dec04d.indd


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

Phillip M. Edwards, who is in the doctoral 
program at the University of Washington’s In­
formation School, has been named winner of 
the Coalition for Networked Information’s Paul 
Evans Peters Fellowship for graduate study in 
the information sciences or librarianship. 

James Neal, vice president for information 
services and university librarian at Columbia 
University, has been appointed the U.S. rep­
resentative to the Committee on Copyright 
and Other Legal Matters of the International 
Federation of Library Associations and In­
stitutions (IFLA). His term will begin at the 
IFLA conference in August 2005 in Oslo, 
Norway. 

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

JoséëMarie Griffiths has been named dean of 
the School of Information and Library Science at 

the University of North 
Carolina­Chapel Hill. 
Prior to this position, 
Griffiths held the Do­
reen E. Boyce Chair in 
Library and Information 
Science at the University 
of Pittsburgh. She was 
also an associate with 
the Learning Research 
and Development Cen­
ter and the fi rst director 

of the university’s Sara Fine Institute for Inter­
personal Behavior and Technology. Griffi ths 
has had two presidential appointments, one to 
the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and 
Information Science (1996–2002) and the other 
to the President’s Information Technology Ad­
visory Committee (2003–present). Griffi ths has 

JoséëMarie Griffi ths 

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. 

led or participated in information and library 
science projects in more than 35 countries. She 
has received three awards from the American 
Society for Information Science and Technology 
in recognition of her contributions to the fi eld. 

Helena Rodrigues has been named univer­
sity dean of libraries at Johnson & Wales 
University. She will also be overseeing the 
Culinary Museum and 
Archives and serv­
ing as dissertation 
advisor to doctoral 
candidates. Rodrigues 
has served as dean 
of libraries for the 
Providence Campus 
since 1993, when she 
joined the university. 
Prior to this position, 
she worked in the 
libraries of Roger Williams University and 
Brown University, the Rhode Island State 
Library, and the Library of Congress. She is 
a member of several professional organiza­
tions, including IFLA, ALA, and the New 
England Library Association. 

Helen H. Spalding has been appointed 
university librarian for Portland State 
University’s Branford 
P. Millar Library, effec­
tive March 2005. Since 
1985, Spalding has 
served as the associ­
ate director of librar­
ies at the University 
of Missouri­Kansas 
City. Prior to that she 
was with Iowa State 
University library. She 
is active in ACRL and 
the Library Administra­
tion and Management Association. Spalding 
served as president of ACRL (2002–03), 
where she initiated the E.J. Josey Spectrum 
Scholar Mentor Program, annually pairing 
academic librarian mentors with each ALA 

Helena Rodrigues 

Helen H. Spalding 

C&RL NewsDecember 2004 / 723 



minority scholarship student in an ALA­ac­
credited graduate degree program. 

Dave Baldwin has been named associate 
dean for reference and instruction at Iowa 
State University Library. 

Ted Baldwin has been appointed head of 
the College of Applied Science Library at the 
University of Cincinnati. 

Elizabeth Breakstone is now social sci­
ences librarian at the University of Oregon­
Eugene. 

Jennifer Burton has been named coor­
dinator of instruction/reference librarian at 
Emerson College. 

Rachel Carreon has been appointed li­
brarian residency program reference librarian 
at the University of Iowa Libraries. 

Daniel Dotson is now librarian for math­
ematical sciences in the Science and Engineer­
ing Library at Ohio State University. 

Carol Doyle has been appointed refer­
ence and instruction librarian in the Schaffner 
Library at Northwestern University. 

Lateka Grays has joined the staff of Emory 
University’s Goizueta Business Library as its 
first librarian resident, a two­year position. 

David Gregory is now associate dean for 
research and access at Iowa State University 
Library. 

Janet Harper has been appointed project 
cataloger for a National Endowment for the 
Humanities two­year grant at Emory Univer­
sity’s Woodruff Library. 

Advertisers 

Annual Reviews 715 
Archival Products 676 
Assoc. of Research Libraries 677 
Blackwell’s Book Services 682 
Choice 642 
College of DuPage 671 
EBSCO 657 
Educational Testing Service 667 
Elsevier 639, Cover 3 
IEEE 652 
Liberty Fund 656 
Optical Society of America 717 
Sage Publications 647 
ScienceDirect Cover 4 
Scopus Cover 2 
SWETS Information Services  672 

Mary Ann Hyatt has been named direc­
tor of the John E. Jaqua Law Library at the 
University of Oregon­Eugene. 

Andrea Imre has been appointed elec­
tronic resources librarian for the Morris Library 
at Southern Illinois University­Carbondale. 

Qiana Johnson has been appointed refer­
ence and instruction librarian at Northwestern 
University’s Schaffner Library. 

Elizabeth Meyer is now visual resources 
librarian at the University of Cincinnati. 

Lorna Newman has joined the Univer­
sity of Cincinnati as government documents 
librarian. 

Lee Pasackow has joined Emory Univer­
sity’s Goizueta Business Library as a business 
research librarian. 

Nancy Reinhold has been appointed team 
leader for research and instructional services 
at Emory University’s Woodruff Library. 

Erica Schattle has been named coordina­
tor of outreach/reference librarian at Emerson 
College. 

James Seamans has joined the University 
of Cincinnati as the head of the monographs 
department. 

Peter H. Sezzi is now associate librarian 
at Ventura College. 

R e t i re m e n t s  

Bonnie Biggs, assistant dean, coordinator for 
public services, and coordinator for university 
arts and lectures at California State University 
(CSU)­San Marcos, has retired. Biggs is one 
of the founding librarians for the 15­year­old 
university and is now working as tribal liaison 
for CSU­San Marcos. She served as president of 
the American Indian Library Association (1998) 
and chair of ALA’s Office of Literacy and Out­
reach Services Subcommittee on Library Service 
to American Indians (1999–2001). In 2000–01, 
Biggs conducted a tribal library census and 
needs assessment in southern California for the 
California State Library and, in 2003, organized 
the first Native Libraries Round Table of the 
California Library Association. 

Steve Meckstroth, humanities division head, 
fine arts librarian, special collection and rare 
books librarian at Illinois State University’s 
(ISU) Milner Library, has retired. Meckstroth 

724 / C&RL NewsDecember 2004 



joined the faculty at Milner in 1974 as fi ne 
arts librarian. In 1999–2000, he served as in­
terim associated dean of university libraries. 
Meckstroth was co­curator of the ISU African 
Art Collection and researched and edited the 
ISU booklet Campus Art: A Walking Tour of 
Selected Artwork on the Campus of Illinois 
State University in 2004. 

Mary Ellen Templeton, one of the found­
ing members of Emory University’s Goizu­
eta Business Library, has retired after nearly 
22 years of service with Emory. Templeton 
served as acting supervisor of business in­
formation services from 1992 to 1994 before 
the business library was established with its 
own director in 1994. In 1991, Templeton 
published Help! My Job Interview is Tomor­
row, which guides readers in using the li­
brary for research on employers. 

D e a t h s  

James F. Govan, 78, university librarian 
emeritus at the University of North Carolina 
(UNC)­Chapel Hill, has died. In nearly two 
decades of heading UNC’s libraries, Govan 
oversaw the building of the Walter R. Davis 
Library, a stack addition to Wilson Library, 
and Wilson’s renovation for the housing of 
special collections. He led the preservation 
and conservation of UNC’s rare book collec­
tion and materials at risk. Govan spearheaded 
creation of the Triangle Research Libraries 
Network, a shared online system that gives 
scholars access to the library holdings of 
UNC, Duke University, and North Carolina 
State University. The UNC Library became a 
founding member of the Southeastern Library 
Network (SOLINET), and Govan served twice 
on the SOLINET Board, as chair in 1977. Ac­
tive in the Association of Research Libraries, 
he was its president in 1983. Govan was on 
the Board of the Center for Research Librar­
ies from 1984 to 1990, which he chaired in 
1988. He was involved in other national and 
international library organizations, including 
the Commission on Preservation and Access 
and the Council on Library Resources. 

Anne Lipow, 69, retired University of 
California (UC)­Berkeley library information 

Correction 

Jennifer Gunter King has been named 
head of archives and special collections 
at Mount Holyoke College (not at Vir­
ginia Tech University Libraries as was 
printed in the October 2004 issue). The 
editors regret the error. 

officer, has died. Lipow worked in the UC 
library’s acquisition, systems, and cooperative 
services department (1961–84) and was ap­
pointed director of library instructional services 
in 1982. She helped institute the Baker docu­
ment delivery service, the Berkeley/Stanford 
Cooperative Program, and virtual reference 
service. When Lipow retired in 1991, she was 
awarded emeritus status, the first such award for 
a Berkeley staff member. For more than three 
years she served as an expert witness against 
using mandated filtering systems on Internet 
terminals in public libraries and helped bring 
United States vs. American Library Association 
to the Supreme Court. During the 1960s, she 
was a founder of the UC Berkeley Librarians 
Union. She also wrote a report on discrimina­
tion again women in the UC Berkeley library 
system, which resulted in increases in librarians’ 
salaries. Lipow founded and directed the Library 
Solutions Institute and Press, which focuses on 
training, publishing, and consulting on library 
and technology management issues. 

(“Internet Reviews,” cont. from page 719) 
control. Most tabs can be added or removed, 
and users can add tabs, such as “Blogs,” 
“Ebay,” and “Slashdot.” Searchers can click on 
“Create Your Own Tabs” and designate a tab 
name with the option of using checkboxes 
to select from a list of search engines, news 
sources, and other Web sites. 

Clusty is a promising endeavor and add­
ing higher­quality directories and Invisible 
Web content to its sources would enhance it. 
Searchers who are tired of the Google­Yahoo! 
hegemony may consider Clusty a viable al­
ternative. If nothing else, Clusty may provide 
a diversion or distraction from dependence 
on a single search tool. Given that Clusty 
is in beta, be sure to provide Clusty some 
feedback. Lastly, remember to download 
and test­drive the Clusty toolbar.—C. Brian 
Smith, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 
bsmith@ahml.info 

C&RL NewsDecember 2004 / 725 

mailto:bsmith@ahml.info