march06c.indd Ann­Christe Galloway P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Rajwant Singh Chilana, associate profes­ sor of library administration and South Asian Studies librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign, has been conferred with the 2005 Punjab National Librarian Award for his outstanding contributions to librarianship. Chilana has published six books, more than 35 research papers, and close to 20 book re­ views, and he has worked in various librar­ ies in the United States, Canada, and India. The award was presented to Chilana at the Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for the Advancement of Librarianship at the India In­ ternational Centre in New Delhi. Janice Simmons- Welburn A p p o i n t m e n t s Janice Simmons-Welburn has been named dean of the university library by Marquette University. Simmons­Welburn had been associate dean at the University of Arizona Libraries since 2003. Be­ tween 1990 and 2003, she held several posi­ tions at the University of Iowa Libraries, includ­ ing director of central public services, director of human resources and central processing, and head of information and instructional services. Ear­ lier, Simmons­Welburn held positions at New York University, the Georgia Institute of Tech­ nology, Indiana University, Princeton Univer­ sity, Indianapolis­Marian County Public Li­ brary, and Bishop College in Dallas, where 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. she began her professional career. Simmons­ Welburn is currently on the editorial board of portal: Libraries and the Academy and is vice chair/chair­elect of ACRL’s University Libraries Section. Marianne Afifi has been appointed associ­ ate dean of Oviatt Library at California State University­Northridge. Ron Brashear has joined the Chemical Heritage Foundation as head of the Othmer Library. Sam Byrd is now digital repository librar­ ian at Virginia Commonwealth University’s James Branch Cabell Library. Adriana Cuervo has been named assistant archivist for music and fine arts at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign. James Galbraith has been appointed head of collection management at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Linda Hasman has been appointed se­ nior assistant librarian in the Health Sciences Library at the University of Buffalo. Carissa Holler is now business and fi­ nance information librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign. Monica McCormick has been appointed to the new position of director of digital pub­ lishing at North Carolina State University. Anne C. Osterman has joined American University Library as reference and instruction librarian. Leslie Rios is collections management librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana­ Champaign. Anne E. Robbins has been named law acquisitions librarian at the University of Il­ linois at Urbana­Champaign. Margie Ruppel is the reference and in­ terlibrary loan librarian at the University of Southern Indiana. John Vickery has been appointed collec­ tion manager for the humanities and social sciences at North Carolina State University. March 2006 189 C&RL News Elizabeth Vihnanek has been named head of reference and research services at Old Dominion University. Nelson Ling-Sun Chou R e t i r e m e n t s Nelson Ling-Sun Chou, head of the East Asian Library at the Rutgers University Librar­ ies, has retired after 35 years of service at Rut­ gers and 44 years of service as a professional librarian. When the East Asian Library was established at Rutgers in 1970, Nelson became its first head. Over his ca­ reer, Nelson served as a reviewer for the Nation­ al Endowment for the Humanities, editor of a Chinese­language mono­ graph series on library and information science (published in Taipai in 1991), a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Information, Communication, and Library Science, co­ editor of the “Council of East Asian Libraries” newsletter, and chair of the council’s subcom­ mittee on library technology. Nelson was a visiting professor at the National Central Uni­ versity in Taiwan, a lecturer at Hunan Medical University and Zhejiang University in China, Advertisers AARP 176 ACM 161 ACRL 136 Annual Reviews 165 ARL 150, 155 Chemical Abstracts Service cover 2 Choice 183 Columbia University Press 187 EBSCO 135 Elsevier ScienceDirect cover 4 Modern Language Association 139 Project Muse 180 RBMS 191 Thomson Gale cover 3 and served on dissertation committees in the Rutgers School of Communication, Informa­ tion, and Library Science. John D. Haskell Jr., associate dean and director of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the College of William and Mary, has retired after a 41­year career in librarianship. For 27 years Haskell served in a variety of ad­ ministrative positions at William and Mary. He was the first library director (1965–69) and the first staff member appointed at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He compiled the Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire volumes of the Bibliogra­ phies of New England History series. He was a member of the ACRL Publications Commit­ tee (1979–83) and chair of the ACRL Library Development Officers Discussion Group (1994–96) and the History Section of RUSA (1999–2000). He is a trustee of the Manu­ script Society and has served as its president (1996–98). D e a t h s Jean Sayre, associate university librarian and director of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the Univer­ sity of Iowa, died Janu­ ary 28 after a lengthy illness. Sayre began her duties at Hardin in Jan­ uary 2002, after serving in administrative posi­ tions in health science libraries around the country, most recently as associate director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region. During her tenure at Hardin, and as an adjunct faculty member of the Colleges of Medicine and Nursing, Sayre reorganized the staff, administered a high­ profile grant that resulted in the creation of the Iowa Public Health Information Web site, spearheaded a major remodeling project, and Jean Sayre 190C&RL News March 2006 raised the profile of the library throughout the health campus. All of these efforts have strengthened the library’s role as the primary health information resource in Iowa and as a nationally recognized leader in innovation and service. Sayre was a respected and re­ vered colleague who took a special interest in acting as a mentor to new librarians. She held numerous offices within the Medical Library Association and was recently honored with an “Improving Our Workplace” award from the university, as well as a special citation from the governor honoring her “work for the state of Iowa.” (“Reviews” continued from page 185) sources for these topics of investigation. De­ pending on the topic, archives are available as far back as 1997. Site searching is available, allowing users to more easily locate topics of interest. Some projects provide more specialized search options; for example, the lobbying project allows searching by company, lobbyist, lob­ bying firm, or agency involved. The sitemap link provides a complete list of reports and resources. The center’s reporting strength lies in its continuing investigation of ongoing issues, with updates collected in a single thread. Topics discussed may evolve over a period of several years, yet this resource provides a single point for tracing the history of any given subject. This site is highly recommended for those interested in investigative journal­ ism and issues in contemporary poli­ tics.—Ford Schmidt, Willamette University, fschmidt@willamette.edu March 2006 191 C&RL News mailto:fschmidt@willamette.edu