ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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

Susan A. M atson, assistant professor and 
assistant cataloging librarian, has been named 

the 1998 recipient of the Library Affairs Out­

standing Faculty Award. She joined the Li­

brary Affairs faculty in 1978 as assistant seri­

als librarian. She earned a Ph.D. in Linguis­

tics from the University of Wisconsin, Madi­

son, in 1972 and her MLS in 1977.

A p p o in t m e n t s

M illicen t “P e n n y ” A b ell has been named 
acting interim university librarian of the 

University of California (UC) Berkeley Li­

braries after having been named univer­

sity librarian emerita upon retirement from 

the Yale University Library in January 1995. 

Prior to her appointment at Yale, Abell 

served for eight years as university librar­

ian at UC San Diego and in administrative 

positions at the State University of New 

York at Buffalo and the University of Wash­

ington. She has been active in national li­

brary activities: a founding member of the 

Commission on Preservation and Access 

and the Digital Preservation Consortium, 

president of ACRL, chair of the Center for 

Research Libraries, and an executive com­

mittee member of the Research Libraries 

Group. Abell has served as a consultant 

advising university administrators and li­

brarians at numerous institutions, includ­

ing Columbia, Harvard, Toronto, Michigan, 

Northwestern, New York University, and 

the New York Public Library.

Adrian W. A lexan d er was appointed ex­
ecutive director of the Big 12 Plus Library 

Consortium. Alexander was director of stra­

tegic development at the Faxon Company,

Ed. note: To ensure th a t y o u r personnel news is 
considered fo r p u b lica tio n , w rite  to Ann-Christe 
Young, Production Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron 
St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795,ĝ e-mail: ayoung@ala.org; 
fax:312-280-2520.

Inc., a serials management services com­

pany. He also served as head of the Faxon 

Institute, a continuing education and re­

search arm of the com­

pany. He has spent al­

most 13 years in the 

serials industry in a va­

riety of sales, market­

ing, and strategic plan­

ning roles. At Faxon his 

primary focus has been 

in the academic library 

market. Alexander has 

an MLS and a Certifi­
A d ria n  W . A le x a n d e r

cate of Advanced Study 

in library administration from the Univer­

sity of North Texas, where he also worked 

as a reference librarian/bibliographer and 

head of administrative services. He is an ac­

tive member of the ALA and serves on the 

editorial board of Serials Review. The Big 

12 Plus is a regional consortium of research 

libraries in the greater Midwest with com­

mon interests in programs related to infor­

mation access, document delivery, distance 

learning, new information technologies, and 

cooperative collection development.

Richard M. Cochran has been named dean 
of Library and Instructional Services at Ferris 

State University in Big 

Rapids, Michigan. He 

was most recently dean 

of the library at 

Monmouth University in 

West Long Branch, New 

Jersey, and previously 

served as library direc­

tor at three colleges in 

Vermont and O hio. 

While in New Jersey, 

Cochran served as presi­
Richard M. Cochran

dent of the Central Jer­

sey Regional Library Cooperative, president 

of the Council of New Jersey College and Uni­

versity Library Directors, and was a member 

of the Board of the New Jersey Library Asso­

ciation. He earned a B.A. from the University

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of Maryland, an M.Ed. from Boston Univer­

sity, an MSLS from Wayne State University, and 

a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.

Peter S. Graham will become university li­
brarian at Syracuse University, effective Sep­

tember 1. He is currently the associate uni­

versity librarian for Technical and Networked 

Information Services at Rutgers University in 

New Brunswick, New 

Jersey— a position he 

has held since 1987. In 

1995, Graham estab­

lished university-wide 

online access to major 

citation and full-text da­

tabases. From 1989 to 

1992, Graham served as 

associate vice president 

for information services 
P e te r S. G ra h a m

at Rutgers. In this posi­

tion he created a unified University Comput­

ing Services by combining and reorganizing 

previously separate academic and adminis­

trative computing groups. Graham received 

an MLS from Indiana University, a bachelor 

of philosophy degree in English Renaissance 

literature from Oxford University, and a mas­

ter of arts degree with honors in English 

Renaissance literature from Columbia Uni­

versity. Graham is a member of the advisory 

board of Book Arts Press at the University of 

Virginia; a member of the governing bodies 

of the Bibliographical Society of America and 

the ALA; and a member and chair of the gov­

erning board of the Center for Electronic 

Texts in the Humanities, a joint organization 

of Princeton and Rutgers universities.

Shirley Leung has been appointed univer­
sity librarian at Hong Kong Baptist Univer­

sity. Leung has been at the University of Cali­

fornia, Irvine, for 14 

years, where she served 

as assistant university 

librarian for technical 

services, associate uni­

versity librarian for re­

search and instructional 

services, and, most re­

cently, interim univer­

sity librarian. From 

1992-93, she was se­

S h irle y  Leu n g lected to be an Ameri­

can Council on Education Fellow and served 

as an intern in the Office of the Senior Vice 

President and Provost at Arizona State Uni­

versity. Leung received a B.A. in History from 

Lake Erie College, an MLS from the State Uni­

versity of New York at Albany, and an M.A. 

in Political Science from the State University 

of New York at Binghamton. Active in a wide 

range of campus and professional organiza­

tions, she currently cochairs the Invited Pa­

pers Subcommittee for the 9th ACRL National 

Conference.

Greg Pronevitz has been appointed the first 
regional administrator for the Northeast Mas­

sachusetts Regional Library System in North 

Andover. Pronevitz previously directed the 

Library Technologies Departm ent at 

OHIONET for eight years. His professional 

experience also includes positions at the Ohio 

State University Libraries, Chemical Abstracts 

Service, and the Center for Research Librar­

ies. He holds a master’s decree from the State 

University of New York at Albany School of 

Library and Information Science and has a 

bachelor’s in Russian language and literature. 

Pronevitz was an active member of the Aca­

demic Library Association of Ohio, where he 

was a past-president and board member. He 

has held committee positions with the ALA, 

Association of Specialized and Cooperative 

Library Agencies, and Interlibrary Cooperation 

and Networking Section.

Stephen R. Shorb has been appointed li­
brary director for the Manchester Commu­

nity-Technical College in Manchester, Con­

necticut. He was previously head of learn­

ing resources at the Higher Colleges of Tech­

nology located at Abu Dhabi in the United 

Arab Emirates. He began his library career 

as reference librarian at Southwest State Uni­

versity in Minnesota and has worked as a 

computer marketing manager for IBM and 

Hewlett-Packard. His undergraduate degree 

and MLS are both from the University of Iowa.

Pamela Snelson has been named college 
librarian at Franklin & Marshall College in 

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Snelson was previ­

ously associate librarian at Drew University 

with responsibilities for automation and pub­

lic services. A 1975 graduate of Drew, Snelson 

went on to earn her MLS from Rutgers Uni­



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versity in 1976, her MA 

in p o litica l science 

from Drew in 1980, 

and her Ph.D. from the 

Rutgers School of Com­

munication, Informa­

tion and Library Stud­

ies in 1993. Snelson has 

served on numerous 

committees of ACRL, 
P am ela Snelson chairing the College Li­

braries section and the 

editorial board of C&RL News, and was re­

cently elected vice president of the PALINET 

board of trustees.

Jean A lexander is now head of the Hunt 
Library Information Center at Carnegie 

Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylva­

nia.

Teri B en n is has been appointed refer­
ence and instructional services librarian at 

the H. M. Briggs Library of South Dakota 

State University in Brookings.

Barbara J. Bergm an has been appointed 
media librarian at Angelo State University 

in San Angelo, Texas.

A nn B r o w n so n  has been appointed ref­
erence librarian and subject bibliographer 

for education studies at Eastern Illinois Uni­

versity in Charleston.

Scott Burright has joined the Albin O. 
Kuhn Library and Gallery at the University 

of Maryland in Baltimore County as digital 

public services librarian.

D ebra Currie has been appointed col­
lection manager for agriculture and environ­

mental sciences at North Carolina State Uni­

versity in Raleigh.

M ered ith  Curtis has been appointed 
cataloger at the Nunez Community College 

Library in Chalmette, Louisiana.

Correction

We erroneously reported in the June 

1998 issue of this column information 

about Paul R. Dempsey. The entiy should 

have read: Paula R. D em p sey  has been 
appointed head of reference, Loop Cam­

pus Library, at the DePaul University Li­

braries in Chicago.

The editors regret the error.

Carol D oyle has been appointed head 
of Government Documents & Map Libraries 

in the Henry  Madden Library at California 

State University in Fresno.

Karl Fattig is now the Web development 
librarian at North Carolina State University 

in Raleigh.

David S. Goble has been appointed head 
of the Collection Access and Delivery Ser­

vices Department at North Carolina State 

University in Raleigh.

N ancy H allock was appointed Spanish/ 
Portuguese Cataloging Team Leader of the 

Cataloging Services Department in the Wid- 

ener Library at Harvard.

P e g g y  E. H o o n  has been appointed 
scholarly communication librarian at North 

Carolina State University in Raleigh.

J o h n  H ow ard has been appointed librar­
ian for inform ation technology in the 

Harvard College Library.

C. D avid J a ck so n  has been appointed 
head of the North Carolina State University 

Libraries’ Special Collections Department in 

Raleigh.

A nne Larsen is now the associate library 
building consultant at the Massachusetts 

Board of Library Commissioners.

Pamela Ortega has been appointed refer­
ence librarian and subject bibliographer for 

Communication Disorders Sciences, Foreign 

Languages, and Latin-American Studies at East­

ern Illinois University in Charleston.

Marcy Pride is the new collection man­
agement/interlibrary loan librarian at the 

Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery at the 

University of Maryland in Baltimore County.

Lynne S ch m elz has been appointed li­
brarian for the sciences in the Harvard Col­

lege Library.

Kurri S ew ich  has been appointed ref­
erence librarian in the Henry  Madden Li­

brary at California State University in Fresno.

J o h n  Sterbenz has been appointed ac­
cess services manager and systems librarian 

at the Kresge Business Administration Library 

at the University of Michigan Business School 

in Ann Arbor.

C arol A. Struble has been appointed 
head of cataloging at Robert Morris College 

Library in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

Jam es T eliha has been named access 
services librarian at Oregon Institute of Tech­

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Vang Vang has been appointed reference 
librarian in the Henry Madden Library at Cali­

fornia State University in Fresno.

Alex Wade has been appointed systems 
librarian at the University of Washington in 

Seattle.

Linda Yamamoto is the new head librarian 
and bibliographer of Mathematical and Com­

puter Sciences Library at Stanford University.

R e t ir e m e n t s

Marvin E. Monsma, library director for the 
Hekman Library, will retire in August after 33 

years (28 as library director) of service to Calvin 

College and Calvin Theological Seminary in 

Grand Rapids, Michigan. īn his earlier years at 

Calvin, Monsma taught 

undergraduate-level 

courses in library sci­

ence, served as a library 

consultant to Christian 

schools in Michigan, Il­

linois, and Indiana, and 

taught graduate-level li­

brary science courses for 

the University of Michi­

gan and Western Michi­M arvin E. Monsma
gan University at their 

Grand Rapids Extension Centers. He was part 

of the group that formed the Michigan Library 

Consortium and served on its Executive Coun­

cil. Prior to his career as a librarian, Monsma 

taught English and speech at the secondary 

level for eight years. He received a B.A. from 

Calvin College, an M.A. in Education from 

Michigan State University, and an MLS from 

the University of Michigan.

Robert Wedgeworth, university librarian at 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

(UIUC) Library, has announced his plan to re­

tire in August 1999- Wedgeworth was ap­

pointed interim university librarian in Septem­

ber 1992 and was appointed university librar­

ian in November 1993- During his tenure, the 

library completed development of a compre­

hensive technology infrastructure and has pro­

pelled its Mortenson Center for International 

Library Programs into the forefront of interna­

tional foreign exchange programs. 

Wedgeworth is a graduate of Wabash College

and received his MLS 

from UIUC’s School of 

Library Science in 1961. 

He was executive direc­

tor of the ALA (1972— 

1985) and dean of Co­

lumbia University’s 

School of Library Sci­

ence (1985-1992). He 

was elected president 

twice by the Interna­ Robert W e d g e w o rth

tional Federation of Li­

brary Associations and Institutions (1991-1995, 

1995-1997). Wedgeworth has received many 

awards, including the 1989 Joseph Lippincott 

Award, the 1997 Melvil Dewey Award (both 

from the ALA), and the 1991 Distinguished 

Alumnus Award from the UIUC Graduate 

School of Library and Information Science.

D e a th s

John Maxwell, retired reference librarian at 
the University of California, Riverside (UCR), 

died on March 29. He began his career at 

UCR in 1956, working in the acquisitions de­

partment of the Rivera Library and later join­

ing the reference department. He received a 

bachelor’s degree from the University of 

Rochester in 1933 and his MLS from the Uni­

versity of Southern California in 1960. He 

retired in 1972 after 17 years of service.

A d ve rtise r index

Academic Press 537

ACRL 520, 533, 534

American Institute of 

Chemical Engineers 506

American Psychological Cover 2

Blackwell’s Information 489
Services

Choice 531
Emery-Pratt 484

Graphics Press 481

John Minter & Associates 498

McGraw Hill 493
OCLC 511
Primary Source Media 526

Science Direct 521

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VTLS Cover 4