Volume 9, Number 4
Jul 1985

People

• Dorothy Harrop, known for her biographical series of articles on binders in the Book Collector (most recently, on Denise Lubett in the Spring 1985 issue), is retiring this summer from her post at the College of Librarianship Wales at Aberystwyth, where she is principal lecturer in bibliography. Designer Bookbinders has made her an honorary member.
• Luis Monreal, 42, a native of Barcelona, has moved to Los Angeles from Paris to take charge of the J. Paul Getty Conservation Institute. Monreal, a former field archeologist, museum director and university art professor, has since 1974 been the Secretary General of the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
• Mary Wood Lee, former chairman of the Pacific Regional Conservation Center, has left Hawaii to assume the post of preservation officer at the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago.
• Jane DaIley of Montreal will close her store, Reliure-Relier, in July and assume the position of chief paper conservator at the Manitoba Provincial Archives.
• Bobbie Chalfant has assumed the position of Conservator in the Preservation Department of Columbia University as of June 1. Bobbie has held the position of Conservator at the New York City Municipal Archives during the past year. Prior to this, she held a 10-month internship at the Library of Congress. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Library and Archival Conservation Program.
• Shelley Cina was hired in February as bookbinder for the Missouri Botanical Garden Library, under the direction of Susan Finley. After earning a fine arts degree at the University of Wisconsin, she worked as a free-lance bookbinder for three years.
• Four of the conservation students from Columbia University (listed in the February issue) will be beginning their internships this year:
  • Roxane Ahkao will be at HRHRC, University of Texas, Austin.
  • Barbara Rhodes will be with Nicholas Pickwoad in Norwich, England.
  • Elizabeth Morse will be at Yale.
  • Kathy Orlenko will be at the Library of Congress.