ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries
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building has the capacity to house 1.25 million vol Esther Smith, Center for Research Libraries, 6050 umes, a 140-station public computer terminal S. Kenwood Ave., Chicago, IL 60637. area, nine classrooms, research office space, and • The Northeast Document Conservation Cen- the university Telecommunications Center. The ter, Andover, Massachusetts, participated in the O’Neill Library was designed by The Architects salvage of paper currency from the Andrea Doria Collaborative, Inc., of Cambridge. safe and will perform the restoration of the soggy • The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, bills. Mary Todd Glaser, senior conservator at the is now accepting, within certain guidelines, the de Center, served as a consultant to the project and posit of library materials from its member institu was one of two paper conservators on hand when tions. The amount of material accepted will be the safe was opened on August 16. Glaser assisted limited to quantities that can be processed and in removing bundles of waterlogged currency and made readily available for use based on current was shown during the live television coverage sepa staffing levels. The Center’s ability to accept de rating and examining the bills. The material will posits of library materials was restricted for the be freeze-dried and eventually sent to the Center past several years by a lack of adequate material for treatment. Once the bills are dried, they will be processing staff and shelf space. Following the con separated, washed for removal of salt, alkalized, struction of a second building, the approval by the and dried again. The Center will then experiment membership of a revised deposit policy, and a staff on a small batch of the currency to find measures to reorganization, materials may again be deposited strengthen the paper—sizing or polyester film en under the new policy. Inquiries about type of ma capsulation are possibilities. ■ ■ terials suitable for deposit should be addressed to • P E O P L E • Profiles Abell served as ACRL’s 43d president in Millicent D. Abell, university librarian of the 1980-1981 and still serves on the ACRL Board of University of California, San Diego, has been ap Directors as representative to ALA Council. She is pointed librarian of Yale University, effective Jan currently chair of the Board of Directors of the uary 1. She suceeds Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. She has Rutherford D. Rogers, also served on the editorial board of the Journal of who was appointed uni Academic Librarianship. In 1976 she was editor of versity librarian in 1969 Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Im and will retire in De plications for Governance and Faculty Status for cember. Librarians. Abell has been uni Born in Wichita, Kansas, Abell received a bach versity librarian at San elor’s degree in psychology (1956) and a master’s Diego since 1977. Her degree in personnel administration (1958) from previous positions have Columbia University, an MLS from SUNY-Albany included associate direc in 1965, and a master’s in political science from the tor of university libraries University of Colorado in 1969. at SUNY-Buffalo (1973-1976), assistant Cr: Art Plotnik B . Donald Grose, director of library services at director for undergrad Millicent Abell Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort uate library services Wayne since 1975, has been appointed director of (1971-1973) and assistant librarian in the Business libraries at the University of Massachusetts, Bos Administration Library at the University of Wash ton. ington (1969-1971), reference librarian at the Col Grose received master’s degrees in library sci orado Springs Public Library (1966-1968), and ence and English from the University of Kentucky reference/periodicals librarian at West Point and a Ph.D. in speech and drama from the Univer (1964-1966). sity of Missouri, Columbia. At Fort Wayne he also 558 / C&RL News held the rank of assistant professor of theatre and Rodney M. Hersberger has been appointed di served as acting chairman of the Department of rector of libraries at California State College, Ba Theatre in 1979-1980. Prior to his appointment in kersfield, effective August 1. For the past five years Fort Wayne, Grose was assistant director of li he was assistant to the braries at the University of Missouri, Columbia. dean for administrative He is the author of several articles and two services at the Univer books. The latest, A Mirror to Life: A History of sity of Oklahoma Li Western Theatre, will be published in December. braries. Hersberger held other Bob Carmack, dean of library services at the University of South Dakota, has been named direc administrative positions tor of the University of Wisconsin, Superior, Li at the Northern Illinois brary, effective Decem University Libraries be ber 1. tween 1975 and 1979. Carmack has been at He was business refer South Dakota since 1971 ence librarian at NIU when he accepted the from 1973 to 1975. Hersberger earned an position of director of li Rodney Hersberger braries; he advanced to undergraduate degree dean of library services in accounting and an in 1979. Prior to that he MLS from Indiana University. He also holds an was assistant director MBA degree from Northern Illinois University. for public services Hersberger has published in the areas of operations (1970-1971), under research, library finance, and building remodeling graduate librarian and renovation. (1967-1970), and assis tant humanities librar Bob Carmack Thomas M. Peischl has been named dean of the ian (1966-1967) at the library at Mankato State University, Minnesota. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He was previously employed at the State University A member of the ACRL Board of Directors since of New York College of 1983, Carmack also serves on the ALA Committee Arts and Science at Pots on Legislation and is chair of the ad hoc Task Force dam as director of col on HEA Title ĪI-A. He has been ACRL chapter lege libraries. For the councillor representing South Dakota since 1981, past three years at Pots chair of the ad hoc Committee on Funding in dam he held a joint ap 1981-1982, and a member of the ACRL Legisla pointment as director of tion Committee in 1974-1976 and 1978-1982. He college libraries and di has also been active in ALA’s Library Administra rector of computer ser tion and Management Association, where he vices. Prior to that he served as chair of the Buildings and Equipment held various positions in Section in 1982-1983. the library at the Uni Carmack earned his MLS at the University of versity of Northern Col Denver in 1966. He has written articles for College orado. and Research Libraries, Government Publications Peischl received a Thomas M. Peischl Review, and the ALA Yearbook. bachelor’s degree in his John C. Van Horne has been named librarian of tory and psychology from Susquehanna Univer the Library Company of Philadelphia to succeed sity, a master’s in special education from Temple, Edwin Wolf 2d in January 1985. Van Horne, who and an MLS from the University of Denver. He graduated from Princeton in 1972, received his completed a doctorate in educational administra Ph.D. in early American history from the Univer tion and higher education at the University of sity of Virginia in 1979. Northern Colorado. He is now completing, with Edward C. Carter Peischl currently serves as chair of ACRL’s Edu II, librarian of the American Philosophical Soci cation and Behavioral Sciences Section and is an ety, a multi-volume edition of The Papers of Ben active member of LAMA. In New York he was a jamin Henry Latrobe, the early 19th-century ar member of the SUNY Computer Officers Associa chitect and engineer. In 1975 he published The tion, the SUNY Head Librarians Association, and Correspondence of William Nelson as Acting Gov was the library representative on the SUNY Ad ernor of Virginia, 1770-1771, and has in press an ministrative Systems Committee. edition of the American correspondence of the As He has published articles in Colorado Libraries, sociates of Dr. Bray, an Anglican missionary and Special Libraries, and Online Review. His recent philanthropic organization active in the conversion research focus has been in the area of institutional of blacks in the colonies. planning for the integration of information re November 1984 / 559 sources on campus. key system-wide committees, including the Uni versity of Wisconsin System Task Force on Library Carla J. Stoffle has been appointed associate Automation, the Committee for Information Proc director for public services at the University of essing Systems, and the University of Wisconsin Michigan Library, effective in January 1985. Stof Chief Student Personnel Officers Discussion fle, currently assistant Group. chancellor for educa Stoffle serves as editor of the Materials and tional services at the Methods Series for the Library Works Division of University of Wisconsin- Neal-Schuman Publishers, and is on the Editorial Parkside, served as Pres Board for Collection Building: Studies in the De ident of ACRL in 1982- velopment and Effective Use of Library Resources, 1983. At Michigan she also published by Neal-Schuman. From 1978 to will be responsible for 1982 she served on the ARL/OMS National Advi the development and sory Committee for Academic Library Programs. evaluation of public ser She was instrumental in developing and imple vices activities for 31 ser menting the ACRL Activity Model for 1990 and as vice units. ACRL President appointed seven task forces to de Stoffle began her asso velop recommendations for achieving objectives ciation with Wisconsin- Carla J. Stoffle specified by the Activity Model. Parkside as a reference Stoffle received her bachelors degree from the librarian in 1972, then University of Colorado, an MLS from the Univer was appointed head of public services, and in 1976 sity of Kentucky, and is currently a doctoral candi assumed responsibilities as assistant director.