ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 350 / C&R L News lectual endeavor. Displays featuring materials on newly acquired books will be established in the Olin Library and at other locations on campus, and lists of new acquisitions will be posted. In addi­ tion to regular book reviews w ritten by the Library Services staff, the fund also provides for lectures by selected authors and a book collecting contest for students. Finalists in the competition for the best personal library collected by a full-tim e under­ graduate and graduate student while at the univer­ sity will be awarded $1,000 each. News note • The Academy of N atural Sciences of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, is the recipient of a new li­ brary endowment fund established by Ruth Pa­ trick, senior curator of the Frances Boyer Chair of Limnology, in memory of her husband, Charles Hodge IV, late professor emeritus of biology at Temple University. The Hodge Fund will be used to purchase books and journals in entomology. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . Profiles F red M. H eath, dean of libraries at the Univer­ sity of North Alabama, has been named director of lib ra rie s at Texas C h ristia n U niversity, F o rt W orth. H e a th h a d been at UNA since 1980, during which he served as in­ te rim d ire c to r of th e N etw o rk of A lab a m a Academic Libraries, for two years. Prior to that tim e he was reference/ documents librarian at the University of Rich­ mond and later assistant director for public ser­ vices at Radford Univer­ sity. Heath is currently Fred M. Heath president-elect of the Li­ brary Management Network, a shared autom ated system linking UNA w ith public, community col­ lege, special and school libraries across the north­ ern tier of Alabama. He is a member of the SO- LINET board, serving as treasurer and chair of the Contract Committee, and is a graduate of the first class of the ARL/OMS Consultant Training Pro­ gram. Heath has also been selected for the 1987 UCLA Senior Fellows class. A former member of the ACRL Budget and Finance Committee, he also served as chair of the C‹&RL News editorial board in 1984-86. A graduate in history from Tulane University (1966), Heath received a m aster’s in history from the University of Virginia (1968), and served subse­ quently in the Air Force for four years. He earned an MLS from Florida State University in 1973 and a doctorate in education from the Virginia Poly­ technic Institute in 1980. James W. Pruett, professor of music and former chairm an of the Music D epartm ent at the Univer­ sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been ap­ pointed chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress, effective September. Pruett has been associated w ith North Carolina throughout his academic and professional career, earning bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees there in 1955, 1957, and 1962, respectively. He re­ mained thereafter as a reference assistant and later head of the reserve reading room and music librar­ ian, as well as assistant and later associate professor of music. He concurrently held the positions of pro­ fessor of music and chairm an of the Music D epart­ ment from 1976 to 1986, during which he devel­ oped a concert calendar of 50 to 60 programs a year in addition to his administrative duties. Pruett has also served as a member or officer of numerous ad­ ministrative committees, boards, and councils at North Carolina. The author of many articles and compiler of sev­ eral bibliographies, Pruett has also edited and con­ trib u te d to several anthologies and reference works. He is currently engaged in research on an edition and study of the Laborde Chansonnier, in the collections of the Library of Congress. Pruett has been active as a committeeman and officer in the Music Library Association, of which he was president during 1973-1975, and is active in the American Musicological Society. He was editor of June 1987 / 353 the MLA qu arterly , Notes, during 1974-1977, serving earlier as music review editor (1969-1971). Pruett is a member of the International Musicologi- cal Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Docum entation Centres. In the spring of 1976 he was visiting pro­ fessor of music at the University of Toronto. People in the News Patricia M. Battin, vice president and univer­ sity librarian of Columbia University, New York City, has been named the first president of the Commission on Preservation and Access. She will be responsible for developing and carrying out a new and extensive cooperative program that will involve many libraries and universities across the country. Established in 1986, the Commission was formed to deal with the threatened loss of large portions of the collections of America’s research li­ braries due to deterioration of paper. Its initial goal is to set in motion a nationwide preservation effort to capture the contents of hundreds of thousands of “brittle books” by microfilming or other means, and to make them permanently accessible. Battin, who has been at Columbia since 1974, will take up her new duties in August. Ann Beaubien, Mary George, and Sharon H o­ gan were honored as distinguished alumnae of the University of Michigan’s School of Library and In­ fo rm a tio n Studies 19th a n n u a l A lu m n i—in- Residence Program, held in Ann Arbor April 9 and 10. All are active in ACRL, of which Hogan, who is director of libraries at Louisiana State University, is past president .Beaubien is head, cooperative ac­ cess services, at the University of Michigan; and George is head of the General Reference Division at Princeton University. J ohn Bid w ell, reference and acquisitions li­ brarian at the Clark Memorial Library of the Uni­ versity of California, Los Angeles, was one of 15 persons elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society at its semiannual meeting in Boston April 15. Bidwell is a historian of American papermaking and a biographical scholar. D avid Kreh an d J anet Potter have been named as co-recipients of the 1987 Friends of the State University of New York Library Association Award. The award, consisting of a gift and certifi­ cate of appreciation, will be presented on June 11 at the 19th annual SUNYLA conference, to be held at SUNY/Brockport. Kreh, reference librarian at SUNY/Cortland, is a founding member of SUN­ YLA and has served as vice president (1969-1971; 1973-1974) and president (1974-1975). He has also functioned as liaison to the United University Pro­ fessions union. P o tte r, reference lib ra ria n at SUNY/Oneonta, has served SUNYLA in various ca­ pacities and has also been involved in contract ne­ gotiations. Antje B. Lemke, retired professor of humanities and art and museum librarianship at Syracuse Uni­ versity, New York, was presented with the Art Li­ braries Society of America’s Distinguished Service Award at its convication program in Washington, D .C ., February 15. Lemke, who retired in 1986 af­ ter 34 years of service, was honored for her effec­ tiveness in teaching, as an author, and as one of the first promoters of the profession of art librarian- ship. Her emphasis on the common concerns of li­ braries led to invitations to Europe and Africa, where she instructed librarians in the importance of archival record-keeping. Recipient of a Guggen­ heim Fellowship in 1959, Lemke studied libraries in the Age of Enlightenment. In 1977 and 1984 she gave the first lectures in Australia on art librarian- ship. W illiam J. Maher, assistant university archivist at the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign, has been elected to a two-year term as president of the Midwest Archives Conference. He had previ­ ously served as secretary-treasurer (1981-1985) and on the nominating committee (1979-1980). Established in 1972 as a professional organization of archivists, m anuscript curators, and historic site, museum, and library personnel, MAC has nearly 1,000 members in more than 40 states and six countries. Appointments (Appointments are taken from library newslet­ ters, letters from personnel offices and appointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appoint­ ment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) C ynthia Adams has been appointed assistant head of the Humanities Reference Departm ent at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. J ean Alexander has been appointed assistant Schaffner librarian at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Robert G. Anthony has been appointed collec­ tion development librarian for the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. E lizabeth Smith Aversa has been appointed visiting assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. T rudi Bellardo has been appointed assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. F rances Benham has been appointed associate dean of libraries for collections and information services at the University of Alabama, University. D avid Bennett is now Triangle Research Li­ braries Network Systems Librarian at the Univer­ sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nicole Bouche has been appointed head of the Manuscripts Division in the Bancroft Library at 354 / C&RL News th e University of C alifornia, Berkeley. J udith B rugger has been appointed serials c a ta - loger a t th e C ity College of the C ity University of N ew Y ork, M an hattan . A n n e M . B urns has been appointed technical services/systems librarian in the L a w L ib ra ry at V anderbilt University, Nashville. Tennessee. D eb o r a h C ampana has been appointed music public services librarian at Northwestern Univer­ sity, E vanston, Illinois. F rank M . C a m pbell is now m edical reference li­ b rarian in the Tompkins—M cC aw Library’ a t V ir­ ginia C om m onw ealth University, Richm ond. Bra d ley C arrington is the new head of th e Se­ rials C ataloging Section a t N orthw estern Univer­ sity", E vanston, Illinois. E liza beth A . C hena ult is now ra re book lib rar­ ian for public services a t the University of N orth C arolin a a t Chapel Hill. J oan C h erry has been appointed assistant p ro­ fessor in th e F a cu lty of Library and Inform ation Science a t th e University of T oron to, O ntario. J ames C o g sw el l has been appointed head of the Reference and Inform ation Services Division in the H um anities/Social Sciences Libraries a t th e Uni­ versity of M innesota, Minneapolis. M ary D . D arling is the new engineering/sci- ence reference librarian a t the University of N orth C arolin a a t C h arlotte. E . Anne E dwards has been appointed associate dean of libraries for access services a t th e University of A labam a, University. Sh e l l y E dwards has been appointed assistant technical services librarian a t G ettysburg College, Pennsylvania, effective August. R o b e r t Ne i l F u l g h u m has b een a p p o in te d Preservation meeting T h e A L A Resources and Techn ical Services Division’s P reservation of L ib r a ry M aterials Section will sponsor a program on preserv ation education, Saturday, June 2 7 , 8 :0 0 a .m .- 1 2 :3 0 p .m ., a t A L A Annual C onference in San F r a n ­ cisco. T h e purpose of th e p rogram is threefold: to acquaint librarians w ith th e need to teach li­ brary" staff and patrons th e basic principles of proper c a re and handling of library" m aterials; to provide inform ation about th e development and use of training resources on th e subject; and to offer some ideas about how librarians can m arket preservation inform ation effectively, so as to increase awareness about preservation and inspire a new respect for library m aterials. A 50-m in ute film produced by th e Council on L i b r a r y R e so u rce s, Slow F i r e s , w ill be screened from 8 :0 0 to 9 :0 0 a .m . Sample train ­ ing m aterials and bibliographies will be avail­ able for the first 3 0 0 people w ho attend th e pro­ gram . keeper of the N orth C aroliniana G allery a t th e U ni­ versity of N orth C arolin a a t Chapel Hill. Susan K o ch G e g e n h u b e r has been appointed N O T IS user services lib rarian a t N orthw estern University, E van ston, Illinois. W il l ia m G ig ax has been appointed assistant chief of the L ib ra ry Services Division, Congressio­ nal Research Service, a t th e L ib ra ry of Congress, W ashington, D .C . D a l e H ood has been appointed N O TIS user ser­ vices librarian a t N orthw estern University, E v a n ­ ston, Illinois. W illia m J . H ook has been nam ed d irector of the Divinity L ib ra ry a t V anderbilt University, Nash­ ville, Tennessee, effective July 1. Ga l e Patricia J ackson is now reference lib rar­ ian a t M edgar Evers College, Brooklyn, New York. Sa l l y J acobs has been appointed reference li­ b rarian a t th e Jam es B ran ch Cabell L ib ra ry of V ir- ginia C om m onw ealth University, Richm ond. D o n a ld J ohnson has been appointed head of th e Ames Library" of South Asia a t th e University of M innesota, Minneapolis. L ynn J ones is now assistant head of the Conser­ vation D ep artm en t a t the University of C alifornia, Berkeley. Ar l e y D . J onish, director of th e library- a t W h it­ m an College, W a lla W a lla , W ashington, will re­ m ain on th e staff as bibliographic librarian. Mary W . Ke c k l e y is now associate d irector of li­ braries a t th e University of Texas a t E l Paso. D avid Alan Ke l l y has been appointed catalo g librarian a t th e University of N orth C arolin a a t C h arlotte. B renda L . Kuchinsky has been appointed head of th e C ataloging D ep artm en t in th e Baker L ib rary of H arv ard University, Boston, Massachusetts. F rances L aF l e u r has been appointed collection developm ent/reference librarian (Chinese) in the E a s t Asian Library" a t Colum bia University, New York C ity , effective Ju ly 1. W il f r e d L ancaster remains on the faculty of th e G rad u ate School of Library" and Inform ation S cien ce o f th e U n iversity o f Illin ois, U rb a n a - C ham paign. Andrea K . L eyk o has been appointed training specialist for th e m icrocom puter training program a t the Pittsburgh Regional L ib ra ry C en ter at C h at­ ham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Amy L u c k er has been appointed catalo ger of a r­ chitectu ral drawings in th e Avery" Library" a t C o ­ lum bia University, N ew York C ity. Sara J . L yon has been appointed serials c a ta ­ loger a t th e C ity College of th e C ity Univ ersity of New York, M an hattan . D avid M a g ie r is now South A sian/Southeast Asian bibliographer and social sciences reference librarian a t C olum bia University", New York City". L ucinda Manning has been nam ed college a r­ chivist of B arn ard College, C olum bia University", N ew York C ity. J oanne M arshall has been appointed assistant June 1987 / 355 professor in th e F a c u lty of L ib ra ry and In fo rm a­ tion Science a t th e U niversity of T o ro n to , O n tario. J ohn P . M artin is now tech n ical services lib rar­ ian a t M edgar E vers C ollege, Brooklyn, N ew York. E l iz a b e t h M eeh a n -B l a c k has been appointed head of bibliographic searching a t th e U niversity of N orth C aro lin a a t C h ap el Hill. Me r e d it h J . Me r r it t has been appointed c a ta ­ log lib rarian a t th e U niversity of N orth C aro lin a a t C h a rlo tte, effective August 16. R o b er t J . M ilev sk i has been appointed supervi­ sory con servator and h ead of th e Phased Conserva­ tion Section in th e C onservation O ffice o f th e L i ­ b ra ry o f Congress, W ash in gton , D .C . M o n ic a M . M o n k ie w ic z is now re feren ce li­ b rarian in th e G u tm an L ib ra ry of H a rv a rd U niver­ sity, C am b rid g e, M assachusetts. C arla J . M ontori is now preservation officer a t th e U niversity o f M ichigan, Ann A rbor. Sa m u e l F . M orrison has been n am ed deputy com m issioner and chief lib rarian o f th e C h icago Public L ib ra ry . M ira M y h r e has been appointed h ead of c a ta ­ loging a t th e C ornell U niversity M edical College L ib ra ry , N ew York C ity . M arilyn L . No rsted t is now h ead o f th e c a ta ­ loging d ep artm en t a t V irginia T ech U niversity, Blacksburg. P atricia O g ed e n g b e has been appointed lib rar­ ian of A frican a a t N orthw estern U niversity, E v a n ­ ston, Illinois. C arlos E . P o l it has been appointed bibliogra­ p h er for foreign languages and literatures in th e H um anities L ib r a ry a t Purdu e U niversity, W est L a fa y e tte , In d ian a. L es P o urcia u, d irecto r o f libraries a t Memphis S tate U niversity, Tennessee, will also assume th e duties of associate vice president for acad em ic af­ fairs. P a t r ic ia M . R ader has been appointed refer­ en ce lib rarian a t th e C ity College of th e C ity U ni­ versity of N ew Y ork , M an h attan . V icto r ia R e ic h is th e new chief of th e serials de­ p a rtm e n t a t S tanford U niversity, C aliforn ia. B a r ba r a A . Sa r g e n h as b een a p p o in ted re - ference/docum ents lib rarian a t F rank lin and M ar­ shall College, L a n c a s te r, Pennsylvania. Susan Se a r c y is n ow m anuscripts catalo g er in Special Collections a t th e University o f N evad a, Reno. D avid A . Sm ith has been appointed chief of th e D ecim al Classification Division a t th e L ib ra ry of Congress, W ash in gto n , D .C . L o u ise Spain has been appointed m ed ia lib rar­ ian a t L a G u a rd ia C o m m u n ity College, L o n g Is­ land C ity , N ew York. E l l e n Sutto n is now social sciences referen ce li­ b ra ria n a t th e U niversity o f N orth C a ro lin a a t C h ap el Hill. Annie F . T hompson has been n am ed d irecto r o f th e G rad u ate School o f L ibrariansh ip a t th e U ni­ versity o f P u erto R ico, San Ju a n . L e s l ie A . T routman has been appointed m usic user services coord in ator a t th e University of Illi­ nois, U rb an a-C h am p aig n . J u d it h A . W a l k e r has been appointed cu rricu ­ lum cen ter referen ce lib rarian a t th e U niversity of N orth C aro lin a a t C h arlo tte. W il l ia m M . W a l k er has been appointed docu- m en ts/reference lib rarian in th e Law* L ib ra ry a t V an d erb ilt U niversity, Nashville, Tennessee, ef­ fective August 1. J o e W i b l e is th e new h ead lib rarian and bibliog­ rap h er of th e F a lco n e r Biology L ib ra ry a t Stanford U niversity, C aliforn ia. C alvin W illia m s has been appointed lib rarian a t th e A uburn Hills C am pus of O akland C o m m u ­ n ity College, M ichigan. H en ry M . Y a p l e has been n am ed d irecto r o f th e lib rary a t W h itm a n College, W a lla W a lla , W a sh ­ in gton , effective Ju ly 1. D anesh Y azdani has been appointed m ed ia li­ b rarian a t M ed gar E v ers College, Brooklyn, N ew York. F aith Y oman has been appointed catalo g in g li­ b ra ria n a t th e G rad u ate C en ter o f th e C ity U niver­ sity o f N ew Y o rk , M an h attan . P a tricia S. Z igas has been appointed business referen ce lib rarian a t th e University o f N orth C a r o ­ lin a a t C h ap el Hill. Retirements J am es D amaskos, lib rarian of th e L itta u e r L i ­ b ra ry o f H a rv a rd University since 1 9 6 3 , w ill retire a t th e end o f August. D am askos grad u ated from H a rv a rd in 1 9 4 6 and received his M L S from Sim­ mons College. H e w orked in th e Y ale U niversity L ib r a r y fro m 1 9 5 0 to 1 9 5 6 an d th e W o r c e s te r, M assachusetts, F r e e Public L ib ra ry from 1 9 5 6 to 1 9 5 8 before retu rn in g to H a rv a rd as a ca talo g er in th e W id en er L ib ra ry , and later becom in g adm inis­ tra tiv e assistant. A m em b er o f m an y lib rary c o m ­ m ittees, Dam askos has also served as president of th e H a rv a rd L ib ra ry C lub. UC—Berkeley library tours T h e L ib ra ry o f th e U niversity o f C aliforn ia, Berkeley, has arran g ed for several tours during A L A A n n u al C o n fe re n c e in S an F r a n c is c o . M ain L ib r a ry tours a re scheduled fo r Tu esd ay, Ju n e 3 0 , an d W ed nesday, Ju ly 1 , a t 9 :3 0 a .m . and 1 :3 0 p .m ., lasting ab ou t one h ou r. T h e general tours w ill be follow ed by a selection of m o re specialized tours including th e C onserva­ tion D e p artm en t, B ibliographic Services, th e Systems O ffice, th e B an cro ft L ib ra ry , and M of­ fitt U n d erg rad u ate L ib ra ry . F o r inform ation an d reservations co n ta ct: T h e L ib ra ria n ’s O f­ fic e , U n iversity o f C a lifo rn ia , B erk eley, C A 9 4 7 2 0 ; (4 15) 6 4 2 -3 7 7 3 . 356 / C&RL News Dolly B. Davis Hoover, head of the Depart­ ment of Preservation and Conservation at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, will retire June 30. Prior to heading the newly created department, she was head of the C ataloging D epartm ent (1974-1982). Paul Palmer, curator of the Columbiana Col­ lection at Columbia University, New York City, will retire at the end of June after 36 years of ser­ vice. Palmer’s association with Columbia began when he entered library school there in 1949. He held positions in the Burgess-Carpenter, Theater Arts, and Avery Libraries before taking charge of the Columbiana Collection in 1975. Ruth Rausen, coordinator of Young Adult Ser­ vices at the New York Public Library since 1982, retired at the end of April after more than 30 years of service. Rausen was also editor of the Library’s annual Books for the Teen Age, distributed to li­ braries nationally and abroad. A graduate of Ohio State University, she earned an MLS at Columbia University before joining NYPL in 1954, working in a number of Bronx branches. She was group work/academic school specialist in the Office of Young Adult Services from 1961 to 1965 and was a Borough young adult specialist in both Staten Is­ land and Manhattan from 1965 to 1978. Thereafter she was assistant coordinator of Young Adult Ser­ vices before assuming her most recent position. Rausen has been a member of the Rutgers Univer­ sity School of Library Services (1969-1979) and a faculty member at Bergen Community College (1979-1980). A member of the New York Library Association, ALA’s Young Adult Services Division, and the Manhattan Council on Reading and the In­ tern atio n al Reading Association, Rausen also served as moderator of the “Teen Age Book Talk” radio program sponsored by NYPL, from 1969 to 1981. She is a member if the Committee to Rewrite Standards of the New York Library Association and has served on several ALA committees includ­ ing, currently, the Publishers’ Liaison Committee. Author of numerous articles in professional jour­ nals, Rausen is also editor of Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, published by Thomas Y. Crowell. George Vdovin, head of the Chemistry Library at the University of California, Berkeley, retired April 24. An undergraduate major in zoology, Vdovin has also held science library positions at Stanford University and the University of Califor­ nia, San Diego. Deaths Miriam M. Brownstein, former head of the Se­ rials Section of the Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, died March 16 in Temple City, Cali­ fornia. Brownstein worked in the EMS Library from 1952 until her retirement in 1973. Elizabeth I. Dixon, former assistant college li­ brarian at El Camino College, Torrance, Califor­ nia, and the first oral history librarian in the United States, died earlier this year at the age of 68. After raising a family, Dixon returned to school, June 1987 / 357 earning a bachelor’s degree in international rela­ tions at the University of Southern C alifornia and an MLS from UCLA, w here she was a m em ber of the first graduating class of the School of Library Service. Dixon assisted in the founding of the O ral History Program at UCLA in 1959 and was active in the field throughout the sixties, most notably as chair of the university’s First National Colloquium on O ral History in 1966. A fterw ard, she spent a se­ mester as librarian on the S.S. R yndam , traveling around the w orld as p a rt of C hapm an College’s “College A float,” before assuming the position at El Cam ino. C oncha R omero J ames, reference specialist in the Hispanic Foundation (now the Hispanic Divi­ sion) of the L ib rary of Congress, W ashington, D .C ., from 1952 to 1963, died F ebruary 6. James was born in C hihuahua, Mexico, and was a 1920 g rad u ate of Pom ona College, w here she was a m em ber of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1926 she received a m aster’s degree in L atin American Studies from Colum bia University, w here she also did postgrad­ uate work in journalism . In 1932, after working as a freelance journalist in Mexico City, James came to the P an American Union in W ashington, D .C ., as an editorial assistant in the Division for Intellec­ tual Cooperation, of which she becam e chief in 1943. T hat same year she was honored by Eleanor R oosevelt fo r h e r w o rk in th e field of In te r- A m erican cu ltu ral relations. At the L ib rary of Congress, w here she was employed part-tim e, she was a contributing editor for bibliography for the Handbook o f Am erican Studies. In 1954, on the oc­ casion of the bicentennial of C olum bia University, James received the Distinguished Service Medal for her contributions to international education. N ancy Sc o t t , sp e c ia l c o lle c tio n s l i b r a r i a n em erita of G ettysburg College, Pennsylvania, died early this year. She had retired in 1985 after 25 years of service. H arold O . T homen, a m em ber of the staff of the L ibrary of Congress for m ore th an 40 years and an expert in genealogy, died Decem ber 9,1986, at the age of 84. Thom en published numerous articles over the past 30 years, including the “Checklist of H earings Before th e Congressional Com m ittees through the 77th Congress,” and “A Supplem ent to the Index of Congressional H earings.” An under­ graduate m ajor in library science at George W ash­ ington U niversity, he w orked in th e lib rary at Pennsylvania State University for three years fol­ lowing his retirem ent, and later worked for the C entre C ounty L ibrary and Historical Museum, serving as librarian and then as a volunteer. H enry Voos, professor in the Rutgers University School of C om m unication, Inform ation and L i­ brary Studies, New Brunswick, New Jersey, died April 3 in Philadelphia. He was 58. Born in H am ­ burg, Germany, Voos earned degrees in German language and literature from New York Univer­ sity, an MLS at C olum bia University, and a Ph.D . in L ibrary Service from Rutgers. After 12 years as chief of technical services at the U.S. Army Pi- catinny Arsenal L ibrary, he joined the faculty of the Rutgers G raduate School of L ibrary Service (now the School of C om m unication, Inform ation and L ibrary Studies) in 1968. Voos’ teaching and research focused on systems analysis, bibliometrics and inform ation technology, networks, and orga­ nization for retrieval. He directed m ore th an 20 doctoral dissertations in these areas and served as advisor to hundreds of graduate students. Voos was an active m em ber of the American Association for Inform ation Science, the Special Libraries Associa­ tion, and the American Association for the Ad­ vancem ent of Science. Ronald D avid W illiams, associate professor of the Em ory University Division of L ibrary and In ­ form ation M anagem ent, A tlanta, Georgia, died April 27 after a long illness. Williams had been a m em ber of the Em ory faculty since 1974, serving first as instructor, then assistant professor, and, since 1982, as associate professor. In addition to courses in inform ation technology, inform ation software design, film literature and visual literacy in the Division of L ibrary and Inform ation M an­ agem ent, he had taught as a visiting lecturer in the English D epartm ent. Prior to his appointm ent at Em ory, W illiams had tau g h t English at the Uni­ versity of Alaska, Fairbanks; and English, G er­ m a n , a n d film lite r a tu r e a t L a F a y e tte H igh School, A labam a. He also served as m edia consul- CLIP Notes now available on approval ACRL’s popular C LIP Notes series, contain­ ing state-of-the-art reviews and current docu­ m entation on library practices and procedures relevant to colleges and small universities, is now available on a separate approval plan. The new approval plan “P C ” guarantees th a t you will be sent all new C L IP Notes publications. Two to four C LIP Notes are published each year. Recent C LIP Notes have included M an­ aging Student Workers in College Libraries, Special Collections, and Mission Statem ents fo r College Libraries. F uture C L IP Notes will in­ clude one on periodicals and another on friends of the library. Those of you already signed up for the ACRL Approval Plan “P” receive all new ACRL publi­ cations including C LIP Notes. Approval Plan “P C ” is exclusively for the C LIP Notes series. To sign up for either approval plan, send your nam e, position, shipping address, billing ad ­ dress, and purchase order num ber to ACRL Approval Plan, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. H uron St., C h ic a g o , IL 60611-2795. P lease sp ecify w hether you w an t plan “P ” or “P C .” If you ; have any questions, contact M ary Ellen Davis, ACRL Publications Officer, at (312) 944-6780, ext. 287. 358 / C&RL News tan t at the Fairbanks North Star Borough Library. Williams was a 1969 graduate in English from Au­ burn University and earned an MFA in creative w riting from the University of Alaska (1973), an MLS from Emory (1973), and a Ph.D . in informa­ tion studies from Rutgers University (1984). He was a member of a num ber of professional organi­ zations and had served as consultant in information systems for university, public, school, and special libraries and information centers, including the DeKalb Public Library System, the Lake Lanier Regional Library, the Mercer University School of Medicine Library, the Atlanta Public Schools, and the Witness to the Holocaust Project at Emory Uni­ versity. In 1984-1985, he was operations consul­ tant in Cairo, Egypt, for the implementation of the Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Infor­ mation Network, a joint project of the Academy of Scientific and Technical Research of the Republic of Egypt and the Georgia Institute of Technology. ■ ■ PUBLICATIONS • Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries, by Sheila S. Intner (228 pages, March 1987), contains the results of a survey of li­ braries in 1983 to find out the types of borrowing they allow and the procedures by which materials circulate. Comparisons are m ade of the ways dif­ ferent libraries form ulate, review, and amend their policies; illustrations and tables are used ex­ tensively to show the way policy documents look. Two chapters are devoted to academic libraries: one on circulation policies, and another on re­ sponses to the questionnaire. Copies may be or­ dered for $35 from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881. ISBN 0-313- 23990-8. • Cuban Exile Periodicals at the University o f Mi- ami Library: An Annotated Bibliography, by Es­ peranza B. de Varona (203 pages, April 1987), has been published as num ber 19 of the SALALM Bib­ liography and Reference Series. Formats include newspapers, magazines and bulletins edited or published by Cubans in exile. C uban culture and its preservation in exile, encompassing a variety of such topics as history, literature, folklore, science, music, art, and religion are represented. Copies may be ordered for $20 (plus $2 postage and han­ dling) from the SALALM Secretariat, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, W I 53706. ISBN 0-917617-14-2. • Directory o f Services for Refugees and Immi- grants, by Alan Edw ard Schorr (285 pages, June 1987), describes more than 800 ethnic, religious, and community organizations assisting the unnat­ uralized. The directory is designed to help refugees and immigrants, service providers, and commu­ nity information centers in all fifty states. Primary arrangem ent is by state, supplemented by 15 in­ dexes. The cost is $27.95, plus $2.00 for shipping. Contact the Denali Press, P.O . Box 1535, Juneau, AL 99802. ISBN 0-938737-12-0. • Federal Copyright Records 1790-1800, com- piled by Elizabeth C arter Wills and edited by James Gilreath (165 pages, 1987), is a compilation of records from the 11 states and two Federal agen­ cies th at received copyright deposits during the first decade of American copyright law. The vol­ ume is the result of a cooperative project between the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collec­ tions Division. The records are draw n primarily from source materials in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division and are divided by state and presented in chronological order. Each entry con­ tains both the registration for a work and the text of its title page, and users are able to visualize title pages by means of simple type designations. Copies may be ordered for $13 from the Superintendent of Docum ents, U.S. Governm ent Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Stock no. 030-000-00184- 2. • Health Hazards of Video Display Terminals, compiled by Meta Nissley (63 pages, 3d e d ., 1987), presents a list of m onographic and periodical sources relating to potential VDT hazards. There is increasing attention paid in this edition to litera­ ture relating to overall workplace health and ergo­ nomics, as well as radiation levels and risks. A list of addresses of VDT manufacturers is provided so th at the user can seek terminal-specific informa­ tion. The cost is $9.95 (plus $1.00 shipping), from Ryan Research International, Publications D e­ partm ent, 1593 Filbert Ave., Chico, CA 95926. ISBN 0-942158-04. • Library Resources o f Harvard University: A