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

Ann Hamilton, associate dean of the Zach 
S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern 
University, is the 2006 recipient of the South­
eastern Library Association’ (SELA) Rothrock 
Award. The award recognizes a librarian who 
has provided exceptional contributions to 
library development in the Southeast. The Ro­
throck Award was established in 1976 from the 
will of the late Mary Utopia Rothrock, who was 
one of SELA’s founders and the organization’s 
first president. Hamilton has served as SELA’s 
secretary, treasurer, vice­president and presi­
dent, and she is currently the organization’s 
immediate past president. She was president 
of the GLA and served on the boards of both 
the Alabama and Georgia Library Associations. 
In 2003, she received the Bob Richardson 
Award for Significant Contributions to the GLA. 
Hamilton is chair of the ALA Chapter Relations 
Committee, and later this year she will begin 
her second term as the GLA’s councilor on the 
ALA Governing Council. She has been active 
for a number of years in state and national 
chapters of ACRL. 

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

Kristine R. Brancolini has been appointed 
dean of university libraries at Loyola Mary­
mount University (LMU). She joins LMU from 
Indiana University (IU), where she was direc­
tor of the Digital Library Program. At IU she 
was responsible for developing many digital 
library collections and services, including the 
VARIATIONS digital music library. She spear­
headed numerous successful grant applica­
tions to the U.S. Department of Education, 
the National Endowment for the Humanities, 
the National Endowment of the Arts, and 

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the Institute of Museum and Library Services 
(IMLS). Most recently, she was coprincipal 
investigator on a $939,000 grant from IMLS to 
partner with the University of Illinois to create 
a research­based digital libraries curriculum. 
She has authored articles on digital libraries 
and multimedia collections, received a lead­
ership award from the Indiana State Library 
for her statewide collaboration, and held an 
adjunct faculty appointment at IU’s School of 
Library and Information Science. In more than 
23 years at IU, Brancolini served in numerous 
capacities, including film studies librarian and 
head of media and reserve services. 

Mary Heinzman has been named director 
of O’Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University 
in Davenport, Iowa. 

June Koelker has been named dean of 
Mary Couts Burnett Library at Texas Chris­
tian University (TCU) in Fort Worth. She 
served as interim dean for the past year. 
Koelker joined TCU in 198 as associate di­
rector of the library and has held numerous 
posts and responsibilities in the intervening 
years, including oversight of budget prepa­
ration, project management, system roll­
out, personnel, as well as aspects of library 
administrative services, technical services, 
and the development of the information 
commons. She has been a member of ALA 
since 1980 and active in the Library Admin­
istration and Management Association since 
1990 and is past treasurer of the Texas Li­
brary Association. 

Brenda S. Banks is now manager of 
SOLINET’s Academic Library Hurricane Re­
covery Project. 

Danielle Becker has been appointed ref­
erence and digital services librarian at South 
Dakota State University. 

Christopher H. Day is the new catalog­
ing and digital projects librarian at Providence 
College in Rhode Island. 

C&RL News October 2006  584 



Nancy Lucchese is now reference and 
instruction librarian at Marymount University 
in Arlington, Virginia. 

Celia Ross has joined Columbia College 
Chicago Library in the new position of library 
instructional design coordinator. 

Andrew Shuping has been appointed 
interlibrary loan and circulation services 
librarian at Mercer University’s Jack Tarver 
Library. 

Anna Bjar tmarsdottir Sveinbjor nsson 
has been appointed Nordic studies librarian 
at the University of Washington Libraries. 

Holley Tomren has been named elec­
tronic resources and metadata cataloger at 
the University of California­Irvine. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Susan Anderson, library director at St. Pe­
tersburg College, Florida, has retired after 16 
years of service. Anderson served as president 
of the Florida Library Association and served 
a term as the Florida state councilor to the 
ALA Council. She has been active in the Com­
munity and Junior College Library Section 
(CJCLS) of ACRL and most recently served 
on the Academic Library Survey Committee 
and the ACRL task force for media guidelines. 
She cochaired and participated in the CJCLS 
program on joint use libraries at the 2006 ALA 
Annual Conference. 

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Leland M. Park, library director at Davidson 
College (North Carolina) for 31 years and on 
the staff for 39 years, retired July 1. Park was 
only the third library director at Davidson in 
99 years. During his tenure, the E.H. Little Li­
brary was built, the music library completed, 
automation and online services added, and 
the collection tripled to more than 600,000. 
He served as president of the North Carolina 
Library Association, chair of the State Library 
Commission, chair of the LSCA Advisory Com­
mittee, editor of the Southeastern Librarian 
when it won the H. W. Wilson Library Peri­
odical Award, member of the editorial Board 
of CHOICE, member of SOLINET board, a 
founding board member of NC­LIVE, and 
cochair of the Local Arrangements Commit­
tee for the 11th ACRL National Conference in 
2003. He also served as a building planning 
and management consultant, and received 
the “Order of the Long Leaf Pine” from North 
Carolina Governor James G. Martin. 

Richard “Dick” Waddell, director at Embry­
Riddle Aeronautical University’s Hunt Library, 
retired in June 2006 after 21 years of service. 
During his tenure, he oversaw the move to a 
new facility and adopted the fi rst integrated 
library system. Under his leadership the 
library staff experienced dramatic growth, 
expanding from 18 full­time staff members 
to 40. Waddell was active in the ACRL­Florida 
Chapter for many years, holding offi ce sev­
eral times. He was also active in the Florida 
Library Association. Before becoming the 
director at the Hunt Library in 1985, he was 
the director at Virginia Intermont College 
for ten years. 

Jo Bell Whitlatch, 
associate dean of the 
San Jose State Univer­
sity Library, has retired 
after 33 years of ser­
vice. She was a mov­
ing force in planning 
and implementing the 
Dr. Martin Luther King, 
Jr. Library, a one­of­a­ Jo Bell Whitlatch 

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kind collaboration that combines the resourc­
es and collections of the university’s library 
with the city’s public library. In honor of her 
years of service, the Jo Bell Whitlatch His­
tory Endowment has been established. Dona­
tions to the endowment may be sent to San 
Jose State University, Advancement Offi ce, 
One Washington Square, San Jose, California 
95192­0257, and inquiries may be directed to 
alyssa.byrkit@sjsu.edu. 

Frederick G. Kilgour 

D e a t h s  

Frederick G. Kilgour, 92, founder of OCLC 
Online Computer Library Center, has died. 

Kilgour is widely rec­
ognized as one of the 
leading figures in 20th­
century librarianship 
for using computer 
networks to increase 
access to information 
in libraries around the 
world. At the dawn 
of library automation 
in the early 1970s, he 

founded OCLC Online Computer Library 
Center and led the creation of a library net­
work that today links 55,000 institutions in 
110 countries. In 1971, he developed a data­
base, WorldCat, that now contains more than 
70 million entries for books and other mate­
rials and more than 1 billion location listings 
for these materials in libraries around the 
world. Kilgour had been an academic librar­
ian and historian of science and technology 
at Harvard and Yale for 30 years when the 
Ohio College Association hired him in 1967 
to establish the world’s fi rst computerized 
library network, the Ohio College Library 
Center, on the campus of Ohio State Univer­
sity in Columbus. Under Kilgour’s leader­
ship, the nonprofit corporation introduced 
a shared cataloging system in 1971 for 54 
Ohio academic libraries. In 1990, he was 
named Distinguished Research Professor for 
the School of Information and Library Sci­

ence at the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill, and served on the faculty until 
is retirement in 2004. Kilgour was the author 
of 205 scholarly papers. He was the founder 
and first editor of the journal Information 
Technology and Libraries. In 1999, Oxford 
University Press published his Evolution of 
the Book. His other works include: Engineer­
ing in History; The Library of the Medical 
Institution of Yale College and its Catalogue 
of 1865; and the Library and Information 
Science CumIndex. In 1982, ALA presented 
him with Honorary Life Membership. 

Barbara K. Nelson, chair of the acquisitions 
department at Auburn University (AU), has 
died. Nelson joined the university as gifts and 
exchange librarian in 1978. She was named 
order librarian in 1979 and was appointed 
chair of the acquisitions department in 1998. 
She served as editor of the Christian Periodi­
cal Index for over a decade and received the 
Emily Russell Award for Outstanding Contri­
butions in the Area of Christian Librarianship 
in 2000. She served on and chaired a host 
of library committees, including more than 
a dozen search committees, and contributed 
more than 20 articles and papers to the litera­
ture of academic librarianship. She was also 
responsible for the selection of literature for 
the library’s Juvenile Collection, and shaped 
that collection during her tenure at AU. 

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Navigation on the site is straightforward 
and easy to use. The site offers both simple 
and advanced search options. The advanced 
search allows researchers to limit to a particu­
lar museum, and search by document type, 
section, and kilobyte size. Quick links allow 
for easy access to areas, including library and 
archive catalogues. 

Despite the currency issues, the func­
tionality of Civilization.ca and the schol­
arly resources it offers make the site 
suitable for undergraduates and research­
ers.—Krista Godfrey, McMaster University, 
godfrey@mcmaster.ca 

C&RL News October 2006  586 

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