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

William Baker, who holds a joint appoint­
ment with University Libraries and the Depart­
ment of English at Northern Illinois University, 
has been named one of three 2009 Board of 
Trustees Professors. 

Jim Cheng, head librarian at University of Cal­
ifornia (UC)­San Diego’s International Rela­
tions and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) Library, has 
received a Fulbright Scholar grant to con­
duct research to complete his book on Tai­
wan film studies. The book, An Annotated 
Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies, is a 
sequel to his previous book, An Annotated 
Bibliography for Chinese Film Studies. His 
research will be conducted at the Chinese 
Taipei Film Archive Library, the National 
Central Library, and the National Taiwan 
University Library for three months starting 
in fall 2009. Cheng, who is one of approxi­
mately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals 
who will travel abroad through the Fulbright 
Scholar Program, is an authority on Asian 
film and has built an unparalleled collection 
of East Asian films at UC­San Diego’s IR/PS 
Library. Last year, Cheng was recognized by 
Library Journal as a “Mover and Shaker” in 
the library world for his innovative work in 
building the UCSD Libraries’ Asian fi lm col­
lection, as well as a film festival and sympo­
sium series. 

Susan R. Gilmont, assistant to the librarian 
at Oregon State University Libraries, received 
the 2009 Oregon Library Association Employ­
ee of the Year award. 

Randy J. Olsen, university librarian for the 
Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young 
University, has won the fi rst BioOne/SPARC 

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Howard Goldstein Award to Advance Schol­
arly Communication. 

Sara Piasecki, head of historical collections 
and archives at Oregon Health and Science 
University Library (OHSU), was recognized 
with a 2009 Best Archives on the Web Award 
in the category of Best Institutional Blog 
for Historical Notes from OHSU (ohsu­hca. 
blogspot.com/). 

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

Susan Brynteson has been named vice 
provost and May Morris director of libraries 
at the University of Delaware Library. Bryn­
teson served as president of the Association 
for Library Collections and Technical Servic­
es and was on the ALA Intellectual Freedom 
Committee. She was chair of both the ALA 
Publishing Committee and the ALA Legisla­
tive Committee and served for six years on 
the ALA Council. She has been active in vari­
ous capacities in the Association of Research 
Libraries and is presently a member of its 
Special Collections Working Group. 

Sherre Harrington is now director of Memo­
rial Library at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. 
She had served as col­
lege librarian Amherst 
College since 2004. 
In addition to her ser­
vice at Amherst, Har­
rington’s extensive re­
sume also includes 17 
years at Vanderbilt Uni­
versity, where she most 
recently held the title 
of director of the Ste­
venson Science and Engineering Library. She 
also served as acting director of the Anne Pot­
ter Wilson Music Library, assistant director for 
public services at Central Library and Steven­

Sherre Harrington 

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son Library, and bibliographic instruction co­
ordinator at Central Library. Harrington chairs 
ALA’s Social Responsibilities Round Table and 
the Feminist Task Force. 

Pamela Jones has been named library direc­
tor at Medaille College. She began at Medaille 
as library systems coordinator in 2006, having 
worked previously as a librarian at the Albright­
Knox Art Gallery, the Buffalo and Erie County 
Public Library, the Eastman School of Music, 
and the University at Buffalo. Jones is active 
in the Western New York Library Resources 
Council and serves as managing editor of the 
Journal of Library Innovation. Her research in­
terests include workflow redesign, technology 
management, strategic planning, and organiza­
tional management using Web 2.0 services. 

Paula T. Kaufman, university librarian and 
dean of libraries for the University of Illinois, 
has been named the inaugural Juanita J. and 
Robert E. Simpson dean of libraries. Kaufman 
joined the University Library in 1999 after serv­
ing in key library positions at the University 
of Tennessee and Columbia University. She 
has four decades of experience as a librarian 
and has written and made presentations on a 
number of issues pertaining to scholarly infor­
mation, privacy, copyright, research libraries, 
recruitment, and leadership. 

John B. Weaver has been appointed direc­
tor of the Burke Library at Union Theological 
Seminary, effective August 1, 2009. Weaver 
has served as head of public services at Emory 
University’s Pitts Theology Library since 2005. 
He previously held the position of reference 
librarian at Pitts Theology Library. As an or­
dained minister, theological librarian, and bib­
lical scholar, Weaver has written and taught ex­
tensively on religious literature and theological 
practices, including the act of reading and the 
use of technology in scholarship and ministry. 

Lori Ostapowicz Critz has accepted the 
position of head of reference and research 
services at Old Dominion University Libraries 
effective July 10, 2009. 

Melissa Gasparotto has been appointed 
area studies librarian at the Rutgers University 
Libraries in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

Martin Knott has assumed new responsi­
bilities as head of the electronic resources and 
database management section in the University 
of Michigan Library’s Technical Services Divi­
sion. 

Haipeng Li has been appointed associate 
director of the John Cotton Dana Library, on 
Rutgers University’s campus in Newark, New 
Jersey. 

Julia Lovett is now special projects librar­
ian in Library Information Technology at the 
University of Michigan. 

Jessica Mirasol has been named librarian 
archivist for music collections at the University 
Libraries of Old Dominion University. 

Valeria E. Molteni is now academic liaison 
librarian at San Jose State University’s Martin 
Luther King, Jr. Library. 

Caroline Norton has joined the Technical 
Services Department as the head of technical 
services and manager of procurement at the 
University of Northern Colorado’s James A. 
Michener Library in Greeley, Colorado. 

Gene Springs has been appointed busi­
ness information services librarian at Rutgers 
University Libraries in New Brunswick, New 
Jersey. 

Scott Stevens is the new director of the 
D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian 
History at the Newberry Library. 

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Jay Trask has joined the Archival Services 
Department as head of archival services at 
the University of Northern Colorado’s James 
A. Michener Library in Greeley, Colorado. 

Jeremy York is now special projects 
librarian in Library Information Technology 
at the University of Michigan. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Kathy Arsenault has retired as dean of the 
Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at the Uni­
versity of South Florida­St. Petersburg. 

Patricia Yocum has retired from the Uni­
versity of Michigan Library. Yocum began her 
career at the University of Michigan in Sep­
tember 1977 as head of the natural science at 
the Museums and Biological Station Libraries. 
During the 31 years that followed, she took 
on increasingly responsible positions, includ­
ing coordinator of collections for the Basic Sci­

ence and Engineering Libraries, directing the 
efforts of Instructor College, and spearheading 
the creation of UC170. She served on numer­
ous library committees and contributed service 
to the University of Michigan as secretary of 
the Senate Assembly and the Senate Adviso­
ry Committee on University Affairs, and as a 
member of the Board in Control of Intercol­
legiate Athletics. She is recognized as a leader 
on a national and international level in science 
librarianship and for her work in developing 
educational programs and services to academ­
ic library user. 

D e a t h s  

Beulah C. Howison, 99, former reference li­
brarian at the University of Wisconsin­Stout, 
has died. Howison was an early leader in de­
veloping Simulated Literature Searching (mul­
timedia) during the 1970s, and she published 
results in the Drexel Library Bulletin. 

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vision. This condition can be a strength if U.S. 
libraries will think global, really global, and act 
local. Otherwise, the United States will likely 
abdicate any international leadership role in new 
scholarly communication models. The challenge 
for U.S. libraries is to make the effort to see the 
bigger picture and find ways to align our dis­
parate parts to create a better whole in the long 
run. SCOAP3 offers a promising new approach 
worthy of our support to pursue next steps. 

Notes 
1. Lee C. Van Orsdel and Kathleen 

Born,“Reality Bites: Periodicals Price Survey 
2009,” Library Journal, April 15, 2009, www. 
libraryjournal.com/article/CA6651248.html. 

2. See the FAQ at the SPARC Web site 
for answers to more specifi c information, 
www.arl.org/sparc/publications/papers 
/scoap3_09april.shtml. 

3. Towards Open Access Publishing in 
High Energy Physics, SCOAP3 Working 

Party, CERN, 2007. See “Tendering Re­
quirements” on pp. 24–26, scoap3.org/fi les 
/Scoap3WPReport.pdf. 

4. CMS (Compact Muon Solinoid) Col­
laboration Board Minutes from June 27, 2008. 

5. See the Journal of Instrumentation, 
jinst.sissa.it/LHC. 

6. Richard Poynder, “The Open Access 
Interviews: Annette Holtkamp,” 2008, www. 
richardpoynder.co.uk/Annette_Holtkamp 
_Interview.pdf). 

7. Salvatore Mele, “SCOAP3, Sponsoring 
Consortium for Open Access Publishing,” 
Seattle, March 14, 2009, scoap3.org/files 
/Seattle­140309­Mele.pdf), 19. 

8. More information on the Expression 
of Interest can be found at tinyurl.com 
/scoap3us. 

9. Ivy Anderson, “Make SCOAP3 Happen,” 
presentation at ICOLC, San Francisco, Cali­
fornia, 2008. See especially slides 8 and 10, 
www.scoap3.org/fi les/anderson_icolc.pdf. 

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