nov07c.indd Ann-Christe Galloway P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Claire Germain, Cornell Law School’s Ed- ward Cornell law librarian and professor of law, received the Chevalier de La Légion d’Honneur for her efforts in bridging the Amer- ican and French legal cultures. The award, which originated in 1802 under Napoleon Bonaparte and is considered France’s highest honor, recognizes outstanding achievements in military and civil life. The honor was pre- sented to her in Paris by Vincent Lamanda, the Cour de cassation’s first president, a title akin to chief justice in the United States, on behalf of the president of the French repub- lic. Germain received the award for her role in enhancing French-American relations and French knowledge of U.S. law by advocating for, assembling, and shipping the 13,000-vol- ume collection of American case law and law journals. A p p o i n t m e n t s Gillian (Jill) S. Gremmels is now the fi rst Le- land M. Park director of the Davidson College Library in Davidson, North Carolina. Frank Mols has been named director of the Vernon and Doris Bishop Library at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. Tyler Walters has been appointed vice pro- vost and university librarian at Rice University. Walters helped create an information commons at the Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center in Atlanta, where he was associate director for technology and re- source services. He is a principal investigator for one of the eight original National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation 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. Program (NDIIPP) partnerships known as the MetaArchive Cooperative, which is building a distributed digital preservation network and an organizational model that is adaptable by many other consortia. He is a founding board member and treasurer of the Educopia Insti- tute, which strives to sustain educational cyber- infrastructure advancement through projects and partnerships. He’s also a member of the Library of Congress Sustainability for Digital Preservation Strategic Working Group, which is part of NDIIPP. Before joining the Georgia Tech Library staff in 2002, Walters served as director of the William R. Haselton Library and Knowledge Center at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology in Atlanta. William H. Walters has been appointed dean of library services at Menlo College in Atherton, California. He previously served in collection development, technical services, and data librarian positions at Cornell Univer- sity, St. Lawrence University, and Millersville University. Walters holds a PhD from Brown University and was recently elected to Fellow- ship in the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Rick Anderson is now associate direc- tor for scholarly resources and collections at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. Sam Anderson has joined the Babson Library at Springfield College in Massachusetts as reference librarian and liaison to several academic departments. Ramirose Attebury has joined the Uni- versity of Idaho Library as reference and instruction librarian. Aaron Bowen has been appointed refer- ence/subject librarian for communications at California State University-Chico. Kimberley Bugg is now reference librarian at Atlanta University’s Woodruff Library. Faye A. Chadwell has been named as- sociate university librarian for collections C&RL News November 2007 662 and content management at Oregon State University. Courtney Chartier is now archives and special collections processing archivist at At- lanta University’s Woodruff Library. Sayeed Choudhury has been promoted to associate dean of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries’ Digital Programs. Elizabeth Colson has been appointed reference/subject librarian for sociology and related subjects at California State University- Chico. Mark Darby is now head of cataloging and metadata services at Temple University. Sebastian Derry has been appointed me- dia services librarian at Temple University. Kirstin M. Dougan is now music user services librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hector Escobar has been named director of education and information delivery at the University of Dayton’s Roesch Library. Kiffany Francis has been hired as meta- data librarian at Cleveland State University. Carla Fredd is now reference librarian at Atlanta University’s Woodruff Library. Camilla Y. Fulton has been appointed digital and Web content librarian at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jennifer Young Gordon is now the elec- tronic resources librarian at the University of Texas-Dallas. Randy Gue has been appointed manu- scripts archivist (a two-year position) at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library to process the papers of Atlanta businessman and philanthropist Robert W. Woodruff, as well as several other related collections. James Hahn has been appointed orien- tation services librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Heghine Hakobyan has been named Slavic librarian at the University of Oregon- Eugene. Jason M. Hamilton is now workstation and network support research programmer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign. Bruce Jeppesen is now associate library director at Cleveland State University. Lisa Johnston has been appointed librar- ian, physical sciences and engineering, at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Misu Kim has joined the University of Tex- as-Dallas as media and archives cataloger. Margaret E. I. Kipp is now instructor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Laura Wilson Larkin has been appointed special collections conservator at the Univer- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bridget Lerette is now archives and spe- cial collections processing archivist at Atlanta University’s Woodruff Library. Emma Saito Lincoln is now media preser- vation coordinator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lisa Macklin has been appointed the coordinator of the Intellectual Property Rights Office for the Emory University Libraries. Bridget Miller has been appointed ac- quisitions librarian at Duquesne University’s Gumberg Library. Maud Mundava is now reference librarian and Curriculum Materials Center supervisor at Atlanta University’s Woodruff Library. Sally Neal has joined Butler University as assistant dean for public services. Advertisers Annual Reviews 657 Antioch University 643 Association of Research 635, 654 Libraries Chemical Abstracts Services 618 Choice 650 EBSCO cover 3 IGI Global cover 2 Modern Language Association 617 Mountainside Publishing 665 Perry Dean Architects 629 ProQuest cover 4 ReferenceUSA 653 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 621 Society for Industrial and Applied 639 Mathematics November 2007 663 C&RL News Michael Page has been appointed geospa- tial data librarian for the General Libraries of Emory University. Deborah Raftus has been appointed Ro- mance languages and literatures librarian at the University of Washington-Seattle. Amy Randolph is now associate director of advancement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Clara Ruttenberg is the new electronic resources management librarian at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Mark C. Scott has been hired as reference librarian at the University of Pittsburgh. Adam Shambaugh has joined Temple University as business librarian. Gail Spears is now archives and special collections cataloger at Atlanta University’s Woodruff Library. Gail M. Staines is now assistant provost for university libraries at Saint Louis University. Alain St. Pierre has been appointed humanities/history librarian in the General Libraries of Emory University. Diane Turner has been appointed cura- tor of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University. Liz Uzelac has joined the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries as instructional services librarian. Melanee Vicedo is now reference librarian at Atlanta University’s Woodruff Library. Ann Robertson Whitney is now head of systems in the Health Sciences Libraries of the University of Washington-Seattle. Heather Williams is now copyright spe- cialist and rights management coordinator for the General Libraries of Emory University. R e t i r e m e n t s Richard Golden has retired after 31 years at the General Libraries of Emory University. His passion for and knowledge of music played a large part in building the Emory library’s music collection over the years. His expert knowledge of cataloging and authority work in general, but especially in music cataloging, has contributed immeasurably to the quality of both Webcat and Worldcat. Rebecca (Becky) Johnson has retired from the University of Iowa (UI) Libraries. John- son had been with the UI Libraries for 37 years, serving in a variety of reference-fo- cused public services positions, most recent- ly as head of reference and library instruc- tion. She was early in recognizing the need to provide library instruction as a compo- nent of reference services and helped de- velop one of the libraries’ fi rst instructional modules. (“Reviews” continued from page 656) directly from publisher Web sites and other NCBI products. The “All Databases” link, which is also on PubMed pages, enables users to search across approximately 31 NCBI databases us- ing Entrez, NCBI’s specialized search engine. “GenBank” is highly regarded by the scientifi c community for its annotated nucleotide se- quences and its contributions to the under- standing of the human genetic makeup and other organism genomes. “BLAST,” the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, provides capa- bilities for comparing nucleotide or protein sequences to estimate genetic, functional, and even evolutionary interrelationships. Another toolbar feature is “OMIM,” the Online Men- delian Inheritance in Man, a database that supplies quick access to gene and genetic disorders information. NCBI also serves as a portal to taxonomic data and free specialized structural and biochemical databases that provide information that may be challenging to find by other means. “Books” proves full-text access to select- ed biomedical books and is recommended for academic librarians developing their own print collections. Overall, based on the wealth and quality of information, NCBI is recommended for all academic biomedical online collections.—Caroline Geck, Kean University, cgeck@kean.edu C&RL News November 2007 664 mailto:cgeck@kean.edu