ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 334 People P R O F I L E S R i c h a r d A. M a t z e k , librarian at Sacred H eart University in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for the past eleven years, assumed the position of librarian and d i­ rector of N azareth College’s rapidly ex­ panding Learning Re­ sources C enter on Septem ber 1. N azareth President Robert A. Kidera said M atzek was chosen primarily because of his “long and distin­ guished service in all areas of library opera­ tions and his involve­ m ent in planning and Richard A. M atzek constructing a library building comparable in size to the enlarged fa­ cility now under construction at N azareth.” Matzek, a professor on th e Sacred H eart facul­ ty, was recom m ended by a search committee composed of representatives of the N azareth faculty, staff, and student body. Matzek succeeds Charles L. Higgins, who has served as director of the Nazareth Learning Resources C enter since February 1964. C ur­ rently, the center’s resources include 160,000 volumes and 1,100 periodicals and serials, the third largest collection of any liberal arts col­ lege in the Rochester area. Kidera said Higgins will assume th e duties of assistant to th e president for library de­ velopment. In th a t capacity, he will assist in the total planning and fund raising effort involved in the expansion of th e Learning Resources C enter and its programs. Nazareth officials broke ground August 1 for a $700,000 addition to the present Learning Resources C enter, which will double th e pres­ ent size of th e facility and make possible a major expansion of services, particularly in the audiovisual area. T he addition also will provide shelf space for a collection expected to reach 200,000 volumes w ithin the next seven years, and incorporate additional study, typing, and m eeting areas. Matzek is a graduate of M arquette Univer­ sity and received his M.A. degree in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin. Among other professional activities, Matzek serves as associate editor of Religious Book R e­ view and Connecticut delegate and vice-presi­ dent of the New E ngland L ibrary Board’s panel of counselors. In 1973, he com pleted a major study, Academic Library Cooperation in Fairfield County, commissioned by the H igher E d u ­ cation C enter for U rban Studies, an area con­ sortium of institutions of higher education. H e is a frequent contributor to professional journals and reviews books for the N ew York Tim es Book Review. C o n r a d H . R a w s k i , inform ation specialist and Petrarchan scholar, has been nam ed dean of the School of L ibrary Science at Case W est­ ern Reserve U niver­ sity ( C W R U ). His appointm ent, approved by the board of trustees and announced by Presi­ dent Louis A. Toep­ fer, becam e effective July 1, 1977. His selection fol­ lowed an extensive nationw ide search conducted w ith the advice of faculty, stu­ dents, and alumni. H e Conrad H. Rawski replaces W illiam Goff­ man, who becam e dean in 1971 and will re­ main as a mem ber of the faculty. D ean Rawski, who joined th e faculty of the School of L ibrary Science in 1962, has been coordinator of th e doctoral programs in library and information science and has been active in the developm ent of the school as a center for research in information science, knowledge communication, and related systems. H e served as acting dean during the spring semester of 1975. Born in Vienna, Austria, D ean Rawski earned th e M.A. and Ph.D . degrees at the University of Vienna, and a Certificate in L ibrarianship at th e Austrian Institute for Historical Research. In 1939 he came to the U nited States where he pursued postdoctoral studies at H arvard and Cornell universities. In 1950 he joined the fac­ ulty of Ithaca College w here he becam e direc­ tor of G raduate Studies and, later, dean of the School of Music, a post he held from 1953 to 1957. He earned th e M.S. in Library Science at CW RU and was head of th e Fine Arts D epart­ m ent of the Cleveland Public L ibrary from 1957 to 1962. He is the author of numerous publications concerning the scientific study of subject literatures, th eir properties and struc­ tures, and of an English translation of Pe­ trarch’s De remediis utriusque fortunae of 1366. D ean Rawski lives w ith his w ife in Chagrin Falls. 335 Y. T. F e n g , assistant director (for research library services) of the Boston Public Library, has been appointed librarian at Wellesley Col­ lege in Wellesley, Massachusetts, it was announced by the col­ lege’s president, Bar­ bara W. Newell. Feng assumed her new post on Decem­ ber 1, succeeding Helen Brown, who is retiring after twenty- four years as college librarian. Before join­ ing the Boston Public Library staff, Feng was affiliated w ith the Y. T. Feng Harvard College Li­ brary, first as reference assistant, then as spe­ cialist in book selection, and finally as assistant librarian. Feng has also served as a library trainee in the New York Public Library and as a library assistant at the University of Denver. Yen-Tsai Feng, who was born in Peking, China, received the A.B. degree from the Uni­ versity of Shanghai and studied law at the Uni- versité de L ’Aurore in Shanghai. She holds the A.M. degree in English literature from Colo­ rado State College, the Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Denver (in­ cluding eighteen months of special fellowship in Paris, F rance), and the M.S.L.S. from the Columbia University School of Library Science. Some of Feng’s professional activities include life membership in the American Library Asso­ ciation ( A LA ) and serving on many ALA com­ mittees, including the (ALA) Select Group to Visit the Library of Congress. She is a member of the Depository Library Council to the Pub­ lic Printer. Feng has been a visiting lecturer at the Sim­ mons College Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence. She is also a visitor, Museum of Fine Arts, D epartm ent of Public Education, and a fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society. Feng’s civic and cultural activities have in­ cluded membership on the Ad Hoc Task Force on Ethnicity in New England, the Massachu­ setts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Governor’s Task Force on Ethnic Heritage, the Board of Directors of the Boston YWCA, and the Massachusetts Bicentennial Ethnic Task Force. At Wellesley College, Feng will administer the Margaret Clapp Library, which has a col­ lection of approximately 600,000 volumes and more than 2,400 periodicals. Two new wings, completed in 1975, provide space for approxi­ mately 325,000 more volumes and accommo­ date new developments in library technology. The library is a selective government docu­ ment depository and a full member of the Greater Boston Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries that includes the Boston Public Library, Boston University, Boston Col­ lege, Tufts, Brandeis, the University of Massa­ chusetts at Amherst, and the Massachusetts In­ stitute of Technology. Wellesley is a 2,000-student women’s liberal arts college, located on a 500-acre campus, twelve miles west of Boston. W i l s o n L u q u i r e has been appointed associ­ ate director of library services at E ast Carolina University’s Joyner Library. A native of Green­ wood, South Carolina, Luquire is an alum­ nus of Furman Uni­ versity with advanced degrees from Indiana University. Before joining the ECU library staff, he was a staff librarian at Indiana University and held an academic library management internship at the Joint University Libraries Wilson Luquire in Nashville, Tennes­ see, which was sponsored by the Council on Library Resources. In addition to his degrees in library science, Luquire holds music degrees from Furman and Indiana universities and is an accomplished organist. His professional memberships include the Correspondence W anted for In-service Staff Development Programs for Reference Librarian Marjorie Karlson, Head, Reference D e­ partment, University of Massachusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01003, would like to correspond with any reference librari­ ans in university libraries who are inter­ ested in the subject of in-service staff development programs for reference li­ brarians. She is interested in any programs of this type, but her particular concerns are in-service training for the beginning ref­ erence librarian and methods reference librarians use to review their perform­ ances on specific questions dealt w ith at the reference desk. Please write to her at the address given above if you would like to share ideas and experiences on the subject. 336 American Library Association, the Tennessee Library Association, and the American Guild of Organists. Transylvania University, Lexington, Ken­ tucky, has appointed J o h n S h e Ri d a n head li­ brarian of Frances Carrick Thomas Library. Before coming to Translyvania, Sheri­ dan was technical ser­ vices librarian at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. In th at supervisory posi­ tion, he planned and implemented the in­ stallation of the Ohio College Library Cen­ ter (O C L C ), a com­ puterized network th at provides infor­ mation on and loca­ John Sheridan tion of books and periodicals in any one of the 1,200 libraries that are members. In addition, he managed a pilot utilization study, taught a library skills course, and served on several steering committees. He also served two years at Kearney (N e­ braska) State College as coordinator of tech­ nical services and as librarian of acquisitions and cataloging. For one year, Sheridan became a volunteer librarian for the Model Cities Neighborhood In­ formation Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He holds two master’s degrees, one in library science from the University of Wisconsin— Mil­ waukee and the other in Greek studies from Indiana University in Bloomington. His bache­ lor’s degree is from City College of New York with major studies in classics. He and his wife Dindy have one child. K e i t h M. C o t t a m is the new assistant di­ rector for public services and employee rela­ tions at the Joint University Libraries in Nash­ ville. He was previously the assistant director of libraries for the undergraduate library and associate professor at the University of Tennes­ see, Knoxville ( U TK ). Cottam began his library career as a library intern in the Brooklyn Public Library in 1963. He served briefly as a librarian there in 1965 before moving to Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, as the assistant social science li­ brarian and instructor. In 1967 he accepted the post of head of the Social Sciences Library at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah, where he achieved the rank of assistant professor. As an educator he has taught in the Brook­ lyn Public Library Reading Improvement Pro­ gram, and from 1969-72 he held a joint ap­ pointment at BYU as supervisor of the Library Technician Program. From 1972-77 he was a visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Li­ brary and Information Science at UTK. He has been active in state library associa­ tions, having served as editor of Utah Libraries and in numerous convention, program, com­ mittee, and section assignments for the Utah Library Association and the Tennessee Library Association. In 1975 he was named the Mary U. Rothrock Lecturer by the E ast Tennessee Library Association. He is also active in ALA program and committee work, including the A CRL/ULS Steering Committee and the ACRL Undergraduate Librarians Discussion Group. Cottam is the co-author of W riter s Research Handbook ( A. S. Barnes, 1977) and since 1968 has published more than tw enty articles and re­ ports in the fields of library service and higher education, as well as in his avocational interest, bicycling. He is a regular book reviewer for Choice and has reviewed for ARBA. D uring the summer of 1971 he worked as an advisor to the National Institute of Administra­ tion in Saigon, Vietnam. In 1972 he was select­ ed as a BYU faculty member to the honor so­ ciety of Phi Kappa Phi. In 1975 he was award­ ed a CLR fellowship for a cooperative study, with the Association of Research Libraries, Of­ fice of Management Studies, of the role of m an­ agerial and technical specialists in academic re­ search libraries. W i l l i s M. H u b b a r d has been appointed di­ rector of the H ugh Stephens Library at Ste­ phens College, Columbia, Missouri. He comes to Stephens from E u­ reka College, Eureka, Illinois. While at Eureka, he served for four years as head librar­ ian while also direct­ ing the audiovisual departm ent and doing some teaching in po­ litical science. In 1972 he was appoint­ ed to a part-time posi­ tion as assistant to the Eureka College Willis M. Hubbard president, w ith re­ sponsibilities for institutional research and plan­ ning as well as remaining head librarian. His institutional research and planning position was supported by a U.S. Office of Education Title III grant. W hile at Eureka College, H ubbard held a research grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study management information needs of small academic libraries. A report of this research is forthcoming. He also is a mem­ ber of the National Consulting Network for 337 Liberal Arts Colleges, funded by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation. Both of the grants are administered through the Council for the Ad­ vancement of Small Colleges. H ubbard served on the Advisory Council of the Illinois Valley Library System and chaired the system’s Personnel Development Commit­ tee. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Library Technical Assistant program of Illinois Central College. Prior to his association with Eureka College in 1968, he served as assistant science librarian (1963-67) and assistant social sciences librar­ ian (1967-68) at Southern Illinois University— Carbondale. He has a B.A. degree from Monmouth Col­ lege, M.S.L.S. from the University of Illinois, and an M.A. in political science from Southern Illinois University. He is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha national political science honorary fra­ ternity. He has also received a number of civic awards and has served on various public boards. He is listed in the three latest editions of W ho’s W ho in the Midwest. He is a member of the Missouri Library As­ sociation and the American Library Association and serves on the LAD Library Organization and Management Section (LO M S) Statistics Committee for College and University Librar­ ies. He has presented programs at the 1975 and 1976 Annual Forums of the Association for In­ stitutional Research and at the 1976 Annual Conference of CAUSE (College And University Systems Exchange). At Stephens, H ubbard’s primary responsibil­ ities will include developing better use of the library by students, expanding interlibrary co­ operation, and the evaluation and development of the library collection. R o n a l d D. F r e d e r i c k has been named di­ rector of the College of Saint Benedict Library in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Frederick comes to Minnesota from Indi­ ana State University, Terre Haute, where from 1972 to 1977 he was a reference librar­ ian and history bib­ liographer. Prior to this position he was a library associate at the University of Michigan and a junior officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Frederick has an M.A. in International Ronald D. Frederick Relations from the University of Oklahoma and an A.M.L.S. from the University of Michigan. He has been in­ volved in national, state, and local archival ac­ tivities. Frederick is a member of the American Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. A l a n R . T a y l o r of Johns Hopkins Univer­ sity has been appointed director of the Univer­ sity of Rochester (U R ) Libraries, effective Jan­ uary 1, 1978. Taylor has been as­ sociate librarian at Johns Hopkins since 1974. A native of E ng­ land, he came to the U nited States in 1963 as librarian for Afri­ can studies at Indiana University. He also served as bibliogra­ pher and instructor in the African Studies Program and as visit­ Alan R. Tayloring lecturer at Indi­ ana’s G raduate Library School until 1973, when he became assistant director of libraries for reader services at the University of Maryland. After completing library studies in England in 1953, he became assistant librarian of the National Archives of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. He was chief librarian from 1956 to 1963. Taylor founded and was first secretary of the Library Association of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1959 and was a delegate to the International Conference on Cataloging Principles in Paris in 1961. He was honorary librarian of the Cen­ tral African Journal of Medicine from 1955 to 1963, a member of the founding committee of the Cooperative African Microform Project in 1964, and a member of the Association of Re­ search Libraries’ Farmington Plan Sub-Commit­ tee on Africa from 1964 to 1969. “We are very pleased th at after a careful search we have found a librarian of Mr. Tay­ lor’s caliber and experience to direct the uni­ versity’s libraries,” said UR President Robert L. Sproull. “He has had a distinguished career in library service. We are fortunate to have his expertise as we strive for further improvements in our university library system.” Among his many professional activities, Tay­ lor has served as chairman of the African Stud­ ies Association’s Archives-Libraries Committee from 1965 to 1967, as president of Indiana Uni­ versity’s Librarians’ Association in 1970-71, and as chairman of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Asian and African Sec­ tion in 1975-76. He is currently a member of the advisory committee to the Association of Research Libraries’ Collection Analysis Project. He has received several travel grants for spe­ cial research, including a grant from the gov­ ernment of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1961 338 to study governm ent libraries in B ritain and France; a grant from In d ian a U niversity in 1963 to study library and archival resources in South, C entral, and E ast Africa and E urope; a Fulbright-H ays F aculty Fellow ship from th e U.S. Office of E ducatio n in 1967 to study li­ brary and archival resources in E nglish- and F rench-speaking W est Africa; and a grant from the M idw est U niversities’ C onsortium for In ter­ national Activities in 1967 to carry out a library acquisitions program in th e C am eroons region, the Ivory Coast, and T he G ambia. Taylor is a m em ber of th e L ibrary Associa­ tion and th e A m erican L ibrary Association and is the author of num erous articles in profession­ al an d scholarly journals an d bibliographies dealing w ith Africa. He also has been active as a library consultant and lecturer. H e studied a t th e E aling T echnical College’s School of L ibrarianship, th e N orthw estern Poly­ technic School of L ibrarianship, th e H arrow Technical College, an d th e U niversity of South Africa. H e was a library assistant a t th e London School of Hygiene and T ropical M edicine from 1951 to 1953. H e holds the professional rating of British C hartered L ibrarian. M i l i m i r D r a z i c , director of the library at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont, for the p ast th ree years, has been nam ed th e new director of the V ictoria C ollege-U ni­ versity of Houston V ictoria C am pus L i­ brary. R oland Bing, Vic­ toria College presi­ dent, and G eorge C. T aulbee, Sr., act­ in g chancellor of U H V C, who m ade th e announcem ent, said D razic’s appoint­ m en t is subject to a p ­ proval b y th e board M ilimir Drazic of regents of th e U ni­ versity of H ouston system and the board of trustees of th e local college. T he new director’s library positions in the U nited States also h av e included associations w ith M anchester Com m unity College in M an­ chester, C onnecticut; Glencoe Public L ibrary in Glencoe, Illinois; N orthw estern U niversity L ibrary; and th e U niversity of K entucky L i­ brary. T aulbee said D razic’s extensive experience in large and small state-supported institutions as well as com m unity libraries m ade him p a r­ ticularly qualified for th e library directorship here. In addition to his w ork in this country, D razic was head librarian at the U niversity of B elgrade in Yugoslavia from 1948 to 1953. He also has been a foreign-language teacher in Strangnas, Sweden. As p a rt of his education, h e sp en t five years a t th e U niversity of B elgrade, receiving his m aster’s diplom a in 1950. H e atten d ed grad u ­ ate school a t the U niversity of C openhagen and th e U niversity of K entucky and has com pleted course requirem ents tow ard a P h.D . at the U ni­ versity of Chicago. Bing, in com m enting on D razic’s appoint­ m ent, said h e was “particularly im pressed w ith the librarian’s experience abroad.” D razic speaks English, Germ an, F rench, D anish, and Serbocroat and reads E nglish, Russian, H u n ­ garian, Czech, Swedish, an d N orw egian. H e also studied piano in V ienna for te n years. D razic was selected from m ore th a n fifty a p ­ plicants replying to a n ational search. H e is m arried and has one child. Ron Naylor, who h a d b een serving as acting librarian for U H V C, has taken a position as personnel officer for the library a t the Universi­ ty o f M aryland in College Park. B i l l y R a y f o r d W i l k i n s o n becam e th e asso­ ciate university librarian at th e U niversity of Illinois at Chicago Circle on A ugust 15, 1977. H e will be responsible for assisting B everly P. Lynch, the university librarian, in all m anageri­ al, budgetary, an d personnel m atters for all areas of the university library. A native of N orth Carolina, W ilkinson did his un d erg rad u ate w ork at the U niversity of N orth C arolina a t C hapel Hill. H e received an A.B. in E nglish in 1955 an d an M.S.L.S. from th e university’s School of L ibrary Science in 1960; in 1971 he received th e D.L.S. from th e School of L ibrary Science a t C olum bia U niver­ sity. H e is a m em ber of Phi B eta K appa and B eta Phi Mu. His dissertation, subsequently published, was a study of u n d erg rad u ate stu­ dent use of th e reference departm ents of four institutions: Sw arthm ore College, E arlham College, C ornell U niversity, and th e U niversity of M ichigan at Ann Arbor. W ilkinson b egan his career in librarianship du rin g his stu d en t days, w orking from 1951- 56 both in part-tim e and in full-tim e positions in th e reference an d circulation departm ents of th e W ilson L ibrary at th e U niversity of N orth Carolina. In 1959, h e m oved to Cornell U niver­ sity w here h e h eld a n u m b er of positions in the public service area, including th a t of assistant reference librarian and th a t of librarian of the G oldw in Sm ith L ibrary, before becom ing the first L ibrarian of th e Uris U ndergraduate L i­ brary in 1962. T he success of th e Uris L ibrary was in great p a rt d u e to th e organizational and planning skills of W ilkinson. H e stayed at C or­ nell until 1967 w hen h e began his doctoral studies at C olum bia U niversity. Upon comple­ tion of his doctorate in library science, he joined th e staff of th e N ew York P ublic L ibrary. 339 W ilkinson comes to Chicago Circle from th e po­ sition of staff relations officer for th e New York Public Library, w ith responsibility for the per­ sonnel and staff developm ent programs of the entire system, including th e research libraries, the central circulating library, and all th e branches, a position he has held since 1971. Wilkinson has wide and varied experience th a t will be of great benefit to Chicago Circle as it develops and expands its services. He has a strong publications background th at includes, in addition to his dissertation, several articles on service to undergraduates, a reader in u n ­ dergraduate libraries now on press, and articles on staffing needs and personnel problems in li­ braries. A P P O I N T M E N T S C h e r y l A l e x a n d e r — clinical medical li­ brarian, School of M edicine Library— W a s h ­ i n g t o n U n i v e r s i t y , St. Louis, Missouri. E s t h e r B l o c h —reference librarian, School of M edicine L ibrary — -W a s h i n g t o n U n i v e r s i ­ t y , St. Louis, Missouri. C h r i s t i n e B r i t s c h — associate librarian, spe­ cial collections— F l o r i d a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Tallahassee. J o h n D . B u r l i n g t o n —reference librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t A u s t i n . K a r e n C i l l i — serials cataloger, H illman L i­ brary— U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , Pennsyl­ vania. B a r t o n M. C l a r k — education and social sci­ ences librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n . R . A l a n C l a r k — reference librarian, Robert W . W oodruff Library— E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y , At­ lanta, Georgia. C h r i s t i n e C l e m e n t s — reference librarian— C a l i f o r n i a S t a t e C o l l e g e , B a k e r s f i e l d . P a u l M. C o u s i n s — acting director of librar­ ies— E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y , A tlanta, Georgia. R o b e r t J . C o x e — assistant coordinator of library programs— C o n s o r t i u m o f U n i v e r s i ­ t i e s o f t h e W a s h i n g t o n M e t r o p o l i t a n A r e a , D istrict of Columbia. C h r i s t i n e C r u t s i n g e r — assistant catalog li­ brarian— F l o r i d a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Talla­ hassee. B a r b a r a D o l o u g h t y —serials librarian, Falk Medical L ibrary— U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , Pennsylvania. J e r r y J . D o n o v a n — reference librarian, Rob­ ert W . W oodruff Library— E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y , A tlanta, Georgia. D e n n i s E l d e r — assistant social sciences li­ brarian— F l o r i d a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , T alla­ hassee. C y r i l C . H . F e n g — director of th e health sciences library— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , Baltimore. R o b e r t F i k e s J r . —assistant reference librar­ ian— S a n D i e g o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , California. T h o m a s M . G a u g h a n —assistant to the di­ rector of personnel— U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n . S a r a h C . G i l l e s p i e — acting h ead of refer­ ence departm ent— R obert W . W oodruff Library — E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y , Atlanta, Georgia. E d w a r d J . G o o d m a n — education, sociology, health, and physical education bibliographer— S y r a c u s e U n i v e r s i t y , New York. M i c h a e l G o r m a n — director of technical ser­ vices— U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n . M i r i a m D . G u i d o — catalog librarian— M o n t c l a i r S t a t e C o l l e g e , U pper Montclair, New Jersey. T h o m a s H . G u n n —library director— J a c k ­ s o n v i l l e U n i v e r s i t y , Florida. C a n d a c e H a l l —assistant hum anities librar­ ian— F l o r i d a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Tallahassee. A l i c e W. H o b s o n —assistant librarian, Legal Staff Library— G e n e r a l M o t o r s C o r p o r a t i o n , D etroit, Michigan. J a n e L . H o w e l l — engineering librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t A u s t i n . R a y L . H o w e s — circulation librarian— W o f ­ f o r d C o l l e g e , Spartanburg, South Carolina. C e l i a S. H u s t o n — head of Asa Griggs C an­ dler undergraduate library— E m o r y U n i v e r s i ­ t y , A tlanta, Georgia. J e f f r e y J a c k s o n — Afro-American librarian, Hillman L ibrary— U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , Pennsylvania. J a n e A. K e r b e r — assistant professor and re­ source librarian, M edical Sciences L ibrary— T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , College Station. L e o n a r d K l e i n — law librarian — U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , Pennsylvania. D a v i d K o s a k o w s k i —reference librarian— C a l i f o r n i a S t a t e C o l l e g e , Bakersfield. O r l y n B . L a B r a k e —associate director— F l o r i d a T e c h n o l o g i c a l U n i v e r s i t y , Orlando. R o n N a y l o r — personnel officer— U n i v e r s i ­ t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. G e r a l d D . P a l s s o n — sciences reference li­ brarian— S a n D i e g o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , C ali­ fornia. M a u r e e n P a s t i n e — undergraduate librarian — U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r b a n a - C h a m ­ p a i g n , R i c h a r d H . P e i s e r —assistant acquisitions librarian, R obert W. W oodruff L ibrary— E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y , A tlanta, Georgia. E m m a B . P e r r y — assistant professor and head of the circulation division— T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , College Station. P a t r i c i a P o l e n t z —cataloger— U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n . J a n e R i s s — director of th e library/m ed ia center— G o l d e n W e s t C o l l e g e , H untington Beach, California. 340 M a r y S e n g — h e a d o f t h e s p e c i a l s e r v i c e s d e ­ p a r t m e n t - — U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t A u s t i n . L i n d a S h o r h — assistant social sciences li­ brarian— F l o r i d a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , T allahas­ see. J o a n S h r e v e —librarian, Buhl L ibrary of So­ cial W ork— U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , P enn­ sylvania. J u d i t h A . T h o m p s o n — reference librarian— C a l i f o r n i a S t a t e C o l l e g e , Stanislaus. R o b e r t L. V o l z — custodian of th e C hap­ in L ibrary— W i l l i a m s C o l l e g e , W illiam s­ town, M assachusetts. S u s a n C. W a g n e r — library services m an­ ager, Pittsburgh Regional L ibrary Center-— C h a t h a m C o l l e g e , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. B r u c e W a r r — hum anities bibliographer, A rchibald Stevens Alexander L ibrary— R u t ­ g e r s U n i v e r s i t y , New Jersey. A r l a n H . W i p f —director of lib rary /m ed ia services— D a w s o n C o l l e g e , G lendive, M on­ tana. R i c h a r d C. W o o d — catalog librarian— W o f ­ f o r d C o l l e g e , Spartanburg, South Carolina. R E T I R E M E N T S H . R i c h a r d A r c h e r , librarian of th e C hapin Library, W i l l i a m s C o l l e g e , W illiamstow n, M assachusetts, retired June 30, 1977, after tw enty years of service. A u d r e y A . B r o w a r d , library director at J a c k s o n v i l l e U n i v e r s i t y , retire d A ugust 31, 1977. M a r y E . C o w l e s , special collections librari­ an at O b e r l i n C o l l e g e , Ohio, retired A ugust 31, 1977. R o b e r t L . T a l m a d g e , director of technical services at th e U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r­ b a n a - C h a m p a i g n , retired A ugust 31, 1977. R u t h W a l l i n g , head of th e reference de­ partm ent in th e R obert W . W oodruff L ibrary at E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y , Atlanta, Georgia, retired August 31, 1977. ■ ■ Publications N O T I C E S • T he N ational Commission on N ew T ech ­ nological Uses of C opyrighted Works ( C O N T U ) commissioned Professor W illiam J. Baumol and o th er m em bers of th e N ew York U niversity D ep artm en t of Economics to do an extensive economic analysis of th e E conom ics of Property R ights as A p p lied to C om puter Softw are and D ata Bases. This report was p re ­ sented to C O N T U at the fifteenth m eeting of the commission in July 1977 and is now avail­ able for p urchase through the N ational T ech ­ nical Inform ation Service (N T IS ). T he study indicates th a t th e economists find copyright protection preferable to trad e secrecy b u t think a tw o- to fourteen-year term of pro­ tection w ould be optimal. To order th e report, specify N TIS code num ­ b e r PB 268 787 and send A m erican Express credit card num ber or check or m oney order ($6 pap er copy or $3 m icrofiche) to N TIS, D e­ p artm en t of Comm erce, Springfield, VA 22161. Reports are m ailed out fourdh class mail. For first class m ail service, N TIS requests an ad d i­ tional $2. • T he Texas A&M U niversity L ibraries has published as its M iscellaneous Publication 15 T h e Land-G rant M o vem en t and the D evelop­ m ent o f A cadem ic Libraries: Som e T entative Explorations, an address by E d w ard G. Holley at the annual m eeting of th e B eta E ta (T exas) ch ap te r of Beta Phi Mu on O ctober 30, 1976, in College Station, Texas. This twenty-five page publication w as p re ­ pared for distribution to th e m em bers of the Beta E ta (T ex as) C hapter of Beta Phi Mu; however, a lim ited num ber of copies are avail­ able for $4 each, prepaid, from th e Friends of th e Texas A&M U niversity Library, Sterling C. E vans Library, Texas A&M U niversity, College Station, TX 77843. • T he F ar E astern L ibrary of th e Universi­ ty of Chicago has recently published Far E ast­ ern Serials (R eference List No. 2 .). A holding list of approxim ately 5,000 serial titles on E ast Asia in F a r E astern an d W estern languages in the F a r E astern L ibrary an d other departm ental libraries of the U niversity of C hi­ cago L ibrary system is arranged by language into four sections: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and W estern languages, each w ith a m ain text an d a n addenda, except for th e section of Ko­ rean serials. W ithin each section, titles are ar­ ranged alphabetically according to the W ade- Giles rom anization. T he above publications can be ordered for $8 postpaid from th e Photoduplication D e p a rt­ m ent, U niversity of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. T h e library’s Reference L ist No. 1 on C hinese Local H is­ tories is out of print. • T h e Inform ation Industry Association an­ nounces publication of Essential E lem ents of a C opyright C learinghouse, w hich considers the origins, procedures, and functions of th e new Copyright C learance C enter, Inc. (C C C ) . T he