ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


726/ C&RL News

People 
in the 
News

Pam Spiegel

Nancy Allen, director o f in­
formation resources at the 
Museum o f Fine Arts, Bos­
ton, and Martin Runkle, di­
rector o f the University o f 
Chicago Library, have been 
elected to the Research Li­
braries G roup’s Board o f 
Directors. Re-elected to the 
board for three-year terms 
are chair Paul Mosher, vice­
provost and director o f li
braries at the University o f 
Pennsylvania, and David 
Stam, university librarian at 
Syracuse University.

Jim Cole, principal serials cataloger at Iowa 
State University, has been named editor o f the 
quarterly journal the Serials Librarian, pub­
lished by Haworth Press. Cole is the author o f
several papers on the subject and coeditor o f
Notes Worth Noting: Notes Used in AACR2 Seri­
als Cataloging (1984), Serials Cataloging: The
State o f the Art (1987), and Serials Cataloging: 
Modem Perspectives and International Devel­
opments (1992).

Appointments
Nicholas C. Burckel is now director o f librar­
ies at Marquette University in Milwaukee. 
Burckel had served as 
associate dean for Wash­
ington University Librar­
ies in St. Louis since 
1986, and as adjunct as­
sociate professor in the 
School o f Library and In­
formation Science at the 
University o f Missouri- 
Columbia since 1987. An 
active member o f ALA 
and ACRL, he is currently Nicholas Burckel
vic e -p re s id e n t/ p re s i
dent-elect o f the Society o f American Archi­
vists.

Jerry Dean Campbell has been appointed uni­
versity librarian and dean o f University Librar­

 
 

 

ies at the U n iversity o f 
Southern California, Los An­
geles, effective January 1, 
1996. Since 1985 Campbell 
has served as vice-provost 
for library affairs, university 
librarian, and professor o f 
the practice o f theological 
bibliography at Duke Uni­
versity. Concurrently, from 
1989 to 1994, he was Duke’s 
vice-provost for computing. 
In the early 1980s Campbell 
directed the Bridwell Library 
at Southern M eth od ist 

U n iv e rs ity ’ s P erk in s 
School o f Theology. In 
the 1970s he was direc­
tor o f the Ira J. Taylor 
Library at the Iliff School 
o f Theology in Denver. 
C u rren tly s e rv in g  as 
president o f the Associa
tion o f Research Librar­
ies, Campbell has been 
a member o f the ARL 
board since 1991. Jerry Dean Campbell

Paul Frisch is now head librarian o f the U. 
Grant Miller Library at Washington and Jeffer­
son College in Washing­
ton, Pennsylvania. Frisch 
most recently served as 
head o f reference at the 
University o f Illinois at 
Chicago’s Main Library. 
Before that he served as 
head o f  re fe re n c e  at 
Southwest Missouri State 
University and social sci­
ences librarian at Trinity 
University. An ALA mem­ Paul Frisch
ber since 1984, Frisch is 
active in ACRL, especially its College Libraries 
Section.

Joy Collins has been named director o f librar­
ies at Iona College in N ew  Rochelle, N ew  York. 
Collins recently served as acting dean o f the 
library at Drexel University, where she also 
headed information services. Commenting on 
the appointment, Br. James A. Ligouri, presi­
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strengthen her talents and skills, and has a tre­
mendous amount to offer the Iona community.”

Scott E. Kennedy is now director o f the Jer­
emy Richard Library at the University o f Con­
necticut Stamford campus.

Michael Knecht has been appointed director 
of library services at Henderson Community Col­
lege in Henderson, Kentucky.

Lorin Lindsay, director o f library services at 
the University o f Texas at the Permian Basin, 
has been named director 
o f the library at Peru 
State College (PSC) in 
Nebraska. Lindsay has 
been a librarian since 
1967, serving in positions 
at public libraries (1967– 
70), at Kansas State Uni­
versity (1970– 72), and at 
Oral Roberts University 
(1974– 86). Commenting 
on the appointment, PSC Lorin Lindsay
president Robert L. Bums 
said, “Mr. Lindsay brings to PSC the talent and 
dedication w e have needed to make our library 
the center o f the campus.”

Deborah C. Masters is the new university li­
brarian at San Francisco State University. Mas­
ters has served as interim university librarian 
and assistant university librarian at George 
Washington University. During the past year 
she was on leave to be visiting program officer 
for the Coalition for Networked Information.

Miguel M. Menendez has bee named director 
of library services at Somerset Community Col­
lege in Somerset, Kentucky. He previously 
served at Florida International University.

Susan Richards is the new library director at 
Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado.

Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken from
library newsletters, letters from  personnel offices, 
individuals using institutional letterhead, and
other sources. To ensure that your personnel news
is considered f o r  publication, write to Pam 
Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. 
Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: 
pam.spiegel@ala.org.

Previously serving as assistant director for col­
lection management ser­
vices at the University of 
Vermont, Richards has 
also held administrative 
library positions at South 
Dakota State University 
and M orningside C ol­
lege. Upon her appoint­
ment, interim library di­
rector Patrick Muckleroy 
said, “W e’re looking for­
ward to working with Su­ Susan Richards
san. Her level o f compe­
tence as a librarian and range o f experience 
are almost unprecedented here. . .

Peggy Sullivan has been named dean o f the 
Rosary College Graduate School o f Library and 
Information Science in 
River Forest, Illinois. Sul
livan served from 1981 to 
1990 as professor and 
dean o f the College o f 
Professional Studies at 
Northern Illinois Univer­
sity (NIU). She also was 
director o f university li­
braries at NIU for two 
years. She has been a 
member o f the faculty o f Peggy Sullivan
library science programs 
at the University o f Chicago and the University 
o f Pittsburgh. She most recently served as ex­
ecutive director o f ALA from 1992 to 1994. Sul­
livan said o f her appointment, “I want to be 
where library life is exciting, and right now 
that is in library education.”

Eric Acree is now the resident assistant li­
brarian at the University at Buffalo’s Under­
graduate Library.

Kristina Anderson is now reference librar­
ian at the University o f Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

David Bachman has been named evening 
services librarian in the Law Library at Vanderbilt 
University, Nashville.

 Laura Baker is the new government docu­
ments librarian at Abilene Christian University 

 in Texas.
 Conner Baldwin has been named systems 

librarian at Schreiner College in Kerrville, Texas.
Cheryl Ballard is now business reference 

librarian at the Angelo Bruno Business Library 
at the University o f Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

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Ronald A. Banks has been appointed health 
sciences user services outreach manager at Vir­
ginia Commonwealth University’s Tompkins- 
McCaw Library in Richmond.

John D. Blackwell has been appointed co­
ordinator o f information services at Algoma 
University College in Sault St. Marie, Ontario.

Richard Bleiler has been named coordina­
tor for instructional services, research and in­
formation services at the University o f Connecti­
cut Storrs campus.

Michelle R. Collins is now cataloger for 
the Virginia Newspaper Project at the College 
o f William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Mark L. Daganaar has been named acting 
director o f Eilender Memorial Library at Nicholls 
State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Barbara Dahlbach has been appointed ref­
erence librarian at the University o f Alabama, 
Tuscaloosa.

Sidney Eng has been named acting chief 
librarian at Borough o f Manhattan Community 
College, New York.

Marcia Evans has been named catalog li­
brarian at the University o f Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Evelyn P. Fancher is now Kelly Miller Smith 
librarian in the Divinity Library at Vanderbilt 
University, Nashville.

John Forsyth has been appointed business/ 
social sciences bibliographer at Bowling Green 
State University Libraries in Ohio.

Andrew J. Golub is now vice-president for 
information resources at the University o f New 
England in Biddeford, Maine.

Mary Jane Hilburger is now associate uni­
versity librarian for collections and information 
services at Northeastern Illinois University, Chi­
cago.

Amy L. Huff is now social sciences refer­
ence librarian at the University o f Houston.

Geraldine Hutchins has been appointed 
systems librarian at the University o f Nebraska 
at Omaha.

James F. Igoe is now public services librar­
ian and coordinator o f government documents 
at the University o f North Carolina at Asheville.

Lesliediana Jones has been appointed an 
academic resident librarian at the University o f 
Illinois at Chicago.

Peggy Jones has been appointed an aca­
demic resident librarian at the University o f Il­
linois at Chicago.

Patricia M. Kearns has been appointed 
head o f bibliographic control at the College of 
William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Nancy M. Kline is now acting department
head, research and information services at the
University o f Connecticut Storrs campus.

Melissa Koenig has been appointed an aca­
demic resident librarian at the University o f Il­
linois at Chicago.

Rochelle Minchow is now head o f the
Medical Center Library at the University o f Cali­
fornia, Irvine.

Pamela Padley has been named biblio­
graphic access librarian at the California Insti­
tute o f Technology.

Verla Peterson is the new reference and
interlibrary loan librarian at Texas A&M Inter­
national University, Laredo.

Julie Rabine has been appointed humani­
ties bibliographer at Bowling Green State Uni­
versity Libraries in Ohio.

Lisa Russell has been appointed an aca­
demic resident librarian at the University o f Il­
linois at Chicago.

Candice Scott has been named reference/
electronic services librarian at Schreiner Col­
lege in Kerrville, Texas.

Steven Sowell is now head o f the Biology
Library at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Robert Spragg has been named systems li­
brarian at the University o f Houston.

Weston Thompson has been appointed an
academic resident librarian at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.

Darlene Waller is now reference librarian/
selector for social sciences, research and infor­
mation services at the University o f Connecti­
cut Storrs campus.

Joseph E. Weber has been promoted to
technical services librarian at Christopher N ew ­
port University in Newport News, Virginia.

Advertiser index
Academic Press 706
Ameritech Library Serv. cover 4
AMIGOS 693
Chadwyck-Healey 700
EBSCO cover 2
Engineering Information 683
Inst, for Scientific Info. cover 3
OCLC 696, 709
SilverPlatter 691
Sociological Abstracts 717
Univ. o f Missouri 686

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 



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ALA Library Fellows set for overseas 
assignments

The 1995– 96 Library Fellows attended an 
orientation session in Washington, D.C., be­
fore departing for their overseas assignments. 
Sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency 
and administered by ALA, the program places 
U.S. librarians in overseas institutions for sev­
eral months to a year. Positions available for 
1996– 97 will be announced in December. The 
fellows and their assignments are (top row,

left to right): Bruce H. Tabb, American Stud­
ies Institute, Leipzig, Germany; Jean A. Po­
land, Universities Central Library o f the De­
partment o f Higher Education in Rangoon, 
Burma; Tricia Vierra, joint assignment at the 
University o f Notre Dame, Freemantle, Aus­
tralia, and University o f Indonesia, Jakarta; 
Kathleen E. Bethel, University o f Durban- 
W estville, South Africa; and Edward J.

Valauskas, United Na­
tions Office o f Geneva, 
Switzerland.

Bottom (1 to r): Ju­
dith Lin Hunt, Univ
ersiti Brunei Darussal­
am, Bandar Seri Bega­
wan; Bonita Corliss, 
American Library, Paris; 
Malikah Dada Lumum­
ba, National Library 
and D ocum entation 
Service, Harare, Zimba­
bwe; Marian Karpisek, 
Libraries Division, O f­
fice o f the Prime Min­
ister, Port o f Spain, 
Trinidad and Tobago.

Deaths
Norman Brown, professor o f library adminis­
tration emeritus at the University o f Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), died in July. Dur­
ing his 39-year career at UIUC, he served as 
reference librarian, documents bibliographer, 
serials acquisition librarian, head o f the Collec­
tion Development and Preservation Depart­
ment, assistant director for bibliographic ser­
vices and preservation, and, most recently, 
assistant director for special collections and 
preservation. Before joining UIUC, he worked 
as reference and acquisition librarian at the 
Union College Library. Brown compiled the an­
nual Price Index fo r  U.S. Periodicals and Seri­
als from 1973 to 1984, and was well known for 
his chapter in Michael Gorman’s Technical Ser­
vices Today and Tomorrow. He retired from 
UIUC in 1992.

Leslie Mahin Oliver, former assistant to the 
librarian o f the Houghton Library at Harvard 
University, died in June at the age o f 95. Oliver 
attended Oregon State University, where he 
earned a bachelor’s degree while supporting 
himself as a lumberjack, schoolteacher, and in 
other jobs. After receiving an M.A. in English, 
Oliver taught at several universities, and at the 
Colorado School o f Mines and the U.S. Naval 
Academy. After receiving a doctorate from Har­
vard in 1948, he took W. A. Jacobson’s seminar 
in bibliography, joined the Houghton staff that 
year as Jacobson’s assistant, and worked there 
in many capacities until 1953.

Jerral R. Parrish, director o f library media ser­
vices at Bethany Lutheran College, died in Feb­
ruary. At the time o f his death, he was on sab­
batical leave pursuing a doctorate in library 
science at the University o f Wisconsin. He was 
a member o f ALA and ACRL.