ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News m  January 1998 / 41

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

Eva L. Kiewitt and Lois J .  L ehm an, librar­
ians emeritus at Regent University (RU) in 
Virginia Beach, Virginia, have been selected 
by the Association o f Christian Librarians as 
the 1997 recipients o f the Emily Russel 
Award in recognition o f their outstanding 
contributions to Christian librarianship. 
Kiewitt served as head o f the education li­
brary and associate professor in the School 
o f Library and Information Science at Indi­
ana University (IU) and as associate dean of 
libraries at RU. Lehman worked as director 
o f instructional m aterials fo r the South 
Adams schools in Berne, Indiana; head of 
the education library, personnel librarian, 
and assistant director for technical services 
at IU; and as dean of libraries and informa­
tion services at RU. Since their retirement, 
Kiewitt and Lehman have been actively in­
volved in ACL’s Commission for International 
Library Assistance, serving as chair and gen­
eral secretary respectively.

David C. M cQ uillan, map librarian at the 
University o f South Carolina in Columbia, 
was elected  to a second  two-year term as 
chairman o f the Section o f Geography and 
Map Libraries, International Federation of 
Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 
at the 63rd Council and General Confer­
ence in Copenhagen, Denmark, held last 
August.

“The Shape o f Services to Come: Values-
Based Reference Service for the Largely Digi­
tal Library,” an article published in the May 
1997 issue of C ollege & R esearch  L ib raries 
(C&RL) by C harles Bunge o f the Univer­
sity of Wisconsin and C hris F ergu son  of 
the University o f Southern California, won 
the 1997 UMI Excellence in Writing Award. 
UMI gave Bunge and Ferguson $1,500 and 
a paid trip to London to receive the award 
at the International Online Meeting. “Librar­
ies 2000: Transforming Libraries Using Docu­
ment Delivery, Needs Assessment, and Net­
worked Resources,” an article in the July 
1997 C&RL by J a n e  P. K lein er and C harles

A. H am aker, both o f Louisiana State Uni­
versity, is scheduled to appear in the Janu­
ary 1998 issue o f China’s academic librari­
anship journal, J o u r n a l  o f  A c a d em ic  L ib rar­
ies. In return, C&RL is planning to run an 
article from the J o u r n a l  o f  A c a d e m ic  L ib rar­
ies in the March 1998 issue.

William M. Shaw Jr ., o f the School o f In­
formation and Library Science (SILS) at the 
University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
is the first SILS faculty member to be named 
a Frances Carroll McColl Professor. This new, 
term professorship is funded by a $250,000 
endowment from Hugh L. McColl Jr., chair­
man o f the board o f NationsBank Corpora­
tion. A full professor at SILS since 1987, Shaw 
joined the school’s faculty in 1983. Prior to 
this, he was with the Matthew A. Baxter 
School o f Information and Library Science 
at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) 
in Cleveland— first as research and systems 
librarian, then as assistant professor, and later 
as a sso cia te  p ro fesso r. Shaw earn ed  a 
bachelor’s degree in physics and mathemat­
ics from William Jew ell College in Liberty, 
Missouri. He received a master’s degree and 
doctorate in physics from the University of 
Missouri. And he later received his MLS from 
CWRU.

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

F r a n c is  J .  B u ck ley  J r ., d irector o f the 
Shaker Heights Public Library in Shaker 
Heights, Ohio, has been appointed super­
intendent of documents for the U.S. Gov­
ernment Printing Office (GPO) in Washing­
ton, D.C. Active in the ALA since 1974, 
Buckley currently chairs the Inter-Associa
tion Working Group on Government Infor­
mation Policy, which is working on propos­
als to amend the law governing the print 
and dissemination o f federal publications. 
He has also served several terms on the ALA 
Council and chaired the Government Docu-



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m en ts R ound T a b le  
and ALA Committee on 
Legislation’s Subcom ­
mittee on Government 
Information. He is on 
the Board o f Trustees 
o f the Cleveland Area 
M etropolitan Library 
System and has served 
on the Board of Trust­

Francis J. Buckley Jr. ees of the Online Com­
puter Library Center 

(OCLC). As a unit o f GPO, the superinten­
dent o f documents distributes millions of 
copies o f federal documents to nearly 1,400 
federal depository libraries nationw ide, 
where they are available free of charge to 
the public.

N. D ouglas A n d e rso n  is the new director 
o f the Thomason Library and associate pro­
fessor of music at Presbyterian College in 

Clinton, South Caro­
lina. Anderson previ­
ously served nine years 
in various capacities at 
Furman University in 
Greenville, South Caro­
lina, including head of 
the cataloging depart­
ment and head o f li­
brary automated sys­
tems. In the latter ca­

N. Douglas Anderson
pacity, he directed the 

development and implementation o f the in­
tegrated library system and several database 
and Web servers. Since 1995, Anderson has 
been on the steering committee o f the Pal- 
ladian Alliance Project, an electronic library 
initiative o f the Associated Colleges o f the 
South, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation.

J a n  K ennedy Olsen has been named vice 
president for external relations at Wells Col­
lege in Aurora, New York. For the last 15 
years, Olsen has served as director o f the 
Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell. Under her 
leadership, she quadrupled the library’s en­
dowment, initiated a $5 million endowment 
campaign, and successfully persuaded the 
state of New York to provide $17 million 
for an addition that will double available 
space. In addition to her years o f service at

Cornell, Olsen worked as a planning and 
analysis librarian in the Office o f Informa­
tion Resources Man­
agem ent at the U.S. 
Department o f the In­
terior; chief of public 
services at the National 
Agricultural Library, 
U.S. D ep artm en t of 
Agriculture; and direc­
tor and associate pro­
fe sso r o f S te en b o ck  
M em orial Library at 
the University o f Wis­ Jan Kennedy O ls e n
consin (UW). Born in 
Australia, Olsen completed her undergradu­
ate studies at the University of Adelaide with 
a concentration in library science. She com­
pleted MLS at the UW; and at Cornell she 
earned a master’s degree in education and 
a Ph.D. in administration in higher educa­
tion.

Je n n ife r W ilson is the new library di­
rector for the Whitesburg campus o f South­
east Community College in Cumberland, 
Kentucky. Wilson received her MLS from the 
University of North Carolina in Greensboro, 
Kentucky.

C arol Abatelli is the user education/ref
erence librarian at the Douglass Library at 
Rutgers University.

J o s e  A guinaga is now reference and 
electronic resources librarian at the Univer­
sity o f San Diego.

C andice M. Benjes has been appointed 
information specialist at the University of 
Southern California Norris Medical Libraiy.

Ja n e t B rew er is now head of reference 
and coordinator of public services at Murray 
State University in Murray, Kentucky.

J a n  C ellucci has accepted the position 
o f preservation manager at the Boston Col­
lege Libraries.

Elfreda A. C h atm an  is now a professor 
in the School o f Inform ation Studies at 
Florida State University.

K aren  Collins became the reference li­
brarian for engineering at the North Caro­
lina State University Libraries.

Lisa Dick is an audiovisual and catalog­
ing librarian at the Hopkinsville Commu­
nity College in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.



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Sonia E n sin s has accepted the position 
o f re fe re n ce  librarian in the Thom as P. 
O ’Neill, Jr. Library at Boston College.

A n n  F re n k e l is now the reference li­
brarian at Brandeis University.

R. E llen  G reenb latt has been named the 
coordinator o f cataloging services and spe­
cial collections at the Auraria Library in Den­
ver, Colorado.

Adan Griego has joined Stanford Univer­
sity Libraries as curator for Latin American, 
Mexican American, and Iberian Collections.

Ju lia  H arv ey  is now technical services 
librarian at the Bishop Library o f Lebanon 
Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania.

Holly H e rro  is the new librarian for pres­
ervation services at the University o f South 
Carolina.

A ndrew  In g h am  was appointed digital 
projects librarian for the North Carolina State 
University Libraries.

R ou m ian a S. K atzark o v was appointed 
information specialist at the University o f 
Southern California Norris Medical Library.

Russell S. K o o n ts was appointed uni­
versity archivist at the North Carolina State 
University Libraries.

Billy K w an has been appointed coordi­
nator o f systems operations/database man­
agement librarian o f the Albin O. Kuhn Li­
brary & Gallery at the University o f Mary­
land Baltimore County.

K a re n  A. L isto n  has been appointed 
head o f Resource Access, Interlibrary Bor­
rowing Services at the University o f Wash­
ington, Seattle.

Linda Long has been appointed manu­
scripts librarian o f the Knight Library at the 
University o f Oregon.

Linda M cC orm ick  has been appointed 
assistant curator o f special collections at the 
North Carolina State University Libraries.

D aniel D. M cGinniss joined the staff of 
the University o f Texas-Pan American Library 
as systems librarian.

M ary M oeller has been appointed in­
formation services officer at the Linda Hall 
Library in Kansas City, Missouri.

Am y O sb o rn e is the new reference/cir
culation librarian at the University o f Ken­
tucky Law Library.

Kelly P a n g ra c has been appointed head 
o f the document services department at the 
Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri.

E ric  R e cto r has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn Library 
& Gallery at the University o f Maryland Bal­
timore County.

V e ro n ica  R o u se has b ee n  appointed 
educational technologies librarian for North 
Carolina State University Libraries.

C h arlo tte S locu m  has been appointed 
head o f technical services at DePaul Uni­
versity Libraries.

Abby Sm ith has joined the Council on 
Library and Information Resources (CLIR) 
as the preservation and access program of­
ficer.

M eridith L. Sm ith was appointed cata­
loged auxiliary cataloging section o f auto­
mated services for the University o f Illinois 
Library at Urbana-Champaign.

S tep hen  Sm ith has been appointed act­
ing OCLC cataloging librarian at the Uni­
versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

E v e ly n  O rtiz  S m y k la  has b e e n  a p ­
pointed business reference librarian at the 
University o f Alabama Libraries.

Diane Sotak has been appointed science 
reference librarian o f the Knight Library at 
the University o f Oregon.

S cott S tan g ro o m  has accepted the po­
sition o f head o f serials at the Boston Col­
lege Libraries.

Je n n if e r  N. Stone has been appointed 
Geographic Information Systems librarian, 
Map Collection at the University o f Wash­
ington, Seattle.

A d v e rtise r in d e x

ALCTS 21
Archival Products 28
Baker & Taylor 18
Chemical Abstracts Svc C3
CISTI 17
EBSCO 22
EBSCO.doc 40
F.mery-Pratt 4
Graphics Press 1
InfoQuest C2
Library Corporation 31
Minolta 14-15
Neschen 33
Primary Source Media I-16
Sociological Abstracts 10
VTLS C4



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Susan S to rch  has been named univer­
sity archivist at the University o f O regon’s 
Knight Library.

Lynn e Stuart joined the Albin O. Kuhn 
Library & Gallery, at the University o f Mary­
land Baltimore County, as reference librarian.

C onn ie Todd is now the curator o f spe­
cial collections for Southwest Texas State 
University in San Marcos.

Amy VanScoy has been appointed refer­
ence librarian for undergraduate research at 
the North Carolina State University Libraries.

Robb W altner has been named periodi­
cals librarian at the Auraria Library in Den­
ver, Colorado.

D eb o rah  W estm orelan d  has joined the 
North Carolina State University Libraries as 
systems librarian for database resources.

K aren  A. W agn er has been appointed 
reference librarian/documents specialist in 
the Information Services Department at the 
William Russell Pullen Library at Georgia 
State University.

M. Lesley W ilkins was appointed bibli­
ographer for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 
at the Harvard University Law School Library.

Angela W right has been appointed head 
o f interlibrary loan at the University o f Ala­
bama Libraries.

E th elen e W h itm ire has been appointed 
the librarian-in-residence at Yale University.

R e t i r e m e n t s

J e n n ie  S. B oyarsk i, director o f library ser­
vices, retired from the Paducah Community 
College after serving in the position for 30 
years. She will be serving as interim library 
director on a part-time basis until the new 
library director is selected.

Alice D iehl retired as technical processes 
librarian at the Bishop Library o f Lebanon 
Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, af­
ter 32 years o f service.

D en n is E. R o b iso n , dean o f integrated 
learning resources at Jam es Madison Uni­
versity (JMU), has retired. After working in 
a similar position at the University o f Rich­
mond, in 1985 Robison came to JMU as uni­
versity librarian. As dean at JMU, he was re­

sponsible for the librar­
ies, media resources, 
and the Center for Mul­
timedia and Comput­
ing Support. And in 
1973, he was president 
o f the Florida Library 
A s s o c ia tio n . At th e
1997 Annual Confer­
ence o f the Virginia Li­
brary A ssociation, he Dennis E. Robison
receiv ed  the G eorge 
Mason Award in recognition o f his work with 
VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia), a statewide 
consortia.

S on d ra S h air is retiring as reference librar­
ian and curator o f the reference and bibli­
ography collection at the University o f Cali­
fornia, Berkeley. In 1978, she assumed col­
lection developm ent responsibilities as a 
team member in managing USA-Common-
wealth fund selections for the main library 
in the humanities and social sciences. She 
served as interim selector for the library sci­
ence collection and was responsible for in­
tegrating the LSL reference collection into 
General Reference Service (GRS). Since 1984 
Shair has managed the library’s reference 
and bibliography collection o f 22,000 inter­
disciplinary reference works.

D e a t h s

W illiam  “Bill” Y agodich, a former National 
Agricultural Library (NAL) employee, died 
in Veterans Hospital in Washington, D.C. He 
was buried with military honors in Arling­
ton Cemetery. For many years Yagodich 
served as an acquisitions librarian at NAL 
until his retirement in the late 1980s. He 
was well-known in the library profession 
locally, nationally, and in the international 
b ook trade. Subsequent to his retirement, 
Yagodich volunteered with several library 
projects at NAL and other libraries. ■

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