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

Andrew Pace,
 North
 Carolina
 State
 Uni­
versity
 Libraries’
 head
 of
 systems,
 has
 been

named
a
2006
Frye
Leadership
Institute
Fel­
low.
 The
 Frye
 Leadership
 Institute
 provides

an
 intensive
 two­week
 residential
 program

held
in
early
June
for
faculty,
librarians,
and

university
 information
 technology
 profes­
sionals
who
aspire
to
more
signifi
cant
lead­
ership
roles.
A
frequent
national
speaker
on

information
technology
topics,
Pace
serves
as

director­at­large
for
the
Library
and
Informa­
tion
Technology
Association
Board
and
as
a

columnist
for
American
Libraries.


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

Susan S. Berteaux has
 been
 appointed
 di­
rector
 of
 the
 Massachusetts
 Maritime
 Acad­
emy
Library.
Berteaux
had
been
the
head
of

the
Science
and
Technology
Libraries
of
Syr­
acuse
 University.
 Between
 1995
 and
 2002,

she
 held
 several
 positions
 at
 the
 Scripps

Institution
 of
 Oceanography
 Library
 at
 the

University
 of
 California­San
 Diego;
 earlier,

Berteaux
held
positions
at
the
Woods
Hole

Oceanographic
Institution
Library.
Berteaux’

professional
 contributions
 include
 numer­
ous
 articles
 and
 presentations
 on
 library

management,
user
education
and
outreach,

library
 services,
 and
 staff
 training.
 She
 has

also
been
an
active
participant
in
and
past­
president
of
the
International
Association
of

Aquatic
 and
 Marine
 Science
 Libraries
 and

Information
Centers.


Diane M. Nichols
 is
 now
 associate
 dean
 for

libraries
operations
and
director
of
Ekstrom
Li­
brary
at
the
University
of
Louisville
Libraries.


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Rachel Borchardt has
 been
 appointed

science
librarian
for
the
General
Libraries
at

Emory
University.


Leslie Horner Button
 has
 been
 appointed

associate
 director
 of
 collection
 services
 at

the
 University
 of
 Massachusetts­Amherst

Libraries.


Diana Delgado has
 been
 named
 head

of
 access
 services
 at
 the
 Samuel
 J.
 Wood

Library
 and
 C.V.
 Starr
 Biomedical
 Informa­
tion
 Center
 at
 the
 Weill
 Medical
 College
 of

Cornell
University.


David C. Fowler has
 been
 appointed

electronic
resources
librarian
at
the
Univer­
sity
of
Oregon­Eugene
Libraries.


Bella Karr Gerlich
 was
 appointed
 associate

university
 librarian
 at
 Georgia
 College
 and

State
University.


Karen Kuhn
is
the
new
resource
acquisitions

management
 librarian
 at
 Baker
 College
 in

Flint,
Michigan.


Melissa A. Laning
is
now
associate
dean

for
 assessment,
 personnel
 and
 research
 at

the
University
of
Louisville
Libraries.


Emily J. Lynema has
 been
 named
 sys­
tems
 librarian
 for
 digital
 projects
 at
 North

Carolina
State
University.


Elizabeth L. Mengel is
 now
 head
 of

collection
 management
 at
 Johns
 Hopkins

University.


Anne C. Moore has
 been
 appointed

associate
director
of
user
services
at
the
Univer­
sity
of
Massachusetts­Amherst
Libraries.


Carrie Newsom
 is
 the
 new
 assistant

university
 librarian
 in
 the
 Marston
 Science

Library
at
the
University
of
Florida.


Darby C. Orcutt
is
now
senior
collection

manager
for
humanities
and
social
sciences

at
North
Carolina
State
University.


Suzy Szasz Palmer
 is
 now
 associate

dean
for
collections,
preservation
and
digi­
tal
 initiatives
 at
 the
 University
 of
 Louisville

Libraries.


Sue Peacock has
been
named
reference/in­
struction
librarian
and
coordinator
of
electronic

resources
at
Columbia
College
in
Chicago.


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Emily Prather has
 joined
 Georgia
 Col­
lege
 and
 State
 University
 Library
 as
 mono­
graphs
cataloger.


Michael T. Ryan
 has
 been
 appointed
 di­
rector
of
Columbia
University’s
Rare
Book
and

Manuscript
Library.


Maxine G. Schmidt
 has
 been
 appointed

science
 and
 engineering
 reference
 services

librarian
in
the
Integrated
Sciences
and
En­
gineering
 Library
 of
 the
 University
 of
 Mas­
sachusetts­Amherst.


Katherine Skinner has
 been
 appointed

digital
programs
team
leader
for
the
General

Libraries
of
Emory
University.


Tonia Sutherland has
 been
 appointed

research
 library
 resident
 in
 the
 Du
 Bois

Library
 of
 the
 University
 of
 Massachusetts­
Amherst.


D e a t h s  

Page Ackerman,
 93,
 former
 University
 of

California­Los
Angeles
(UCLA)
university
li­
brarian,
 has
 died.
 She
 served
 as
 university

librarian
(1973–77)
and
was
the
fi
rst
woman

in
the
United
States
to
head
such
a
large
and

complex
 library
 system.
 Ackerman
 joined

UCLA
 in
 1949
 from
 the
 Union
 Theological

Seminary
in
Richmond,
Va.,
where
she
had

been
 an
 assistant
 librarian
 since
 1945.
 She

was
 hired
 as
 a
 reference
 librarian
 to
 serve

needs
of
students
and
faculty
in
the
School

of
 Social
 Welfare.
 In
 1954
 Ackerman
 was

appointed
assistant
university
librarian,
with

responsibility
for
personnel
and
budget,
and

in
 1965
 she
 became
 associate
 university
 li­
brarian.
 She
 became
 university
 librarian
 in

1973,
a
position
she
held
until
her
retirement

in
1977.
Ackerman’s
main
focus
was
on
staff

development
and
personnel
administration.

She
was
a
leader
in
developing
the
library’s

innovative
 administrative
 network,
 which

became
 a
 model
 for
 library
 management

systems
across
the
country,
and
she
played

a
key
role
in
getting
the
UCLA
Library
staff

covered
by
the
public
employees
retirement

system.
 While
 she
 was
 UCLA’s
 university


librarian,
 Ackerman
 became
 very
 involved

with
 the
 Association
 of
 Research
 Libraries

(ARL).
 Both
 during
 her
 years
 at
 UCLA
 and

following
her
retirement,
she
served
ARL
in

a
number
of
capacities,
including
as
the
fi
rst

woman
 on
 its
 Board
 of
 Directors.
 She
 re­
ceived
a
Distinguished
Career
Citation
from

ACRL
in
1989.


Ross Atkinson, 60,
 associate
 university
 li­
brarian
for
collections
at
Cornell
University,

has
 died.
 Atkinson’s
 body
 of
 scholarly
 and

theoretical
 writing
 on
 collection
 manage­
ment
and
scholarly
communication
is
among

the
most
influential
and
throught­provoking

in
the
field.
Prior
to
joining
Cornell
in
1988,

Atkinson
 worked
 at
 Northwestern
 Univer­
sity
 (1977–83)
 and
 was
 assistant
 university

librarian
 for
 collection
 development
 at
 the

University
 of
 Iowa.
 Atkinson
 played
 a
 ma­
jor
 role
 in
 establishing
 Cornell’s
 D­Space,

an
online
repository.
He
was
named
ACRL’s

Academic/Research
Librarian
of
the
Year
in

2003.


Paul Mercer Cousins Jr., 72,
 retired
 Em­
ory
 University
 librarian,
 has
 died.
 Cousins

joined
 Emory
 in
 1960

and
retired
in
1992
af­
ter
serving
in
a
variety

of
high­level
positions

in
 serials,
 circulation,

and
 administration.

During
 his
 career
 at

Emory,
he
coordinated

efforts
 to
 apply
 new

machine
 techniques

to
 library
 operations

by
developing
the
fi
rst

punch
 card
 automated
 system
 for
 acquisi­
tions
 and
 was
 involved
 in
 the
 move
 to
 an

online
 catalog
 at
 Emory.
 He
 also
 planned

the
move
of
the
collections
and
operations

from
the
original
Candler
Library
to
the
new

Woodruff
Library
in
1969,
a
building
which

he
helped
design.
His
positions
included
as­
sociate
university
librarian,
assistant
director

of
 libraries
 (serving
 for
 one
 year
 as
 acting

director),
 associate
 director
 of
 libraries,
 and


Paul Mercer Cousins Jr. 

April 2006  267 C&RL News 



finally,
 director
 of
 fiscal
 and
 administrative

services.


Wayne Gossage, library
 director,
 manage­
ment
 consultant,
 entrepreneur,
 and
 execu­
tive
 recruiter
 in
 the
 New
 York
 metropolitan

area
 from
 1950
 to
 2003,
 has
 died.
 Gossage

worked
 in
 public
 libraries
 in
 East
 Orange,

New
 Jersey,
 and
 Levittown,
 New
 York,
 be­
fore
serving
as
director
of
the
Warner
Library

in
 Tarrytown
 NY
 (1955–1963);
 as
 assistant

director
of
Teachers
College
Library,
Colum­
bia
 University
 (1963–67);
 and
 as
 director
 of

Bank
 Street
 College
 of
 Education
 Library

(1967–80).
He
served
on
several
alumni
and

professional
organizations,
notably
as
an
ac­
tive
member
of
the
New
York
Library
Associ­
ation
and
ALA;
trustee
of
the
Harvard
Library

NYC
 (1978–2000);
 and
 Board
 advisor,
 Pratt

Institute
 School
 of
 Information
 and
 Library

Sciences
(1988–2001).
Beginning
in
1983,
he

was
the
first
executive
search
consultant
for

directors
 of
 public
 library
 systems
 and
 for

university
deans
of
libraries.
In
1980,
Wayne

Gossage
and
Muriel
Regan
formed
Gossage

Regan
Associates
(now
Gossage
Sager
Asso­
ciates,
Inc.)
for
library
management
consult­
ing,
which
also
was
the
first
library
personnel

firm
specializing
in
temporary
services.


John P. McGowan, 79,
 retired
 university
 li­
brarian
at
Northwestern
University,
has
died.

McGowan
was
known
for
leading
Northwest­
ern’s
 library
 from
 a
 traditional
 repository
 of


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books
to
a
library
of
automation
and
informa­
tion
technology.
In
1951,
McGowan
became

a
librarian
in
New
York
University’s
College

of
 Engineering,
 and
 later
 joined
 Northwest­
ern
 in
 1956
 as
 librarian
 of
 its
 Technological

Institute.
In
1959
he
left
Northwestern
to
be­
come
library
director
at
the
Franklin
Institute

in
Philadelphia;
he
returned
to
Northwestern

in
 1966
 as
 associate
 university
 librarian.
 He

was
later
promoted
to
university
librarian
in

1971,
serving
in
that
position
until
he
retired

in
1992.
McGowan
was
the
1989
ACRL
Aca­
demic/Research
Librarian
of
the
Year.


(“The
power
of
persuasion,”
cont.
from
page


229)


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 66,
 no.
 8
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 2006,


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3.
 Camila
 Alire,
 “President’s
 Page:
 Mes­
sage
 from
 Camila,”
 ACRL,
 2005.
 Ameri­
can
 Library
 Association.
 1
 March
 2006,

www.ala.org/ala/acrl/presidentspage

/presidentspageacrl.htm.


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continued
from
page
261)


tion,
date,
or
event.
An
additional
means
of

access
is
through
the
teacher
resource
pages,

where
curricular
material
is
provided
for
fi
ve

well­designed
thematic
lesson
plans
that
are

designed
to
work
with
the
digital
collection

while
delving
further
into
such
issues
as
im­
migration,
 child
 labor,
 and
 domestic
 work.

The
homepage
features
a
changing
display
of

images
and
diary
entries
and
related
resources

that
include
several
of
Harvard’s
digitization

partners,
such
as
the
Library
of
Congress.


Women
 Working,
 1800­1930,
 is
 an
 ex­
tensive,
 subject­based
 collection
 of
 unique

and
 rare
 items
 that
 is
 well­designed,
 easily

accessible,
 and
 thoroughly
 fascinating.
 In

its
 depth,
 breadth,
 and
 design,
 which
 is
 as

informative
as
it
is
educational,
it
is
a
model

for
other
digital
collections.—Linda
Frederik­
sen,
 Washington
 State
 University
 Vancouver,

frederik@vancouver.wsu.edu


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