ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


November 1996/687

People 
in the 
News

Pam  Spiegel

Lillian Castillo-Speed, di­
rector o f the Chicano Stud­
ies Library and head o f the 
Ethnic Studies Libraries at the 
University o f California at 
Berkeley, has been named 
the 1996 REFORMA Librar­
ian o f the Year. REFORMA 
is the National Association to 
Promote Library Services to 
th e S p an ish  S p e a k in g . 
Castillo-Speed was rec o g ­
nized for her contributions 
in in c r e a s in g  access to  
Chicano Studies materials 
and Spanish resources; in pioneering bibliog­
raphy on Chicanas/Latinas; and in promoting 
REFORMA to students. She has been instrumen­
tal in the success o f the Database on CD-ROM 
and the Chicano Index, and has made signifi­
cant contributions to the Chicano/LatinoNet 
(CLNET) on the W orld W ide Web.

Isabel Hernandez, Medical Center Campus li­
brarian at M iam i-Dade Community C ollege 
(M D C C ), has b e e n  
aw a rd ed  an e n d o w e d  
teaching chair at MDCC. 
T h e  c h a ir p r o v id e s  
$7,500 a year for three 
years, allow in g profes­
sors to  e x p lo r e  n e w  
teaching m ethods, d e­
velop  new  projects, en­
hance technological ex­
pertise, and further their 
k n o w led ge in general. Isabel Hernandez
H ern a n d ez, w h o  w as 
awarded the Steel Hector and Davis Endowed 
Teaching Chair, is a member o f the Medical 
Library Association’s Academ y o f Health Infor­
mation Professionals.

Deborah Jakubs, head o f the International and 
Area Studies Department at Duke University Li­
braries, was named ARL visiting program of­
ficer for global resources. From last July to D e­
cember 31 Jakubs w ill focus her efforts on 
developing the Association o f American Uni- 
versities/ARL Global Resources Program, as well 
as coordinating the w ork o f the three ongoing 
pilot projects on Latin America, Japan, and Ger­
many. She has served as chair o f the Advisory

C om m ittee fo r  the Latin 
Americanist Resources Pilot 
Project since its inception.

Eva Moseley, curator o f  
manuscripts in the Schles­
inger Library on the History 
o f  W o m en  in Am erica at 
Harvard University, has w on 
a Silver Award from the U.S. 
National Commission on Li­
braries and Information Sci­
e n c e  (N C L IS ). In its an­
nouncement, the commis­
sion said, “Eva M oseley is a 

distinguished American archivist and an active 
worker in archival issues on the national, state, 
and local levels. . . . Her most important and 
lasting achievement is developing the most sig­
nificant U.S. manuscript collection on the his­
tory o f w om en in America. . . . ” M oseley has 
been curator o f manuscripts since 1972. In 1995 
she edited Women, Information, and the Fu­
ture: Collecting and Sharing Resources World­
wide, the proceedings o f an international con­
ference sponsored by the Schlesinger in 1994.

The AMIGOS Board o f Directors has elected 
n ew  officers for fiscal year 1996– 97. They are: 
chair Robert Seal, university librarian at Texas 
Christian University; vice-chair Willie Hardin, 
dean o f  Torreyson Library at the University o f 
Central Arkansas; secretary Elizabeth Snapp, 
director o f libraries at Texas W om an’s Univer­
sity; and treasurer Sue Phillips, associate di­
rector for technical and network services at the 
University o f Texas at Austin. Three new  del­
egates have been selected to serve three-year 
terms on the AMIGOS delegation to the OCLC 
Users Council. T w o  o f those delegates are Tho­
mas Leonhardt, director o f technical services 
and head o f collection developm ent at the Uni­
versity o f Oklahoma, and Donald Smith, di­
rector o f the library at Northeast Louisiana Uni­
versity.

Appointm ents
Joseph J. Branin, associate university librar­
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University o f Minnesota (UM ), has been named 
dean and director o f libraries at the State Uni­
versity o f N ew  York at 
Stony Brook. Before join­
ing UM in 1986, Branin 
served as assistant direc­
tor for collection devel­
opment at the University 
o f Georgia Libraries. A  
member o f ALA, the Re­
search Libraries Group, 
and Beta Phi Mu (the In­
ternational Library Sci­
en ce H o n o r S o ciety), Joseph J. Branin
Branin was selected as a 
Council on Library Resources management in­
tern and spent a year at Columbia University in 
1984. He also participated in the UCLA Senior 
Fellows Program for leaders in academic librari­
anship in 1991.

Hiram L. Davis, senior advisor for staff devel­
opment at the Library o f Congress, has been 
named dean o f library 
services at C aliforn ia 
Polytechnic State Univer­
sity. D a vis w as a p ­
pointed deputy librarian 
at LC in 1994 and served 
in that p o s itio n  until 
1995. B e fo re  that he 
served as director o f li­
braries at Michigan State 
U n iversity (1989– 94), 
head o f the Undergradu­ Hiram L. Davis
ate Library at UCLA, dean 
o f libraries at the University o f the Pacific, and 
dean o f the University Library at N ew  Mexico 
State University. Active in ALA and ACRL, Davis 
also helped establish the Michigan Research Li­
braries Triangle Consortium in 1992.

Rodney Henshaw, director o f the Public Ser­
vices Division at the Emory University General 
Libraries, has been appointed director o f Drake 
University’s Cowles Library in Des Moines, 
Iowa. In his 21 years in the field, Henshaw has 
served as chief o f the Access Services Depart­
ment at Penn State University and head o f in­
terlibrary services at Iow a State University. 
Henshaw said o f his appointment, “O ver the 
next several years, w e ’re going to have a his­
toric opportunity to start creating the library o f 
the future. . . .  I look forward to working with 
the entire Drake community in this endeavor.”

James L. Mullins has been appointed director 
o f the Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova Uni­
versity. B efore that he 
served as director o f the 
Franklin D. Schurz Li­
brary at Indiana Univer­
sity South Bend since 
1978, and in various p o­
sitions at the School o f 
Law Library at Indiana 
University Bloomington 
and at Georgia Southern 
University. Mullins has 
been active in state and James L. Mullins
national professional or­
ganizations including ALA, ACRL, and LAMA.

Jordan M. Scepanski, director o f library and 
learning resources at California State Univer­
sity, Long Beach, since 
1984, has b e e n  a p ­
pointed executive direc­
tor o f the Triangle Re­
search Libraries N e t­
work. Based at the Uni­
versity o f North Carolina 
at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), 
the network is a coop­
erative endeavor among 
D uke, N orth Carolina 
Central, and North Caro­ Jordan Scepanski
lina State Universities, 
and UNC-CH. Scepanski served as senior ad­
viser for library affairs in the Office o f the Chan­
cellor o f the California State University system 
in 1995. Previously he served as director o f the 
Central Library at Vanderbilt University and 
assistant director o f the UNC-Charlotte Library. 
He also has been a Fulbright lecturer in Tur­
key, a Council on Library Resources manage­
ment intern, and a staff member at ALA.

Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, acting director o f 
public service collections for the Library o f Con­
gress, has been named Carl A. Kroch Univer­
sity librarian at Cornell University. Thomas has 
also served as LC’s acting director o f public 
service and collection management, and as di­
rector for cataloging. She also initiated the Pro­
gram for Cooperative Cataloging, an interna­
tional program to increase access to library 
materials. Before joining LC, Thomas served as 
associate director for technical services at the 
National Agricultural Library, a Council on Li­
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intern at the University o f  Georgia, manager 
and coordinator fo r the Research Libraries 
Group, and as a librarian at Harvard University 
and Johns Hopkins University. A  member o f 
ALA and ACRL, Thomas has also been w idely 
published in library journals.

Richard Wendorf, librarian o f the Houghton 
Library at Harvard University, has been ap­
pointed director and li­
brarian o f  the Boston 
Athenaeum effective Feb­
ruary 1997. W e n d o r f 
served also at Harvard as 
senior lecturer in the fine 
arts and acting librarian 
o f the Fine Arts Library. 
Before that he served as 
professor o f English and 
art history and associate 
dean for undergraduate Richard W endorf
studies at Northwestern 
University, and he taught at Williams College 
and Princeton University. The author and edi­
tor o f many articles and books, W en dorf wrote 
The Elements o f  Life: Biography and Portrait- 
Painting in Stuart and Georgian England (O x ­
ford) and Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in 
Society to be published this fall by Harvard 
University Press and the National Portrait Gal­
lery.

Phyllis L. Askey has been appointed col­
lection management special projects librarian 
in the Francis A. Countway Library o f Medicine 
at Harvard University.

Rick J. Block has been named head o f cata­
loging in the Thomas P. O ’Neill Jr. Library at 
Boston College.

Amanda Bowen has been appointed col­
lection management librarian in the Fine Arts 
Library at Harvard University.

Kelly Cannon has been appointed humani­
ties reference librarian at Muhlenberg College 
in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Victor Cardell has been named music li­
brarian at the University o f Kansas.

Kathleen T. D ’Angelo has joined the staff 
o f East Carolina University Library as collection 
developm ent librarian.

Scott Devine has been appointed head o f 
preservation at Texas Tech University, Lubbuck.

Cheryl Ewing is n o w  health sciences ref­
erence librarian in the Alden Library at O hio 
University, Athens.

Elaine Fadden has been named serials team 
coordinator and cataloger in the Countway Li­
brary o f Medicine at Harvard University.

Katherine L. Fleming has joined the staff 
o f the Robert Scott Small Library at the College 
o f Charleston, South Carolina, as special col­
lections archivist/librarian.

Catherine Hansen is now  head o f the G ov­
ernment Documents & Microtext Center at the 
University o f Rochester, N ew  York.

Deborah Harrington has been appointed 
business librarian at Miami University in O x ­
ford, Ohio.

Mark Haslett is n o w  associate librarian, in­
formation services and systems at the Univer­
sity o f Waterloo.

Karl Henson is n o w  systems librarian at 
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Norman Holman is the new  senior vice- 
president and director o f the N ew  Y ork Public 
Library’s Branch Libraries.

Laura Hudson has joined the Alden Library 
at O hio University, Athens, as reference librar­
ian.

Deborah Jan has been appointed associ­
ate librarian in the Public Health Library at the 
University o f California, Berkeley.

Stephen Jones has been named manager 
o f library computing services in the Kuhn Li­
brary & Gallery at the University o f Maryland 
Baltimore County.

Thomas M. Kelly Jr. is n o w  humanities ref­
erence librarian at the University o f Missouri- 
Kansas City.

Randall M. MacDonald has been appointed 
collection developm ent librarian at the Florida 
Southern College Library in Lakeland.

Maryellen McCarthy has been named li­
brarian o f the Littauer Library at Harvard Uni­
versity.

Thomas Michalak has been appointed ex­
ecutive director o f the Baker Library in the 
Graduate School o f  Business at Harvard Uni­
versity.

Carolyn Mills has been appointed sciences 
reference librarian in research and information 
services at the University o f  Conn ecticu t’s 
Hom er Babbidge Library, Storrs.

Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news 
is considered f o r  publication, write to Pam 
Spiegel, Production Editor, C&RL New s, 50 E. 
H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: 
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John Ober is now  developm ent librarian 
for electronic resources at the new  Monterey 
Bay campus o f California State University.

Maria Otero-Boisvert is the new  associate 
dean o f the Learning Resources Center at the 
College o f DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

Alexey Leonid Panchenko is now  busi­
ness reference librarian at the University o f 
Oregon, Eugene.

Kevin P. Ray has been named head o f spe­
cial collections at Washington University in St. 
Louis.

Catherine Rhodes has joined the Alden Li­
brary at O hio University, Athens, as health sci­
ences reference librarian.

Robin A. Riat is n ow  science reference li­
brarian at the University o f Missouri-Kansas City.

Dorman H. Smith is n o w  associate uni­
versity librarian at the University o f Cincinnati.

Nancy Stanfill has been appointed preser­
vation librarian at the University at Albany, State 
University o f N ew  York.

Eileen Theodore-Shusta is n ow  assistant 
to the dean/human resources coordinator at 
Alden Library, O hio University, Athens.

John Tombarge Jr. has been named refer­
ence librarian at Washington and Lee Univer­
sity in Lexington, Virginia.

Elizabeth (Libby) Wertin has been ap­
pointed reference librarian and archivist at the 
Academy o f Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Elizabeth M. Williams has joined the staff 
o f the Robert Scott Small Library at the College 
o f Charleston, South Carolina, as an assistant 
reference librarian.

Laura Windsor has been named reference 
librarian in Alden Library at O hio University, 
Athens.

Mark D. Winston is now  assistant univer­
sity librarian at Valdosta State University.

Rutherford Witthus has been named tech­
nical services/automation coordinator at the 
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University 
o f Connecticut, Storrs.

Retirem ents
Rodney Armstrong will retire in February af­
ter 23 years as director and librarian o f the Bos­
ton Athenaeum Library. Armstrong joined the 
Athenaeum in 1973 after serving for 23 years as 
librarian o f the Phillips Exeter Academy. A  life

m em ber o f ALA, Arm ­
strong has served as di­
rector or officer o f  the 
N ew  Hampshire Library 
Association and the N ew  ssu

England School Library R e

Association. He has also 

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and the Manuscript So­

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ciety, and is a member 
Rodney Armstrongo f  the Am erican Anti­

quarian Society, the American Academy o f Arts 
and Sciences, and the Society o f Antiquaries.

John Yung-hsiang Lai, associate librarian o f 
the Harvard-Yenching Library and head o f the 
Cataloging Department at Harvard University, 
retired at the end o f June after 24 years o f ser­
vice. Lai previously served as chairman o f the 
Department o f Library Science and professor 
at National Taiwan University. Eugene W. Wu, 
head o f the Harvard-Yenching Library, said o f 
Lai, “H e has made many contributions to the 
library’s cataloging program over the years, in­
cluding the planning and publication o f the 72- 
volum e printed catalog o f the library’s Chinese 
and Japanese collections in 1985-86. . . . The 
library is deeply indebted to him for his long 
and outstanding service.” Lai com piled Cata­
log o f  Protestant Missionary Works in Chinese, 
Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University 
(G. K. Hall, 1980) and authored many articles 
on the history o f Taiwan.

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November 1996/691

Remembering Louis Round Wilson (1876– 1979)

Louis R ound W il­
son, former university li­
brarian at the University 
o f  N o rth  C a ro lin a  at 

Chapel Hill, died on Decem ber 10, 1979, at the 
age o f 103. W ilson was librarian at North Caro­
lina for thirty-one years (1901 to 1932), the first 
dean (and founder) o f the School o f Library 
Science at North Carolina (1931– 32), and dean 
o f the Graduate Library School o f the Univer­
sity o f Chicago (1932 to 1942).

W hile librarian at North Carolina, Wilson also 
served at various times as founder and director 
o f the university press, director o f university 
extension, and editor o f the Alum ni Review. At 
the University o f Chicago, he presided over what 
has been termed the “golden age” o f profes­
sional education for librarians. “Many o f the 
subsequent leaders in librarianship and library 
education w ere the products o f the Chicago 
doctoral program, which he did so much to 
encourage and sustain,” says Edward G. Holley, 
current dean o f North Carolina’s Library School.

After his retirement from Chicago in 1942 
W ilson taught part time in the University o f 
North Carolina Library School until 1959. He

un dertook the editorship o f  the eigh teen- 
volume sesquicentennial history o f the Univer­
sity o f  North Carolina; 
was the coauthor with 
Maurice F. Tauber o f an­
oth er landm ark w o rk , 
The University Library; 
wrote three volumes o f 
the history o f the Univer­
sity o f  North Carolina; 
conducted a regional sur­
vey with Marion A. Milc­
zewski, Libraries o f  the 
Southeast; and marked 

Louis Round Wilson
the centenary o f his birth 
with the publication o f  a n ew  book, Louis 
Round Wilson's Historical Sketches.

W ilson was one o f the founders o f the North 
Carolina Library Association (1904), served as 
first chair o f the North Carolina Library Com­
mission (1909– 16), and was a founder and presi­
dent o f the Southeastern Library Association. 
He was president o f ALA in 1935– 36 and in his 
hundredth year added A L A ’s M elvil D ew ey 
Medal to his other honors. (Reprintedf rom  C&RL 
News, March 1980.)

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