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

Nancy Davenport, director of acquisitions 
at the Library of Congress, has been ap­
pointed president of the Council on Library 
and Information Resources (CLIR). Davenport 
has served for 26 years in the Library of Con­
gress. Before her current position, she was 
head of the Congressional Research Service 
(CRS) Inquiry Section, CRS coordinator of 
member and committee relations, and direc­
tor of special programs. From 1990 to 1997, 
she directed a training program for librar­
ians in the new democratic states of Central 
and Eastern Europe that was sponsored by 
Congress and carried out by the Library of 
Congress. She is active in professional library 
associations including ALA, LAMA, IFLA, the 
Federal Librarians Roundtable, and the Library 
of Congress Professional Association. 

J. Stephen Downie, assistant professor at the 
Graduate School of Library and Information 
Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois­
Urbana­Champaign, has been named 2004–05 
GSLIS Centennial Scholar. 

Louise S. Robbins, director of the University 
of Wisconsin­Madison’s School of Library 
and Information Studies, won the fi rst Eliza 
Atkins Gleason Award for the best book in 
library history published between 2000 and 
2003 for The dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: 
Civil rights, censorship, and the American 
library (Norman: University of Oklahoma 
Press, 2000). The book tells the story of the 
1950 dismissal of Brown, whose 30­year 
career at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public 
Library ended amid charges of her circulating 
subversive materials. In actuality, Brown’s of­
fense was working toward racial equality in 
Bartlesville, including going with two African 
American teachers to a local drugstore with a 
restaurant and asking to be served. 

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Ethelene Whitmire, assistant professor of the 
School of Library and Information Studies at 
the University of Wisconsin­Madison, has been 
awarded a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fel­
lowship for the 2004–05 academic year. Whit­
mire will spend a year at UCLA studying the 
use of the academic library as a “third place” 
(after home and classroom) by some African 
American and Latino undergraduates. 

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

Christina D. Baum is now dean of library 
services at Lamar Uni­
versity. Prior to this 
appointment, she was 
director of library ser­
vices at the Univer­
sity of Wisconsin­River 
Falls for 14 years; dean 
of Learning Resources 
at State University of 
New York, Orange 
County Community 
College; and director 
of the library at the University of Kentucky, 
Maysville Community College. 

Nicole Covone has been appointed head 
librarian at Johnson & Wales University’s 
Florida campus. Her previous position was as 
reference librarian at Johnson & Wales. 

David S. Ferriero is now Andrew W. Mellon 
director and chief executive of the Research 
Libraries at the New York Public Library. Prior 
to this appointment, Ferriero was the Rita 
DiGiallonardo Holloway university librarian 
and vice provost for library affairs at Duke 
University. Ferriero had served 31 years in 
the MIT Libraries before joining Duke, start­
ing as a shelver in the Humanities Library 
and later being appointed associate director 
for public services and acting codirector. 
Ferriero spearheaded the Teaching Technol­
ogy to Teachers program in which staff from 

Christina D. Baum 

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Doug Kaylor 

the Duke Libraries mentored 100 teachers in 
23 Durham public schools. He is a member 
of the Council on Library and Information 
Resources/American Association of Publish­
ers Joint Working Group on Scholarly Com­
munication, and is on the editorial advisory 
board of Early English Books Online. He is 
also on the Board of Directors for the Cen­
ter for Research Libraries and the Research 
Libraries Group. 

Doug Kaylor has been named director of 
the Learning Resources Center at Sinclair 

Community College. 
Kaylor was head of ref­
erence and instruction 
at Wright State Univer­
sity (WSU) before this 
appointment, where he 
was awarded the Presi­
dent’s Award for Excel­
lence in Innovation in 
2001. He previously 
worked in the Fordham 
Health Science Library 

at WSU, Kettering Medi­
cal Center, Wright­Patterson AFB Technical 
Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, 
and at the Hodges Library at the University 
of Tennessee­Knoxville. From 1999 to 2001, 
Kaylor was chair of the OhioLINK User Ser­
vices Committee. He is past chair of the Ohio 
Council for Library and Information Services 
and is a member of ALA and the Academic 
Library Association of Ohio. 

Loretta Parham has been appointed direc­
tor/chief executive officer of the Woodruff 
Library at the Atlanta University Center. 
Parham had served as the university librar­
ian and director of the Harvey Library at 
Hampton University in Virginia since 1998. 
She has held a number of positions of in­
creasing responsibility in library services, 
higher education, and nonprofi t organiza­
tions. Her experience includes serving as 
deputy director of the Carnegie Library in 
Pittsburgh, district chief of the Chicago 
Public Library (CPL), and related positions 
at CPL for more than 14 years, where she 
managed the services and personnel for 
20 branch agencies. Parham has served as 
chair for several professional boards and 
committees, including the Board of Direc­

tors of SOLINET, chair and founder of the 
Historically Black College and University 
Library Alliance, and a member of the 
Appalachian College Association Central 
Library Council. 

Alber ta Comer has been named as­
sociate dean of the library at Indiana State 
University. 

Christopher Cox has been appointed 
assistant director at the University of Wiscon­
sin­Eau Claire’s McIntyre Library. 

Evelyn Frangakis has been appointed 
the Aaron and Clara Greenhut Rabinowitz 
chief librarian for preservation in the research 
libraries of the New York Public Library. 

Clayton Gar thwait has been named 
access services librarian at Wester Chester 
University. 

Suzanne Gray has been appointed library 
Web services manager at the University of 
Michigan. 

Ann Hallyburton has been appointed 
reference librarian/health sciences liaison 
at Western Carolina University’s Hunter 
Library. 

Martha Higgins has been hired as social 
sciences reference librarian at Old Dominion 
University. 

Eloise R. Hitchcock has been named 
assistant director for personnel and plan­
ning of Hunter Library at Western Carolina 
University. 

Bruce Johnston is now access services 
librarian at Duquesne University’s Gumberg 
Library. 

Beth Kerr is now theater/dance librarian 
for the Fine Arts Library at the University of 
Texas­Austin. 

Molly Susan Mathias has been appointed 
instruction coordinator for the University of 
Wisconsin­Milwaukee. 

Alan Michelson is now head of the 
Architecture­Urban Planning Library at the 
University of Washington­Seattle. 

Stephanie Nelson has been named elec­
tronic resources coordinator at the University 
of Hawaii, Kapi’olani College. 

Patricia Newland has been appointed 
technical services librarian at West Chester 
University Library. 

June L. Power is now access services/ 
reference librarian at the University of North 
Carolina­Pembroke. 

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Marion T. Reid, dean of library services 
at California State University­San Marcos, 
has been named interim vice president for 
external affairs. 

Kevin Roddy has been named informa­
tion literacy librarian at the University of 
Hawaii, Kapi’olani College. 

Michele Shular has been named geol­
ogy/geography librarian in the Arts and 
Sciences Libraries of the University of Buf­
falo­SUNY. 

Mari Suzuki has been appointed Japanese 
language materials librarian at the University 
of Michigan. 

Susan Weber is now the reference and 
interlibrary loan librarian at the University of 
Hawaii, Kapi’olani College. 

Rebecca Wojahn is now education refer­
ence librarian at the University of Wisconsin­
Eau Claire’s McIntyre Library. 

R e t i re m e n t s  

Willis E. Bridegam, librarian of Amherst 
College, has retired after nearly three de­
cades of service. Prior to joining Amherst, 
Bridegam served for three years as director 
of libraries at the State University of New 
York­Binghamton. Before that, he was the 
associate director of libraries at the Universi­
ty of Rochester Libraries and medical librar­
ian of the Edward G. Miner Library at the 
University of Rochester School of Medicine. 
Bridegam has served on a variety of boards 
and committees, including chairing the 
ACRL committee that established national 
standards for college libraries in 2000, serv­
ing on the ACRL Outcomes Assessment Task 
Forces, and chairing the ACRL College Sec­
tion’s Nominating Committee. He has served 
on the editorial boards of Choice and Col­
lege and Research Libraries and has served 
in leadership roles for the Council on Library 
and Information Resources (CLIR) and as a 
founding member of the Oberlin Group, a 
consortium of library directors of 75 selective 
liberal arts colleges. 

Mary Ruth Townsend, rare book librarian 
at the University of Michigan (UM), has re­
tired. In 1973, she began her career at UM 
as a student assistant at the Public Health 

Library. After receiving her AMLS, she was 
appointed assistant librarian, continuing to 
advance as associate librarian, head, and se­
nior associate librarian. In 1990, Townsend 
accepted the position of head of the Infor­
mation and Library Studies Library, where 
she worked until 2000. She then accepted 
the position of rare book librarian in the 
Taubman Medical Library. She was active 
in professional associations, including the 
Public Health/Health Administration Sec­
tion of the Medical Library Association, the 
Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Associa­
tion, and the South Central Michigan Health 
Sciences Library Association. 

D e a t h s  

Howard Rovelstad, retired director of librar­
ies at the University of Maryland (UM), has 
died of congestive heart 
disease. He joined UM 
in 1940, and except for 
his service as fi rst lieu­
tenant in the U.S. Army 
(1943–46), he was with 
the university until his 
retirement on June 30, 
1975. He was fi rst the 
acquisitions librarian, 
then the reference and 
loan librarian, and re­
turned after his Army years as director of 
libraries. He also served as a member of the 
ALA Council. 

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