ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries January 1988 / 39 .P E O P L E . Profiles H eike Kordish, assistant university librarian for planning and financial services at Colum bia Uni­ versity, has been nam ed deputy director of The Re­ search Libraries of the New York Public Library. Kordish will share responsibilities for planning, ad­ m inistrating, and m anaging operations w ithin the institution’s four research libraries, which have a to ta l n o n -c irc u la tin g co llectio n of m ore th a n 31,000,000 items. Kordish’s previous positions at Colum bia pro­ vided her w ith extensive experience in system p lan­ ning for technical services and special autom ated databases. After attending Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am M ain, W est G erm any, Kordish earned a bache­ lor’s degree in com parative literature from City College of New York. She holds an MLS from Co­ lum bia and an MBA from the Colum bia G raduate C onnie Kearns McCarthy, assistant university lib rarian for collections at George W ashington University since 1984, has been appointed assistant university lib ra ria n for collection m anagem ent a t D u k e U n iv e rsity , D u rh a m , N o rth C a ro ­ lina, effective O ctober 1, 1987. On the staff at George W ashington since 1973, M cC arthy served as act­ ing university librarian, collection m anagem ent coordinator, head of ac­ quisitions, an d special c o lle c tio n s e a ta lo g e r. Connie M cCarthyShe was formerly a cata- lo g e r a t th e F o lg e r Shakespeare Library. M cCarthy has served as chair of the ALA Re­ sources and Technical Services Division’s Collec­ tion M anagem ent and Development Com m ittee (1982-1984) and as chair of its Resources Section (1985-1986). She holds an MLS from the Catholic University of America and has been an adjunct fac­ ulty m em ber there for the past tw o years. Mc­ C arthy currently serves on the editorial board of Choice. People in the news Susan C rawford, professor and director of the W ashington University School of M edicine L i­ brary, St. Louis, Missouri, has been nam ed distin­ guished alum na for 1987 by the University of To­ ronto Faculty of Library and Inform ation Science. C raw ford was cited for contributions in the areas of research, publications and service. She has au ­ thored or edited more than 100 publications and served on or chaired more th an 40 regional or n a­ tional committees and offices. C raw ford is a m em ­ ber of Sigma Xi, a Fellow of the American Associa­ tion for th e A dvancem ent of Science, c u rre n t editor of the Bulletin o f the American Medical L i­ brary Association, and a former m em ber of the Board of Regents of the N ational Library of Medi­ cine. M artha P. L awry has been honored posthu­ mously by the Academic L ibrary Association of Ohio as Ohio Academic L ibrarian of the Year for 1987. Law ry, who died in December 1986, was a longtime m em ber of ALAO and had served on the organization’s board. She had been head of the W om en’s Studies Library at Ohio State University and, earlier, head of th e C atalog D epartm ent. L aw ry also served on the Board of Directors of the Ohio Library Foundation and was a m em ber of several national honor societies. H wa-W ei L ee, director of libraries at Ohio Uni­ versity, Athens, has been honored by the Ohio Li­ brary Association as Ohio L ibrarian of the Year. Lee came to Ohio University in 1978 and has over­ seen the autom ation of the library and organized librarian exchanges w ith countries in Europe and Asia. He is a m em ber of numerous library and in­ form ation associations and is an internationally known lecturer and consultant. J ohn G. L orenz, retired deputy lib rarian of Congress and executive director of the Association of Research Libraries, has been appointed acting executive director of the W ashington L ibrary C on­ sortium until a perm anent executive director can be found. Appointments (Appointments are taken from library newslet­ ters, letters from personnel offices and appointees, 40 / C&RL News and other sources. To ensure that your appoint­ ment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) Robert S. Allen has joined the staff of the Ref­ erence Department at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Sharon Baker has been appointed assistant pro­ fessor in the School of Library and Information Sci­ ence at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Steve Baker has been named director of the li­ b rary at N orth Greenville College, Tigerville, South Carolina. Walter Bell has been appointed reference li­ brarian at North Texas State University, Denton. Philip Berwick has been named director of the Law Library at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. G ary Botos has been appointed catalog/ref- erence librarian at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Thomas Bremer is the new head of reference at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Helen Brooks has been appointed media and fine arts catalog librarian in the Catalog D epart­ ment at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Linda Brown-Link is now head of technical ser­ vices in the Library/Archives Bureau of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City. Geneva L. Bush is now information services li­ brarian in the Biomedical Library at the University of South Alabama, Mobile. Maureen Canick has been appointed chief li­ brarian of central reference and loan services at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, W ashington, D.C. Sandra Cary has been appointed public service librarian at W artburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Joan Chapa has joined the academic library staff of St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. John Chavez is the new serials/reference librar­ ian at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Anto­ nio, Texas. Käthe Chipman is now indexer/reference librar­ ian on the Avery Index in the Avery Library at Co­ lumbia University, New York City. Deirdre Clarkin is the new evening reference librarian in the Law Library at Georgetown Uni­ versity, Washington, D.C. J. Glen Clayton has been promoted to assistant library director for public services at Furm an Uni­ versity, Greenville, South Carolina. Catherine D. Collins is now project librarian in the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dana D ’Andraia is the new head of the Acquisi­ tions Departm ent at the University of California, Irvine. Nancy Deyoe has been appointed principal cat- aloger at W ichita State University, Kansas. Kevin E ngel is now assistant lib ra ria n for reader services at Grinnell College, Iowa. Randall E ssing is now library assistant for ret­ rospective conversion at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Margaret F ast has been appointed serials cata- loger at W ichita State University, Kansas. Scott F inet has been appointed deputy director of the Law Library at Cleveland State University, Ohio. W. David Gay has joined the staff of the Business Administration/Government Documents D epart­ ment at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Louise Green is now assistant director for pub­ lic services at Villanova University, Pennsylvania. David Gregory has been appointed training li­ brarian for library automation at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Kathy A. Grenga has been appointed assistant public services librarian and curator for the South Carolina Baptist Historical Collection at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. Stuart F. Grinell has joined the staff of the Reference Department at Louisiana State Univer­ sity, Baton Rouge. Margo Gutierrez has been appointed Mexican- American studies librarian of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. Malcolm C. Hamilton, librarian of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Uni­ versity, has assumed additional responsibilities as university personnel librarian. Anne H arrison is now Slavic c a ta lo g e r at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Carole Hinchcliff has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in the College of Law Library at Ohio State University, Columbus. Carol Hughes has been appointed assistant to the director of the university library at the Univer­ sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. October R. Ivins has been appointed head of se­ rials services at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. George Jackson has been appointed reference librarian in the College of Law Library at Ohio State University, Columbus. Betty Kelly has been appointed assistant li­ brary director for technical services at Furm an University, Greenville, South Carolina. Vickie L. Kline has been appointed general ser­ vices librarian at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bill Langston has been named director of the library at Coker College, Hartsville, South Caro­ lina. Carolynne Lathrop has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Dubuque, Iowa. Patrick Lawlor has been appointed reference librarian/bibliographer and curator of the Herbert H. Lehman Suite and Papers at Columbia Univer­ sity, New York City. Pauline T. Lesnick has been appointed chief of acquisitions services in the Collections Manage- January 1988 / 41 ment Division of the Smithsonian Institution Li­ braries, Washington, D.C. Sandra Lindberg is the new head of technical services at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Steven L ittrell has been a p p o in te d ref- erence/special services librarian at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware. Judith L owman has been appointed assistant curator in the Special Collections Departm ent at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Sylvia E. McD owell has been named director of libraries at Middlesex Community College, Bed­ ford, Massachusetts. Susan Morris has been appointed cataloging li­ brarian at W artburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Declan C. Murphy has been appointed special projects officer in the Office of the Librarian at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Paul Naiditch has been appointed publications editor in the Departm ent of Special Collections at the University of California, Los Angeles. Nancy Nuckles has joined the staff of the Refer­ ence Departm ent at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Rosemarie Ostler is now reference librarian in the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. Gary Peete is the new head of the Government Documents Departm ent at the University of Cali­ fornia, Berkeley. Mary Joyce Pickett has been appointed head, access services, at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Patricia A. Promis is the new science acquisi­ tions librarian at the University of Arizona, Tuc­ son. Cynthia Provow has been appointed cataloger in the Law Library at Northwestern University, Chicago. Shabiran Rahman has been appointed librarian in the Dana Porter Reference and Collections De­ velopment Departm ent at the University of W ater­ loo, Ontario. James Rettig has been appointed assistant uni­ versity librarian for reference and information ser­ vices at the College of William and Mary, Wil­ liamsburg, Virginia. F rank X. Roberts has been appointed educa- tion/reference librarian at the University of North­ ern Colorado, Greeley. E llen C. Roth is the new librarian of the Cen­ ter for Hellenic Studies at H arvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brian R. Sacolic has been appointed reference and interlibrary loan librarian at Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Leilani A. St . Anna has been appointed infor­ mation services librarian in the Health Sciences Li­ brary and Information Center at the University of Washington, Seattle. Linda B. Schneider has been appointed project coordinator of the Louisiana Newspaper Project at ABC News, and Public Television bring their teams right into your library. Transcripts of today’s most eventful TV journalism on microfiche, along with comprehensive indexes. Quarterly delivery of current-year subscriptions, and complete backfiles available now from Research Publications. 42 / C&RL News Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. J anice Schuster is now reference librarian at Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts. Gina Sink has been appointed reference/biblio- graphic instruction librarian at St. Mary’s Univer­ sity, San Antonio, Texas. Martin Smith is the new chief of the National Air and Space Museum Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. Marilyn Starenko has been appointed assistant catalog librarian at Augustana College, Rock Is­ land, Illinois. Barbara Tillett has been appointed head of the Catalog Departm ent at the University of Cali­ fornia, San Diego. Virginia K. Vail has been appointed informa­ tion services librarian in the University of South Al­ ab am a Biom edical L ib ra ry ’s M edical C enter Branch, Mobile. J oyce Bennett Van Cura is now head of the Reference Departm ent at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. C. Brigid Welch is now head of reference and research services at the University of California, San Diego. Barbara J. Wittkopf has joined the staff of the Reference Departm ent at Louisiana State Univer­ sity, Baton Rouge. Sherri W olleat has been appointed librarian in the retrospective conversion project at the Uni­ versity of Iowa, Iowa City. Nancy Wynen has been appointed reference li­ brarian at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Ra­ ton. Cynthia Cox Yarborough has been appointed K.G. Saur funds new ACRL award K.G. Saur has agreed to fund a new award, sponsored by the Association of College and Re­ search Libraries, to recognize and reward qual­ ity research. The annual award will recognize the most outstanding article published in Col­ lege and Research Libraries, ACRL’s refereed journal, during the previous volume year. The author(s) of the winning article will share a $500 cash prize. The winning article will be selected on the basis of originality, timeliness, relevance to ACRL areas of interest and concern, and qual­ ity of writing. The first winning article will be selected by a specially appointed ACRL award committee from those articles published in Col­ lege and Research Libraries in 1987. The first award will be presented at ACRL’s member­ ship meeting at the 1988 ALA Annual Confer­ ence in New Orleans. For further information about the award contact: Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL Program Officer, ACRL/ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944- 6780. head of technical services at Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina. Geneva Yarne is now bibliographic instruction librarian at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. H siao-Ming Yu has been appointed librarian in the Stewart Library at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Retirements Mary Lou Harkness, director of libraries at the University of South Florida, Tampa, for the past 20 years, retired October 16, 1987. Harkness was a charter faculty member of the University, hav­ ing been appointed cat­ alog librarian in 1958. H arkness holds a bachelor’s degree from N ebraska W esleyan U niversity, an ABLS from the University of Michigan, and an MLS from Columbia Univer­ sity. Prior to coming to the University of South F lo rid a she held posi­ Mary Lou Harknesstions at the University of Michigan Law Library, California State Polytechnic University, and Geor­ gia Institute of Technology. A member of the advisory board of the Florida Center for Library Automation since 1985, Hark­ ness has also served on the board of directors of the Southeastern Library Network (1977-1980) and the OCLC Users’ Council (1983-1985). She is a life member of ALA and has served on several commit­ tees of the Florida and Southeastern Library Asso­ ciations. Following a year’s leave of absence Harkness plans to return to the USF library staff. Dale Hutchinson, senior copyright acquisitions librarian in the Acquisitions Section of the Deposits and Acquisitions Division of the Library of Con­ gress, Washington, D .C ., has retired after 37 years of federal service, including four years in the Navy. Hutchinson joined the Copyright Office in 1949 as a messenger in the Custodial Section of the former Service Division. In 1951 he was an accounting clerk in the Accounting Section before serving on a destroyer in the Pacific. Upon his return Hutchin­ son was reassigned to to the Receiving Section as a schedule clerk. He was promoted to master indexer in 1958 and to assistant to the supervisor in 1959. After a transfer and a promotion to the Compli­ ance Section in 1961, he was promoted to senior searcher in 1969 and to copyright specialist in 1970. After the Copyright Office was reorganized in 1977, Hutchinson was reassigned as copyright ac­ quisitions librarian, Acquisitons Section, in 1978, January 1988 / 43 and was prom oted the following year to senior ac­ quisitions librarian. He received awards in 197.5, 1976, 1981, and 1985. Benjamin Jacobson, assistant university librar­ ian for adm inistrative services at N orthw estern University, Evanston, Illinois, retired effective January 1. Mary Agnes Sepanik, associate director of p u b ­ lic services at the University of South Florida, Tam pa, since 1974, retires this month. Sepanik joined the library in 1969 as a reference librarian after serving as a school librarian in Illinois and as cataloger/acquisitions lib rarian at M iami D ade County C om m unity College. She holds an MLS from Rosary College. Alma D. Steading, assistant library director for technical services at Furm an University, Green­ ville, South C arolina, has retired. Deaths H oward W . C ordell, founding director of li­ braries at Florida International University, Mi­ ami, from 1970 to 1980, died October 21, 1987, at his home in Gainesville. Cordell had also served as government documents librarian on the North Mi­ ami Campus of FIU until his retirem ent in 1986. He had served previously as director of libraries at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and on the staffs of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Florida Atlantic University, and W estern Illinois University. Cordell served in the U.S. Air Force during W orld W ar II and the Korean W ar. J. M itc h ell Reames, re tire d d irec to r of the Francis Marion College Library, Florence, South Carolina, died August 28, 1987. Anna Komon W aterman, retired head of the Se­ rials Preservation Section of the Library of Con­ gress, died July 30,1987, at 84. A native of Vienna, W aterm an lived in Prague, Budapest, and Berlin before coming to the United States in 1939. First employed by the Red Cross, she joined the Library in the early 1940s, working in the C ard Division before transferring to the Binding Division Office. W aterm an also translated European and Slavic language documents for the Federal Research D i­ vision of the Library. ■ ■ NEW T E C H N O L O G Y • D u Pont has introduced a compact disk infor- m ation system th a t accesses data on the toxicity and safe exposure levels of thousands of chemicals. DUTOX provides inform ation on physical and chemical data, m anufacturers, exposure hazards and standards, toxicity, regulatory requirements, environm ental fate, disposal guidelines, em er­ gency handling, and first aid procedures. The in­ form ation is contained on three databases, two from the D u Pont Haskell Laboratory for Toxicol­ ogy and Internal Medicine and the third from the N ational L ib rary of Medicine. A com pact disk reader is provided w ith the service, which also pro­ vides subscribers w ith an annual search or sum­ m ary by Haskell L aboratory of their choice of chemical not in the database. The system runs on IBMs or compatibles. • T he Faxon C o m p an y is now o fferin g en- hanced versions of its autom ated serials control ser­ vices, MicroLinx and SC-10. MicroLinx v.3.2 of­ fers greater speed and security, as well as such ad­ ditional search functions as: the ability to sort by call num ber on claims status reports; the ability to search address and location IDs w ith any charac­ ters, including diacritics and blanks; autom atic calculations for the database m anagem ent utility; and autom atic re-display of search requests. The enhancements to the SC-10 system include b ar­ code scanning, a new binding screen, and a more comprehensive display of SC-10 files. Faxon has also released a software package th a t transfers selected Faxon invoice d a ta into files readable by Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony, dBASE II, or dBASE III. T hesoftw are, called FI$CAL, runs on IBM PCs and PC -compatibles. Yet another Faxon service offers subscriptions to the M EDLINE Knowledge Finder CD-ROM d a ta ­ base, which contains full citations of medical jour-