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are ninety-five pages of entries on the war in 
Vietnam and ninety-three pages on the U.S. 
presidential race, the year’s most extensively 
reported news stories. Considerable space is also 
devoted to the Soviet Union’s invasion of 
Czechoslovakia, the Arab-Israeli crisis, the as­
sassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., unrest on the na­
tion’s college campuses, and the U.S. space pro­
gram. To a large extent, however, the 1968 
In dex  is bigger because it has more detailed 
abstracts and more cross-references than ever 
before. This is due to a new computer-assisted 
process which makes it possible to handle a 
greater volume of material at far greater speeds. 
While abstracting and indexing of material 
continue to be done by information specialists, 
the mechanical functions of storing, sorting, 
combining, and collating are handled entirely 
by computer. In dex editors also select the illus­
trations which since 1965 have made the Index 
a pictorial reference source as well as a com­
prehensive news summary, while the computer 
allocates the necessary space. Among the il­
lustrations in the new volume are photographs 
of the candidates and highlights of the Presi­
dential campaign and election, a diagram of

the Apollo moon rocket and lunar module, 
charts showing the rising costs of medical care 
and the population explosion, and a diagram 
which depicts the MIRV defense system. Not 
only does the 1968 In dex have more pages 
than previous editions, but each page also pro­
vides more information. This is the result of a 
more condensed yet more legible typeface. 
There are about 300,000 entries (abstracts and 
cross-references) arranged under thousands of 
subject headings. The abstracts, which appear 
in chronological order, frequently provide all 
the information needed by a reader. Each is 
followed by the date, page, and column in 
which the original story appeared in T he 
Times.

• A 75-page booklet titled Pharmacy and 
Pharm acology: M EDLARS Indexing Instruc­
tions, by Thelma Charen, has been issued by 
the National Library of Medicine Index Section. 
Prepared primarily for MEDLARS indexers and 
search analysts, the guide may also be of in­
terest to biomedical librarians and others. A 
limited number of copies are available without 
charge from the Index Section, National L i­
brary of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Be- 
thesda, Maryland 20014. ■ ■

Personnel
D r . H e n r y  S c h e r e r , Librarian of the 

Krauth Memorial Library of the Lutheran The­
ological Seminary at Philadelphia, has been 
chosen Vice-President 
and P re s id e n t-E le c t 
by the American The­
ological Library Asso­
ciation. Results were 
announced at the An­
nual Conference of 
ATLA in Pittsburgh 
(June 2 2 ).

As Vice-President 
he is responsible for 
organizing the twenty- 
fourth annual confer­
ence to be held in Dr. Scherer
New Orleans June 
1970. At that time he automatically begins a 
one-year term as president, responsible for 
chairing the Executive Committee, and for de­
veloping the program of the organization. A 
year term on the Executive Committee as Past 
President will complete his term of office.

The American Theological Library Associa­
tion is comprised of 550 libraries and librarians 
of member seminaries, archivists, librarians in 
religious historical societies and in university 
schools of religion. Within its membership are 
schools of numerous Protestant denominations 
and Roman Catholicism. The organization car­
ries on a publication and microfilm program,

produces an index to over 125 religious peri­
odicals, administers a scholarship program for 
professional training, operates a placement serv­
ice, collects statistics of member libraries, and 
seeks foundation aid for upgrading theological 
libraries.

Dr. Scherer has been librarian at Krauth 
Memorial Library since 1960. Previously he was 
Assistant Librarian at Midland College for four 
years. The remainder of his career he has 
served as pastor of parishes of the Lutheran 
Church in the Midwest and in California for 
nearly thirty years.

In ATLA Dr. Scherer has served on the 
Executive Committee and has been Chairman 
of the Committee on Statistics.

His education includes a Master of Science 
in Library Science degree, and a Doctor of E d ­
ucation degree from the University of Southern 
California. He also has received a Master of 
Arts degree from Creighton University and the 
degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Central 
Lutheran Theological Seminary, along with a 
Bachelor of Arts degree from Midland College.

He is also active in the American Library 
Association and the Lutheran Historical Con­
ference. He is a charter member of the latter 
and headed its Committee on Microfilm for sev­
eral years. Presently he chairs the Southeastern 
Pennsylvania Theological Librarians group, an 
informal organization of eleven theological li­
braries pursuing cooperative endeavors.



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A P P O I N T M E N T S

Linda K. Angold, a 1968-69 trainee at 
Wayne State University Medical Library, has 
been appointed to the reference staíf of the 
Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library 
Service at the UCLA biomedical library.

Merle Boylan has been appointed associate 
director for technical services, University of 
Massachusetts library. Mr. Boylan has been 
chief of the library branch, Technical Informa­
tion Division of NASA’s Ames Research Center, 
Moffett Field, California.

Mrs. Nancy Covert has been appointed as­
sistant to the university librarian for systems, 
Kresge Library, Oakland University, Rochester, 
Michigan.

Charles J. Edwards is the new acquisitions 
librarian at Southern Oregon College, Ashland, 
Oregon.

E lizabeth A. E lkins has been appointed as­
sistant reference librarian, Milne Library, State 
University of New York College at Geneseo.

F ay F lesia has been appointed assistant li­
brarian for the Waukesha campus library of the 
University of Wisconsin.

Harry R. Gates has been appointed serials 
librarian at Southern Oregon College, Ash­
land, Oregon.

Nelson J. Gilman of the UCLA biomedical 
library was appointed associate director of the 
Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library 
Service.

Robert G. Gray has been appointed docu­
ments librarian at Southern Oregon College, 
Ashland, Oregon.

James D. H art, professor of English on the 
Berkeley campus of the University of California, 
has been named director of the Bancroft Li­
brary.

Mrs. Mary B. H askell has joined the staff 
of the University library, The George Washing­
ton University, as serials librarian.

Ivan L. Kaldor has been appointed interim 
dean of the library school at the State Universi­
ty College of Arts and Science at Geneseo, 
New York.

John Kendall has joined the bibliography 
division of the University of Massachusetts li­
brary. His special field of responsibility will be 
English and American studies. Mr. Kendall has 
been head of the book selection division of the 
Harvard College library.

Lawrence Kieffer, formerly assistant direc­
tor for social sciences, University of Nebraska 
libraries, is now head of the Reader Service 
Department, University of Northern Iowa li­
brary, Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Jackson Lethbridge has assumed the posi­
tion of senior assistant librarian with the re­
sponsibility for the acquisitions program of the 
Commonwealth Campuses Libraries, Pennsyl­
vania State University.

Ernest V. Liddle, formerly head libraria
of Seattle Pacific College, Seattle, Washington
is now acquisitions librarian and bibliographer,
Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
with the rank of associate professor.

George McDonough, formerly a member o
the faculty of the school of librarianship, Uni
versity of Washington, has been appointed di
rector of learning resources and editor of the
Journal of the Institute of Research, Seattl
Pacific College, Seattle, Washington. He hold
the rank of associate professor.

Mrs. Phyllis S. Mirsky, formerly of th
UCLA biomedical library reference staff, ha
been appointed head of the Consulting an
Continuing Education Section of the Pacifi
Southwest Regional Medical Library Service.

Mina B. Pease has joined the staff of th
Pennsylvania State University library as senio
assistant librarian in charge of the Governmen
Document collection in the reference depart
ment of the Pattee Library.

Richard C. Quick, director of libraries, Stat
University College of Arts and Science a
Geneseo, New York, has been named chairma
of the Committee on Community Use of Aca
demic Libraries of the American Library Asso
ciation’s Association of College and Researc
Libraries.

H elen Strickland, formerly oceanograph
librarian and head of the science reading room
University of Washington, Seattle, is now asso
ciate professor of librarianship and associate di
rector of learning resources, Seattle Pacific Col
lege, Seattle, Washington.

Seymour Weinstein has joined the staff o
Trenton State College as assistant librarian fo
reader’s services.

Melvin E. Westerman has assumed the po
sition of assistant librarian in the reference de
partment of Pennsylvania State University li
brary.

Mrs. Sally Fay W illiams has joined th
Drexel Institute of Technology library as busi
ness administration librarian in the referenc
department.

Mrs. Carol Ann W right has been ap
pointed assistant librarian in the undergraduat
libraries at Pennsylvania State University.

Muriel Zeldis has joined the staff of th
Houston Academy of Medicine library for th
Texas Medical Center. She holds the positio
of head of the catalog department. Miss Zeldi
was formerly with the College of Physicians o
Philadelphia.

R E T IR E M E N T S

Gerritt E. F ielstra, chief of the New Yor
Public Library’s Photographic Service, retire
August 30, 1969.

Mary A. Funk, for thirty years assistant li
brarian at Muhlenberg College, retired August
31, 1969.

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