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Ann­Christe Galloway P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s  

Barbara Ford, distinguished professor and 
director of the Mortenson Center for Inter­
national Library Programs at the University 
of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign Library, 
has been elected as a member of the Inter­
national Federation of Library Associations 
and Institutions (IFLA) governing board. 
Her term began in August and will continue 
through 2007. 

Ilene Rockman, editor of References Ser­
vices Review and manager of the Informa­
tion Competence Initiative for California 
State University’s Office of the Chancellor, 
has received the 2005 Library and Infor­
mation Science (LIS) Leading Editor Award 
from the Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. of 
the United Kingdom. 

Diane Dolbashian 

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

Diane Dolbashian was appointed head li­
brarian of the Juliette K. and Leonard S. Ra­

kow Research Library of 
the Corning Museum of 
Glass, the world’s library 
of record on glass and 
glassmaking. Dolbashi­
an joined the museum 
from Clark University 
in Worcester, Massachu­
setts, where she served 
as head of collections 
management. Her train­

ing and previous work experience includes 
library collection management, historic pres­
ervation, teaching, writing, research, and 
strategic planning. Dolbashian will oversee 

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the entire operation of the library, including 
library acquisitions and public outreach. 

Rosita Hopper has been named director of 
the Providence Campus Libraries for Johnson 
and Wales University. In her new position, 
Hopper is responsible 
for the administration 
of library services at the 
Downcity and Harborside 
Providence Campus librar­
ies. Hopper has been with 
the university for 13 years, 
starting as catalog librarian 
before being promoted to 
head of library technical 
services. She has been 
instrumental in implementing many signifi ­
cant changes that have occurred in library 
services over the past decade, in particular 
the automation of circulation services at the 
Harborside Campus facility. Prior to joining 
Johnson and Wales, Hopper was catalog li­
brarian at the Southern New England School 
of Law Library and catalog assistant at Boston 
College Law School Library. 

Terry S. Latour is the new dean of libraries at 
Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He previ­
ously served as director of library services at 
Delta State University. 

Bonnie MacEwan, has been named dean of 
libraries at Auburn University. She was previ­
ously dean for collections and scholarly com­
munication and codirector of digital scholarly 
publishing at Pennsylvania State University li­
braries. MacEwan joined the Penn State libraries 
in 1991, serving as the coordinator for collection 
development from 1991 to 1998 and as the dean 
for collections since 1998. Prior to her work at 
Penn State, MacEwan served as art, archaeology, 
and music librarian and chair of the collection 
development committee at the University of Mis­
souri libraries and as the Central Missouri State 
University humanities area librarian. 

Rosita Hopper 

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Fredrick Allen has been named digi­
tal services coordinator at the University of 
Hawai’i, Kapi’olani Community College Li­
brary in Honolulu, Hawaii. 

Malisa Anderson has been appointed 
business librarian for the Goizueta Business 
Library at Emory University. 

Avril Cunningham has been appointed 
library instruction coordinator in the California 
State Polytechnic University­Pomona Library. 

Lisa Forrest is now instructional technol­
ogy librarian in the E. H. Butler Library at Buf­
falo State College. 

Ken Fujiuchi has been named instruc­
tional technology librarian in the E. H. Butler 
Library at Buffalo State College. 

Keith Gresham has been appointed head 
of information and instruction services at the 
University of Vermont Libraries. 

Carol Hasegawa is now the reference li­
brarian at the University of Hawai’i, Kapi’olani 
Community College in Honolulu, Hawaii. 

Uta Hussong has joined the Albin O. 
Kuhn Library and Gallery faculty as refer­
ence and instruction librarian for the sci­
ences and engineering at the University of 
Maryland­Baltimore County. 

Ruth Landy has joined the Albin O. 
Kuhn Library and Gallery faculty as spe­
cial collections librarian at the University of 
Maryland­Baltimore County. 

Craig Likness is now director of col­
lection development for the University of 
Miami Libraries in Coral Gables, Florida. 

Michele Lubbers has been appointed 
digital services coordinator at Rodney A. 
Briggs Library at the University of Minne­
sota­Morris. 

Terra Mobley has been appointed music 
librarian at Duquesne University’s Gumberg 
Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Beth Moser has been appointed patron 
services librarian at St. Mary’s College of 
Maryland. 

Katie Nash is now special collections librari­
an and archivist at Belk Library, Elon University. 

Scott Phinney has accepted the position 
of music cataloger in the University of South 
Carolina’s Music Library. 

Carmelita Pickett has been appointed 
African American studies librarian and as­
sistant curator for the General Libraries of 
Emory University. 

Olivia Reinauer is now social sciences 
librarian at the University of Richmond Li­
braries. 

Shannon Shi has been appointed cata­
loging coordinator at Rodney A. Briggs Li­
brary at the University of Minnesota­Morris. 

Thomas E. White has been named uni­
versity archivist at Duquesne University’s 
Gumberg Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl­
vania. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Mary K. Delmont, archivist at Buffalo State 
College’s E. H. Butler Library, has retired after 
33 years of service. 

David Isaacson, humanities librarian at 
Western Michigan University’s (WMU) 
Waldo Library, has retired after 32 years of 
service. He worked his entire career as a 
librarian at WMU, first as general reference 
librarian and then as humanities librarian/ 
assistant head of reference from August 
1973 to January 2006. He has served as a 
member of the Notable Books Council of 

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David Isaacson 

ALA, has served as a 
member of many other 
committees and organi­
zations, and has given 
numerous talks about 
language, literature, 
and librarianship to 
various organizations. 
He is the author of 
numerous articles in 

library journals and contributions to books. 

Deon Knickerbock, interim dean of librar­
ies, has retired after more than 30 years of 
service to Clarion University of Pennsylva­
nia. 

Carolyn Cobb Oakley has retired from 
Cape Fear Community College after a 36­
year career in the North Carolina Commu­
nity College System (NCCCS). She began 
her career as a cataloger for the NCCCS in 
Raleigh, North Carolina. Later, she served 
as librarian, library coordinator, and direc­
tor of learning resources at Vance­Granville 
Community College in Henderson, North 
Carolina; department chair for learning 
resources at Wilson Technical Community 
College; and director of learning resourc­
es at Cape Fear Community College. She 
served twice as the president of the North 
Carolina Community College Learning Re­
sources Association (1991–92, 2000–01). 
And she has been active in ACRL and the 
North Carolina Library Association. During 
her career, she was involved in the planning 
and construction of four new or renovated 
library facilities. 

Carol J. Richards, associate director at Buf­
falo State College’s E. H. Butler Library, has 
retired after 31 years of service. 

D e a t h s  

Dorothy Nora Gallagher, retired director of 
the library of Adelphi University in Garden 

City, New York, died on June 2. Gallagher 
joined Adelphi in 1944 as circulation librarian 
and was appointed acting college librarian the 
following year. She served as the director of 
the library from 1946 until her retirement in 
1983. 

Wells Bradford Kormann, 51, division 
chief of the National Library Service (NLS) 
for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 
(which is division of the Library of Con­
gress), has died. During his ten years as 
chief of the materials development divi­
sion, Kormann chaired the Digital Audio 
Development Executive Committee, which 
is transferring audio books from analog to 
digital. He was also involved in the expan­
sion of a national volunteer project in which 
engineers repair equipment distributed by 
the NLS to the visually impaired. 

(“Advocating . . .” continued from page 591) 
is working hard to design and implement a 
strong grassroots academic library advocacy 
program. They will be offering a workshop at 
the 2006 ALA Annual Conference in New Or­
leans, as well as a toolkit for ACRL members. 
This process is modeled after the effective 
Academic and Research Library Campaign 
and, like this campaign, will be ongoing as 
we train folks to be advocates. 

I encourage you to look for our 2006 ALA 
program “The power of personal persuasion: 
Advocating for the academic library agenda 
from the frontlines.” Hope to see you there! 

Notes 
1. William M. Harris and Aubrey Thagard, 

“University­Based Planning: Faculty Advocacy 
Roles,” The Western Journal of Black Studies 
25, no.4 (2001): 189–93. 

2. Sandra Kaplan, “Advocacy as Teaching; 
The Teacher as Advocate,” Gifted Child Today 
26, no. 3 (Summer, 2003): 44–45. 

3. Cathy Collins Block and Richard Long, 
“Strong Voices for Literacy,” Reading Today 
21, no.5 (April/May 2004): 16. 

4. Kaplan, “Advocacy as Teaching; The 
Teacher as Advocate.” 

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