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Dawn Mueller P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s  

Brenda Bailey-Hainer, director of Network­
ing and Resource Sharing at the Colorado 
State Library has been appointed as the new 
vice president of the Board of Trustees for the 
Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR). 
BCR is a nonprofit, multistate library coop­
erative that has served the library community 
since its founding in 1935, providing cost­ef­
fective library and information services. 

John Budd from the University of Missouri­
Columbia has been elected vice president/ 
president elect of the Association for Library 
and Information Science Education. 

Karla L. Hahn has been named director of the 
Association of Research Library’s (ARL) Offi ce 
of Scholarly Communi­
cation (OSC), effective 
May 25. She is presently 
collection management 
team leader for the Uni­
versity of Maryland Li­
braries. In addition to 
her fi rst­hand collection 
management experi­
ence at Maryland, Hahn 
has graduate education 
and experience in the bio­medical sciences 
and an MLS from Syracuse University. The 
Director of OSC is instrumental in creatively 
defining and advancing the portfolio for ARL’s 
scholarly communication program. 

Diane Smith, director of the Library and 
Information Center at Bunker Hill Community 
College (BHCC), has been chosen to partici­
pate in the National Institute for Leadership 
Development LEADERS program, an interna­
tional program for administrators and faculty 
in higher education. This year­long program 

Karla L. Hahn 

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is designed to enhance the skills participants 
need to assume major decision­making roles 
in their institutions. It 
covers supervisory and 
human relations skills, 
planning and budget­
ing, and organization 
transformation. Par­
ticipants are chosen 
for their professional 
abilities, their inter­
ests in advancement 
in higher education, and the quality of their 
proposed projects. 

Ann Wolpert, director of libraries, Massachu­
setts Institute of Technology, recently began a 
one­year term as president of the Association 
of Research Libraries (ARL). The Board is the 
governing body of the association and rep­
resents the interest of ARL member libraries 
in directing the business of the association, 
including establishing operation policies, 
budgets, and fiscal control; modifying the ARL 
mission and objectives; and representing ARL 
to the community. 

Diane Smith 

Appointments 

Elaine K. Didier has been named director 
of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and 
Museum. Prior to this appointment, Didier was 
a professor and former dean of the Kresge 
Library at Oakland University in Michigan. 
In announcing his se­
lection, Ford Library 
Archivist John Carlin 
remarked that he was 
most impressed with 
Didier’s ideas on how 
to use today’s technolo­
gy to expand education 
outreach efforts at the 
library and museum. In Elaine K. Didier 

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addition to her work at Oakland University, 
Didier has served in a number of positions at 
the University of Michigan, including interim 
director of Academic Outreach, associate dean 
of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 
and director of Information Resources at the 
School of Business Administration. She has 
also served as adjunct associate professor 
for the School of Information and director 
of the Erasmus/Michigan Master of Business 
Informatics Program. She is currently serving 
as an elected member to the Executive Board 
of ACRL and represents the association on the 
ALA Council. Didier is a past­president of the 
Michigan Library Association. 

Joyce Meldrem has been named library 
director of the Loras College Library in 
Dubuque, Iowa. 

Lynn Sutton has been named director of the 
Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest Uni­
versity. Previously, Sutton served as interim 
associate dean (1999–2001) and eventually 
associate dean (2002–2004) of the library 
system at Wayne State University in Detroit. 
While at Wayne State, Sutton also served as 
director of the David Adamany Undergradu­
ate Library and director of the Science and 
Engineering Library. 

Jeff Trzeciak, former director of Wayne State 
University’s Library Computing and Media 
Services, has been appointed associate dean 
of the Wayne State University Library System. 
Trzeciak brings to the Library System more 
than 18 years of library experience. He has 
spearheaded several successful grant propos­
als, including three Institute of Museum and 
Library Services at over $1 million, and was 
also named one of Library Journal’s 2004 
“Movers and Shakers.” 

Derik Badman has been named access 
service librarian for the Ambler Campus Li­
brary of Temple University. 

Lara Barrett has been appointed under­
graduate services librarian at the University 
of Washington Libraries. 

Jeff Barton is now manager of the library 
at the Brooklyn Historical Society. 

Barry N. Brown is now head, access and 
collections services division at the University 
of Montana­Missoula Libraries. 

Jennie Burroughs has been named gov­
ernment documents/reference librarian at the 
University of Montana­Missoula Libraries. 

Charles Cobine has been appointed as­
sistant electronic reference services librarian 
at the University of North Carolina­Chapel 
Hill. 

Samantha Schmehl Hines has been 
appointed outreach coordinator/reference 
librarian at the University of Montana­Mis­
soula Libraries. 

Alex R. Hodges is now reference and 
instruction librarian at American University. 

Jon Jablonski has been appointed to 
the Nancy and David Petrone MAP/GIS li­
brarian position at the University of Oregon 
Libraries. 

Deborah Nolan Lambert is now associ­
ate director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library 
at Wake Forest University. 

Beth Rowe has been appointed regional 
documents librarian at the University of North 
Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Sue Samson is now head, information 
and research services division at the Univer­
sity of Montana­Missoula Libraries. 

Mary Scanlon has joined Wake Forest 
University as reference librarian/business and 
economics librarian. 

Nicolette Schneider has been appointed 
reference and access services librarian in the 
Special Collections Research Center at Syra­
cuse University Library. 

Karen Williams is now associate univer­
sity librarian for academic programs at the 
University of Minnesota. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Don Kelsey retired from the University of 
Minnesota Libraries in June 2004 after nearly 
forty years of service. Kelsey held various 

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positions including assistant to the university 
librarian, preservation officer, and library 
space officer. He served in leadership roles 
in two large renovation projects and in the 
construction of the Elmer L. Andersen Library. 
He has been active in the Minnesota Library 
Association, the Research Libraries Group, 
and ALA’s Library Administration and Manage­
ment Association from which he received a 
certificate of appreciation for his outstanding 
contributions to the division and for promot­
ing effective facilities planning for libraries. 

Deaths 

Virginia Clark, former Kenyon College librar­
ian, has died. Clark joined the staff of the Ke­
nyon College library in 
1961. She later became 
the assistant editor for 
reviewing at the newly 
founded publication 
Choice: Books for College 
Libraries. She returned 
to Kenyon to work in 
the library but continued 
to work for Choice in 
various editorial capaci­
ties. After her retirement from Choice in Feb­
ruary 1994, Clark volunteered at The Women’s 
Library of London Metropolitan University. 
When in London, Clark performed with sev­
eral choral groups at major venues around the 
city. Clark was a member of the South Place 

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Virgina Clark 

Ethical Society and the Humanist Association 
of Connecticut, where she presented a paper 
on free thought and freethinkers in England as 
recently as July 2004. South Place Ethical Society 
bestowed on Clark the title of honorary assistant 
to the librarian in recognition of the research 
and assistance she provided the society. 

Daniel F. Kissane, 41, reference and instruc­
tion librarian at Milne Library, State University 
of New York, College at Oneonta, died unex­
pectedly November 19 from a heart attack. 
Kissane joined the Milne Library staff in 1997 as 
a systems librarian. He transferred to the refer­
ence department in 2001 where reference desk 
assistance and teaching were two of his main 
responsibilities. He shared in the teaching of 
the library’s credit course and taught course­
integrated classes in a variety of subject areas. 
He was involved with both state and national 
library associations. A member of the State 
University of New York Librarians Association, 
Kissane served as Milne’s elected delegate and 
was on the association’s Automation & Infor­
mation Technology Committee. As a member 
of the Young Adult Library Services Associa­
tion of the ALA, he served on the Outstanding 
Books for the College Bound Committee for 
two years. A member of ACRL’s Instruction 
Section, he participated on its Preconference 
Planning Chicago 2005 Committee. 

Margaret E. Monroe, 90, retired professor at 
the University of Wisconsin­Madison’s Library 
School, has died. Throughout Monroe’s dis­
tinguished career she served in professional 
leadership roles in New Jersey and Wisconsin 
and at the national level. She was president of 
the American Association of Library Schools 
and of ALA’s Adult Services Division, served 
twice on the ALA Council, and chaired the 
ALA Committee on Accreditation for master’s 
degree programs in library science. Monroe 
was known for her keen intellect, her rigorous 
scholarship and her commitment to library 
outreach services to adults and underserved 
groups. She was the author of four published 
books on public librarianship and a host of 
research reports and journal articles. 

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