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ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 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.
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