the Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, College Station. Joseph A. Gabriel has been appointed serials cataloger in the Harvard College Library. David F. Garnes has been appointed head of the Acquisitions Department, University of Con­ necticut Library, Storrs. Julia Gelfand is a new reference specialist in social sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Emily A. Gillula has been appointed assistant business librarian at Western Michigan Universi­ ty, Kalamazoo. Carl Gray is now assistant reference librarian at the Mercy College Libraries, W estchester County, New York. Kathleen Gunning has been appointed head of reference and coordinator of collection de­ velopment at the University of Houston Librar­ ies, Texas. Susan Hamburger was appointed librarian in Special Collections at Florida State University, Tallahassee. William E. Hepfer is now head of the Ac­ quisitions Division, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, College Station. Walter High has been appointed head of the Monographic Cataloging Department, D. H. Hill 298 Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Ralph W . Holibaugh has been promoted to assistant university librarian for administration at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston. Janice Holladay has been appointed head of the Reference Department at Rush Rhees Li­ brary, University of Rochester, New York. Harold Holland has been named library director at Pepperdine University, Malibu, Cali­ fornia. Jane Holmquist is now assistant librarian at Princeton’s Plasma Physics Library. Sylvia Jenkins has been appointed catalog li­ brarian and archivist at Virginia Union Universi­ ty, Richmond. Don W. Jett is now head of the Agriculture/ Veterinary Medicine Library, University of Ten­ nessee, Knoxville. Linda Katzoff-Grodofsky has been appointed reference and collection development librarian for social sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia. Jill M. Keally is now personnel librarian at the University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville. Elizabeth Keeler has been appointed assis­ tant engineering librarian for the Purdue Uni­ versity Libraries and Audio-Visual Center, West Lafayette, Indiana. Michael A. Keller has been appointed head of the Music Library at the University of Califor­ nia, Berkeley. Mary Kent is now associate collection develop­ ment librarian at the Connecticut College, New London. Cornelia King has been appointed rare book bibliographer at Temple University, Philadelphia. Martha Lawlor is now head of Fine Arts Li­ brary Services, University of Wyoming, Laramie. Sharon B. Lee has been appointed circulation supervisor/reference librarian at the E verett N eedham Case Library, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Susan Lemke has been appointed special col­ lections librarian at National Defense University Library, Washington, D.C. Marilyn A. Lester has been named director of learning resources for the National College of Education, Evanston, Illinois. George Libbey is the new personnel officer at the Paley Library, Tem ple University, Phil­ adelphia. Carla List is now reference librarian at the State University of New York, College at Platts­ burgh. Loretta Long has been appointed head of the Technical Reports Department, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, College Station. Saundra K. Lormand has been appointed assistant librarian in the Engineering Library, University of California, Berkeley. George Lupone is now head of serials at Cleveland State University, Ohio. Douglas N. McInnes is now acting university librarian at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Michael J . MacInnes has been appointed acting assistant university librarian for personnel services at the University of California, Irvine. William McPheron has been appointed senior assistant librarian in the Lockwood Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo. J . Ignacio Mendez is now bi-lingual reference librarian at the Mercy College Libraries, West­ chester County, New York. Aubrey H. Mitchell has been appointed col­ lection development librarian at the University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville. Jeanette Mosey, formerly senior coordinator at OCLC W estern, has joined the University of Michigan’s School of Library Science as an assis­ tant professor. Thomas Narbeth has been appointed head of reference services at the State University of New York at Binghamton Library. Ronald P, Naylor has been appointed assis­ tant director for administrative services at the University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida. Ilene Nelson has been appointed reference li­ brarian at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Judith Niles is now head of acquisitions at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston. Gale Nordon has been appointed music/media cataloger at Old Dominion University Library, Norfolk, Virginia. Shawn O’Connor is a new reference librarian at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Lorraine H. Olley has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in Baker Library, Dartmouth Col­ lege, Hanover, New Hampshire. Toby Paff is now cataloger on the Near East Cataloging Team, Princeton University Library. Stephen Perry has been appointed social sci­ ence reference librarian and bibliographer at Stanford University, California. David M. Pilachowski has been appointed head of reference services at the E v erett N eedham Case Library, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Gary M. Pitkin is now associate university li­ brarian at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Marjorie L. Popovich has been appointed associate director for public services in the Sci­ ence and Engineering Library, State University of New York at Buffalo. Joan Rapp is the new head of Access Services at Paley Library, Tem ple U niversity, Phil­ adelphia. Richard Riley has been appointed assistant director for library services at the University of Texas-Odessa. Constance Rinehart has been appointed assis- We’re more than halfway through o u r m a s s iv e p r o g r a m to p u b lis h o n e o f th e m o s t im p o r ta n t b ib lio g ra p h ic a l r e s o u r c e s in th e W e s te rn H e m is p h e re . T h e N ew Y ork P u b lic L ib ra ry 's n in e -m illio n c a r d p u b lic c a ta lo g is b e in g p h o t o ­ g ra p h ic a lly r e p r o d u c e d a n d m a d e a v a ila b le in b o o k f o r m to lib ra rie s th r o u g h o u t th e w o rld . M o re t h a n h a lf o f t h e 800 v o lu m e s h a v e b e e n p r in te d a n d d e liv e re d to p u r c h a s e r s . DICTIONARY CATALOG OF THE RESEARCH LIBRARIES OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1 9 1 1 - 1 9 7 1 . P u b lis h e d by T h e N ew Y ork P u b lic L ib ra ry , A sto r, L enox a n d T ild e n F o u n d a tio n s . 10 × 14, est. 9 m illio n c a rd s , 800 v o lu m e s . 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Gail Schlachter has been appointed director of the American Bibliographic Center, Santa Bar­ bara, California. Georgia Schoenung is the new reference li­ brarian at Drexel University Libraries, Phil­ adelphia. Beverly Krekel Schwaab has been named director of the Longview Community College Li­ brary, Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Gaby Shearer has been appointed special col­ lections librarian at the La Sierra campus of Loma Linda University, Riverside, California. SUSAN Shehee is the new reference librarian at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Diana Shelton has been appointed head of reference in the Science Library, University of Wyoming, Laramie. Marian Shilstone is now collection develop­ ment librarian at Connecticut College, New Lon­ don. Allen Shinn was appointed university librarian and head of the Bibliographic Records Manage­ ment Department, Florida State University, Tal­ lahassee. Sergei Shuiskii is a new cataloger on the Near East Cataloging Team at Princeton University Li­ brary. Celia Smith has been appointed catalog librar­ ian for Central American publications at the Uni­ versity of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence. Pamela Sorensen has been promoted to serials librarian at the Connecticut College Library, New London. Jean Sylvester has been appointed assistant li­ brarian in the Health Sciences Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Albert Tabah has joined the staff of Concordia University, Montreal, as reference/selection li­ brarian in the Science and Engineering Library. Jacqulyn Taylor is the new catalog librarian at the New Mexico Military Institute Learning Re­ source Center, Roswell. Linda Teather is now head of the Cataloguing Section at the University of Waterloo Library, Ontario. Diane R . Tebbetts has been appointed assis­ tant librarian at the University of New Hamp­ shire, Durham. Pamela Thaxter is the new head of technical services at Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia. Deborah Thomas h a s been appointed refer­ ence librarian at Hunter Library, Western Caroli­ na University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. James C. Thompson has been appointed associ­ ate university librarian at Rice University, Hous­ ton. Norman J. W. Thrower has been appointed director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Charles Thurston has been appointed educa­ tion reference librarian at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Margaret Bartlett Thwaits has been appointed assistant orientation librarian at the University of Arizona Library, Tucson. John T. Toncate has been appointed head of the Reference Services Department, University of Texas at Austin. Wilbur Trautman is now head of administra­ tive services at Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia. Hugh J . Treacy has been appointed reference and instruction librarian at Christopher Newport College, Newport News, Virginia. Roy H. Tryon has been appointed chief of the Bureau of Archives and Records for the State of Delaware, Dover. William Van Arsdale has been appointed head of the Reference Department, Coe Library, University of Wyoming, Laramie. Barbara Van Deventer is now director of the Cubberley Library, Stanford University Libraries, California. Stephanie Vaughan has been appointed library instruction coordinator, Coe Library, University of Wyoming, Laramie. Robin M. Wagner is a new reference librarian at Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Barbara Walcott has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the Health Sciences Library, Columbia University, New York. JOHN Weeks has been appointed indexer in the Tozzer Library, Harvard University. Virginia Weeks is the new head of biblio­ graphic control at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. Doris Weingart has been appointed head of circulation services at the University of California Library, Riverside. Janice Welburn has been appointed psycholo­ gy librarian at Princeton University Library. LeAnn Weller is the new science catalog li­ brarian at the University of Arizona Library, Tuc­ son. 301 Cynthia Whitacre has been appointed acquisi- tiorŕs/catalog librarian at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. Thomas Whitehead has been appointed head of special collections and programs at Temple University, Philadelphia. Willard Wolfe is the new social sciences bib­ liographer and reference librarian at the State University of New York at Binghamton. D IA N E Wood has been appointed reference li­ brarian at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Vivian F. Wood has been appointed collection development librarian at Hofstra University Li­ brary, Hempstead, New York. RETIREMENTS Janet H. Boynton retired as head of technical services at the Edward G. Miner Library, the University of Rochester’s health sciences library, on May 29. She had been with the library since 1962. Lillie Caster, head of monographic cataloging at the D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, retired on June 30. Antoinette Ciolli, chief of the Special Collec­ tions Division of Brooklyn College Library, re­ tired this spring. Ken Eccleston, for many years the catalog li­ brarian at the Park College Library, Parkville, Missouri, retired at the end of the 1981 spring semester. Eleanor Geisheimer, collection development librarian at Connecticut College, New London, retired May 31 after 31 years of service. Benjamin C. Glidden, director of the Air Force Academy Library, Colorado, retired in Au­ gust after a 20-year military career. Glidden is re­ tiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. Ralph Hansen, cataloger at the General Li­ brary of the University of California, Berkeley, retired on July 1 after 24 years of service. Mildred Iddins, who served as director of the Carson-Newman College Library, Jefferson City, Tennessee, for 37 years, retired in May. Harold D . Jones, librarian and editor of the Library Associates’ newsletter at Brooklyn Col­ lege, retired in the spring. Minerva Katz, Brooklyn College reference li­ brarian, also retired in the spring. Dan M. King, head librarian and chairman of library science at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, retired on June 30 after 27 years of service. King assisted in the planning of the new Library Learning Center which was provided by a James Graham Brown Foundation grant. Fern Meek, director of the Longview Com­ munity College Library, Lee’s Summit, Missouri, retired on June 30 after 12 years of service. Belle Miller, assistant in book selection in the Harvard College Library, retired on June 26 after almost 41 years with the Harvard Library. Alfred Morse, cataloger in Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, retired on June 30. He had served in the cataloging department for 12 years. W. Wilson Noyes, Jr., retired as assistant li­ brarian of the William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, Atlanta, on June 30 after 34 years of service. Miriam E. Penn, catalog librarian and archivist at the William J. Clark Library of Virginia Union University, Richmond, retired July 15 after 30 years of service. Jennie A. Spurgeon retired as reference librar­ ian at the University of Delaware Library, Newark, after 16 years of service. Roy Stokes has retired as director of the Uni­ versity of British Columbia’s School of Librarian- ship after 10 years in that post. He will continue to teach historical bibliography at the school. Erika Svuksts, head of Brooklyn College Li­ brary ’s Documents Division, retired in the spring. Jane Titus, personnel librarian in the Temple University Library, Philadelphia, for 12 years, re­ tired on June 30. Kenneth E. Vance, who has served as assistant dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Li­ brary Science since 1969, retired on June 30. He had been a faculty member at Michigan since 1962. BarrarA M. Westby, chief of the Catalog Man­ agement Division at the Library of Congress, re­ tired on April 24 after 20 years of government service, more than 14 of which were with the li­ brary. DEATH Edith Stickney, former reference librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, died on June 9. AFRICANA AWARD The Archives-Libraries Committee of the Afri­ can Studies Association seeks nominations for the second biennial Helen F. Conover-Dorothy B. Porter Award for excellence in Africana bibliogra­ phy or reference work. Any Africana-related ref­ erence work, bibliography or bibliographic essay published separately or as part of a larger work during 1979, 1980 or 1981 can be nominated for the 1982 award, which includes a prize of $300. Nominations must be received by December 31, 1981. To recommend a title or for further informa­ tion, contact: Joseph J. Lauer, Chairman, ASA Subcommittee on Bibliography, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824. 302 1st ANNUAL VIDEODISC CONFERENCE October 2 3 -2 4 ,1 9 8 1 M arriott Key Bridge Hotel, Arlington, Virginia Sponsored by: Videodisc/Tetete×t Magazine Registration Fee: Before September 23: $175.00; after September 23:$200 For additional information contact: MRI Conferences, a division of Microform Review Inc. 520 Riverside Ave. Westport, CT 06880 (203) 226-6967 1st ANNUAL SERIALS CONFERENCE October 30-31, 1981 Westpark Hotel, Arlington, Virginia Chairperson: Nancy Jean Melin, CUNY (Graduate Center) Registration Fee: Before September 30: $125.00 after September 30: $150.00 For additional information contact: MRI Conferences, a division of Microform Review Inc. 520 Riverside Ave. Westport, CT 06880 (203) 226-6967 N a tio n a l C o n fe re n c e U p d a te The Twin Cities are served by all major domestic airlines and several international car­ riers. Direct limousine service from the air­ port to the conference hotels is available for under $5 at the airport ground level near the baggage claim area. Taxi fares are by the frac­ tion of the mile, which apply to the entire load, not to the individual passenger. Cab fare from the airport to the hotels is approximately $15. Parking is available at the hotels as follows: Hyatt—$4.25 per 24 hours; Holiday Inn—$3 per day (guests park free); Leamington—$2.50 per day. Looking for a job? Looking for an em ­ ployee? The Placement Center at the National Conference may be used by conference partic­ ipants only to register as job applicants. Any employer who wishes to advertise through the service, whether registered or not, may do so by contacting the ACRL office for appropriate forms. Full interviewing facilities and an em- ployer/employee message center will also be available. Runners, tennis buffs, athletes of all kinds —remember that the ACRL Conference In­ formation Desk will have jogging maps and tennis tournam ent information. The Hyatt Hotel offers its full-scale Greenway Athletic Club with running, swimming, sauna, and other health club facilities. Ask at the Hyatt Hotel registration desk for further informa­ tion. Want to save a few dollars? Shapero’s, the Hyatt’s convenience store, offers not only the usual hotel guest shop paraphernalia but also a full supply of breakfast and snack conve­ nience foods. For your early morning quickie and your late night snack, don’t forget to visit Shapero’s. 303 SAY IT WITH A POSTER At its 1982 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, ALA will introduce the concept of Poster Sessions on a pilot basis. Selected individuals will have an opportunity to present research findings and in­ novative programs on 4-by-6 foot poster boards located in the exhibit area. During the assigned 90-minute time period, presenters will be avail able for informal discussion with interested con­ ference attendees. The poster sessions will take place during the conference exhibit hours, Satur­ day, July 10, through Tuesday, July 13. Poster Sessions are intended to provide an effective channel for the communication of re­ search and ideas. This is an opportunity for ALA attendees to share their accomplishments and re­ search and to discuss areas of mutual interest on a face-to-face basis. It is anticipated that this method of information exchange will become a regular feature of future ALA conferences. Three general categories of presentations will be considered for inclusion: • Recently completed research; • New and innovative library/inform ation/ media programs; • Imaginative efforts at resolving practical li­ brary and informative problems. Presentations may cover any subject of profes­ sional interest to librarians and information spe­ cialists and could include such diverse topics as a theoretical research study on information transfer, an innovative outreach program for the home- bound senior citizen, or a systematically de­ veloped effort at personnel classification. Entries must be submitted on an official entry form by an individual, a group or an institution. Submissions must be received by January 4, 1982, and will be evaluated and selected by a panel at the 1982 Midwinter Conference in Den­ ver. Criteria for selection include quality, topical balance, and suitability for Poster Session pre­ sentation. A maximum of 300 presentations can be accom modated in tw enty P oster Session ­ booths during the Philadelphia Conference. For submission guidelines and further informa­ tion, write: Poster Sessions, School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064. P h ilip p in e s T r a g e d y A recent fire at the Philippine Military Academy, Republic of the Philippines, de­ stroyed more than 14,000 volumes, including English language books, magazines, and other resource materials. The U.S. Army Western Command at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, is coordi­ nating a donation program. Interested parties may donate books, magazines, corporate and institutional publications, or any English lan­ guage materials of interest to college-level professional military students for the Philip­ pine Military Academy. Materials should be sent directly to the Chief, JUSMAG-Phil, Attn: Ground Forces Service Section, APO San Francisco, 96528. Further information is available from Lt. Col. Karl Piotrowski, DCSOPS, HĢS WESTCOM Fort Shafter, HI 96858.