A New Librarian

After searching for two years, the College has found a head librarian. She is Margaret A. Otto, currently associate director of libraries at M.I.T. Otto will start her new job in July and will be in charge of Dartmouth's complete library system, including Baker Library and the branches specializing in medicine, engineering, business, and the sciences.

The library position fell vacant last fall when Edward Connery Lathem '51 fulfilled his announced plans to resign to concentrate on scholarly pursuits. He has remained at Dartmouth as the Bezaleel Woodward Fellow, a new position named in honor of the College's first librarian. Since Lathem's resignation, Virginia Whitney, former chief librarian at Rutgers, has been acting librarian at Dartmouth.

As associate director of the M.I.T. libraries, Otto has had responsibility for the day-to-day management of the university's entire library system. She joined M.I.T. in 1963, after receiving a bachelor's degree from Boston University in 1960 and subsequent master's degrees in library science and English literature from Simmons College.

Otto is taking charge of a Dartmouth library system that now employs 130 full- time library personnel and has an annual budget of over $3 million.