ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


50 /  C&RL News ■ January 2002

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s Ann-Christe Young

Trudi Bellardo Hahn, manager o f User Edu­
cation Services at the University of Maryland 
(UM), College Park, and adjunct professor in 
the College of Information Studies, has been 

chosen president-elect 
of the American Society 
for Information Science 
and Technology. Prior to 
h e r  p o s itio n  a t UM, 
Hahn held positions at 
the Maryland State De­
partment of Education, 
the Special Libraries As­
sociation, the Catholic 
University of America, 

Trudi Bellardo Hahn an d  the University of 
Kentucky. She has also been a consultant for 
the National Center for Biotechnology Infor­
mation, the World Bank, and other govern­
m ent and private organizations.

University of Illinois Graduate School o f Li­
brary and Information Science faculty m em ­
bers P. Bryan Heidorn and Carole Palmer 
have received m ore than $475,000 from the 
N ational Science F oundation for research 
being conducted as part of a project with the 
Illinois Natural History Survey. The project, 
“An Internet Environm ent for BioDiversity 
Survey Collaboration and Verification," will 
develop software that those collecting field 
data for ecology and biodiversity studies can 
use in the field.

E. J . Josey, emeritus professor of library and 
in fo rm atio n  scien ce at the U niversity o f 
Pittsburgh’s (UP) School o f Information Sci­
ences, has received the honorary doctorate 
o f hum ane letters degree from Clarion Uni­
versity. Josey joined UP in 1986 and taught 
the initial Libraries in Society course for the 
D epartm ent o f Library and Information Sci­
ence. He retired in 1995. Josey has four other 
honorary degrees, as well as num erous pro­
fessional, academic, and comm unity honors. 
He w as president o f ALA (1984-85) and a 
m em ber o f its council for 30 years, receiving 
its Joseph W. Lippincott Award. Josey has 
authored more than 400 articles and has writ­

ten or edited 12 books on information sci­
ences.

Paula T. Kaufman, university librarian and 
professor o f library administration at the Uni­
versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 
has been elected president o f the Association 
o f R esearch Libraries 
(ARL). Prior to being 
nam ed university librar­
ian at UIUC in 1999, 
Kaufman w as dean of 
libraries at the University 
o f Tennessee, Knoxville, 
for 11 years. She also 
held several positions at 
C olum bia U niversity, 
in clu d in g  acting vice 
president and university Paula T. Kaufman
librarian. Her experience 
also includes w ork in the private sector, dur­
ing which she co-founded an information in­
dustry service firm. She was elected to the ARL 
Board in 1997 and is currently chairing the 
Copyright Group. Kaufman serves on boards 
for the Center for Research Libraries, the Council 
on Library and Information Resources, the Re­
search Libraries Group, and the Southeastern 
Library Network, Inc. She chairs the Directors 
G roup of the Committee on Institutional Co­
operation.

Norma Kobzina, head of information ser­
vices at the University o f California at Berke­
ley, has received the Librarians Association 
of the University of California Berkeley (LAUC- 
B) D istinguished Librarian Award.

Honora F. Nerz, h ead of the Burlington Tex­
tiles Library and Engineering Services at North 
Carolina State, and Suzanne T. Weiner, head 
o f collection m anagem ent at the North Caro­
lina State University, have b een  nam ed re-

Ed . n o t e : To ensure th a t y o u r p e rs o n n e l new s is 
c o n sid e re d  f o r  p u b lic a tio n , w r ite  to  A n n -C h riste  
Young, p ro d u c tio n  editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron 
St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org; 
fa x :(3 1 2 ) 280-2520.

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c i p i e n t s  o f  th e  
2001 American So­
ciety for Engineer­
ing Education An­
n u al C o n feren ce 
Best Overall Paper 
award. They w on 
the award, which 
includes a $3,000 
cash prize, for their 
submission “Infor­
mation Competen­
cies: A Strategic 

H o n o ra  F. N e rz  and A pproach” (avail­
Suzanne T. W einer

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bestpapers.cfm.

Carlen Ruschoff, director o f technical ser­
vices at the University of Maryland, College 
Park, has b een  elected to a three-year term 
as a Board M em ber o f PALINET, a multitype 
library netw ork dedicated to  the support of 
resource sharing an d  technology initiatives 
throughout Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, an d  West Virginia.

Iliana L. Sonntag Blay, San D iego State 
University librarian emerita, is the recipient 
of the José Toribio Medina Award, presented 
by the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin 
American Library Materials (SALALM). Sonntag 
Blay’s book, Twentieth Century Poetry fro m  
Spanish A m erica, in d e x e s  p o e tr y  fro m  
Mexico, Central America, an d  South America 
(with th e exception of Brazil) from turn of 
the century M odernism o to the present. The 
aw ard (a certificate and honorarium  of $250) 
is m ade annually in recognition o f outstand­
ing contributions by SALALM m em bers to 
Latin American Studies.

Arthur P. Young, d ean  o f university librar­
ies at N orthern Illinois University, received 
the Illinois Library A ssociation’s 2001 Aca­
demic Librarian of the Year Award.

A p p o i n t m e n t s

David H. Carlson has been nam ed dean of 
library affairs at Southern Illinois University at

Carbondale. Carlson had 
b een  director o f librar­
ies at Bridgewater State 
College in Bridgewater, 
M a s sa c h u se tts, sin c e  
1994. His experience at 
B rid g e w a te r in c lu d e s 
tw o years as acting as­
sistant vice president for 
academ ic inform ation 
resources (1995-97). He David H. Carlson
was executive director of 
the Triangle Research Libraries N etw ork in 
C hapel Hill, North Carolina (1991-94). He 
w as director o f the Office o f Library Systems, 
university Libraries, at the University o f Lou­
isville, K entucky (1987-91). From 1984 to 
1987, Carlson w as a systems analyst at the 
University Library of th e University o f Rhode 
Island.

J o  Cates has b een  appointed director o f the 
Columbia College Chicago Library. She as­
sum es this position follow ing four years at 
Ernst and Young in Chicago, w here she served 
as regional research m anager at the Center 
for Business Knowledge. She has directed the 
T ransportation Library at N orthw estern Uni­
versity an d  w as the h ead  o f reference at the 
Lamont Library o f H arvard College and di­
rector o f the library at the Poynter Institute 
for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. 
Cates is the author of Journalism: A Guide to 
Reference Literature and num erous articles 
and reviews.

Lise M. Dyckman has been  appointed library 
director at the California Institute of Integral 
Studies in San Francisco.

Ronald H. Epp has b een  app o in ted  director 
o f the Harry A. B. an d  G ertrude C. Shapiro 
Library at Southern New Ham pshire Univer­
sity. He h ad  b een  director o f libraries at the 
University o f Hartford since 1993 an d  devel­
o p e d  ALiNUS, an online database o f more 
than 600 academic library newsletters. He held 
diverse positions w ith the Council o n  C on­
necticut Academic Library Directors. In 1991, 
ALA published Collection development in col­
lege libraries, w hich he co-edited w ith Joanne 
Schneider an d  William H annaford Jr. From 
1985 to 1989, Epp w as m anaging editor of 
Choice.

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M a rily n  S m ith  B r e g o li has b een  nam ed di­
rector of the Annenberg Library of Pine Manor 
College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Pre­
viously, Bregoli served as director o f the 
Regina Library at Rivier College in Nashua, 
New Hampshire, and librarian o f the G radu­
ate School of Social Work at Simmons Col­
lege in Boston, Massachusetts.

C la r e n c e  T o o m e r  has been appointed dean 
of library and learning services and professor 
in the School of Education at Livingston Col­
lege in Salisbury, North Carolina. He was dean 
of library and learning resources at Chicago 
State University (1998-2000). Toomer has been 
an active m em ber o f ALA for 19 years, serving 
on several committees in ACRL and the Black 
Caucus of ALA. He served as chair of the Col­
lege and University section of the North Caro­
lina Library Association (1997-1999).

K itti C a n e p i is now  the resource m an­
agem ent librarian for Florida Gulf Coast Uni­
versity in Ft. Myers.

A m y  C o o p e r  is now  special collections 
librarian at the University o f Iowa.

A n d r e w  C o r r ig a n  is now  assistant dean 
of collections and inform ation services at 
Tulane University.

C a th e r in e  C o r te ly o u  is now  w orking in 
the Institute o f Transportation Studies’ Tech­
nology Transfer Program at the University of 
California at Berkeley.

Advertiser index

Academic Press 23
American Theological 42

Library Association
Annual Reviews 49
Archival Products 8
EBSCO 9
Elsevier Science 18, 47
Endeavor Information Sys. 10
Excelsior College 4
Faxon/Row ecom 31
LexisNexis Cover 2
Linda Hall Library 1-14
OCLC 14
Optical Society of America 1
Pow ell’s Books 17
ScienceDirect Cover 3
SWETS/Blackwell 27
West G roup Cover 4

M argo W a r n e r  C u rl is now  coordinator 
o f cooperative collection developm ent for 
CONSORT Colleges.

J u lie t  D e m e t e r  is now  an archivist in the 
Bancroft Library at the University of Califor­
nia at Berkeley.

J u d y  F o x  has been prom oted to associate 
dean for access bibliographies and administra­
tive services at Washington University’s Librar­
ies and Information Technology.

Lia H illm a n  is now  an archivist in the 
Bancroft Library at the University o f Califor­
nia at Berkeley.

B. J. J o h n s t o n  has been  prom oted to as­
sociate dean for collections and departm en­
tal libraries at W ashington University’s Librar­
ies and Information Technology.

D a n a j u r i e w  has been  appointed assis­
tant professor in the Kresge Library at O ak­
land University in Rochester, Michigan.

M ary K o n k e l is now  technical services 
librarian at the College of DuPage in Glen 
Ellyn, Illinois.

V ic k i L itz in g e r  has b een  appointed co­
ordinator of library access services at Lyndon 
State College in Vermont.

B rad  M a tth ies is the new  reference li­
brarian at Butler University in Indianapolis, 
Indiana.

D o r o t h y  A u c h te r  M a y s has b e e n  ap ­
p o in ted  h ead  of public services at Rollins 
College’s Olin Library.

J e a n  M c K e n z ie , engineering library as­
sistant head/reference librarian at the Univer­
sity of California at Berkeley, has also b een  
nam ed acting h ead  o f the Astronomy-Math- 
Statistics Library until August 1, 2002.

K a th r y n  M o n tg o m e r y  has b e e n  nam ed 
digital services librarian at Tulane University.

M arilyn  O c h o a  is the new  humanities and 
social sciences referen ce librarian in the 
George A. Smathers Libraries at the Univer­
sity of Florida.

A fe w o r k i P a u lo s has joined the reference 
departm ent of the University o f Michigan’s 
Harlan H atcher Graduate Library as African 
Studies librarian.

T r a cy  P a y n e  is now  access services li­
brarian at Butler University in Indianapolis, 
Indiana.

D a n ie l  P e n n e ll  has b een  nam ed Slavic 
bibliographer at the University o f Pittsburgh.

E r ic k a  A. R ab er has b een  appointed in­
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Innovative Style an d  Technology) at the Uni­
versity o f Iowa.

Connie Roberts is now  director of Tech­
nical Services at Hamilton College in Clinton, 
New York.

D oralyn H. R ossm an n  has b e e n  a p ­
pointed library systems analyst at Montana State 
University.

Cecilia D. Stafford is now  associate dean 
of libraries at Tulane University.

Phoebe Terry is now  governm ent infor­
mation librarian at the University o f Southern 
Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

Carol Thompson has been  appointed ref­
erence librarian at the College of DuPage in 
Glen Ellyn.

Mary Throumoulos has joined Rollins Col­
lege as acquisitions librarian.

Virginia Toliver has been prom oted to as­
sociate d ean  for administration at Washington 
University’s Libraries and Information Technol­
ogy-

Julie Voelck has been named associate dean 
and associate professor at the Kresge Library at 
Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Ruth Vondracek has been nam ed head of 
reference and instruction in the Valley Library 
at O regon State University in Corvallis.

Penny A. Welbourne is the n ew  catalog 
librarian II on the Rare Book Team at Yale 
University.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Willis M. (Bill) Hubbard will retire in June 
2002 as library director of Warren Wilson Col­
lege in Asheville, North Carolina. A life m em ­
ber o f ALA since 1968, H ubbard served tw o 
terms on the ACRL Board, chaired the Col­
lege Library Section, served on  the C&RL News 

Editorial Board, and has 
b e e n  a m e m b e r  o f 
m any ACRL a n d  ALA 
c o m m itte e s . H e h a s 
served as a consultant 
to nearly 30 colleges and 
u n iv e r s itie s  a n d  h as 
given programs at ACRL, 
ALA, CAUSE, Educom, 
the Coalition for Net­
w o rk e d  in fo rm a tio n , 

Bill (W illis M.) H ubbard and other organizations.

Prior to his position at Warren Wilson College, 
Hubbard was library director at three other pri­
vate colleges— most recently Gettysburg Col­
lege (1983-96).

D e a t h s

Dan Foley, 58, nonbook cataloger/metadata 
librarian at the University of W isconsin at 
Milwaukee’s (UWM) Golda Meir Library, died 
November 17 while teaching a class for UWM’s 
School o f Inform ation 
Studies. From 1982 to 
1983, Foley w orked as 
an intern in the UWM 
Library’s cataloging d e ­
p a rtm e n t. Foley th e n  
accepted a professional 
p o s i ti o n  at T u la n e  
U n iv e rsity ’s H o w ard - 
Tilton Memorial Library, 
later taking jobs w ith 

Dan FoleyMobil Exploration and 
Producing, the library at the Xavier University 
of Louisiana, the Sims Memorial Library at 
Southeastern Louisiana University, and the 
Energy and Environmental Information Re­
sources Center at the University of Louisiana 
at Lafayette. Foley began working as a profes­
sional at the UWM Libraries in September 2000.

Jam es Edmund Maynard, associate profes­
sor in library science at The Citadel and a 
librarian there for 33 years, has died.

George D. T erry, vice provost and d ean  of 
libraries at the University o f South Carolina 
(1991-2001), died O ctober 20, 2001. Before 
assum ing the position o f dean, Terry served 
as director of the university’s McKissick Mu­
seum  and adm inistrator for special projects, 
including developm ent o f an online library 
system to  link the university’s nine campuses. 
Terry excelled in facilitating the acquisition 
o f notable materials for the libraries’ special 
collection departm ent. ■
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