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

SOLINET, a nonprofit membership organi­
zation serving more than 2,600 libraries of 
all types and sizes in ten Southeastern states 
and the Caribbean, has elected fi ve members 
to the board of directors and two delegates 
to the OCLC Members Council. The new 
board members are: Connie McCarthy, 
dean of University Libraries, College of Wil­
liam and Mary, VA; Lynn Sutton, director, Z. 
Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest Univer­
sity, NC; Laura Davidson, dean of Library 
Information Services, Meredith College, NC; 
Kay Wall, university librarian, University of 
Southern Mississippi; Charles Brown, di­
rector of libraries, Public Library of Charlotte 
and Mecklenburg Count, NC. The SOLINET 
Delegates to OCLC Members Council are: 
Kathleen Imhoff, executive director and 
chief executive officer, Lexington Public Li­
brary, KY, and Elsie Stephens Weather, 
dean of library and media services, Virginia 
State University. 

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

Steven Bowers has been appointed the new 
director of the Detroit Area Library Network 
(DALNET). Hosted at Wayne State Univer­
sity since 1985, DALNET includes hospital, 
private academic libraries, community col­
leges, special libraries such as the DIA and 
the Henry Ford, the Detroit Public library 
system, and Wayne State University Librar­
ies. DALNET members collectively serve a 
region of four million people. Bowers has 
been at Wayne State since 2005, serving 
first as systems librarian and later as interim 
director of DALNET. The Wayne State Uni­
versity Library System consists of the uni­

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versity’s five libraries: The David Adamany 
Undergraduate Library, the Purdy/Kresge Li­
brary, the Shiffman Medical Library, the Ar­
thur Neef Law Library and the Science and 
Engineering Library, the Library and Infor­
mation Science Program, and the Offi ce for 
Teaching and Learning. 

Michael D. Miller has 
been appointed dean 
of library services at 
Cal Poly Kennedy Li­
brary. Currently serving 
as director of the four 
Arts and Engineering 
Libraries and interim 
director of the three 
Health Sciences Librar­
ies at the University of Michigan, Miller will 
succeed Hiram Davis, who retired in June af­
ter 10 years of service to Cal Poly. Miller will 
begin his new position effective August 14. 

Kenley Neufeld has been appointed as li­
brary director for Santa Barbara City College 
(SBCC). Neufeld has served as the technol­
ogy librarian at SBCC for the past year and 
was the instructional services librarian at 
Fresno City College from 2001–2005. 

Sarah Pritchard has been appointed the 
Charles Deering McCormick university li­
brarian at Northwestern University. 

Elizabeth Bowman has been appointed 
as the faculty outreach and collection develop­
ment librarian at Santa Barbara City College. 

Catherine Car son joined Columbia 
University’s Rare Book and Manuscript 
Library as an archivist for the Amnesty 
International USA collection in the Center 
for Human Rights Documentation and 
Research. 

Steve Connaghan has been appointed 
associate director for library technology at 
the Catholic University of America. 

Michael Miller 

C&RL News July/August 2006  442 



Carl J. Danis has been appointed col­
lection development/electronic resources 
librarian at the University of North Carolina­
Pembroke. 

Jeffrey Desannoy has been appointed 
reference and instruction librarian at Alverno 
College Library. 

Gerald (Jay) Gaidmore has been ap­
pointed university archivist at Brown Uni­
versity Library. 

Amy Harris has been appointed library in­
struction coordinator and reference librarian at 
the University of North Carolina­Greensboro. 

Anthony C. Holderied has joined the 
staff of the Sampson­Livermore Library at the 
University of North Carolina­Pembroke as 
instructional services/reference librarian. 

Chris Kemp is now head of digital initia­
tives at Boatwright Memorial Library at the 
University of Richmond. 

Jack “Jay” Koenig has joined Texas A&M 
University library staff as metadata librarian. 

Elizabeth (Beth) Blakesley Lindsay has 
been appointed as the assistant director for 
public services and outreach for Washington 
State University Libraries. 

Cathy Miesse has been named assistant 
dean for technical services and outreach at 
Loyola University, Chicago. 

Michael Napora has been appointed 
associate dean for library services and collec­
tions at Loyola University, Chicago. 

Elizabeth M. Peterson has been ap­
pointed humanities librarian/literature at the 
University of Oregon Libraries in Eugene. 

M a r k  P h i l l i p s o n j o i n e d  C o l u m b i a  
University’s Columbia Center for New Media 
Teaching and Learning as the coordinator of 
teaching, learning, and library services. 

Bennett Ponsford has been appointed 
digital services librarian at Texas A&M Uni­
versity Libraries. 

Cynthia E. Saylor has been appointed 
assistant dean for research services and 
systems at the University of North Carolina­
Pembroke. 

Dolores Skowronek has been appointed 
reference and instruction librarian at Alverno 
College. 

Paul Soderdahl has been appointed to the 
position of director, library information tech­
nology at the University of Iowa Libraries. 

Susan F. Whitt has been appointed as­
sistant dean for collection management and 
acquisitions at the University of North Caro­
lina­Pembroke. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

David F. Bishop, university librarian at 
Northwestern University, will retire in Au­
gust 2006. During his 14­year tenure, he led 
the library through a signifi cant expansion, 
increasing collections from 3.6 million to 
4.4 million volumes, increasing the total an­
nual budget more than $10 million to $25.6 
million, and doubling the materials budget 
from $5 million to $11.2 million. He also em­
braced new technologies to expand student 
and faculty access to library resources. 

Frederick Lynden has retired from Brown 
University. Lynden held positions at the Uni­
versity of California­Berkeley and Stanford 
University before com­
ing to Brown as assis­
tant university librarian 
for technical services in 
1977. He later held the 
position of associate 
university librarian for 
technical services and 
director, scholarly com­
muncations and library 
researcher. He has spoken at many national 
and international meetings of ALA, IFLA, and 
ACRL. He served the profession as the presi­
dent of ACRL’s New England chapter, chair 
of ALA’s International Relations Round Table, 
chair of the Resources Section of the Asso­
ciation for Library Collections and Technical 
Services, and as member of the IFLA Stand­
ing Committees on Statistics and Serial Pub­
lications. He also chaired and served on nu­
merous committees such as the ALA Awards 
Committee, the Nijhoff Awards Jury, and the 

Frederick Lynden 

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International Relations Round Table Program 
Committee. He will move to St. Petersburg, 
Russia for retirement. 

David Rich has retired from the Brown Uni­
versity Library after 36 years. Rich fi rst came 
to the library as an intern from 1966­1971 
and returned in 1976 as special collections 
cataloger. During his many years at Brown, 
he provided outstanding service to the li­
brary and the university community and was 
active in many professional organizations 
including ALA, SLA, (British) Library Asso­
ciation, the American Statistical Association, 
and the International Association for Statisti­
cal Computing. 

Arthur P. Young, dean of university librar­
ies, Northern Illinois University, has retired 
after a 37­year career in librarianship. Young 
was active in various organizations at the 
national, regional, and state levels. He has 
served on editorial boards of four library sci­
ence journals and has served as the chair 
of the ACRL Publications in Librarianship 
editorial board and the Beta Phi Mu Mono­
graph Series. Scholarly contributions include 
200 publications, among them 8 books and 
more than 40 refereed articles. 

D e a t h s  

Patricia S. Henderson, 55, associate dean 
for collections services at the University of 
Alabama (UA), died on May 6, 2006 in Tus­

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caloosa. She joined UA Libraries in 1980 and 
spent most of her career working in collec­
tion development. Throughout her career, 
Henderson had been active in professional 
associations at the state and national levels. 
She served on committees in ACRL, Library 
Administration and Management Associa­
tion, and Association for Library Collections 
and Technical Services, including its Collec­
tion Management and Development Sec­
tion. 

Michael F. Kelly, 68, recently retired dean 
of libraries at the University of Texas­San 
Antonio (UTSA), died on May 17, 2006. He 
worked with San Antonio leaders to develop 
the library’s special collections and to make 
UTSA the repository of choice for the papers 
of area authors and organizations. A mem­
ber of ALA and the Texas Library Associa­
tion, he chaired the Council of Research and 
Academic Libraries in the San Antonio area 
from 1985­2000 and the Council of UT Sys­
tem Libraries from 1990­2002. 

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