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

James G. Neal 

James G. Neal, vice president for information 
services and university librarian at Columbia 
University, has been elected vice chair of the 

Board of Directors for 
the National Informa­
tion Standards Organi­
zation (NISO). He will 
assume the chair re­
sponsibilities effective 
July 2007. NISO fos­
ters the development 
and maintenance of 
standards that facilitate 
the creation, persistent 

management, and effective interchange of 
information so that it can be trusted for use in 
research and learning. Neal previously served 
as dean of university libraries at Indiana 
University and Johns Hopkins University. He 
has served as president of the Association of 
Research Libraries, on ALA’s Executive Board, 
as chair of the Board of the Research Libraries 
Group, and on the Board of the Freedom to 
Read Foundation, among numerous profes­
sional and leadership assignments. He is 
widely active in national and international 
forums in the areas of copyright and schol­
arly communication. In 1997, he received the 
ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the 
Year award. He has served as a member of 
the NISO Board since 2004. 

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

Paul Albert has been appointed digital 
services librarian at the Samuel J. Wood Li­
brary and C.V. Starr Biomedical Information 
Center at the Weill Medical College of Cornell 
University in New York City. 

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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. 

Kristin Andrews has been appointed 
research librarian for French, Italian, and 
Classics at the University of California­Irvine 
Libraries. 

Susan Ariew has been named research 
services and collection librarian for educa­
tion at the University of South Florida Tampa 
Library. 

Jonathan Blackburn has been promoted 
to Florida State University Libraries’ Web 
development librarian. 

Sarah Buck-K achaluba is now hu­
manities librarian at Florida State University 
Libraries. 

Bridget Burke is the new head of special 
collections and archives at George Mason 
University. 

Haiyun Cao is the new assistant university 
librarian in the cataloging and metadata de­
partment at the University of Florida’s George 
A. Smathers Library. 

Eileen Chandhoke has been named 
physical sciences liaison librarian at George 
Mason University. 

Michele Crump, university librarian, 
is the new interim director for technology 
services the University of Florida’s George 
A. Smathers Library. 

Barbara DeFelice has been named di­
rector of the digital resources program at 
Dartmouth College Library. 

Stephen Dew has been appointed col­
lections and scholarly resources coordinator 
at the University of North Carolina­Greens­
boro. 

Kristine Ferry has been appointed re­
search librarian for business at the University 
of California­Irvine Libraries. 

Kirill Fesenko has been named head of 
the Carolina Digital Library at the University 
of North Carolina­Chapel Hill Library. 

Jason Fleming is the new assistant uni­
versity librarian, technical support librarian in 
the acquisitions and licensing department at 
the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers 
Library. 

March 2007  201 C&RL News 



2007 marks the 
40th anniversary of 
Ashgate Publishing 
For the past 40 years Ashgate 
has proudly been a leading 
independent publisher committed 
to providing the library market with 
the finest academic scholarship.  
From our humble beginnings, 
Ashgate now publishes more 
than 700 new books annually, 
representing the best academic research 
and professional practice from around the world. 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank 
the countless librarians and scholars who have 
added Ashgate product to your shelves over 
the past four decades. Without your support, 
this milestone would not have been reached.  
We are proud of this achievement and look 
forward to serving the global academic 
marketplace for many years to come.  

Visit the Ashgate display at the Association 
for College and Research Libraries meeting 
in Baltimore. All displayed titles will be offered 
at a 50% discount and Ashgate Publisher, 
Dymphna Evans, would welcome to opportunity 
to talk with you.   

Mining Environmental Policy 
Comparing Indonesia and the USA 
Michael S. Hamilton 
December 2005. 310 pages 
978 0 7546 4493 4. Hardback. $124.95 
Winner – ‘Best Book Award, 2004–2005’ from 
the American Society for Public Administration’s 
section on Public Administration Research 

Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) 
Vision and Landscape 
Edited by William Vaughan, 
Elizabeth E. Barker and Colin Harrison 
Includes 233 color illustrations. A Lund Humphries book 
September 2005. 256 pages 
978 0 85331 932 0. Hardback. $80.00 
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 

Strategic Preemption 
US Foreign Policy 
and the Second Iraq War 
Robert J. Pauly, Jr. and Tom Lansford 
September 2004. 182 pages 
978 0 7546 3975 6. Hardback. $99.95 
978 0 7546 4357 9. Paperback. $34.95 
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 

While Spring and Summer Sang 
Thomas Beecham and the Music 
of Frederick Delius 
Lyndon Jenkins 
December 2005. 214 pages 
978 0 7546 0721 2. Hardback. $89.95 
2006 Winner of the Association for Recorded 
Sound Collections ‘Best Discography’ in the 
‘Best Research in Recorded Classical Music’ category 

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Lila Fredenburg is now associate director 
for administration at Florida State University 
Libraries. 

Leilani Freund, associate university 
librarian is the new chair of the Humanities 
and Social Sciences Services Department at 
the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers 
Library. 

Arianne Hartsell is now instruction/ref­
erence librarian at Florida State University 
Libraries. 

Eileen M. Heeran has been appointed 
assistant curator of rare books in Cornell 
University’s Division of Rare and Manuscript 
Collections. 

Yael Herbsman, university librarian, is 
interim head of the Isser and Rae Price Library 
of Judaica at the University of Florida. 

Millie Jackson is now head of collec­
tion development at Florida State University 
Libraries. 

Cynthia Johnson has been appointed 
head of Langson Library Reference at the 
University of California­Irvine Libraries. 

Elizabeth Kirk has been named associ­
ate librarian for information resources for 
Dartmouth College Library. 

Alicia Korenman is now humanities 
librarian at Florida State University Librar­
ies. 

Susan Koskinen has been appointed to 
head the Physics­Astronomy Library at the 
University of California­Berkeley. 

Mary M. LaMarca has been named library 
communications and Web manager for the 
Dartmouth College Library. 

Rong Li has joined Illinois State University 
as a Web services librarian. 

Carol McAuliffe is the new head of the 
Map and Imagery Library at the University of 
Florida’s George A. Smathers Library. 

Hesham Monsef is the new spatial and 
numeric data librarian in the Documents 
Department’s Spatial Data Services Unit at 
University of Florida’s George A. Smathers 
Library. 

Melissa Muth has been named reference 
coordinator at University of Missouri­Kansas 
City Libraries. 

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Sarah Patton is now university disser­
tations and theses coordinator at George 
Mason University. 

Claude Henry Potts has accepted the 
position of romance languages librarian at 
the University of California­Berkeley. 

Keith Powell has been appointed head 
of acquisitions at the University of California­
Irvine Libraries. 

Rebecca Power is now reference librar­
ian at the University of Missouri­Kansas City 
Libraries. 

Brian Quigley has been appointed to 
head the Mathematics Statistics Library at the 
University of California­Berkeley. 

Deborah Rhue has joined Illinois State 
University as an instruction services librarian. 

Susan Sanders is now clinical medical 
librarian at the University of Missouri­Kansas 
City Libraries. 

Karen Schneider has been appointed 
electronic resources information manager 
and acting associate director for technol­
ogy and research at Florida State University 
Libraries. 

David Seaman has been named associ­
ate librarian for information management at 
Dartmouth College Library. 

Holl y Tomren has been appointed 
electronic resources and metadata cata­
loger at the University of California­Irvine 
Libraries. 

Sean Walton has accepted the position 
of instruction services librarian at Illinois 
State University. 

Brian Williams has been appointed 
research librarian for criminology, law, and 
society at the University of California­Irvine 
Libraries. 

Laura Woodruff is a visiting assistant 
university librarian in the Education Library 
at the University of Florida’s George A. 
Smathers Library. 

Dongqing Xie has been appointed 
ALEPH coordinator for Florida State Uni­
versity Libraries. 

Fu Zhuo is now library instruction coor­
dinator at the University of Missouri­Kansas 
City Libraries. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Richard “Dick” Christensen, head of 
systems at Illinois State University, retired 
at the end of August 2006. During his 32­
year tenure, Christensen held many posi­
tions in Milner Library. He helped organize 
the library’s circulation, interlibrary loan, 
and reserves systems and saw the library 
through four online catalog systems. Chris­
tensen served on many statewide commit­
tees helping to shape the Illinois Academic 
Library Consortium. In 2000 Christensen 
won the Illinois Library Consortium Sys­
tems Organization’s Contributor of the 
Year Award. 

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ACM 159 
AISTI 196 
American Economic Association 169 
American Scientifi c Publishers 150 
Annual Reviews 189 
Ashgate Publishing 202 
ARL 167, 187 
Atlas Systems 197 
Bernan 163 
Blackwell’s Book Services 154 
Chemical Abstracts Svc. cover 2 
CHOICE 200 
CQ Press 152 
EBSCO cover 4 
Elsevier 174, 190 
H. W. Wilson cover 3 
Hoover’s 183 
Intelex Corp. 193 
John Wiley 153 
Marquis Who’s Who 165 
McGraw-Hill 149 
National Resource Center   192
  for First-Year Experience 
Nature Publishing 133 
Perry Dean Architects 168 
Project Muse 199 
Rittenhouse Books 137 
Routledge 142 
SIL International Books 162 
Thomson Scientifi c 134 
Vanderbilt University-Peabody  179
  Professional Inst. 

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Ridley R. Kessler Jr. 

D e a t h s  

Ridley R. Kessler Jr., 65, retired documents 
librarian at the University of North Carolina­
Chapel Hill (UNC), died January 11, 2007, of 
congestive heart failure. Kessler served as 
federal documents librarian and regional de­
pository librarian at UNC’s Davis Library from 
1973 until his retirement in 2003. He also 
served as assistant head of the library’s ref­
erence department. Kessler previously held 

the positions at UNC 
of assistant documents 
librarian (1970–71) and 
international/state doc­
uments librarian (1971– 
73). Kessler was well 
known for his exten­
sive professional activi­
ties. He was a member 
of the federal govern­
ment’s Depository Li­

brary Council, which he chaired (1989–90). 
He was a long­time member and offi cer of 
ALA’s Government Documents Round Table 
and was active in the documents section of 
the North Carolina Library Association. Kes­
sler testified before congressional subcom­
mittees in 1991, 1999, and 2000, on behalf 
of groups including ALA, American Associa­

tion of Law Libraries, Association of Research 
Libraries, Medical Library Association, and 
Special Library Association. His testimony 
focused on the services of the Government 
Printing Office’s (GPO) Federal Depository 
Library Program and the importance of free 
access to government information. In recog­
nition of his work, Kessler was awarded the 
James Bennett Childs Award for lifetime con­
tributions from GODORT in 2002. In 1992, he 
received the CIS/GODORT/ALA Documents 
to the People Award. In 1990, he was the re­
cipient of GPO’s Distinguished Service Award 
and gold medal, the highest honor that the 
GPO can bestow upon an individual. 

Audrey Taylor, director of library servic­
es for distance education in the Univer­
sity of Houston System, died November 
29, 2006. A librarian in the University of 
Houston Libraries for more than 35 years, 
Taylor graduated from the University of 
Houston, where she had worked as a stu­
dent employee. After earning a master’s 
degree at the University of Texas­Austin, 
she returned to the University of Houston 
Libraries, where she held a variety of posi­
tions over the years. A leader on campus, 
she was also a leader in the profession, 
particularly in ALA’s Black Caucus. 

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Researchers will appreciate the no­nonsense 
layout. Current research dominates the center of 
the homepage. The left sidebar offers browsing 
by topic or author. Drilling into topics reveals 
lists of neat, brief annotated entries with full 
citations and links to the documents. 

Google­style searching offers further access 
with results sorted by relevancy or date and links 
to “Find Similar documents.” Almost every page 
offers a button to e­mail or print content. 

Topics break down into “Issues” (crime/ 
justice, economy/taxes, education, health/ 
healthcare, housing, welfare, work/income), 
“Sectors” (civil society, federal government, 
nonprofits), “Places” (U.S. cities, international), 
or “People” (adolescents, children, families, 
immigrants, race/ethnicity/gender, seniors). 

Lengthier reports contain a table of contents, 
executive summaries and other features to 
facilitate scanning. 

Unfortunately, it is easy to miss one of the 
most useful sections under “Toolkit” located 
on the lower right sidebar. “Issues in Focus” 
provides facts and findings on a sampling of 
hot issues and seems a good place to start 
research on broader topics, such as welfare 
reform, health insurance, or low­income hous­
ing. “Toolkit” also links to an explanation of 
data methods and more resources. 

Students and researchers investigating 
urban environments need to visit this site. 
It is chock­full of a variety of material and 
provides multiple, straightforward ways to 
fi nd it.—Barbara Valentine, Linfi eld College, 
bvalen@linfi eld.edu 

204C&RL News March 2007