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

Luiz Mendes, electronic resources librar­
ian at California State University­Northridge, 
was selected as the Oviatt Library’s Research 
Fellow for 2009–10. In his research entitled 
“Learning Object Repository: From Content 
Creation to Content Organization—Conver­
gence of Communities of Practice,” Mendes 
will assess faculty’s practices and perceptions 
related to the creation of learning objects, 
and participation and contribution to the 
learning object repository for the organiza­
tion of learning objects. 

H. Frank Cervone 

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

H. Frank Cervone has been named vice 
chancellor for information systems at Pur­
due University­Calumet after having served 

as director of library, 
information and me­
dia studies at Chicago 
State University. Previ­
ously, he was assistant 
university librarian/ 
chief technology offi ­
cer for the Northwest­
ern University Library 
System and University 
Press in Illinois. Cer­

vone’s background includes more than 15 
years of experience and leadership develop­
ing systems to help advance student services 
assessment and learning outcomes; provid­
ing technology­related education; and work­
ing with institutional research, planning and 
accreditation efforts, while promoting library 
services as a vehicle for advancing teaching 
and learning. 

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Laurel Whisler has been appointed college 
librarian of the Russell D. Cole Library at 
Cornell College. 

James Beattie Jr. is now associate director 
for liaison, education, and interdisciplinary 
services for the Health Science Libraries at 
the University of Minnesota. 

Jodi Berkowitz has been appointed 
legacy finding aids archivist in the University 
Library at the University of North Carolina­
Chapel Hill. 

Anne Beschnett is now liaison and out­
reach librarian for the Health Sciences Librar­
ies at the University of Minnesota. 

Cassie Brand has been appointed project 
associate of “Mapping Special Collections for 
Research and Teaching at Goucher College” 
at Goucher College Special Collections and 
Archives. 

Shauna Collier has been appointed 
librarian for the Sonja Haynes Stone Center 
for Black Culture and History Library at the 
University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Lydia N. Collins has been appointed ref­
erence librarian for health sciences, including 
nursing, at the University of Delaware Library. 

Michelle Cronquist has been appointed 
North Caroliniana cataloger in the University 
Library at the University of North Carolina­
Chapel Hill. 

Kenneth Giese has joined Goucher Col­
lege as special collections librarian for the 
project “Mapping Special Collections for 
Research and Teaching at Goucher College.” 

Eric J. Harbeson has been appointed 
senior instructor, music special collections 
librarian, at the University of Colorado­
Boulder Libraries. 

David Hubbard has been appointed 
science/engineering librarian at Texas A&M 
University. 

Danielle Kane has been named research 
librarian for emerging technologies and ser­
vice innovation at the University of California­
Irvine Libraries. 

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T. Michael Kelly is now head of archives 
and special collections at Amherst College’s 
Frost Library. 

Jennifer Knievel is now faculty director 
of research and instruction at the University 
of Colorado­Boulder Libraries. 

Kate MacDougall has joined the Univer­
sity of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries as 
outreach librarian. 

Kevin McDowell has been appointed 
East Asian research and instruction librarian, 
Department of Research and Instruction, at 
the University of Colorado­Boulder Libraries. 

Bruce D. Neville is now science/engi­
neering librarian at Texas A&M University. 

Jennifer Nutefall has been named asso­
ciate university librarian for innovative user 
services at Oregon State University Libraries. 

Allison Jai O’Dell has joined Goucher 
College as special collections cataloger for 
the project “Mapping Special Collections for 
Research and Teaching at Goucher College.” 

Sandy Schiefer has joined the Univer­
sity of Missouri as government documents 
librarian. 

Rachel A. Schipper is the new associate 
dean for technology and support services at 
the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers 
Libraries. 

Scott Spicer is now media outreach and 
learning spaces librarian at the University of 
Minnesota. 

Christine Stachowicz has been ap­
pointed head of e­resources and serials 
management in the University Library at the 
University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Kelly Thormodson has been appointed 
coordinator of education and research in the 
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the 
University of Iowa Libraries. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Katharine E. S. Donahue, associate direc­
tor of UCLA’s History and Special Collec­
tions for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling 
Biomedical Library, retired July 1, 2008. She 

began her career as a librarian at the Natu­
ral History Museum, Los Angeles County in 
1970; she became the museum librarian in 
1974. She brought the library into the elec­
tronic age by working with the University of 
Southern California to digitize the museum’s 
rich serials holdings and introduced OCLC in 
1979. In 1987 she accepted the position of 
head of the history and special collections for 
the Biomedical Library. Over her 20 years, 
she raised the profile of the collection and 
expanded its purview from medicine and bi­
ology to include the physical sciences. She 
actively participated in creating Web exhibits 
and making collections, such as AIDS post­
ers, available on the Web. Her museum ex­
perience fostered an interest in exhibits, and 
over her career she created exhibits large and 
small. Of particular significance was her par­
ticipation in the organization and execution 
of the exhibit “The World From Here: Trea­
sures from the Great Libraries of Los Angeles” 
in 2001. Both the exhibit and the catalog of 
the same name contributed to an expansion 
of awareness about the richness of the librar­
ies in Los Angeles County. She contributed 
to the profession in a variety of ways, includ­
ing co­teaching a class on special collections 
in the health sciences with Joan Echtenkamp 
Klein (Alvin V. and Nancy Baird curator for 
Historical Collections) at Rare Book School, 
University of Virginia. Donahue is now li­
brarian emeritus and will continue to be in­
volved with UCLA. 

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