winner receives $150, a certificate, a one-year sub­ cluding tax and land records, population and elec­ scription to the museum’s publication, The Old tion statistics, and period diaries to shape a social Sturbridge Visitor, and a five-year membership to portrait of not one community, but of an entire ge­ the Old Sturbridge Village Research Library Soci­ ographic region. ety. Roth’s book uses a great variety of sources in­ PEOPLE

People in the news Committee of NAAL which developed the proce­ dure for the NAAL reimbursement program that Francesca Allegri, formerly head of Informa­ has been successful in promoting the use of library tion Management Education Services at the Uni­ resources throughout the state. Her committee also versity of North Carolina Health Sciences Library, developed the charge to seek funding to improve Chapel Hill, relocated to Champaign, Illinois, in the document delivery network. As a result, NAAL March. She will be teaching, consulting and writ­ will be funded in 1989 to install telefacsimile ing in the areas of user education and information equipment in all general and cooperative libraries. management. She continues as editor of the column, “Information Management Education,” Profiles in Medical Reference Services Quarterly. Annie G. King, library director at Tuskegee In­ Judith Adams, head of the Humanities Depart­ stitute, Alabama, has been awarded the Distin­ ment at the Auburn University Libraries, has been guished Service Award presented by the Alabama appointed director of the Lockwood Library at the Library Association to an individual who has made State University of New a significant contribution toward the development York at Buffalo. Adams of library service. The award was presented at the began her professional association’s annual convention in Birmingham on career at Lehigh Univer­ April 13. King has served at Tuskegee for 37 years. sity where she served as She began her career there in 1952 as a reference senior reference librar­ librarian, became acting librarian in 1966, and li­ ian. From there she brary director in 1970. moved to the Library of Within the Alabama Library Association King Congress, then to the has worked in the College, University, and Special National Reference Libraries Division and served on numerous com­ Center for Bioethics Lit­ mittees. Beyond the association she has provided erature at Georgetown leadership in improving library services for the his­ University, and then to torically black institutions. She is a charter mem­ Oklahoma State Univer­ Judith Adams ber and currently chairman of the board of trustees sity before joining the of the cooperative College Library Center in At­ staff at Auburn. A grad­ lanta, the national organization established to ex­ uate of Syracuse University, Adams is the coauthor tend the benefits of cooperative processing and par­ of several publications including Technology and ticipation in OCLC to historically black Values in American Civilization: A Guide to Infor­ universities. She participated in the planning of the mation Sources (Gale Research, 1980), and Jules Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, and Verne: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography worked with the initial planning group to insure (G.K. Hall, 1980). She co-authors an article called that NAAL would include all the state’s academic “Current Bibliography in the History of Technol­ institutions offering graduate education; for that ogy” that appears annually in the journal Technol­ NAAL is unique in the nation. She is a current ogy and Culture. She has made numerous presen­ member of the NAAL Executive Council, the sec­ tations at national conferences, written and ond time she has been elected to this position. In managed grants, and served actively in national as addition, King chaired the first Resource Sharing well as local professional organizations. She is cur­

May 1989 / 423 rently writing an economic and cultural history of tion, the American Philosophical Society, the the amusement park industry in America. American Council of Learned Societies, and is a Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford. He has re­ Shirley R. Baker, associate director for public ceived many honorary degrees, and currently services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ serves as a member of the NCAA Presidents Com­ ogy Libraries, has been appointed dean of univer­ mission; a member the Congressional Commission sity libraries at Wash­ for the Study of Migration and Cooperative Eco­ ington University in St. nomic Development; a trustee of the Shakespeare Louis effective August Theatre at the Folger; a director of the Consortium 1. Baker has served in on Financing Higher Education; a member of the her present position Board of Trustees of Regis High School; director since 1985. Before that and chairman of the American Council on Educa­ she served as assistant di­ tion; and a member of the Secretary of State’s Advi­ rector for public services sory Committee on South Africa. The author of at MIT from 1982 to many articles, Healy has also published two books 1985, as librarian at on the poet John Donne. Johns Hopkins Univer­ sity from 1976 to 1982, Barton M. Lessin, associate director of the Cen­ and as librarian at tral Michigan University Libraries, has been ap­ Northwestern Univer­ pointed assistant dean of libraries for Wayne State sity from 1974 to 1976. Shirley R. Baker University, Detroit, As a member of the Li­ Michigan. Lessin earned braries’ Steering Committee she supervised the se­ his MLS from Simmons lection of an automated library system and di­ College, his master’s in rected its execution as chair of the Implementation Mediterranean studies Coordinating Committee. Baker has a bachelor’s from Brandeis Univer­ degree from Muhlenberg College and two master’s sity, and his bachelor’s degrees from the University of Chicago. The au­ in history from Ohio thor of several papers on library services and tech­ University. He is a mem­ nology, Baker is active in national and local profes­ ber of the Association for sional associations. Educational Communi­ cations and Technology, T imothy S. H ealy, president of Georgetown the Library Administra­ University, has been appointed president and tion and Management Barton M. Lessin chief executive officer of the New York Public Li­ Association, and ACRL. brary. Healy began his Among his publications career as an instructor are “The Off-campus Library Services Confer­ of Latin and English at ence,” in C‹BRLNews (1987) and “The Librarian’s Fordham Prep School Role in the Establishment of Quality in Off- in New York, then held campus Graduate Education,” in Issues in Higher a number of positions at Education (1985). In addition, Lessin has edited Fordham University in­ three volumes of proceedings from the Off-campus cluding executive vice Library Services Conference. president (1965-1969). Before his appointment Barbara J. Smith, assistant dean of libraries at at Georgetown he Pennsylvania State University for the past seven served as vice chancel­ years, has been appointed head of the Smithsonian lor for academic affairs Institution Libraries ef­ at City University of fective July 5. Smith has Timothy S. Healy New York (1969-1976). also served as coordina­ While on temporary tor of Penn State’s Com­ leave in 1974 he served as special assistant to the monwealth Campus Li­ chancellor of the State University of New York for braries Division from the planning of a State Prison College. 1975-82 and as a refer­ A Manhattan native, Healy received his bache­ ence librarian at Penn lor’s degree in English and his master’s in philoso­ State in the early 1970s. phy from Woodstock College in Maryland. He was She earned her bache­ ordained a Jesuit priest at the Facultés Saint Albert lor’s degree from Penn in Louvain, Belgium, and later received his mas­ State, her master’s in ed­ ter’s in English literature from Fordham Univer­ ucation from the State sity, and his doctorate from Oxford University. He University of New York Barbara J. Smith has held fellowships from the Danforth Founda­ at Oswego, her MLS

424 / C&RL News from the University of Pittsburgh, and her doctor­ library development and publications at the Uni­ ate in higher education from Penn State. versity of Texas, Austin. Smith has published many articles on libraries Mary M. Carr has been appointed library direc­ and education and has held elected positions in tor at North Idaho College, Couer d’Alene. state and national library associations including Kay Ann Cassell has been appointed associate the Council of the American Library Association. director for programs and services at the New York She served as director of the Regional Inventorying Public Library’s Branch Libraries. and Cataloging Center at Penn State for the Penn­ Muriel Conant has been appointed head of sylvania Newspaper Project sponsored by the Na­ public services in the Museum of Comparative Zo­ tional Endowment for the Humanities. ology Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ellen Cunningham has been appointed preser­ vation officer at the University of Texas, Austin. Appointments Birgitta Dalrymple has been appointed re- ference/interlibrary loan librarian at Corpus (Appointment notices are taken from library Christi State University, Texas. Alice P. D ixon has been appointed head of the newsletters, letters from personnel offices and ap­ Special Collections Department at Florida State pointees, and other sources. To ensure that your appointment appears, write to the Editor, ACRL, University, Tallahassee. 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.) Kathleen Donovan has been appointed refer­ ence librarian in the Gutman Library at Harvard Eleanor Alexander has been appointed refer­ University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ence librarian in the Smithsonian Institution Li­ Sallie H. E llison has been appointed assistant braries’ Museum of American History Branch, director for access at the Wayne State University Washington, D.C. Libraries, Detroit, Michigan. Julie Arnott has been appointed associate pres­ Emily Epstein has been appointed specialized ervation librarian at the University of Michigan, collections cataloger at Kansas State University Li­ Ann Arbor. braries, Manhattan. Nancy Austin has been appointed head of cata­ Steven R. Folsom has been appointed assistant loging at Stanford University’s Lane Library, Cali­ cataloger at Oklahoma State University, Stillwa­ fornia. ter. Betsy Baker has been named head of reference Ronald Fontaine has been promoted to head at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. reference librarian at Sacred Heart University, Nancy K. Bayers has been appointed physics li­ Fairfield, Connecticut. brarian at the Catholic University of America, J oseph G alron-Goldschläger has been ap­ Washington, D.C. pointed Jewish studies cataloger at Ohio State Uni­ Barbara Beaton has been appointed coordina­ versity, Columbus. tor of the Information Center in the Reference De­ Diane Garner has been appointed head of the partment at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Documents/Maps Section at Pennsylvania State Graduate Library, Ann Arbor. University Libraries, University Park. M. E liot Bikales is the new circulation supervi­ E mma C. G ibson has been appointed general sor in the Circulation and Reserves Department at reference librarian at California State Polytechnic Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. University, Pomona. D avid Binkley has been appointed reference li­ Christopher Gorsuch has been appointed as­ brarian at California State University, Chico. sociate university librarian in the Serials Depart­ Nora J. Bird has been appointed head of the ment at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Reference Department in the Cabot Science Li­ Gail Gradowski has been appointed reference/ brary at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa­ bibliographic instruction librarian at Santa Clara chusetts. University, California. Sherri Bisogno has been appointed reference li­ D aniel F. H anne has been appointed bus- brarian at Ohio State University, Mansfield cam­ iness/general reference librarian at California pus. State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Susan Blaine has been appointed head of the C aroline Hopkinson has been appointed ref- Newark Campus Library at Ohio State University, erence/bibliographic instruction librarian at Arm­ Newark. strong State College, Savannah, Georgia. Mary Brennan has been appointed deputy assis­ C lint H oward has been appointed assistant tant director for collection development at the Uni­ university librarian for collections at the University versity of Texas, Austin. of California, Davis. Julie Brewer has been appointed assistant li­ Sheila Grant Johnson has assumed additional brarian for personnel services at the University of duties as assistant university librarian for refer­ Delaware, Newark. ence, instruction, and collections at the Oklahoma Carole Cable has been appointed assistant for State University Library, Stillwater.

May 1989 / 425 Johanne LaGrange has been appointed audio­ brarian at Governors State University, University visual cataloger at Texas A&M University, College Park, Illinois. Station. Nancy R. Simons has been appointed assistant Rhonda Lawrence has been appointed associ­ science librarian at Oklahoma State University, ate librarian in the Law Library at the University Stillwater. of California, Los Angeles. D iane Smith has been appointed head of the Bruce Leach has been appointed head of the Bi­ Computer-Based Resources and Services Team at ological Sciences Library at Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Univer­ Columbus. sity Park. Lelahvon Lugo has been appointed computer Josephine Smith is now the gifts, special collec­ assisted reference librarian at the University of tions, and archives librarian at Sacred Heart Uni­ Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie. versity, Fairfield, Connecticut. Mary Markland is the new physical sciences li­ Reinhart Sonnenburg has been appointed clas­ brarian at North Dakota State University, Fargo. sics, German, linguistics, and Romance languages J ames Mason has been appointed preserva- librarian at Ohio State University, Columbus. tion/assistant collection development librarian at Linda M. Taylor has been appointed senior cat­ Kansas State University, Manhattan. aloger at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. H ilda Hockley Minarek is now cataloger in Nell Thomas has been appointed head of the the Hilles and Lamont Libraries at Harvard Uni­ Veterinary Medicine Library at Tuskegee Univer­ versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts. sity, Alabama. David Moltke-Hansen has been named cura­ Shawn Tonner has been promoted to assistant tor of the Manuscripts Department at the Univer­ director of public services at Florida State Univer­ sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. sity, Tallahassee. Lydia Morrow has been appointed head serials Gregor Trinkus-Randall has been appointed librarian at Governors State University, University collection management consultant at the Massa­ Park, Illinois. chusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Boston. Peggy Mueller has been appointed assistant Anne Van Camp has been named archivist at for public services operations and staff develop­ Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Califor­ ment at the University of Texas, Austin. nia. Diane Newsum is the new reference librarian at Stephen Van Dyk has been named chief of the Ohio State University, Columbus. Smithsonian Libraries’ Cooper-Hewitt Museum Marcia Parsons is now head of the Fine Arts Li­ Branch, New York. brary at the University of Texas, Austin. Julia F. W allace is now head of the Govern­ Darlene J. Patrick has been appointed head of ment Publications Library at the University of the Acquisitions Department at Corpus Christi Minnesota, Minneapolis. State University, Texas. E lizabeth W ehner has been appointed assis­ Joy Pile has been appointed music catalog li­ tant cataloger in the Record Maintenance Section brarian at Middlebury College, Vermont. at the University of Waterloo Libraries, Ontario. Lynette Ralph has been appointed head of the Beth W eil has been appointed head of the Bio­ Circulation Department at Florida State Univer­ sciences Library at the University of California, sity, Tallahassee. Berkeley. Arlieda Ries has been appointed head of the Charlotte W elch has been appointed head of Chemistry Library at Ohio State University, Co­ technical services at Bennington College, Ver­ lumbus. mont. Anne G. Ritchie is now circulation and interli­ E. Elizabeth Weston has been appointed assis­ brary loan librarian in Central Reference and tant librarian in the Central Processing Depart­ Loan Services at the Smithsonian Institution Li­ ment at the University of Delaware, Newark. braries, Washington, D.C. Stephen W olter has been appointed reference Mary Rogers has been promoted to assistant librarian and head of public services at Bennington university librarian at Sacred Heart University, College, Vermont. Fairfield, Connecticut. Abigail Yasgur has been appointed reference li­ Mark Roosa has been appointed senior assistant brarian in the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe Col­ librarian for preservation in the Collection Man­ lege, Cambridge, Massachusetts. agement Division at the University of Delaware, Newark. Karen Rupp has been appointed social science Retirements reference librarian at Texas A&M University, Col­ lege Station. Yen-Tsai Feng, Roy E. Larsen librarian of Har­ Leinaala Seeger has been named director of vard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, will re­ the library at the University of Idaho Law School, tire after the current academic year. Appointed to Moscow. the position in 1980, Feng is the first woman to Nancy Shlaes has been appointed reference li­ serve as the librarian of Harvard College. Her ca­ 426 / C&RL News reer at Harvard began in 1955 as a reference librar­ lumbia, where she also received the School of Li­ ian in the College Library. In 1957 she was ap­ brary Service’s Joseph Towne Wheeler Award. pointed specialist in book selection for the social Miller has done extensive research into the his­ sciences in the Book Selection Division, and in 1965 torical aspects of government printing and the gov­ she was appointed assistant librarian for docu­ ernment’s dissemination of information, particu­ ments, where she developed the Documents Divi­ larly as these have affected libraries. One of her sion. In 1967 she left Harvard and became assistant recent articles, “A Distribution of Books by the director for research library service at the Boston Continental Congress: The Nation’s Earliest Legis­ Public Library. She then became the librarian of lation Addressed to Libraries,” appeared in the Wellesley College in 1977. Journal of Library History. A paper she Feng received a bachelor’s degree in literature presented—“Government Printing in the United from the University of Shanghai, a master’s in En­ States, Past and Present”—at the Twelfth Annual glish literature from Colorado State College, a Conference of the American Printing History Asso­ Ph.D. in international relations from the Univer­ ciation will appear in a forthcoming issue of Print­ sity of Denver, and an MLS from the Columbia ing History. University School of Library Service. She has re­ Joseph W hitten, professor of library science at ceived honorary doctorates from New England Long Island University, Brookville, New York, re­ College, Regis College, Smith College, Saint Jo­ tired after 27 years of service. Originally from Jack- seph’s College, and Simmons College. Feng has son, Mississippi, Whitten received his bachelor’s also received many other honors during her career, degree from Mississippi College. He also holds de­ including the Joseph Coolidge Shaw, S.J., Medal grees from George Peabody College, Columbia of Boston College and the Julius Adams Stratton University, and New York University. Prior to his Prize for Cultural Achievement by the Friends of position at LIU, Whitten served as head librarian Switzerland, both of which she received with her at SUNY Maritime College, The Cooper Union, husband, Philip McNiff. She has served on the ALA and Lycoming College. He has also taught at the Committee on Accreditation, the WGBH Educa­ University of Texas, the University of North Caro­ tional Foundation Community Advisory Board, lina, Florida State University, Columbia Univer­ the Library Visiting Committees for MIT and Les­ sity, and the University of Kentucky. ley College, and the Board of Directors of the Bos­ Whitten belongs to several professional associa­ ton YWCA, as well as chairing the ACRL Asian tions including ALA and the New York Library As­ and African Committee and the Finance Commit­ sociation. He has been honored by the County Ex­ tee of NELINET. Feng currently serves on the ecutive of Nassau County and the SUNY Librarians Board of Directors of the Polaroid Corporation and Association. The “Joseph N. Whitten Award for the Board of Trustees of Boston College. Outstanding Scholarship and Service” was named Ralph W. Hansen, librarian/archivist at Boise in his honor by the Beta Mu Chapter and is given to State University, Idaho, will retire at the end of graduating students at the LIU School of Library May after 10 years of service at BSU and 36 years of and Information Science. service in the profession. Hansen began his career as a reference librarian at Brigham Young Univer­ sity but in 1956 switched to archival work when he founded the BYU archives. In 1962 he moved to Stanford University where he founded the SU ar­ Deaths chives in 1965. In 1967 he became the head of the Acquisitions Department at Stanford while contin­ Mary Kelley, staff member at the Library of uing to serve as the university archivist. After a Congress, and former cataloger at the State Uni­ flood at Stanford’s Meyer Library in 1978, Hansen versity of New York at Buffalo, died in July 1988. supervised the restoration of 50,000 damaged vol­ umes. In 1979 he moved to Boise State as the associ­ Marian M. Orgain, former curator of special ate librarian. While at BSU, Hansen was put in collections at the University of Houston, died charge of the three-year project of processing the March 6. A native Texan, Orgain held degrees Sen. Frank Church papers, which was completed from Texas Christian University and Columbia in 1988. University. She served as the librarian of the Hous­ Sarah Miller, faculty member of the Rutgers ton Chronicle before becoming the first curator of University Department of Library and Informa­ special collections at Houston, where she devel­ tion Studies, retired at the end of the 1988 school oped the university’s Friends of the Libraries orga­ year after ten years of service. Before joining the nization. She retired from the university in 1980 af­ staff at Rutgers, Miller served as head of serials and ter 13 years of service. documents acquisition at Columbia University, and taught part-time at Columbia’s Library Barbara A. Smith, former head of public ser­ School. She holds a B.A. from the University of vices at Governors State University, University Pittsburgh, and anM.A., MLS, andDLS from Co­ Park, Illinois, died at home in Park Forest on May 1989 / 427 March 8. Her most re­ T’o Associates, Inc., Matteson, Illinois, which she cent position was as co­ helped found. ordinator of community Smith’s previous positions included summer college relations and an­ school lecturer at the University of Washington alyst of academic pro­ School of Librarianship (1972); coordinator for de­ grams for the provost, a partmental libraries, administrative assistant to post she held at Gover­ the deputy director, and circulation and reserve li­ nors State since 1986. brarian at the University of Chicago Library Smith served as acting (1965-1971); reference librarian at Chicago State dean of Governors State’s University (1964-1965); assistant professor at the Office of Special Pro­ University of Denver Graduate School of Library grams and Continuing and Information Science (1963-1964); reference li­ Education in 1981-1982 brarian at Hong Kong City Hall Library and 1984-1986; she was Barbara A. Smith (1962-1963); chief of public services, circulation li­ assistant dean and direc­ brarian, and periodicals librarian at the University tor of continuing educa­ of Denver (1954-1961); and reference assistant in tion of the special programs office in 1979-1981 the Fine Arts Department of the Cincinnati Public and 1982-1984. She also worked in the Governors Library (1953-1954). State University Library from 1974 to 1979, serv­ She received her MLS (1953) and a bachelor’s ing as media storage specialist, systems librarian, degree in humanities (1951) at the University of and head of public services. Smith also served for Denver. m any years as vice president and secretary of Wei ■ ■ PUBLICATIONS

• Cartolai, Illuminators, and Printers in Library, Grace Theological Seminary, 200 Semi­ Fifteenth-Century Italy, by Mary A. Rouse and nary Drive, Winona Lake, IN 46590. Roscoe A. Rouse (127 pages, December 1988), has • Developing Partnerships, a report that docu- been published as UCLA University Research Li­ ments a project undertaken at the Ontario Institute brary Department of Special Collections Occa­ for Studies in Education on behalf of Contact sional Paper no. 1. Illustrated with a color frontis­ North/Contact Nord, marks a significant contribu­ piece and 25 black-and-white plates, the tion to the literature of Canadian adult education monograph discusses the role of the paper suppliers in remote communities. Copies may be ordered for (cartolai) in the decoration of printed books in Ren­ $18.50 Canadian (prepaid checks made out to aissance Florence. In addition to a catalogue of il­ Laurentian University) from Contact North/Con­ luminated and decorated books on exhibition at the tact Nord, 160 Douglas Street West, Sudbury, On­ UCLA Library, the volume contains a list of all tario, Canada P3E 1G1. items known to have been printed by the press of • The Directory of Telefacsimile Sites in North San Jacopo di Ripoli in Florence. A copy may be American Libraries (4th ed., 1988) lists more than requested from the Department of Special Collec­ 1,700 libraries with telefacsimile units and pro­ tions, University Research Library, UCLA, 405 vides fax numbers, contact persons, full institu­ Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575. tional addresses, and OCLC or RLIN symbols. The • The CATLA Union List of Serials, compiled by type of fax equipment in use is indicated for 1,350 the Chicago Area Theological Library Association, sites, with Omnifax equipment reported in 28 % of has been produced on five microfiche cards using them. There are entries from all 50 states, the Dis­ OCLC’s union listing capability. It contains rec­ trict of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and all but ords for 15,000 serial titles found in the libraries of two of the Canadian provinces. The directory is 25 theological seminaries in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illi­ available for $24.00 (prepaid, plus $2.00 handling) nois, northern Indiana, and Michigan. The cost is from CBR Consulting Services, P.O. Box 248, Bu­ $30.00 (prepaid). Contact William Darr, Morgan chanan Dam, TX 78609-0248.

428 / C&RL News