ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 332 People PROFILES Suanne W. Muehlner, assistant director for public services of The Libraries at the Massachu­ setts Institute of Technology, assumed the direc­ to rsh ip of M iller L i­ brary at Colby College, W aterville, Maine, on September 1. At M IT, M u eh ln er supervised and coordi­ nated the library sys­ tem ’s five divisional and three branch libraries, and two reading rooms and serv ed as liaison between the public ser­ vice d ep a rtm en ts and other sections. During five years in the post, Suanne W. Muehlner M u eh ln er d ev elo p ed Peter Kingsley standards for consistent practices in circulation, reserve, reference, and coordinated collection policies. Her current project is long-range plan­ ning on inflationary effects on book and journal budgets and the impact of automation. Muehlner has been with the MIT library sys­ tem for 16 years. From 1968 to 1973, she ad­ ministered the Earth and Planetary Sciences li­ brary; she became personnel librarian in 1973; she served as assistant director for personnel ser­ vices from 1974 to 1976. Fluent in the French and German languages, M uehlner was during 1970-71 a librarian with the Technische Universität in Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965, obtained her master’s degree in library science from th e Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Sci­ ences, and has an MBA from Northeastern Uni­ versity. Arthur P. Young has been appointed dean of libraries and professor at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, effective September 21. Prior to his appointment Young served as assistant dean for public services, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, University of Alabama, from 1976 to 1981. From 1972 to 1975, he was a part-time research associ­ ate with the Library Research Center, University of Illinois. Earlier, he had been head of reader services and social science bibliographer, 1969- 1972, Memorial Library, SUNY College at Cort­ land. He has served as an adjunct faculty member in the library schools of Syracuse University and the University of Alabama. Active in professional as­ sociations, Young has been vice president of the college/university libraries section, New York Li­ brary Association; chair of the Intellectual Free­ dom Com mittee, Alabama Library Association; and secretary-treasurer of ALA’s Library History Round Table. Young received th e bachelor’s d egree from Tufts University in 1962 and the master of arts in teaching degree (history and education) from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1964. Library degrees are the MLS from Syracuse Uni­ versity in 1969, and the Ph D. from the Univer­ sity of Illinois in 1976. Among his eighty publications is Boohs fo r Sammies: The American Library Association and World War I, forthcoming in the Beta Phi Mu chapbook series. Winston A. Walden has been appointed di­ rector of the F. G. Woodward Library at Austin Pėay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, ef­ fective June 26. Formerly head of technical services at the Kent Library of Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Walden has also served as acting director and acquisitions librarian at Kent Li­ brary. Walden received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He received an MLS at the University of Iowa and is completing his doctoral dissertation at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS D avid Kaser, professor of library and informa­ tion science at Indiana University, Bloomington, has received a grant from the Asia Foundation to consult on a new library building for Ewha Wom­ ans University in Korea. He spent part of last summer in Seoul initiating work on the project, which will be completed by 1985 as part of the university’s centennial effort. Ewha, with an en­ rollment of nearly 17,000, is the largest women’s university in the world. J ohn Lancaster and R uth M ortimer have been appointed joint editors of the quarterly journal, The Papers o f the Bibliographical Society o f America. Their editorship begins with volume 76 (1982), succeeding William B. Todd, who had edited the Papers since 1967. Lancaster is special collections librarian and archivist of Amherst Col­ lege, and Mortimer is curator of rare books at Smith College. 333 APPOINTMENTS Kate Adams is now reference librarian in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Univer­ sity of Nebraska-Lincoln. Brian Aveney has been appointed director for research and developm ent at Blackwell North America, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon. Adria C. Beckham has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Alabama Li­ brary. Deborah Bezanson joined theR eference De­ partment of the Gelman Library, George Wash­ ington University, Washington, D C. D avid Block III has been appointed social science/history bibliographer in the Collection Development Department of the University of Alabama Library. F rederick R. Brady is now assistant cataloger at the Oklahoma State University Library, Still­ water. B. J. Busch has been appointed head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Univer­ sity of Alberta, Edmonton. M. Sylvia Carson has been appointed assistant librarian in the Research and Standards Depart­ ment, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. D onis Casey is the new governm ent docu­ ments reference librarian at the University of Ok­ lahoma, Norman. T homas W. C onkling has been appointed head of the Engineering Library at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Martha H. Cordova is now assistant librarian of the Feldberg Engineering and Business Ad­ m in istratio n L ibrary at D artm o u th College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Samuel Demas has been appointed head of the Access/Circulation Department of Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. E dward D uncan is now head of the Cataloging D epartm ent at Georgia Southern College Li­ brary, Statesboro. Caroline Early has been appointed assistant head of the Acquisitions Department in the Gel­ man Library, George W ashington University, Washington, D.C. David F raley has been appointed reference librarian at the Willamette University Library, Salem, Oregon. E laine A. F ranco is now principal cataloger for th e P rocessing D ivision, U niversity of Nebraska- Lincoln. Alexander MacGregor Gilchrist has been appointed head of the reference department at the University of South Carolina Library, Colum­ bia. Loren R. Goldner was appointed librarian of the Center for European Studies, Harvard Uni­ versity. Harriet Grossman has been appointed media services librarian at the Health Sciences Library, Columbia University, New York. R uth S. Haas has been appionted assistant head of the Harvard University Library CONSER Office. Larry L. Harbin has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Alabama Library. Donald D. Hendricks, director of the library at th e U niversity of New O rleans, has been named dean of the library at that institution. C ynthia H ernandez has b ee n ap p o in ted cataloger in the Social Sciences Unit of the Uni­ versity of Illinois Library, Urbana. E llis Hodgin has been appointed head of the Public Services Division of the Robert F. Ken­ nedy Memorial Library, University of Guam. Jeffrey L, Horrell has been appointed art li­ brarian of the Sherman Art Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Carol J. Kane is now assistant reference librar­ ian at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Alice W. Karasick has b ee n ap p o in ted circuit-rider librarian at the University of South­ ern California’s Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles. Ginny Kimzey has been named coordinator of the Health Science Libraries, Texas Woman’s University Dallas Center. 334 Barbara L. Kittle has been appointed head of serial records at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Margaret G. Knapp has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in Harvard University’s Gutman Library. Rebecca C. Knight has been appointed admin­ istrative services librarian at Wichita State Uni­ versity, Kansas. Alice L. Lane is now head of th e Serials Cataloging Section, U niversity of N ebraska- Lincoln. Melissa L aning has been appointed assistant head of the Cataloging Department, Gelman Li­ brary, George Washington University, Washing­ ton, D.C. Catherine N. La T our has been appointed as­ sistant librarian for reader services at Southeast­ ern University, Washington, D.C. E laine Tai Lauria is now educational broker for the Self-D irected Learning Project at the University of Southern California’s Norris Medi­ cal Library. Susan J. Lieberman has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. E lizabeth Ann L ucas-Ford is a new cataloger in th e P rocessing D ivision, U n iv ersity of Nebraska-Lincoln. William E. McG rath has been appointed as­ sociate professor at the School of Information and Library Studies of the State University of New York at Buffalo. Sharon Burke Mader has been appointed in­ form ation retriev al/IL L librarian at M emphis State University, Tennessee. C arolyn Malhoit has b e e n a p p o in ted cataloger of audiovisual materials at Memphis State University, Tennessee. Katharine Martinez has been appointed head of access services at Columbia University’s Avery Library, New York. Lynne M. Meyers has been appointed head of th e T echnical Services D e p a rtm e n t at th e Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. Angela Million is the new history, political science and geography reference librarian at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. W illiam S. Morgan has b ee n a p p o in ted h u m an ities and social sciences lib ra ria n at D artm o u th C ollege L ib rary , H an o v er, New Hampshire. M elanie N ietmann N orten has b ee n ap ­ pointed serials librarian at D artm outh College Library. Shelley P hipps is now h ead sc ien c e­ engineering librarian at the University of Arizona Library, Tucson. Jean A. P oland has been appointed engineer­ ing librarian at th e U niversity of Oklahoma, Norman. Sue L. Raymond has been appointed reference librarian at Memphis State University, Tennes­ see. Patricia A. Renn-Scanlan has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Alabama Library. Harris M. Richard has been named director of the library at San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico. D aniel Richards has joined the staff of the Columbia University Libraries as assistant health sciences librarian for resources and reference ser­ vices. Thomas Sanders has been appointed head of the technical services division, U niversity of Guam. Ravindra N. Sharma has been appointed head of the library at Pennsylvania State University’s Beaver Campus. Barbara A. Sokolosky was appointed curato­ rial associate in the Harvard University Archives. D onna Gayley Spearman has been appointed assistan t lib ra ria n in g en eral re feren c e and cataloging, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan. E lizabeth Stewart has been appointed ar­ chivist and head of special collections at Rens­ selaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Ruth K. Taylor has been appointed head of 335 the Shiftman Medical Library, Wayne State Uni­ versity, Detroit. Sandra Taylor is now an assistant librarian in th e H ealth Sciences L ib rary , U n iv ersity of California, Davis. John T ongate is the new head of reference services at Perry-Castaneda Library, University of Texas at Austin. Mary S. T ownsend is now executive assistant in the Office of the Assistant Librarian for Pro­ cessing Services at the Library' of Congress. Richard S. T yce has been appointed head of Pennsylvania State University’s Hazleton Campus Library. Katherine L. Walter is now head of the Se­ rials Records Section, University of Nebraska- Lincoln. P atricia Weaver-Meyers is now head of ac­ cess services at the University of Oklahoma Li­ brary, Norman. C harles Weyant has been appointed univer­ sity librarian at the W illamette University Li­ brary, Salem, Oregon. Weldon L. Whipple is now OCLC coordinator for th e P rocessing D ivision, U n iv ersity of Nebraska-Lincoln. James F. Williams has been appointed associ­ ate director of university libraries at Wayne State University, Detroit. Glenn R. Wittig has joined the faculty of the School of L ibrarianship of W estern Michigan University, Kalamazoo, as assistant professor. Stephen W olff has been appointed reference librarian at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. RETIREMENTS L ewis C. Branscomb retired on September 1 as professor of Thurber Studies after serving 33 years at Ohio State University. He will retain his p rese n t office at OSU and continue his activ­ ity on several commit­ tees of th e A m erican Association of U niver­ sity Professors and the University Senate. His new title is professor of lib rary ad m in istratio n emeritus. Branscomb was asso­ ciate director of librar­ ies at Ohio State from 1948 to 1952 and direc­ Lewis C. Branscomb tor of lib raries from 1952 to 1971, a period when the automated circulation system develop­ ment began in earnest. He became professor of Thurber Studies in 1971, the year after the James T h u rb e r Reading Room was d ed ica ted . T he Thurber collection contains the complete works of Thurber as well as many manuscripts and papers. Prior to his service at Ohio State, Branscomb was assistant director of public services at the University of Illinois (1944-1948); librarian and professor of library science at the University of South Carolina (1942-1944); library director at Mercy University, Macon, Georgia (1941-1942); and order librarian at the University of Georgia (1939-1941). He obtained a bachelor’s degree in library sci­ ence at the University of Michigan in 1939, an MLS at the same institution in 1941, and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in 1954. Branscomb has been very active in ACRL and ALA. He was president of ACRL in 1958-59, chair of the College and University Section of the Ohio Library Association in 1952-53, and chair of the ALA Nominating Committee in 1954-55. He received an award of merit from the Ohio Library Association in 1971. Branscomb was p resid en t of the Ohio State Chapter of the American Association of Univer­ sity Professors in 1953-54 and served on the AAUP National Council from 1952 to 1955. In 1974 he co-authored a History o f the Ohio Con­ ference, AAUP, 1949-1974. Branscomb has also been on the board of directors for the Center for Research Libraries and the board of trustees for the Ohio College Library Center. He edited The Case fo r Faculty Status fo r Academic Librarians, a 1970 ALA publication, and contributed several articles for the Dictionary o f American Library Biography (1977). He has written several articles on James Thurber and the OSU T hurber collection, including one in the winter 1975 issue of the Lost Generation Journal. An article on the early days of OCLC co­ authored by Branscomb appears in the July 1981 issue of C&RL. John H. Gribbin, director of libraries at the University of Missouri-Columbia, will retire in March, 1982. He became director of the UMC libraries in 1977 after serving as library direc­ tor at Tulane University for ten years. At UMC G ribbin helped develop a new circulation system and was instrumental in ac­ q uiring a new library annex. Most recently he was involved in p la n ­ ning a combined facility for library storage and the health sciences li­ John H. Gribbin brary. G rib b in o b tain ed a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the Univer­ sity of North Carolina, an MLS from the Univer­ sity of California at Berkeley in 1951, and a 336 Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1958. He was chair of the first board of directors for SOLINET in 1973–1974 and acting executive di­ rector for that organization in 1974. He has pub­ lished articles on SOLINET in C&RL News (Feb­ ruary 1975) and the Southeastern Librarian, where he served as editor from 1964-1966. Grib- bin also edited the 11th edition of Industrial Re­ search Laboratories o f the United States (1960) and the 7th edition of Scientific and Technical Societies o f the United States and Canada (1961). From 1950 to 1966 he held various positions at the University of Texas at Austin, Rice Univer­ sity, the National Research Council, and the Uni­ versity of North Carolina. Kenneth J. Carpenter has retired as special collections librarian at the University of Nevada Library, Reno, after 19 years of service. Lillie Caster has retired as head of mono­ graphic cataloging at the D.H. Hill Library, Uni­ versity of North Carolina, Raleigh. Joseph S. Komidar retired on September 1 as library director of the Tufts University Library, Medford, Massachusetts, after 25 years of service. Before coming to Tufts he held positions at Carle­ ton College and the University of Minnesota, and was chief of the reference and special services di­ vision at the Northwestern University Library. DEATH Marion A. Milczewski, director of libraries at the University of Washington from 1960 to 1977 and professor emeritus at the University of Wash­ ington School of Librar- ianship, died June 18. Milczewski received his bachelor of arts de­ gree in 1936 from the University of Michigan. He was aw arded his bachelor of library sci­ ence deg ree in 1938 and a master of science d egree in 1940, both from the University of Illinois. From 1940 to 1947 Marion A. Milczewski he served in various po­ James 0. Sneddon sitions at ALA H ead­ quarters. He joined the association as assistant to the executive secretary, became executive assis­ tant on the Books for Latin America Project, was assistant to the director of international relations from 1943 to 1946, and served as director of in­ ternational relations from 1946 to 1947. Later, from 1969 to 1973, Milczewski served on the ALA Council and Executive Board. He assisted in the establishment of the Benja­ min Franklin Library in Mexico in 1942, and in 1945 he was ALA’s official representative to the Third Congress of Librarians, the First Congress of Archivists, and the First Book Fair, all in Mexico. In 1947 Milczewski became director of the Southeastern States Cooperative Library Survey of the Tennessee Valley Library Council. The re­ sults of this nine-state survey of library facilities were reported in Libraries o f the Southeast, writ­ ten in collaboration with Louis R. Wilson. In 1949 he went to the University of California- Berkeley as assistant librarian. In 1954-1955 he held a Fulbright fellowship for research at the universities in Great Britain. Milczewski’s professional m em berships in ­ cluded ACRL, the Pacific Northwest Library As­ sociation, the California Library Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the As­ sociation of American Library Schools. He was a founding member of the Seminar in the Acquisi­ tion of Latin American Library Materials. DOCUMENTS AWARDS ALA’s Government Documents Round Table has announced the availability of two awards, the James B en n ett Childs Award and the CIS/ GODORT/ALA Documents to the People Award, to be given at the ALA 1982 annual meeting in Philadelphia. The James Bennett Childs Award was estab­ lished in 1976 and is given to “honor a person who has made a lifetime and significant contribu­ tion to the field of government documents and their use in libraries.” Such contributions may have been in any or all fields of documents librar- ianship. The award consists of a bronze plaque with the likeness of James Bennett Childs. The CIS/GODORT/ALA D ocuments to the People Award was first given in 1977 and is to “honor an individual and/or library, institution, or other non-commercial group that has most effec­ tively encouraged the use of federal documents in support of library services.” The award consists of $1,000 to be used in the area of documents librar- ianship (but not for personal advantage) and a framed, hand-lettered plaque. Nominations should be made prior to the ALA Midwinter meeting in Denver, January 23-28, 1982. Nominations and su p p o rtin g m aterial should be sent to Lois Mills, Chair, GODORT Awards Committee, Library, W estern Illinois University, Macomb, IL 61455. You can save $ 6 ,0 0 0 this year By converting your subscription to the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers for 1981/82 from the full size edition (which is costing you over $7,000) to our microfiche edition which costs $1,400. Save time. The microfiche edition is sent monthly by airmail direct from the UK and arrives earlier than the printed edition. Save space. The mcrofiche edition saves expensive shelf space. Many large libraries have released substantial funds for other purchases by converting to the microfiche edition. So can you – to make the maximum saving this year please send us your order or request for more information as soon as possible. Catalogue of British Official Publications Not published by HMSO 1980 Annual Volume $190 1981 Six Bi-monthly Issues and Annual Cumulation $260 This important new reference book catalogs and indexes for the first time the thousands of official publications published by over 300 Government departments, nationalised industries, research institutes and ‘quangos’ that are not published by HMSO, and are not listed in the British National Bibliography or any other bibliography. You will now have access to publications of institutions such as the Foreign Office, the Home Office, and the Bank of England. The publications themselves are available from us on inexpensive diazo or silver microfiche; individually, by publishing body, or in subject sets. S e n d o rd ers and re q u e s ts for information to: Somerset House, 417 Maitland Avenue, Teaneck, NJ 07666 Telephone: 201 833-1795 338 APPLICANTS SOUGHT FOR NEH/ACRL WORKSHOPS The Association of College and Research Li­ braries has been awarded a grant of $67,293 to conduct two workshops for academic librarians. The workshops will be held in Boston in early December, 1981, and in California at the end of February, 1982. The purposes of the workshop are: • to acquaint librarians with the value and po­ tential impact of humanities programs on the li­ brary’s program of service; • to dem onstrate how these programs will promote greater use of the library’s humanities holdings; • to demonstrate how innovative public pro­ grams are designed and produced; • to encourage librarians to make an assess­ ment of their humanities holdings with a view to developing program themes; • to assist librarians to take preliminary steps in preparing a proposal with particular emphasis toward the solicitation of cost-sharing from either local funding sources or private philanthropy; and • to explain the particular goals and objectives of NEH and the work funded by each of the other NEH Divisions. Applications are being sought from librarians wishing to participate in these workshops. Prefer­ ence will be given to teams of one librarian/one faculty humanist from each institution. Fifty ap­ plicants will be accepted for each workshop. Participants will be selected based on the fol­ lowing criteria: 1. Demonstrated interest in programming be­ yond the immediate academic community; 2. Ability to assess the library’s hum anities holdings and to identify p o te n tia l topics for humanities programs; 3. Interest in learning how to develop innova­ tive methods of programming to stimulate inter­ est in the humanities in the general adult public. Participants will be provided with a per diem of $50 per day for two days and a travel subsidy of up to $150. Applications m ust be made on project application forms, available by calling the ACRL office at (312) 944-6780 or writing to: Association of College and Research Libraries NEH Project 50 E. Huron Street Chicago, IL 60611 Deadline for completed applications for the Bos­ ton workshop is November 6, 1981, and for the California workshop, January 22, 1982. Project d irecto r is D r. Julie Carroll Virgo, ACRL Executive Director. Peggy O’Donnell will serve as the program consultant and Dr. Huel Perkins as the Humanist Consultant. 339 If You’ve Got A Problem We’re Just A (Free) Phone Call Away! Linda Market Carol Lehmkuhl Pam Rodgers Pat Hamil Linda and Carol, Pam and Pat are Midwest Library Service’s Personal Customer Service Representatives who are specially trained to solve any book ordering problem your library may encounter. They are thoroughly knowledgeable in all facets of the library jobber business, and if you are ever in need of their services, you can reach them by using our TOLL-FREE WATS Line, 1-800-325-8833 (Missouri customers please call COLLECT: 0-314-739-3100) for help in solving any problem. Your Customer Service Representative will follow the problem through to a satisfactory conclu­ “ 20 Years o f Service To College and sion — without delay. Remember Linda and U niversity L ibraries” Carol, Pam and Pat are “ working” for you and your library. It’s all part of Midwest Library Service’s tradition of excellence. MIDWEST LIBRARY SERVICE 11443 St. Charles Rock Road BRIDGETON, Mo. 63044 Publications NOTICES • African Languages: A Guide to Materials in the A lderm an L ib ra ry o f the U niversity o f Virginia, edited by Mary Alice Kraehe and Chris­ tina W. Sharretts (114 pages, 1981) contains 777 entries, maps, and has indexes for both author and language. Free copies are available upon re­ quest to the African Bibliography Section, Collec­ tion D evelopm ent D epartm ent, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA 22901. • A ndré and François-André M ichaux (35 pages, 1981), number 1 in the Sterling Morton Library Bibliographies in Botany and Horticul­ ture, contains bibliographical descriptions of all the monographic works of the Michaux, father and son, printed before the nineteenth century. The Michaux were important plant explorers in North America at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Copies of the catalogue may be ordered for $10 from the Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL 60532. • Aspects o f Negotiations between States: A Select Bibliography (1981) has been published by the University of Waterloo Library. The bibli­ ography covers primarily North American sources in English. Copies are available for $10 from Jorn Jorgenson, Library Business Administrator, Dana P o rter Arts Library, University of W aterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. • The Checklist o f Canadian Ethnic Serials (1981) is a comprehensive listing that brings to­ gether approximately 3,000 entries for newspa­ pers, periodicals, church bulletins, directories, almanacs, yearbooks, and conference proceedings of about 60 cultural groups. The checklist is or­ ganized first by ethnic group and then alpha­ betically by title within each group. Copies may be obtained from the Canadian Government Pub­ lishing C entre, Supply and Services Canada, Hull, Quebec, K1A 0S9. All orders must be ac­ companied by a check or money order made pay­ able to the Receiver General for Canada for $50 in Canada, $60 U.S. • Library and Information Science Education in the Americas: Present and Future, edited by William V. Jackson (85 pages, 1981), contains the papers that were delivered at a one-day confer­ ence on education for library and information ser­ vices held in Austin on February 14, 1980. The conference was co-sponsored by the Association of American Library Schools, the Organization of American States, and the Seminar on the Acquisi­