ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


716 /  C&RL News ■  October 1998

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

Bonnie Biggs, assistant to the dean, coordinator 
for public services, and university coordinator for 
arts and lectures at California State University in 
San Marcos, has been elected president o f the 
American Indian Library Association for 1998— 
99.

Victoria Hanawalt, college librarian at Reed 
College in Oregon, has been elected to the 
Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) 
Board o f Trustees. Also elected to the OCLC’s 
Users Council Executive Committee were 
Betsy Wilson, associate director o f libraries 
for Public Services at the University o f Wash­
ington, for vice president/president-elect. 
Larry Alford, senior associate university li­
brarian at the University o f North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill and Kristin Senecal, head o f 
technical services at Dickinson College in 
Pennsylvania, were both elected as delegates- 
at-large.

Charles B. Lowry, dean o f libraries at the 
University o f Maryland in College Park, has 
been appointed to a three-year term on  the 
Research Libraries Advisory Committee o f 
OCLC. The appointment runs from July 1998 
through June 30, 2001. The advisory commit­
tee helps OCLC better understand the needs 
and future direction o f academic research li­
braries. Although a portion o f  committee 
meetings is devoted to briefing committee 
members on developments at OCLC, the major 
purpose is for OCLC to gain feedback from 
committee members.

Jerry D. Saye has been named Outstanding 
Teacher o f the Year (1997-98) in the School o f 
Information and Library Science at the Univer­
sity o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A 
student nomination for the award mentioned 
said Saye maintains a collegial relationship with 
students and views himself as a facilitator in 
the learning process, not simply a source o f 
technical information. “I was extremely touched 
that students had selected me,” said Saye. “Their 
standing ovation was the most special moment 
in my teaching career.”

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

James Benson has been named dean o f the 
university libraries at St. John’s University. 
Benson will continue as director o f  the divi­
sion o f library and information science. He 
has been a faculty member o f  the university’s 
graduate school o f arts and science since 1983 
and director o f  the library and information 
science program since 1993. He received his 
B.A. from the University o f Kansas and earned 
his MLS and Ph.D. in library service at Rutgers 
University. Prior to com ing the St. John’s, 
B enson held various academ ic positions 
throughout the country. His first post was as 
a reference and circulation librarian at Texas 
Southern University. He later served as refer­
ence and government documents librarian at 
Southwest Texas State University before be­
coming visiting associate librarian at Califor­
nia State University in Chico. He subsequently 
took the position o f  assistant professor at the 
graduate school o f  library services at Rutgers, 
then became associate professor in the gradu­
ate school o f  library service o f  the University 
o f Alabama.

Sarah Mort Cron has been named dean o f 
academic information services and director 
o f  Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State 
University in Cape Girardeau. Cron was most 
recently head o f access services at the Uni­
versity o f  Northern Iowa. Before her service 
there she was an assistant professor in the 
graduate library school at the University o f 
Arizona. She has taught at Indiana University’s 
School o f Library and Information Science and 
served as head o f media services and audio­
visuals at Southwest Missouri State Univer­
sity. She earned a doctorate and a specialist’s 
degree, both in library and information sci­
ence, from Indiana University. Cron holds an 
MLS and a B.A. in English from the University 
o f Iowa.

Roman V. Kochan is now  dean o f library 
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Beach (CSU). Kochan’s 
appointm ent w as the 
culmination o f  a 26-year 
career during w hich he 
held several other posi­
tions, including director 
o f technical and support 
services, deputy direc­
tor, and acting director 
o f  the library. He also 

Roman V. Kochan served as assistant vice 
president o f  CSU’s Di­

vision o f  Administration and Finance for over 
five years. Kochan earned his B.A. in Social 
Sciences and M.A. in History from the Uni­
versity o f  Manitoba; his degree in library and 
information science is from the University o f 
British Columbia.

Harriett MacDougall has been  named di­
rector o f  the Einstein Library at Nova South­

e a s te r n  U n iv e rs ity  
(NSU) in Fort Lauder­
dale, Florida. During 
her 20 year career at 
NSU, she was assistant 
and later associate di­
rector o f  the Einstein Li­
brary. M acDougall re­
ceived the 1997 South­
east Florida Library and 
Inform ation N etw ork 

H arriett MacDougall
(SEFLIN) Vista Award in 

recognition o f  her support o f  the mission o f 
the multitype library network.

Daniel Ortiz has been appointed director o f 
the Morton R. G odine Library at Massachu­
setts College o f  Art (MCA). Ortiz received a
B.A. and MLS from the University o f  Puerto 
Rico and a doctorate o f  arts in Library and 
Information Sciences from Simmons College 
in Boston. He com es to MCA from the Uni­
versity o f  Massachusetts in Boston, where he 
was associate director o f  libraries, and prior 
to that position, science librarian. From 1984 
to 1991, he w ork ed as assistant head o f  the 
science library and as collection development 
officer at the Rio Piedras Campus at the Uni­
versity o f  Puerto Rico Library System. He is a 
member o f  several professional organizations 
in c lu d in g  th e ALA, th e  S o c ie d a d  de 
Bibliotecarios de Puerto Rico, and was vice 
president o f  the A sociacion de Egresados de

la Escuela de Bibliotecologia. He is also a found­
ing member o f  the Reforma chapter o f  Puerto 
Rico, an ALA affiliate. Ortiz is also the treasurer 
o f  the Board o f Directors o f  the Ofidna Hispana, 
a community-based job training agency in Boston, 
and has served as the Oficina’s Board Secretary.

Carroll Varner has been  named director o f 
A cadem ic Library Services at East Carolina 
University in G reenville, North Carolina. 
Varner will be the chief administrator o f  the mil­

lion-volum e Joyner Li­
brary, which is nearing 
co m p le tio n  o f  a $30 
million expansion and 
renovation. Varner, w ho 
h ad b e e n  at Illin ois 
State since 1989, holds 
a bachelor’s in political 
science from the Uni­
versity o f  Tennessee, an 
MLS from the University 

C arroll V a rn e r
o f  Denver, an MBA in 

management and finance from the University o f
Nebraska, and a Ph.D. in higher education admin­
istration from Illinois State.

Edward A. Warro has been appointed dean 
o f  libraries at Loyola University in Chicago. 
Warro, w h o  has held several positions in 
Loyola’s library system for the last 17 years, 
has been  acting dean for the past year. He 
received his A.B. with high distinction in 
French Literature at Dartmouth College and 
earned his MLS at Simmons College in B os­
ton. He w ork ed as an acquisitions librarian 
at Simmons and served as chief acquisitions 
librarian at Southwest Texas State University. 
“Ed brings to Loyola a wealth o f  experience 
in libraries know ledge about the role o f  tech­
nology information transmission and a proven 
record o f  leadership at Loyola,” said Larry 
Braskamp, Loyola’s senior vice president for 
academic affairs.

Mona Bell has been  named catalog librar­
ian at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling 
Springs, North Carolina.

Margaret Breen has been appointed c o ­
ordinator o f  m onographic acquisitions at the 
University o f  Delaware Library in Newark.

Deborah Campana is n ow  conservatory 
librarian at Oberlin College in Ohio.

 



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Elaine Cline has been appointed librarian 
o f the National Air and Space Museum Branch 
at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Steven L. Davis has been  appointed as­
sistant curator o f  the Southwestern Writers 
Collection at Southwest Texas State Univer­
sity in San Marcos.

Sharon Epps has been appointed coor­
dinator o f circulation/reserve at the Univer­
sity o f Delaware Library in Newark.

Joan F. Ferguson was appointed North 
Carolina Collection Cataloger at the Univer­
sity o f  North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Guy Frost has been appointed informa­
tion services librarian at Valdosta State Uni­
versity in Valdosta, Georgia.

Rhonda A. Fuhrmann is n ow  reference 
librarian at Southwest Texas State University 
in San Marcos.

Jessica George is n ow  education librar­
ian at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.

Donna L. Gilton received tenure and was 
promoted to associate professor at the Gradu­
ate School o f  Library and Information Stud­
ies at the University o f  R hode Island in 
Kingston.

Marilu Goodyear has been appointed as­
sociate vice chancellor for information ser­
vices at the University o f  Kansas Libraries.

Alan Grosenheider has been appointed 
international studies cataloging librarian at the 
University o f Washington in Seattle.

Billie Hackney is n ow  cataloging services 
librarian at Old Dominion University in Nor­
folk, Virginia.

Carl Jones has been appointed head o f 
the library systems office at the MIT Libraries.

Joan Kolias has been appointed informa­
tion technology librarian for collection ser­
vices at the MIT Libraries.

Amy Lewontin has been appointed li­
brary technology consultant to the Metrowest 
Massachusetts Regional Library System.

Firouzeh Logan has been appointed c o ­
ordinator o f  suburban campus library services 
at the DePaul University Library in Chicago.

Cheryl McCarthy received tenure and 
was prom oted to associate professor at the 
Graduate School o f Library and Information 
Studies at the University o f  Rhode Island in 
Kingston.

William Meloy has been appointed dis­
tance learning/education librarian at Cleve­
land State University Library.

Jonathan Miller has been promoted to 
deputy director o f  the library at Augustana 
College in Rock Island, Illinois.

Nina Davis-Millis has been appointed in­
formation technology librarian for public ser­
vices at the MIT Libraries.

Teresa Morris has been appointed to the 
Pauline A. Young Residency at the University 
o f  Delaware Library in Newark.

Ramona N iffenegger has b e e n  a p ­
pointed social science librarian at the Louisi­
ana State University Libraries in Baton Rouge.

Amanda Y. Oates has been appointed ar­
chivist o f  the Southwestern Writers Collection 
at Southwest Texas State University in San 
Marcos.

Allison Pirri has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at Augustana College in Rock 
Island, Illinois.

Linda Pitts is n ow  serials services librar­
ian at the University o f Washington in Se­
attle.

Barbara Prior has been appointed art li­
brarian at Oberlin College in Ohio.

Robert Renaud is n ow  associate dean o f 
information services at Connecticut College 
in New London.

Tim Salm has been appointed instructional 
designer at the DePaul University Library in 
Chicago.

Kristina L. Shanton has been appointed 
Music/Theatre Arts librarian at California State 
University in Long Beach.

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Daniel J. Slive has been  appointed rare 
b ook s librarian for the UCLA Library.

Barbara Stevenson has been  appointed 
external relations specialist at the University 
o f  Nevada in Las Vegas.

Eva Stowers is n ow  science reference li­
brarian at the University o f  Nevada in Las Ve­
gas.

Roberto J. Tejada is the new  assistant cu ­
rator o f  the Wittliff Gallery o f  Mexican & 
Southwestern P h otography at Southwest 
Texas State University in San Marcos.

Mary Thom pson has been named pu b­
lic services librarian at Gardner-Webb Uni­
versity in Boiling Springs, North Carolina.

Diane Vanderpool has been  appointed 
head instruction services librarian at the Uni­
versity o f  Nevada in Las Vegas.

David Ward has been named reference/ 
instruction librarian at the University o f  Ne­
vada in Las Vegas.

Brian Warling is n ow  design coordina­
tor for the California Digital Library.

Steven Weaver has been appointed ref­
erence librarian at Belmont Abbey College in 
North Carolina.

Michelle White has been appointed in­
formation services librarian at Valdosta State 
University in Valdosta, Georgia.

Douglas M. W ilcox has been appointed 
automated systems librarian at Delta State Uni­
versity in Cleveland, Mississippi.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Boris Chumakov, reference librarian and 
bibliographer, retired from York University 
(YU) in North York, Ontario, Canada. His 28 
years o f  service included positions as assis­
tant reference librarian, reference librarian, 
education bibliographer, and foreign humani­
ties bibliographer from 1972 until his retire­
ment.

James A. Damico, director o f  university li­
braries at the University o f  South Alabama in 
Mobile, has retired. His 37 years in the library 
profession have included administrative p o ­
sitions at the University o f  Southern Missis­
sippi, Rice University, Bro w n University, and 
the University o f  Dayton. While at Southern 
Mississippi, he also taught courses at the

graduate library school.
Prior to his academ ic 
experience, he served 
eight years in special li­
braries. He served as a 
m e m b e r  o f  th e 
SOLINET Board from  
1985-88, and he was a 
member o f  the commit­
tee that form ed the data 
elements for the OCLC James A. Damico
catalog system. Damico 
received a B.S. in Business Administration 
from C. W. Post College o f  L.I.U. and his MLS 
from Rutgers University.

Eileen Daniel, reference librarian at the Frost 
Library, retired from York University in North 
York, Ontario, Canada. In her years o f  ser­
vice since 1990, Daniel has been head o f  the 
reference department o f  the Scott Library and 
reference librarian.

Sarah B. Jubinski, has retired as dean o f 
learning resources for Northampton Commu­
nity College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, af­
ter m ore than 29 years o f  services.

Robert L. Klassen, director o f library pro­
grams at the Institute o f  Museum and Library 
Services (IMLS) in Washington, D.C., has re­
tired after 39 years o f  library service. He b e ­
gan his career as a librarian at the California 
State Library, then left to head the Fresno 
(California) Pacific University Library to help 
in its first-time accreditation for tw o years, 
and returned to the state library where he 
spent seven years. Klassen joined the U.S. 
Department o f  Education (then the Office o f  
Education in HEW) in 1968. From 1982-95, 
he served as director o f  the LSCA state library 
grant programs. Since 1995 he has been  the 
director o f  all federal library grant programs 
in the U.S. Department o f  Education. He 
managed the transfer o f  the New Library Ser­
vices and Technology Act Programs to IMLS, 
where they operate with a congressional ap­
propriation o f  $146.3 million in the current 
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