New Mexico State University Library Newsletter

              NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 5
NUMBER 3
SEPTEMBER 1990
Charles Townley Appointed
New Dean of NMSU Library
Charles T. Townley, previously head of
the Division of Library and Instructional
Services of Penn State Harrisburg since
1979, became Dean of the New Mexico
State University Library effective September 1. He is responsible for planning and
implementation of library programs and
services in the 800,000 volume library.
He believes the NMSU administration and
faculty are committed to developing
library and information services, and that
the materials budget is being increased to
reflect the instructional, research, and
service needs of NMSU and the region.
Townley looks forward to working with
the library staff who seem to be "absolutely first rate."
His first major assignment will be to
supervise construction of the new library
facility. He feels the new building is an
outward sign of commitment to knowledge
at NMSU.
From 1969 to 1972 Townley served as a
serials librarian at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He worked as
assistant director and later director of the
National Indian Education Association
Library Project from 1972 to 1975. He
was a consultant to the U.S. Department of
the Interior Libraries and lectured at the
School of Information and Library Studies
while pursuing doctoral studies at the
University of Michigan from 1976 to
1979.
Active in professional organizations,
Townley currendy serves as secretary of
the International Federation of Library
Associations Section on Multicultural
Librarianship. He is also chair of the
Association of Research Libraries Research Committee and a consultant to the
Office of Library Outreach Services. He
has served as a councilor-at-large of the
American Library Association.
Townley received a bachelor's degree in
1968 and a master's in library science in
1969 from the University of Oklahoma.
He received a master's degree from the
University of California at Santa Barbara
in 1975 and a Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan in 1983.
His research interests include information
use, library management and inter-organizational relationships. Out of his doctoral
research and a Council on Library
Resources fellowship came his book tided
Human Relations in Library Network
Development. He regularly writes for
library and information science periodi-