Notables

Janet McCue, associate university librarian for life sciences and director of Mann Library, recently announced two staff appointments in Mann Library. Mary Ochs will assume the position of head of collection development, and William Kara has been appointed acquisitions librarian and head of technical services. Ochs' appointment follows an extensive national search for Mann Library's Collection Development position. A 1979 graduate of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ochs began her Cornell library career as a cataloger at Mann in 1984. In 1991 she took a position as head of instruction at Uris, where she remained until last year. At that time she came back to Mann as deputy director of TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agriculture Library), a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project to produce a CD-ROM collection of agricultural journals for distribution to developing nations. Kara's appointment results from a reorganization in Mann's Technical Services department. He has been acquisitions librarian at Mann since 1989. He became the acting head of technical services last year, when McCue was appointed Mann's acting, and later, permanent director. He now assumes the role of head of technical services and will continue serving in his dual role on a permanent basis, managing the acquisition, processing and cataloging of monographs and serials in all formats at Mann. From 1984 to 1987, Kara worked as assistant acquisitions librarian and cataloger at Olin Library.

Laurie E. Boyden's ongoing efforts in Cornell's pomology program were recognized by Hugh Price, chair of the Department of Horticultural Sciences at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, when he presented her with the 1998 Perrine Scholarship Award Feb. 22. Boyden is the fourth recipient of the award, which was established by David Perrine '22 in 1993 to support pomology research work at Geneva. The $2,000 Perrine Scholarship award is credited to the research account of the student's thesis adviser with the stipulation that it be used to support the student's research program. Susan Brown, director of the station's apple breeding program, noted that the award was appropriate because the Perrine family was very interested in "fruit quality" and "breeding," which are Boyden's primary interests. Boyden, a first-year graduate student, is pursuing a master's/Ph.D. degree in pomology. She will be performing research with Brown on characterizing germplasm for quality attributes in conjunction with disease resistance.