Volume 20, Number 2
Jun 1996

People

• Jutta Reed-Scott will retire as ARL Senior Program Officer for Preservation and Collections Services at the end of July 1996.
• Brooke Sheldon, Dean of the library school at the University of Texas (home of the Preservation and Conservation Studies program), will leave her position next September 1. Having spent the last 20 years in administration, she has nevertheless always wanted to be a full-time teaching faculty member; now she will be able to do this.
• Steve Bush, Chief of Safety Services at the Library of Congress, retired February 1, 1996. During his 25-year tenure, automated sprinkler systems were installed in the Jefferson and Adams buildings, asbestos was removed from those buildings as part of the renovation, and smoking was banned from most areas of the Library. There was resistance by the librarians and managers to the installation of sprinklers, because they were afraid of water damage from leaking pipes, but this was finally overcome by 1986. Bush is the author of the chapter on fire protection in museums and libraries in the Fire Protection Handbook published by the National Fire Protection Association.
• Two new staff members recently joined the Conservation Division of Information Conservation, Inc. (ICI, a library binding company). Jake Benson, a graduate of the North Bennet Street School's two-year Bookbinding Program who has been a conservation intern at Harvard Law School Library, Haverford College and the Library of Congress, is now Assistant Conservator. Lisa Clark, also of the North Bennet Street School, has done conservation work in several Harvard University libraries and the Fogg Museum. She will join the staff in July. Two interns are there this summer as well. Mark Rutledge, a conservator student from the University of Texas, is interning there until August; and Barbie Dailey, archivist and bookbinder from Pondicherry, India, is interning there through September.
• Fred Glazer, the state librarian of West Virginia, was fired by the West Virginia Library Commission without explanation and with little notice. Glazer is highly respected in his home state and in the library profession. He is the person who made arrangements to have UNESCO distribute its RAMP studies through the West Virginia State Library (see list on p. 131 of the December 15, 1995, issue of this Newsletter). The story is on p. 19 and 21 of the June/July American Libraries.
• Laura S. Young, bookbinder, teacher and former president of the Guild of Book Workers, died March 1 at the age of 91.