This column is the "Corner" where members can learn what other PAM members are doing - moving to other positions, promotions, retirements and other news of interest. Please send information to me via email ( bgc@sicon.usno.navy.mil), via fax (202)762-1083 or via postal mail to the address in the PAM Directory.

Dorothy Manderscheid (manders1@pilot.msu.edu) retired as Head of the Mathematics Library at Michigan State on July 1, 1999. A PAM member since 1989, Dorothy has been very active in the division, most recently serving as Archivist. She is writing the "History of PAM, Pt. II", and we are certainly looking forward to this publication. Chair Molly White sent Dorothy an official letter thanking her for active work in the division over the last 10 years. Dorothy, we wish you well in your retirement, and hope you will stay in touch. Dorothy's biography of her career follows.

I developed an interest in libraries as a result of working as a Library Assistant in the Director's Office, Stanford University Libraries, back in the fifties. I had received my B.S. in Home Economics Education from Iowa State University and needed a job in the Palo Alto area since my husband was a graduate student at Stanford.

I worked at Stanford one and one-half years before the birth of our oldest son. For many years I was a full-time wife, mother of four, volunteer, cook, chauffeur, etc. in East Lansing. I considered getting a library science degree but there was no program available at Michigan State University. When our youngest daughter started to college, I enrolled in library school at Western Michigan University. After graduation I was a Science Librarian in the MSU Libraries for five years. I became the MSU Mathematics Librarian when Berle Reiter (PAM member) retired at the end of 1988. The remainder of my career was spent in that position until I retired on July 1, 1999.

I have enjoyed my experience as head of a branch library. Yes, there can be headaches as head of a branch, but it is very rewarding to get to know your clientele well and to try and provide good service to them. Mathematicians and statisticians are loyal supporters of their library since it is so important in their work. During the past ten years, the library has been automated and completely renovated. A new security system has been installed and this, along with the elimination of faculty/graduate student keys, has cut book losses greatly.

With a semi-retired husband, it seemed that this was the appropriate time to start a new era in life. We plan to travel more and I am already getting involved in volunteer and other activities. I miss the structured life that goes with a job, but I do not miss the rat race. Our children think that I have 100 years worth of things to do during retirement since I have said often during the past few years "I'll do that when I retire".

I am currently finishing the History of PAM - Part II, covering the years from 1975-99, a sequel to Part I written by Jack Weigel. I will miss PAM and miss all of you, but I plan to stay on PAMnet at least for now so I will not be completely out of touch. I share the sentiments of those of you who consider PAM a very special organization.

James Manasco (jmanasco@ColoradoCollege.edu), currently the Natural Sciences Librarian at Colorado College has accepted the position of Head Librarian at the Shaver Engineering Library at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He will assume this position on November 8. James is very happy to be returning to his home turf, "the Promised Land" as he calls it. He expects to remain active in PAM.

Our own Bulletin Editor, Cynthia Holt (holt@gwu.edu), has changed positions, moving from the Sciences and Technology Library at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg to become Science and Technology Librarian at The Gelman Library at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Cynthia began the new position on October 4.

Isabel Stirling (stirling@darkwing.uoregon.edu), Head of the Science Library at University of Oregon has accepted the position of Associate University Librarian and Director, Public Services at UC Berkeley. She begins the new position on December 1. Isabel notes she is really looking forward to working with her new colleagues at UC Berkeley.

Ann Redfield (redfield@slac.stanford.edu) has been recently promoted to the position of Assistant Chief Librarian. She has been a member of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Library staff since September 1996 when she started as a part-time Reference Librarian. In her new capacity as Assistant Chief Librarian, her responsibilities include: public services, monographic acquisitions and cataloging, budget, and for the SPIRES databases, database cataloging and authority control.

Two PAM members are featured in an article in the July 1999 Library Journal (p.46-48). Michael Leach, Librarian at the Kummel Library of Geological Sciences and also the Physics Research Library at Harvard, and Sherry O'Brien, Web Editor, American Mathematical Society, are both profiled in "The SLA Competencies: Raising the Bar on Performance". It is exciting that of the 6 librarians noted in the article, two are PAM members - Michael Leach (leach@physics.harvard.edu) and Sherry O'Brien (sao@ams.org).

Jeanette Regan (jeanette.regan@anu.edu.au), Librarian of the Mt. Stromlo and Sliding Spring Observatories in Australia, has been asked by SLA President Susan DiMattia to serve on a Global Task Force for SLA. Jeanette is also Chair of PAM's International Relations Committee.