Volume 21, Number 4
Nov 1997

People

• Charles Dollar, formerly a staff member at the National Archives in Washington, DC, was asked by the University of British Columbia a few years ago to teach courses in electronic records management and archives. He moved there in July 1994. One of the four courses he teaches is "Preservation of Archival and Library Material," in which he emphasizes preservation management rather than the technical aspects. His office telephone number is 604/822-6365; fax is 604/822-6006; and e-mail is cdollar@compuserve.com.
• Frederick Bearman, formerly head of conservation for Columbia University Libraries, took up a new post on November 3 as Director of the Conservation Centre at Camberwell. Telephone: +44 171 514 6304; fax +44 171 514 6318.
• Hilary A. Kaplan's e-mail address has been changed to: hkaplan@sos.state.ga.us.
• Carol Sue Whitehouse has left the Newberry Library to open up her own business in Colorado. Her new address is: 512 West Sycamore Circle, Louisville, CO 80027 (303/673-0638, e-mail: conserve@ix.netcom.com).
• Elmer Eusman, who gave a paper on "Wet-Dry Boundaries in Cellulose" at the 1994 AIC conference, has accepted a position as paper conservator in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where he will be working on iron gall ink degradation, as part of an international research effort. His address will be: Conservation Department, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Museumpark 18-20, 3015CX Rotterdam, The Netherlands (31-10-4419508, fax 31-10-4360500, e-mail babel@wirehub.nl).
• Michèle Cloonan has been named chair of the University of California/Los Angeles's Department of Library and Information Science.
• GraceAnne E. DeCandido has started her own firm, Blue Roses Editorial and Web Consulting, to help libraries and library associations with their writing, editing, content oversight and Web planning.
• Lester Asheim and Gordon R. Williams were in the "In Memoriam" column of the October American Libraries. Lester Asheim was dean of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, 1952-1961; and Gordon Williams wrote a report on the brittle books problem for ARL and CLR in 1965, describing the size of the preservation problem, and proposing a national preservation collection.
• Dora Middleton, who married Bernard Middleton in 1951 and was later made an honorary member of the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders in appreciation of her hosting the meetings held in the Middleton workshop, died August 2. Her obituary, by Marianne Tidcombe, appeared in the Designer Bookbinders Newsletter for Autumn 1997.