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

Clara A. Ogbaa 

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

Clara A. Ogbaa has been named the new 
director of library services at Gateway Com­
munity College in New Haven/North Haven, 
Connecticut. Ogbaa is retuning to Gateway, 
where she worked as a full­time librarian on 

the North Haven cam­
pus from 1995 to 1998 
and part­time on the 
Long Wharf campus 
from 1998 to 2003. In 
the interim she has 
served Texas State 
University as head of 
the reference depart­
ment at the Alkek Li­
brary. Ogbaa previous­
ly worked at Southern 

Connecticut State University’s Buley library for 
several years, culminating in her appointment 
there as coordinator of library instruction. 
She coauthored the chapter “Implementing 
Virtual Reference on the Fly: Staff Motivation 
and Buy­In,” in the recently published book 

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Association of Research
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Bowker 281 
Chemical Abstracts Service 279, 285 
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EBSCO 261 
ICMA cover 2 
ISI Books cover 4 
National Resource Center for the
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  in Transition 273 
Nature Publishing Group 283 
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Perry Dean Architects 257 
ProQuest 245 
Rittenhouse Book Distributors 249 

Virtual Reference Service: From Competencies 
to Assessment (Neal Schuman, 2008). 

Steve Alleman is the new head of 
collections in the University of Missouri­
Kansas City Libraries. 

Laura L. Carroll has been appointed 
manuscript archivist in the Manuscript, 
Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory 
University. 

Katie Clark has been appointed as­
sociate dean for public services and col­
lection development at the University of 
Rochester’s River Campus Libraries. 

Matthew Conner is now instruction/ 
reference librarian in the General Library’s 
Instruction Services Department at the 
University of California­Davis. 

Erik Estep has accepted the position 
of North Carolina Collection reference li­
brarian for Joyner Library at East Carolina 
University. 

Gretchen Gueguen has been named 
digital initiatives librarian for Joyner Library 
at East Carolina University. 

Jonathan Haupt has been appointed 
music and media librarian for the Hamon 
Arts Library within the Central University Li­
braries at Southern Methodist University. 

Jennifer Kolmes has been appointed 
director of the Center for Information Pro­
cessing for the Central University Libraries 
at Southern Methodist University. 

Tony Lin has joined the Hawaii Busi­
ness Research Library on Maui as the re­
search and cataloging librarian. 

Carol Macheak, former interim head 
of reference at the University of Arkansas­
Little Rock’s Ottenheimer Library, has been 
appointed head of reference. 

Catherine Steffens, former catalog li­
brarian at the University of Central Florida 
Libraries, is now database manager and 
bookkeeper at Nathaniel’s Hope, a non­
profit organization for children with special 
needs. 

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Melissa Torres is now catalog/meta­
data librarian at Fondren Library at Rice 
University. 

Laila Miletic-Vejzovic has joined the 
University of Central Florida as head of the 
special collections and university archives 
department. 

Linda Wen has been appointed head of 
information technology/systems librarian at 
the Ottenheimer Library at the University of 
Arkansas­Little Rock. 

Laura Wright has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at Valdosta State University’s 
Odum Library. 

Markus Wust is now digital collections 
and preservation librarian at North Carolina 
State University. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Jeanne Sohn, director of library services at 
Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), 
has retired after nearly 19 years of service. 
Before becoming director at CCSU, Sohn 
served as the assistant dean for collection 
development and later as associate dean of 
libraries at the University of New Mexico 
(1981–89). She began her career as the litera­
ture and communications bibliographer and 

then the head of collection development at 
Temple University’s Paley Library (1971–81). 
She was active in ALA, serving on the Execu­
tive Committee of ACRL’s University Libraries 
Section and on the Executive Committee of 
the College Libraries Section, and was one of 
the founding members of the Medium­Sized 
Academic Libraries Discussion Group. Within 
ALCTS she was elected to the Executive Com­
mittee of the Resources Section and was chair 
of the Collection Management and Develop­
ment Committee. Sohn served on many other 
committees of ACRL and ALCTS, as well. In 
addition, she was active in the Connecticut 
Library Association, the New Mexico Library 
Association and the Pennsylvania Library As­
sociation. In 1993 she was appointed to the 
CT Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on 
the Future of the Library, and served for a 
number of years as an accreditation team 
member for the New England Association of 
Schools and Colleges. 

D e a t h s  

Tejinder (Ted) S. Sibia, retired (2005) head 
of the biological/agricultural sciences refer­
ence department at the University of Califor­
nia­Davis General Library, has died. 

(“Celebrating Constitution Day,” continued 
from page 269) 

4. Georgia Tech Constitution Day promo­
tional fl yer, www.library.gatech.edu/news 
/docs/constitution_fl yer.pdf. 

5. Nancy Kranich, Michele Reid, and 
Taylor Willingham, “Civic Engagement and 
Academic Libraries,” College and Research Li­
braries News, vol. 65, #4 (July/August, 2004): 
380–83, 388, 393, www.ala.org/ala/acrl 
/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/july04 
/civicengagement.cfm (accessed January 
3, 2008). 

6. The September Project Web site, 
theseptemberproject.wordpress.com/ (ac­
cessed January 3, 2008). 

7. National Freedom on Information Day 
Web site, www.fi rstamendmentcenter.org 
/press/information/topic.aspx?topic=FO 
I_Day (accessed January 3, 2008). Sunshine 
Week Web site, www.sunshineweek.org/ 
(accessed January 3, 2008). 

8. Thomas Jefferson quote, found at 
www.wisdomquotes.com/003263.html (ac­
cessed January 3, 2008). 

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. 

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