jan08c.indd Ann­Christe Galloway P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s A p p o i n t m e n t s Stephen M. Roberts has been appointed associate vice president for university librar- ies at the University at Buffalo. He joined the university libraries in 1977 with the charge to oversee the migration of major library units from the South to the North Campus. Dur- ing the succeeding 30 years, the university libraries benefited from his strategic leader- ship in the transition to computerized library systems and services as well as the integra- tion of online resources. Since October 2005, Roberts had been serving as acting associate vice president. He was an investigator in nu- merous nationally sponsored grant programs funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Educa- tion, and the Council on Library Resources that have focused on the use of emerging technologies to facilitate sharing of costly resources and publications among research libraries, or on the implementation of tech- nologies to enhance use and access to special collections. Margaret H. Bean has been appointed resource sharing librarian at the University of Oregon-Eugene Libraries. Joshua Berkov is now digital projects librarian (a one-year appointment) at the Digital Publishing Offi ce/Carolina Digital Library at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Nicole Brown has been appointed coor- dinator of instruction/reference librarian at Emerson College. Robin Chen is now assistant manuscripts reference librarian (a one-year appointment) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. 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. Xi Chen is now East Asian and Web services librarian at the Oberlin College Library. Maggie Dickson is now the Watson-Brown Project librarian (a two-year appointment) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Lee Dotson is digital services librarian in the systems and technology department of the University of Central Florida Libraries. Traci JoLeigh Drummond is now archi- vist of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University. Donna Goda is now the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library as the international studies and foreign languages librarian. Melinda Gottesman is instructor librarian in the reference department of the University of Central Florida Libraries. Mira Greene is now assistant head of cata- loging at Rice University’s Fondren Library. Monica J. Hagan is now the business reference/special projects librarian at the Rosenfeld Management Library at the Uni- versity of California-Los Angeles. Aysegul Kapucu is instructor librarian in the reference department at the University of Central Florida Libraries. Rafal Kasprowksi has been appointed electronic resources librarian at Rice Univer- sity’s Fondren Library. Katherine J. Lang is now cataloger for the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library. Eugene Owens is now the temporary reference and instruction librarian at the Oberlin College Library. Nina Schneider has been appointed head cataloger at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of Califor- nia-Los Angeles. Min Tong has joined the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries as instructor librarian at the Lake Sumter Community Col- lege/UCF Joint-Use Library. John Venecek is instructor librarian in the University of Central Florida Libraries’ reference department. January 2008 47 C&RL News Andrew D. Wheeler is now engineer- ing librarian for the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library. Mark David Wolfe has been appointed curator of digital collections/senior assistant librarian at the University at Albany Librar- ies-SUNY. Stephen J. Zietz has been named head of special collections at Georgia State Uni- versity. R e t i r e m e n t s Gayle Christian has retired as government documents and maps liaison/reference li- brarian in the liaison and outreach servic- es department at Georgia State University Library after 39 years of service at George State University. Cheryl A. G. Mahan, university librarian in the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) reference department, retired in early 2007 after 30 years of service. After several years at the Howard-Tilton Library and the inter- nationally known Latin American Library at Tulane University, she was hired in 1977 at UCF (then Florida Technological Univer- sity), where she worked in cataloging, in- terlibrary loan, and reference. Active in the library profession, university, and her com- munity she received UCF’s Excellence in Li- brarianship Award and served as a mentor and championed four colleagues to win the same award. Lee Stout has retired as head of public ser- vices and outreach for the Eberly Fam- ily Special Collections Library at Pennsylva- nia State University Libraries. From 1974 to 2001, he served as university archivist Lee Stout C&RL News January 2008 48 and held the academic rank of librarian of special collections. As head of public services and outreach, Stout developed and adminis- tered outreach programs for all three archival and rare book units in special collections. Originally appointed by Governor Casey in 1989, he continues to serve as a member of the Pennsylvania State Historical Records Ad- visory Board, and in 2003, was appointed to the U. S. National Historical Publications and Records Commission and chairs its executive committee. He has served as chair of the Mid- Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and he has served terms as treasurer, vice president, and president of the Society of American Ar- chivists. In 1996, he was named a Fellow of the Society, its highest individual award. Stout describes his role at the helm of the Society of American Archivists as the culmination of 25 years of work with the organization. He is the author of a number of articles on archival topics and Penn State history, and wrote the state assessment report, “Historical Records in Pennsylvania,” for the Pennsylvania His- torical and Museum Commission. Stout will continue to be active in the profession with work on a number of projects, including his longstanding interest in the preservation of electronic records, a book on the history of Advertisers Annual Reviews cover 2 Archival Products 13 ARL 2, 24 Cambria Press 1 Choice 39 EBSCO 21 Haworth 16 H. W. Wilson cover 3 Intelex cover 4 John Wiley 26 Liberty Fund 45 Libraries Unlimited 46 Nature Publishing Group 27 Peabody Professional Institutes 20 Perry Dean Architects 48 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 5 University of Arizona Library 50 University of Oklahoma Libraries 36 Penn State’s famous Berkey Creamery, ar- ticles on archival and historical topics, and oral history interviews for several ongoing projects. He will also continue his monthly column with Town & Gown magazine, a local State College publication, which he has writ- ten since 1990. Carla M. Summers, university librarian and head of the department of special collec- tions and university archives, retired in June 2007 from the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries. She worked in Florida as an archivist, manuscripts librarian, and ad- ministrator for 30 years, first with the State Archives of Florida and then with the Uni- versity of Florida. She was the founding president of the Society of Florida Archivists, served two terms as treasurer of the Acad- emy of Certified Archivists, and is currently on the Council of the Society of American Archivists, where she will continue to serve while maintaining her archives, special col- lections, and records management consult- ing practice. D e a t h s Allison Ondrasik King, 54, assistant li- brarian at the University of Central Florida’s joint-use library on the Brevard Community College campus in Cocoa, Florida, died Au- gust 2007. She was active in the Florida Li- brary Association, where she served on the continuing education and planning com- mittees. She was also the award-winning author of DataMap, a reference book for librarians. (“Reviews” continued from page 41) undergraduate student needing the history of the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos and a scholar looking for the growth of exports from Nicaragua to Jamaica between 1987 and 1992.—Delores Carlito, University of Ala­ bama­Birmingham, delo@uab.edu January 2008 49 C&RL News mailto:delo@uab.edu