ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ June 2000 535 / P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s A n n - C h r i s t e Y o u n g Linda Solow Blotner, head o f the Allen Library at the U niversity o f H artford, is the n ew e d ito r o f Notes, th e M usic Library A sso ciation ’s quarterly journal. Jo Burgess, assistant librarian and head o f C on servation Services at Indiana U ni versity in B lo o m in g to n , and K aren Rege, m u sicolog ist and librarian at the D elaw are Colleg e o f Art and D esign, w ere aw arded the 2 0 0 0 D en a Epstein Award for Archival and Library R esearch in A m erican Music. T he follow ing w ere elected the Board o f Music Library Association: James P. Cassaro (head o f the Theodore M. Finney Music Li brary at the University o f Pittsburgh) is vice president/president elect; Lynn Gullickson (music technical services librarian at North western University) is recording secretary; and Allie Wise Goudy (music librarian at West ern Illinois University), Leslie Troutman (music user services coordinator at the Uni versity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Philip R. Vandermeer (music librarian at the University o f Maryland) are new members- at-large. Steven Herb, head o f Pennsylvania State’s Edu cation and B eh av ioral S cien c es Library sin ce 1 992, has b e e n n am ed this y e a r ’s Most Innovative T e a ch e r by the S ch reyer Institute for Innovation in Learning and the Undergraduate Student G overnm ent A ca demic Assembly. Herb was nom inated for his course “Stories and Storytelling: How Hu mans B ecom e People.” H e c o a u t h o r e d The Nittany Lion: An Illus trated Tale, a history o f the Penn State mascot. H e rb w a s r e c e n t ly named executive direc tor o f the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. He has been active in the Association for Library Steven Herb S e rv ic e to C h ild ren , serving as president (1 9 9 6 -9 7 ), and ALA’s In tellectual Freedom Committee (chair since 1997). Herb also serves on the Board o f Di rectors o f the Freedom to Read Foundation. Althea H. Jenkins, execu tive director o f ACRL since 1991, has been awarded Florida State University’s School o f Information Stud ies 2000 Distinguished Alumni award. Since assuming the top leadership position at ACRL, the asso cia tio n ’s p ro grams have expanded to include information literacy; a stronger em phasis has b een placed on continuous learning for academic librarians; and institutes covering timely topics have b een d e v e lo p e d . T h e n a tional conference pro grams have expanded A lth e a Jenkins an d W e b -b a se d p ro gram m ing is o n the h orizon. Je n k in s ’ c a reer in librarianship in clu des position s as d irecto r o f Library Services at th e U niver sity o f South Florida, Sarasota/New Col le g e Cam pus; library d irecto r at Miami- D ad e C om m u n ity C o lle g e -W o lfs o n and Kendall cam pu ses; and sch o o l librarian for Indian River County in Vero B each , Florida. Je n k in s w ill b e h o n o r e d at th e Florida State’s Annual Convocation and H om ecom ing cerem o n y on O cto b e r 14, 2000. Hannelore B. Rader, university librarian at the University o f Louisville, received the Literati 2 000 Award fo r E x c e lle n c e for h er Outstanding P ap er “T h e Learning Environ m ent— T h en , Now and, Later: 30 Years o f T each in g Inform ation S k ills,” p u blish ed in R eferen ce Services Review. MCB University Ed. note: To e nsure t h a t y o u r p e rs o n n e l new s is c o n s id e re d f o r p u b lic a tio n , w r it e to A n n -C h ris te Young, P ro du ctio n Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. H uro n St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-m ail: ayoung@ aia.org; fax: (312)280-2520. mailto:ayoung@aia.org 536 / C&RL News ■ June 2000 P ress, a B ritish p u b lis h e r o f m o r e th a n 150 sch olarly journals cov erin g su ch diverse to p ics as accou n tin g, b a n k in g , b u s i n e s s , e d u c a tio n , e n g in e e r ing, logistics, m arket ing, m an agem en t, s c i e n c e and tech n o log y , Hannelore Rader honored the outstand in g a r t i c l e in e a c h journal o n April 14, 2000, in London, E n gland, by presenting 95 authors w ith a s p e cial award. Jean ette C. Smith o f New M exico State University (NMSU) has b e e n aw arded the first Edm und Lester P earson Library Hu m or Award from th e M olesw orth Institute. She receiv ed the aw ard— w hich con sists o f a m iscellan eou s assortm en t o f e p h e m era p u blish ed by the M olesw orth Institute and a con trib u tion to a library d ev elo p m ent fund at the NMSU Library— fo r her article “O n e B o o k O ver the L in e,” w hich ap p eared in the April 1999 issue o f Cita tions— th e n ew sletter o f the NMSU Library. G. Dale Vargason Jr. and Jo h n M. Bewley are w inners o f this y e a r’s W alter G erb oth Award, offered annually to m em bers o f the Music Library A ssociation , in their first five years o f their p ro fessio n al library careers, to assist re se a rch -in -p rog ress in m usic or m usic librarianship. A p p o i n t m e n t s Jo sep h J . Branin is now d irector o f li braries at O h io State University in Colum bus. H e was dean and d irector o f U niver sity Libraries at SUNY Stony B ro o k from 1996 to 1999. From 1986 to 1996, he served as asso cia te university librarian fo r c o lle c tion s and services at the University o f Min neso ta. Prior to that position , he served as hu m anities librarian at th e U niversity o f G eorg ia Libraries and b ran ch librarian at K ent State U niversity. B ran in is an active m em b er o f several p ro fessio n al org an iza tion s, inclu ding ACRL. He is a b o o k reviewer, sp eaker, con su ltan t, and he writes ab ou t inform ation s c ie n c e related top ics in p ro fessio n al journals. Paul McCarthy has b een appointed director o f libraries and information technology at the University o f Alaska, Fairban ks. McCarthy jo in ed WLN as p resid ent and CEO in 1995. In Ja n u a ry 1999, fo llo w in g the m erger o f WLN and OCLC, h e w as nam ed execu tive d irecto r o f OCLC/WLN P a cific N orthwest S e rv ic e C en ter. B e fo r e jo in in g WLN he sp en t 30 years at th e U niversity o f Alaska, Fairban ks, inclu ding sev en years as d irec to r o f lib r a r ie s . In th is n e w p o s itio n , M cCarthy w ill b e resp o n sib le for b o th li braries and cam pu s com puting. Ruth Parlin has b e e n ap p o in ted d irector o f Library Services for G reen M ountain Col leg e in P ou ltney, Verm ont. Parlin served as re fe re n c e librarian and h ead o f re fe re n c e s e r v i c e s at G r e e n M ou n tain b e fo r e b e ing nam ed interim di r e c to r in J u l y 1 9 9 9 . H er p rev io u s exp eri ence includes service as head o f reference at the University o f Miami Law Sch ool library ( 1 9 9 2 - Ruth Parlin94), reference/electronic services librarian at the University o f Arkansas Law School library (1991-92), and reference librarian at New England School o f Law library (1988-90). She was a mem ber o f the Ameri can Association o f Law Libraries (1988-94) and is a member o f ACRL and ALA, serving on the Social Responsibilities Round Table. Louis A. Rachow, library d irecto r o f the International Theatre Institute o f the United States sin ce 1988, c o n tin u es to h o ld this position up on the N ovem ber 1999 co n so li dation o f the Institu te w ith th e T h eatre C om m u nications G roup in New York. Wilson M. “Bil” Stahl has b e e n nam ed head librarian at W estern Carolina U niver sity, effectiv e August 1. Stahl is currently university d irecto r o f inform ation te c h n o l ogy at University o f North Carolina (UNC)- Charlotte, and also has b e e n serving as act­ C&RL News ■ June 2000 / 537 i n g a s s o c i a t e v i c e c h a n c e llo r fo r library an d in fo rm a tio n s e r v ic e s s in c e Ju ly 1999. H e previou sly w o rk ed a t U N C -C h a r lo tte as d irector o f inform ation te c h n o lo g y p lan n in g , an d h eld a s p e c ia l as sig n m en t o f d e v e lo p Wilson M. "B il" Stahl m en t o f a n in fo rm a tio n te c h n o lo g y p lan for th e university. P rior to jo in in g the UNC- C h arlotte library s ta ff as a s so c ia te library d irec to r in 1983, h e w as v ic e p resid en t and head o f d esign for Pro Libra A ssociates Inc., an d h eld sev eral p o sitio n s in th e library at S to ck to n State C o lleg e (n o w th e R ichard S to ck to n C o lleg e o f N ew Je r s e y ). Susan Ardis has b e e n ap p o in ted h ead o f th e S c ie n c e L ib raries D iv is io n at the U niversity o f T e x a s at A ustin. Mark B artlett is n o w h ead o f te ch n ica l s erv ic es at th e R o s s-B la k ley Law Library at A rizon a State U niversity in T em p e. Daniel K. Blewett has b e e n ap p o in ted c o lle c tio n d e v e lo p m e n t c o o r d in a to r and referen c e librarian at Loyola U niversity Chi cag o . William E. Brow n J r . is n o w c o o r d i n ato r fo r R e s ea rch and In stru ctio n at the B a n c ro ft Library at th e U niversity o f Cali fo rn ia at B erk e le y . B e r tr a m (C h i p ) B r u c e h a s b e e n nam ed p ro fe s s o r o f Library an d In fo rm a tio n S c ie n c e at th e U niversity o f Illin o is at U rban a-C h am p aign . Sheila Bryant w as h ired as re fe re n c e lib rarian at M ichigan State U niversity. Tom C arter has b e e n a p p o in te d d ean o f a c a d e m ic re s o u rc e s at St. M ary’s C ol le g e in M oraga, C alifornia. C ynthia D. Clark h as b e e n n a m e d d i r e c t o r o f t e c h n i c a l s e r v ic e s fo r th e R e s e a r c h L ib r a rie s a t th e N ew Y o rk P u b lic L ib rary . Daniel Coffey is now literatures and lan guages librarian at Iow a State University in Ames. Patricia Kosco Cossard has b e e n ap pointed team m anager for Arts and Humani ties at the University o f Maryland in College Park. Kevin D eem er has b e e n ap p oin ted ref e r e n c e lib rarian at P en n sy lv an ia State U ni v ersity S h en a n g o . Natalie Delker has b e e n ap p o in ted ref eren ce/ in stru ctio n lib rarian at th e U niver sity o f Washington, Bothell. Laura D ickson is n o w G o v e rn m e n t D ocum en ts librarian at M ichigan State Uni versity. Joseph Fennewald has b een named head librarian at Pennsylvania State Hazleton. Ja n Figa is now m athem atics librarian at M ichigan State University. Nancy Fleck has b e e n appointed head o f Tech nical Services at M ichigan State Uni versity. Heidi Frank has joined M ichigan State University as an electronic resources catalog librarian. Ellen Griffin has b een appointed histori cal collections cataloger at the University o f Alabama at Birmingham. Curtis Hanson has b een named academic librarian/assistant archivist in the Chester Fritz Library at the University o f North D akota in Grand Forks. Karen Hein has b e e n appointed refer e n c e and electronic services librarian at the University o f N ebraska at Omaha. Anne Houston is now h ead librarian at Mallinckrodt Library at Loyola University Chi cago. Wen-ying Lu is now bibliograp hic e n hancem ent catalog librarian for Michigan State University. Cecile Maciulus has joined Loyola Uni versity Chicago as a referen ce librarian. Daniel Mack h as b e e n a p p o in te d h u m a n itie s lib r a ria n at P e n n s y lv a n ia State U niversity. Melissa McAfee has been appointed head o f the Preservation D epartm ent at Indiana University. Michael J . McLane is now executive di rector o f the Central New York Library R e sou rces Council in Syracuse. Lesley Moyo is Pennsylvania State Uni versity Libraries’ new gatew ay librarian. Robert Noel is now h ead o f the Swain Hall Library at Indiana University. Michele Ostrow is now access services librarian in the Undergraduate Library Ser vices Division at the University o f Texas at Austin. 538 / C&RL News ■ June 2000 Gwen Owens has been appointed head o f th e B lo m m e r S c i e n c e L ib r a r y at G eorgetow n University. Henry Pisciotta is the new arts and ar chitecture librarian and assistant head o f the Arts and Humanities Library at Pennsylvania State University. Jason Polko has b e e n nam ed reference librarian / bibliog rap h er in th e C h ester Fritz Library at th e U niversity o f N orth D ak ota in G rand Forks. Christie Resha is now m anager o f Library and E-Com m erce Interfacing for EBSCO. H. Jam es Robin h as jo in e d M ichigan State U niversity as a system s librarian . Edward J . Rock has b e e n a p p o in ted inform ation services librarian (Hum anities/ R e fe r e n c e ) at T u la n e U niversity in N ew O rlean s. Debbi Schaubm an is n o w h e a d o f G o v ern m en t D o cu m en ts and th e Map Li b rary at M ichigan State U niversity. Pongracz J . Sennyey is the new c o lle c tion developm ent librarian at W estern Caro lina University in Cullow hee, North Carolina. T e re sa Tickle h a s b e e n a p p o in te d Slavic, E ast E u ro p e a n an d C en tral A sian b ib lio g ra p h e r fo r M ichigan State U niver sity. J u d ith Trum p is n o w g o v e r n m e n t d o c u m e n t s r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r ia n a t th e Lauinger Library at G eo rg eto w n University. Catherine Von Elm is n o w h ead o f A c c e s s S e rv ic e s at th e L au in g er L ibrary at G e o rg e to w n U niversity. Robert Van Volkenburg has b e e n p ro m o ted to d irec to r o f p ro d u ct m arketin g, OCLC L ib ra ry R e s o u r c e s , a t th e OCLC O n lin e C o m p u ter Library Center. LuLen Walker is now Arts C o llec tio n cu ra to r at th e L au in ger Library at G e o rg e to w n U niversity. K a th leen W eessies w ill b e jo in in g M ichigan State U niversity as a m ap lib rar ian o n Ju ly 1. Celestina W roth has b e e n a p p o in ted lib rarian fo r H istory, R elig io u s Stu d ies and H istory an d P h ilo so p h y o f S c ie n c e at In d i ana U niversity. P atricia Xia is n o w h e a d o f library sys tem s at L oyola U niversity C h icag o. Dee Yost has b e e n a p p o in te d p u b lic s e r v ic e s lib ra ria n at H asting s C o lleg e in H astings, N ebraska. Tanya Z a n ish -B e lch e r h a s b e e n a p p o in te d h e a d o f th e S p e c ia l C o lle c tio n s D e p a r tm e n t at Io w a S ta te U n iv e rs ity in A m es. Nevenka Zdravkovska is n o w s c ie n c e re fe re n c e librarian at the B lo m m e r S c ie n c e Library at G e o rg e to w n U niversity. R e t i r e m e n t s Jo se p h F. Lindenfeld, d irec to r o f library s erv ic es at S h elb y State C om m u nity C ol le g e in M em ph is, T e n n e s s e e , from 1 972 to 1989, has retired. He w as ch air o f th e ACRL C om m u nity and Ju n io r C o lleg e Libraries S e ctio n from 198 3 to 1 984. His m ost re c e n t p o s itio n w as c o m p u te r p ro je c t lib rar ian at M em ph is/Sh elby C ou nty P u b lic Li b rary and In fo rm a tio n Center. Heather Lloyd, after 21 years as head o f G en eral R eference and 12 years as head o f Spe cial Collections and University Archives, has retired from Oklahoma State University (OSU). Lloyd volunteered or belon ged to num erous organizations, including the Oklahoma Library Association, O klahom a Chapter o f the Asso ciation o f C olleg e and R esearch Libraries, O klahom a Conservation Congress, Society o f Southwest Archivists, ALA, O klahom a Histori cal Society, and the Payne County Historical Society. D e a t h s Eileen D. Cooke, 7 1 , fo rm er d irec to r o f ALA’s W ashington O ffice, died April 30 fo l lo w in g c o m p lic a tio n s w ith surgery. C o o k e re tire d fro m ALA o n D e c e m b e r 3 1 , 1 9 9 3 , a fter 30 y ears o f s e r v ic e . S h e b e g a n h e r c a r e e r w ith ALA as as sistan t d irec to r o f th e ALA W a s h in g to n O f fic e in 1 9 6 4 a n d a s s u m e d t h e d i r e c t o r p o sitio n in 1972. Dur ing h e r ten u re at ALA, C o o k e p lay ed a m ajor Eileen D. Cooke C&RL News ■ June 2000 / 539 ro le in th e d e v e lo p m e n t, re n e w a l, an d funding o f k e y library leg islatio n , in clu d ing the Library S erv ices an d C o n stru ctio n Act, th e H igher E d u catio n Act, th e E le m en tary a n d S e c o n d a r y E d u c a tio n A ct, th e M edical Library A ssistan ce A ct, th e C o p y right R ev isio n Act, an d th e esta b lish m en t o f th e N ational C om m ission o n L ibraries and In fo rm a tio n S c ie n c e . P rio r to ALA, C o o k e w o rk e d at the M in n eap o lis P u b lic L ibrary, first as a b o o k m o b ile lib ra ria n ( 1 9 5 7 - 6 2 ) and th en as p u b lic relation s s p e cialist and hosp ital librarian ( 1 9 5 8 - 6 3 ) . She to o k a le a v e o f a b s e n c e to w o rk as a b ra n c h lib r a ria n in th e Q u e e n s b o r o u g h (N ew Y o rk ) P u b lic Library b e fo r e retu rn ing to M in n eap o lis. C o o k e w as th e first fem ale p re sid e n t o f th e J o in t C o u n cil on E d u c a t i o n a l T e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s a n d served o n th e b o a rd s o f sev e ra l W ash in g ton, D .C .-b a s e d org an izatio n s. S h e w as a m e m b e r o f th e W o m e n ’s J o in t C o n g re s sional C om m ittee and th e S ch o o l o f Library and In fo rm a tio n S c ie n c e B o a rd o f V isitors at C ath olic U niversity. Kenneth J . LaBudde, 80, d ied in M arch. H e w as b riefly o n the s ta ff o f th e M ilw au k e e P u b lic Library b e fo r e en listin g in th e Army d uring W orld War II. In 195 0 h e b e c a m e d ir e c t o r o f l i b ra ries at th e U niver s ity o f K a n s a s C ity. A fter 35 y ears, h e re tired from th e U niver sity o f M isso u ri-K an sas City and w as a p p o i n t e d p r o f e s s o r e m e ritu s . H e c o n tin u ed to w o rk as a c u r a to r o f c o l l e c t i o n s . Kenneth J. LaBudde L aBu d d e w as o n e o f th e fo u n d ers o f th e K an sas City M etro p o li tan Library N etw ork, s u p p o rted n e tw o rk ing initiativ es a c ro ss M issouri, served as a le a d e r in th e M issouri Library A sso ciation , and p lay ed a pivotal ro le in th e a c h ie v e m en t o f a c a d e m ic statu s fo r lib rarian s at th e U niversity o f M issouri. H e w as a life m em b er o f ALA, O rg a n iz a tio n o f A m eri c an H istorians, A m erican Stu d ies A sso cia tion , th e S o cie ty o f A rch itectu ral H istori ans, th e M issouri Library A sso cia tion , and sev eral alum ni a s so c ia tio n s . Ja c k Edward Pontius, 59, c o m m u n ic a tion s lib rarian and h ead o f th e P erio d ica ls an d M icroform s d ep artm en ts at P en n s y l v an ia State U niversity Libraries, d ied April 5. P on tiu s w as n atio n ally k n o w n fo r e x p ertise in m icro p u b lish in g and w as c o m m itted to im p roving a c c e s s to in form ation , in clu d in g th e a p p lica tio n o f in fo rm atio n tech n o lo g ies. A m ong his accom p lish m en ts, h e d e v e lo p e d M ass M edia In d e x , a W eb- b a s e d in d ex to jo u rn a ls in m ass m ed ia— o rig in ally c re a ted fo r P en n State stud en ts and facu lty b u t n o w u se d w orld w id e. He w as activ e in ALA and h eld a variety o f co m m itte e p o s itio n s and ch airm an sh ip s in th e A sso cia tio n fo r Library C o llec tio n s and T e c h n ic a l S erv ices an d th e Library In fo r m atio n and T e c h n o lo g y A sso ciation . ■ ACRL dvertiser indexA 495, 518 ACRL/ARL/SPARC 514 ALIBRIS 465 American Chem ical Society 513 American Institute o f Chem ical Engineers 466 American Psychological Assn. 530 American Theological Library Association 470 B lackw ell's B o ok Services 533 CHOICE 505, 529 Dialog Corporation Cover 3 EBSCO 502 Endeavor Info. Systems 498 ESRI Cover 4 G ale G roup 487 InfoUSA 492 ISI 497 IEEE 534 Jo h n s Hopkins Univ. Press 482 LJ A cadem ic Newswire 496 Libraries Unlimited 522 netLibrary 477 OCLC 467, 526 Primary Source Microfilm 506 R ow ecom 481 ScienceD irect Cover 2 SPARC 540 Swets & Zeitlinger 520 Swets Blackw ell 525