ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 450 / C&RL News ■ April 2001 People in the News Ann-Christe Young Meredith Butler, director of the university libraries and dean of the library faculty at the University at Albany (UA), was appointed SUNY’s first distinguished librarian by the SUNY Board of Trust­ ees. The Distinguished Librarian rank honors and promotes the achievement of personal excellence, ground­ breaking professional progress, and wide- ranging benefit to aca­ demic community. But­ ler has been the princi­Meredith Butler pal leader in planning and introducing automated technologies in the University Libraries. She has also provided di­ rection and oversight for planning and con­ struction of the new Science and Technology Library and provided leadership for the University’s Campaign for the Libraries, which raised $3.5 million to complete the new facil­ ity. Butler’s most recent publication is a co­ edited volume The Economics of lnformation in the Networked Environment. She also ed­ ited the volume User-Centered Organizations: Imperatives for Organizational Change (1994). She joined UA in 1981 as assistant director for planning and resource development in the University Libraries. Denise Hibay has been named president of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin Ameri­ can Library Materials (SALALM) for a one- year term effective May 29, 2001. Hibay has been assistant chief librarian for collection development, general research division, at the New York Public Library (NYPL) since 1996. From 1991 to 1996, she worked as prin­ cipal selector for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal at NYPL, and as the assistant selec­ Ed. note: 7b ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Young, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. tor for these areas from 1987 to 1991- Be­ tween 1982 and 1986, she worked as an as­ sistant to the Latin American Bibliographer at the University of Pittsburgh. A SALALM mem­ ber since 1988, Hibay has also been a mem­ ber of the Latin American Studies Associa­ tion since 1994 and ALA since 1996. Eileen C. Oliver, instructional services coor­ dinator at the Kent State University Main Li­ brary, is the recipient of the 2000 José Toribio Medina Award, presented by the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Ma­ terials (SALALM), for her book, Afro-Brazil­ ian Religions: A Selected Annotated Bibliog­ raphy, 1900-1997. Sally Stokes, curator of the National Trust Library Collection at the University of Mary­ land, is the first library staff person to receive sabbatical leave since campus librarians were granted nontenured faculty status in July. She will use the six- month leave to work on a project involving the architectural firm of Allison & Allison. Stokes, who has been collect­ ing information for nearly two decades on the firm that flourished Sally Stokesin Los Angeles from 1910 to 1940, will be a consulting scholar to an exhibit and write a monograph on the Allisons. The exhibit will open May 2001 at the Old Santa Ana Court House Museum and travel to three other California venues—On­ tario, Merced, and Beverly Hills—during 2002. Stokes will also help develop public program­ ming for the traveling portion of the exhibit. Appointments Holly Ackerman was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Latin Ameri­ mailto:ayoung@ala.org C&RL News ■ April 2001 / 451 can Research Librarianship at Duke Univer­ sity. John Anderies has been appointed music librarian at the Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. W. Reid Austin has joined the staff of the Sampson-Livermore Library of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke as reference/ instructional services librarian. Sara Seien Berghausen has been named librarian for literature in the Perkins Library System at Duke University. Gary Boye is now coordinator of the mu­ sic library at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Ruth Bryan has accepted a two-year ap­ pointment as archivist/manuscript cataloger in the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Col­ lections Library at Duke University. J. Howard Carter has been appointed manager of instructional support services and Web coordinator at Southern Illinois Univer­ sity Carbondale. Kathleen Collins is now reference and instruction librarian in the Odegaard Under­ graduate Library at University of Washington in Seattle. Janet Brennan Croft is the new head of access services at the University of Oklahoma. Christina Desai has been appointed sci­ ence librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dennis Dillon has been named assistant director for collections and information re­ sources at the University of Texas at Austin. Christine Foes has been appointed edu- cation/psychology librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Amanda Forrester is now public services librarian in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Donna Fournier has been appointed coor­ dinator for user services and collections at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Jeff Gibbens has been appointed special formats cataloger at Southern Illinois Univer­ sity Carbondale. Jennifer L. Lee has joined Preservation Services as head librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. Laura Lillard is the new education librar­ ian in the Reference and Research Services Division at the University of Washington in Seattle. Nerea Al LLamas has been named Latin American Studies librarian in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library at the Univer­ sity of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Susan Logue has been appointed as­ sociate dean for library support services at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Mark McFarland has been named as­ sistant director for Digital Library Services at the University of Texas at Austin. Norm Medeiros has been appointed coordinator for bibliographic and digital services at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Stephanie Michel is now humanities librarian at the University of Oregon. Alice Mitchell is now catalog librarian at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Lori Osmus has been named assistant director for technical services at Iowa State University in Ames. Jeffery W. Pearson has been appointed head of the film and video library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Michael Persick has been appointed assistant cataloger and head of acquisitions at Haverford College in Haverford Penn­ sylvania. Jeffrey Pinkham is now reference li­ brarian at Ashland University in Ohio. Katia Roberto has been appointed spe­ cial collections cataloger at Southern Illi­ nois University Carbondale. Margie Ruppel has been appointed un­ dergraduate librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Eiko Sakaguchi is the new curator of the Gordon W. Prange and East Asia Col­ lections housed at the McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland. Allan Scherlen is the new collection development librarian for the social sci­ ences at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Susan Tulis has been appointed gov­ ernment information librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Amanda Wakaruk has been named business and reference librarian at the Business and Government Publications Library at York University in Toronto. Emily Werrell is now coordinator of library instruction and outreach in the 452 / C&RL News ■ April 2001 Perkins Library System at Duke Univer­ sity. Linda Whang is the new engineering in­ structional services librarian in the Engineer­ ing Library at the University of Washington in Seattle. Betsy Williams has been appointed in­ structional programs outreach librarian at Ap­ palachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Anna Wyatt has been named science and technology cataloger in the Bizzell Memorial Library at the University of Oklahoma. David W. Young has joined the staff of the Sampson-Livermore Library of the Uni­ versity of North Carolina at Pembroke as cata­ log librarian. Lisa Yuro is now reference librarian/in- formation consultant in the Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Retirements Rachael K. Anderson, director of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona in Tucson since 1991, has retired. Her previous positions include director of Colum­ bia University Health Sciences Library in New York (1979-91) and director of the Levy Li­ brary at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York (1973-79). She was president of the Medi­ cal Library Association (MLA) (1997-98), presi­ dent of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors (1991-92), and a member of the Board of Regents of the Na­ tional Library of Medicine (1990-94) and Board chair (1993-94). Her awards include the MLA’s highest award, the Marcia C. Noyes award (2000), fellow of MLA (elected in 1995), fel­ low of the American College of Medical Informatics (elected in 1993), and a MLA Janet Doe lecture (1989). Fleetwood Giles, monographs cataloger in the cataloging department at the University of Texas at Austin, has retired after 46 years with the General Libraries. Ana Salinas, Benson Latin American Collec­ tion Monographs cataloger, has retired after 34 years with the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin. Deaths Donald W. Farmer, vice president for aca­ demic affairs at King’s College, died on March 6, 2001. He was a friend and strong supporter of academic librarians and an early adopter of information literacy as a concept for stu­ dent learning. Farmer served on the ACRL Multi-Association Information Literacy Com­ petency Task Force, and he worked with the Institute for Information Literacy Advisory Committee (1998-99). Perry Morrison, 81, retired assistant univer­ sity librarian at the University of Oregon and head social science librarian and professor of library sciences, has died. He also had served as director the library science program at Sac­ ramento State College. Morrison has served as a consultant to the Monash University Library, Victoria State College, and Melbourne State College in Australia. He was a member of the ALA, the Special Library Association, and the Oregon Library Association. Mary Pound, 68, retired publications coor­ dinator and special assistant to the assistant director for collection development at the University of Texas at Austin, died Septem­ ber 21, 2000, after a brief illness. ■ Advertiser index ACM 385 ACRL 428 American Psychological 415 American Theological 380 Library Association Bell & Howell Cover 4 Biosis 392 Blackwell’s Book Services 447 Chemical Abstracts Svc. Cover 2 CHOICE 403 EBSCO 404 Endeavor Information Sys. 410 Faxon/Rowecom Cover 3 InfoUSA 391 netLibrary 398-99 OCLC 409 Primary Source Microfilm 377 R. R. Bowker 397 RUSA 429 SWETS/Blackwell 386