dec06c.indd


Ann-Christe Galloway P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s  

Susan Brynteson, May Morris director of 
libraries at the University of Delaware, has 
been elected to a lifetime membership in the 
Corporation of Yaddo. Founded in 1900 by 
Katrina and Spencer Trask as a place to sus­
tain artists and promote their work to new 
audiences, Yaddo is governed by 91 mem­
bers, from which group it draws its Board of 
Directors. Brynteson has been chief librar­
ian at the University of Delaware since 1980. 
Volunteering her time for many years as 
Yaddo’s librarian and special advisor, Bryn­
teson was elected as a member of the Cor­
poration of Yaddo in 1995 and to the Yaddo 
Board of Directors in 1998. Under her care, 
Yaddo’s extensive archives of 20th­century 
literary and artistic correspondence, objects, 
manuscripts, sound recordings, and works 
of art were donated, through a major gift of 
the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund, to the 
New York Public Library, where they have 
been cataloged and are being organized for 
a major exhibition to take place in 2008. 

Marisa L. Conte, Wayne State Library and 
Information Science (LIS) Program gradu­
ate, was selected by the National Library of 
Medicine (NLM) as an associate fellow. The 
program is a one­year postgraduate training 
fellowship at the NLM in Bethesda, Maryland, 
with an optional second year program com­
ponent. The program is designed to prepare 
librarians for future leadership roles in health 
sciences libraries and in health services re­
search. The associate fellows are introduced 
to technologies and skills used in managing 
information at a national library. 

L. Susan (Suzi) Hayes, director of the Park­
land Library in Parkland, Florida, has been 
selected as the Wayne State University Li­

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. 

brary and Information Science Program’s 
2006 Distinguished Alumna of the Year. 
Over the years she has served as a project 
manager at Nova Southeastern University, 
associate director for automation at the Bro­
ward County Library, and as a librarian at 
Encore Computer Corporation, all in Fort 
Lauderdale, Florida. Hayes has been active 
in the Special Libraries Association (SLA), 
serving as SLA president from 1998 to 1999, 
Florida chapter president, and as chair and 
secretary of several divisions. She is a mem­
ber of Toastmasters International and the In­
formation Futures Institute and is an adjunct 
faculty member in the School of Library and 
Information Science at the University of 
Florida. 

Kathryn P. Johnson, Wayne State Uni­
versity Library and Information Science 
Program graduate student, was named to 
participate in the Association of Research Li­
braries (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse 
Workforce. Funded by the Institute of Mu­
seum and Library Services (IMLS) and ARL 
member libraries, the Initiative to Recruit a 
Diverse Workforce seeks to attract students 
from underrepresented groups to careers in 
academic and research libraries. The Initia­
tive consists of three components over a 
two­year timeframe: a stipend award of up 
to $10,000; an ongoing mentoring relation­
ship; and leadership development training 
held in conjunction with ALA’s Midwinter 
Meeting. Johnson is a member of the IMLS 
“Recruiting and Educating Librarians for the 
21st Century” grant cohort at Wayne State, 
which is targeted to recruit and train librar­
ians in the field of “digital librarianship.” 

Connie Capers Thorson, professor emer­
ita at the University of New Mexico, has re­
cently returned from lecturing as a Fulbright 
Scholar at the Belarusian State University 
of Culture in Minsk, Belarus. Thorson lec­
tured on library management and library 

C&RL News December 2006  742 



literacy as well as on some specifi c aspects 
of American culture—literature and culture 
of the American southwest, higher educa­
tion in American culture, and American and 
English language usage. 

Ewa Barczyk 

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

Ewa Barczyk has been named director 
of the University of Wisconsin­Milwaukee 
(UWM) Libraries, having previously served 
as interim director for three years. Since ar­
riving at UWM Libraries in 1985, she has 

held several posi­
tions, including as­
sociate director, assis­
tant director both for 
collection manage­
ment and for public 
services, and head of 
interlibrary loan. Be­
fore that, she worked 
as adult reference li­
brarian at the Shore­

wood (WI) Public Library (1983–85), and in 
the libraries of Yale University (1978–83). 
Barczyk’s professional affi liations include 
ACRL, Wisconsin Library Association, Wis­
consin Association of Academic Libraries, 
American Association for the Advance­
ment of Slavic Studies, Wisconsin Women 
in Higher Education Leadership, and Polish 
Institute of Arts and Science. 

Shannon Van Kirk has been named director 
of the library at Blue Mountain Community 
College in Pendleton, Oregon. 

Brooke Billman has been appointed 
education and outreach librarian at the Hardin 
Library for the Health Sciences at the Univer­
sity of Iowa Libraries, 

Larry Boyer has been named director 
of academic library services at East Carolina 
University. 

Jeremy Brett has joined the archives 
staff at the University of Wisconsin­Milwau­

kee Libraries as assistant university archivist 
(records manager). 

Tom Brittnacher has been appointed 
the new GIS specialist in the American Geo­
graphical Society Library at the University of 
Wisconsin­Milwaukee Libraries. 

Rachel Garza Car reón has been ap­
pointed recruitment and outreach librarian, 
human resources, at the University of Iowa­
Iowa City. 

Michael S. Crispin has been appointed 
sound recordings librarian at the University of 
Washington­Seattle’s Music Library and Music 
Learning Center. 

Shevon Desai is now social sciences/ 
humanities librarian at the University of 
Michigan. 

Ana Dubnjakovic has been appointed 
music librarian at University of Louisville’s 
Dwight Anderson Music Library. 

Ann Dutton Ewbank has joined Fletcher 
Library at Arizona State University’s West 
campus as liaison librarian to the College of 
Teacher Education and Leadership. 

Ralph B. Gabbard has been appointed 
director of public programs at Fletcher Li­
brary on the West campus of Arizona State 
University. 

Janet Hack has been appointed reference 
librarian at the University of Maryland­Balti­
more County. 

Rachel I. Howard has been appointed 
digital initiatives librarian at the University 
of Louisville Libraries. 

Jonathan Koffel has been appointed 
education and outreach librarian at the Hardin 
Library for the Health Sciences at the Univer­
sity of Iowa Libraries. 

Diane Kolosionek has been appointed 
reference and instruction librarian at Cleve­
land State University Library. 

Kimberly Kraus has been named admin­
istrative services librarian at the University of 
Maryland­Baltimore County. 

Lynn D. Lampert is now chair of the ref­
erence and instructional services department 
at California State University­Northridge. 

Allison P. Leaming joined Fletcher 
Library at Arizona State University’s West 

December 2006  743 C&RL News 



campus as liaison librarian to the School of 
Global Management and Leadership. 

Sara Marrin has joined the L. Douglas 
Wilder Library at Virginia Union University as 
catalog librarian. 

Robert H. McDonald has been named 
project manager for the Chronopolis Project at 
the San Diego Supercomputer Center. 

Joyce Miller, reference and instruction 
librarian at Adirondack Community College, 
has been promoted to professor. 

Edward Miner, international studies bibli­
ographer, has been appointed director of the 
African Studies Program at the University of 
Iowa­Iowa City. 

Paul Newman has been named intellectual 
property rights specialist at the University of 
Michigan. 

Lisa Peet joined the staff of the Rare Book 
and Manuscript Library at Columbia University 
as a library specialist I. 

Kenneth Raskin joined the acquisitions 
accounting staff as a library specialist II at 
Columbia University. 

Christopher Rennie is now digital con­
version production manager at the University 
of Michigan. 

Latisha M. Reynolds has been appointed 
reference librarian in the University of Louis­
ville Libraries. 

Robert A. Smith has been appointed as­
sistant head of systems at the Linda Hall Library 
of Science, Engineering and Technology. 

Michael A. Thornton has been appointed 
to a reference/media services residency posi­
tion in the University of Louisville Libraries. 

Linda Walton has been appointed associ­
ate university librarian/director, Hardin Library 
for the Health Sciences at the University of 
Iowa­Iowa City. 

Eric E. Ward has been named market­
ing coordinator/reference librarian at the 
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering 
and Technology. 

LaTanya West has been appointed circu­
lation systems librarian at the University of 
Maryland­Baltimore County. 

Mary White has been appointed education 
and outreach librarian at the Hardin Library 

for the Health Sciences at the University of 
Iowa Libraries. 

Zhongqin Yang has been appointed as­
sistant serials and electronic resources librar­
ian at the University of Maryland­Baltimore 
County. 

Retirements 

Rachel Doggett, curator, has retired from 
the Folger Shakespeare Library after nearly 
40 years of service. Doggett began work­
ing at the Folger in 1967 as an accessions 
assistant and was appointed the Andrew W. 
Mellon curator of books and exhibitions in 
1990. For the next 16 years, she shaped an 
exhibition program characterized by careful 
research, scholarly exhibition text, respect for 
the collection, and award­winning catalogs. 
Ten Folger exhibition catalogs have won fi f­
teen awards since 1997, with modest resourc­
es and minimum staffing. Doggett made her 
mark with her first major exhibition—New 
World of Wonders—which in 1992 commem­
orated the 500th anniversary of Christopher 
Columbus’s arrival in America—and, will 
conclude her work at the library in prepa­
ration for another anniversary exhibition, 
“Shakespeare in American Life,” which will 
celebrate the Folger’s 75th year. 

Advertisers
AARP 680 
Annual Reviews 745 
Archival Products 674 
ARL 701, 739 
Choice 702 
CISTI cover 3 
EBSCO 675 
Elsevier Scientific Direct  663
  College Edition 
Excelsior College 697 
Innovative Interfaces cover 4 
John Wiley 664 
Library Technology Alliance 683 
Nature Publishing cover 2 
Rittenhouse Books 667 

C&RL News December 2006  744