july04c.indd P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Ann-Christe Galloway Sohair F. Wastawy Kent Slade, electronic services librarian at the Logan Library in Logan, Utah, is the win­ ner of Library Mosaics’ and the Council on Library/Media Technician’s 2004 award for Outstanding Supporter of Support Staff. Sohair F. Wastawy, dean of libraries at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) since 1991, has been appointed as the first chief librarian of the new Bibliotheca Alexandria in Egypt. The new library was built near the location of the ancient library. Wastawy will serve as chief librarian for one year, taking a leave of absence from her re­ sponsibilities at IIT. She has been the recipient of a Peace Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship, and has been a practitioner in the information field since 1975. She has also taught librarianship in the fi rst women’s library program in Saudi Arabia. Ethelene Whitmire, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin­Madison School of Library and Information Studies, has won a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to do research for one academic year at UCLA. She will be studying the use of the academic library by undergraduates of color. A p p o i n t m e n t s Lori A. Goetsch, director of the public ser­ vices division at the University of Maryland’s library, has been named dean of libraries at Kansas State University. Goetsch has held Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: agalloway@ ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. increasingly responsible leadership posts, supervising programs and personnel at four academic libraries—all members of the As­ sociation of Research Libraries. She has also has experience at three land­grant in­ stitutions. Goetsch worked at the University of Tennessee as head of reference services (1993–97); at Michigan State University as head and librarian for information/reference (1987–93); and at the University of Illinois­ Chicago as assistant reference librarian (1982– 85). She was recently elected to a three­year appointment on ACRL’s Board of Directors. She received the Michigan State University Li­ braries Distinguished Librarian Award. Virginia S. O’Herron, who has served as interim university librarian since July 2002, has been named university librarian at Old Dominion University. O’Herron joined Old Dominion in 1993 as assistant university li­ brarian for information services and served as associate university librarian. Prior posi­ tions include director of the State University System of Florida Extension Library, and professional positions at Baker and Taylor Company and DeVry Technical Institute. She is a member of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) Lead­ ership and Development Committee, chair of the Directors Committee of the Virginia Tidewater Consortium of Higher Education, and a member of the VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia) Steering Committee. Active in ACRL, O’Herron served as chair of the Standards and Accreditation Committee and Distance Learning Section Strategic Planning Committee, and was a member of the Dis­ tance Learning Guidelines Committee. She is a visiting evaluator for the Southern Associa­ tion of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Mark Roosa will assume his new role as dean of libraries at Pepperdine University on August 1, 2004. As a director and chief at the Library of Congress, where he served for six years, Roosa was responsible for lead­ ing four divisions and two special programs, C&RL NewsJuly/August 2004 / 397 overseeing an $11 million budget, and coor­ dinating key activities in three Capitol Hill locations, as well as multiple off­site facili­ ties. Before taking the position at the Library of Congress, Roosa developed and directed a comprehensive preservation program for an extensive collection of rare books, manu­ scripts, and photographs at the Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. For the Santa Mon­ ica Historical Society, Roosa was responsible for developing a collection management and access plan for a collection of diverse me­ dia. As an additional outside project, Roosa developed a plan for the new media collec­ tions, including audiovisual recordings in a variety of formats, for the Getty Center for Research in the Arts and Humanities. Stephanie Ballard has been named edu­ cational psychology and psychology librari­ an at California State University­Northridge’s Oviatt Library. John Barnett has been appointed direc­ tor of collection development at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Teresa Burk has been named research services archivist in the Special Collections and Archives of Emory University’s General Libraries. Kitti Canepi is now head of information resources management for the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University­Carbondale. Laurie Whitehill Chong has been named special collections librarian/curator of artists’ books at the Rhode Island School of Design. Rita Costello is now head of the Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library at UCLA and assistant director for user services in the Anderson School of Management’s Computing and Information Services. Advertisers ACRL Cover 3 Annual Reviews 387 Association of Research Libraries 396 Choice 358 EBSCO Cover 2 Elsevier 379 Haworth Press 355 Intelex 384 Sage Publications Cover 4 Claudia Covert has been appointed read­ ers’ services librarian at the Rhode Island School of Design. Greg Fleming has been named business reference librarian in the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Catherine Friedman has been appointed associate university librarian/public services at the University of California­San Diego, ef­ fective September 1, 2004. Susan Gibbons has been named assistant dean for public services at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. Michael C. Jarrell is now head of library systems at Indiana State University Library. Anthony Kaiser has been named education reference librarian at Indiana State University Library. Lucy Lyons has been named bibliographer for collection analysis and planning at North­ western University Library. Cinda May is now catalog librarian for the rare books and special collections department of Indiana State University Library and direc­ tor of the friends of the library. Jennifer N. Parker has been appointed art and architecture reference librarian at the University of Colorado­Boulder. Elizabeth Russey has been appointed manuscripts processing archivist in the Special Collections and Archives of Emory University’s General Libraries. Elizabeth Lawler Schau has been ap­ pointed consulting librarian for the arts and humanities at Cornell College. Alan Schroeder has been appointed busi­ ness librarian at California State University­ Northridge’s Oviatt Library. Timothy Sestrick has been named project music cataloger at Gettysburg College in Get­ tysburg, Pennsylvania. Vicki Sipe has joined the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery faculty as catalog librar­ ian at the University of Maryland­Baltimore County. Maribeth Slebodnik has been appointed science reference librarian at Indiana State University Library. Jacqueline Solis is the new outreach librar­ ian at California State University­Northridge’s Oviatt Library. Scott Walter has been named assistant dean for information services at the University of Kansas Libraries. 398 / C&RL NewsJuly/August 2004 R e t i re m e n t s Ruth Christ, serials section head in Central Technical Services at the University of Iowa (UI) Libraries in Iowa City, has retired. Christ joined the staff of the Cataloging Department at the UI Libraries on September 1, 1968. In 1973 she transferred to the Serials Depart­ ment as a serials cataloger, and, in 1988, she assumed responsibility for all serials cata­ loging activities. In 2000, her responsibility was expanded to include all serials acquisi­ tions activities, and, in March 2001, she was named serials section head. Douglas A. Davis, university librarian for California State University (CSU)­Los Ange­ les since 1995, has retired. He was previous­ ly affi liated with the CSU­Northridge Library, where he held a library faculty appointment beginning in 1969, as well as serving as as­ sociate dean and as acting dean for a year. Davis has worked closely with the CSU Chancellor’s Office, serving as systemwide staff for “Transforming CSU Libraries for the 21st Century: A Strategic Plan of the CSU Council of Library Directors.” He chaired the CSU’s UIAS (Unified Information Access System) Review Group and Evaluation Team and currently chairs its Management Team. Nationally, Davis has been a member of ALA for more than 30 years and performed committee service for ACRL and the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). Arlene Luster retired from federal library ser­ vice in April. She started her federal career in an overseas assignment at Fuchu Air Base in Japan and ended at the Asia Pacifi c Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. Highlights of her career include approximately 20 years as command librarian for Headquarters Pacifi c Air Forces, and six years as a naval regional librarian for Pacific Command. In addition to Luster’s federal library service, she also worked for the Medical Hospital Library in Torrance, California; with the Los Angeles County Systems; and the Acquisitions De­ partment at the University of Hawaii Library. Don Tolliver, vice president for information services/chief information officer at Kent State University, has retired. He joined Kent State in 1984 as director libraries and learn­ ing resources, became dean of libraries and media services in 1989, and was appointed to his latest position in 1999. Tolliver has served on the Board of Trustees for OHIONET and he chaired and participated in OhioLINK and Ohio Board of Regents activities. D e a t h s Charles Beard, professor and director of university libraries at the State University of West Georgia for 26 years, has died at the age of 63. During his service to the In­ gram Library and the national library com­ munity, Beard was a tireless advocate for li­ braries, overseeing the library’s transition to online cataloging and services and playing an instrumental role in advancing and extend­ ing access to GALILEO to all libraries and educational institutions in Georgia. Beard was a leader in the national library commu­ nity, actively participating in professional associations, including chairing ACRL’s 1999 National Conference. He was past president of the Southeastern Library Association, past president of the Georgia Library Association and past co­chair of the White House Con­ ference on Library Information Services Task Force. He was a member of the Regents Ac­ ademic Committee on Libraries, the Georgia State Board for certification of librarians, and the Advisory Board of the Georgia Center for the Book. Beard served on the Freedom to Read Foundation Board and on the ALA Council and Executive Board. In 2003, the Georgia Libraries Association named its Li­ brary Advocacy Award for Beard in recogni­ tion of his years of advocacy for libraries. In 2000, he was named to the ALA National Honor Roll. Charles E. Beard John A. Harrison, who served as director of the University Libraries at the Univer­ sity of Arkansas (UA) from 1983 to 1998, C&RL NewsJuly/August 2004 / 399 has died. He began his librarian career at Harvard and later held several positions at Yale and Southern Connecticut State College before joining UA. Accomplishments under his leadership at UA include the addition of 75,000 square feet to Mullins Library, the in­ stallation of the libraries’ automated system, and provision of electronic indexes and full­ text resources on desktop. He was also an outreach consultant in Crete (where he as­ sisted librarians at the University of Crete in developing their library systems) and Bolivia (in the Partners of the Americas organiza­ tion, which promotes economic and human development). Erwin Lester “Les” Inabinett, 78, director of the South Caroliniana Library (1958–83), has died. Inabinett was the library’s second director. He worked as assistant director of the library from 1950 to 1958 and was also on the staff of the Papers of John C. Calhoun project. Venable Lawson, 82, director of Emory Uni­ versity’s Division of Librarianship (later Di­ vision of Library and Information Manage­ ment) from 1965 to 1988, has died. After a temporary part­time position at the Atlanta Public Library, he joined Harvard University Library as assistant librarian. In 1953, Lawson returned to the Atlanta Public Library as head of reference services and was promoted in 1957 to coordinator for public service. In 1960, he accepted the position of assistant profes­ sor on the faculty of the library school at Florida State University, and in 1965 became director of the Emory University Division of Librarianship. Among his notable honors, Lawson received the George Virgil Fuller Award for his dissertation, which made a significant contribution to the field of library and information science, from the Columbia University School of Library Service in 1964; the Certificate of Honor and an honorary life membership from the Southeastern Library Association in 1988; the Nix­Jones Award for Distinguished Service to Georgia Librar­ ies from the Georgia Library Association in 1989; and the Nick Davies Award from the Friends of the Atlanta­Fulton Public Library in 1993. He was awarded the Emory Medal, the university’s highest recognition after the honorary degree, in recognition of his out­ standing service. Margaret Hanselman Underwood, retired associate librarian of the University Library and Natural Science Museum at the Univer­ sity of Michigan, has died. She joined the university library system in 1958 and over the years worked in various libraries as well as at the Natural Science Museum. Her cred­ its as a published author include a 1954 Bib­ liography of North American Minor Natural History Serials in the University of Michigan Libraries, which she updated in 2002.  (“Preservation ...,” continued from page 389) moving images. Of the other six, three are designed for particular types of users (the public, archivists, or science educators) and three are topic­based (cataloging, program­ ming for exhibition, collection manage­ ment). The Preservation Portal is at mic.imtc. gatech.edu/preservationists_portal/preserv _index.htm and the MIC homepage is at mic. imtc.gatech.edu/index.php.  (“Civic engagement...” continued from page 393) World” (Washington D.C.: National Association of State Universities and Land­Grant Colleges, 2000): 24. www.nasulgc.org/publications /Kellogg/Kellogg2000_covenant.pdf. 14. New England Center for Civic Life, “The Northern New England Diversity and Community Project,” www.fpc.edu/neccl /nnedivcomm.htm. 15. See the “Teaching Democracy” Web site at www.teachingdemocracy.org. 16. For more information concerning the moderator training programs, contact ALA Member Programs and Services, (800) 454­2433, ext. 2518; dponton@ala.org. In­ formation about the NIF network and other partnership and training possibilities in your own community is available at www.nifi . org/ppi.html. 17. As quoted in Elizabeth L. Hollander and John Saltmarsh, “The Engaged Univer­ sity,” Academe 86, # 4 (July/August 2000): 30.  400 / C&RL NewsJuly/August 2004 www.nifi mailto:dponton@ala.org http:www.teachingdemocracy.org www.fpc.edu/neccl www.nasulgc.org/publications