July/August 2010 385 C&RL News 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. 1999 to 2006, he held positions at the Li- brary of Virginia as private papers pro- gram manager, senior finding aids descrip- tion archivist, and pri- vate papers archivist. He has also worked as an archivist at the Old Dominion Uni- versity Library in Nor- folk, Virginia. Gaidmore has written about Virginia history and is the recipient of the 2002 Frederic M. Miller Finding Aid Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference for his publication “A Guide to Church Records in the Library of Virginia.” Brian E. C. Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) Libraries, has been elected to serve a five-year term on the OCLC Board of Trustees, effective November 2010. Schottlaender currently serves as a member of the Hathi Trust Ex- ecutive Committee, an elected delegate to OCLC’s Global Council, and co-secretary of OCLC’s Americas Regional Council. He also has served as president of both ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) and the Asso- ciation of Research Libraries. Schottlaender, who has served as Audrey Geisel Univer- sity Librarian at UCSD since 1999, was re- cently named the Melvil Dewey Medal win- ner by ALA in recognition of his “creative leadership of a high order.” His previous awards include ALCTS’s Ross Atkinson Life- time Achievement Award and the Marga- ret Mann Citation. Over the years, Schott- laender has been recognized for his many efforts aimed at improving library service both within UCSD and in the UC system as a whole. These efforts have included work on digital collections, applications Jan Adamczyk, senior library specialist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign Library, received the Illinois Library Association’s (ILA) 2010 Robert P. Doyle Award. The award, established in 1999 and sponsored by the Reaching Forward Con- ference of Library Assistants, is in honor of ILA Executive Director Robert P. Doyle, who has been a strong advocate for library assistants. Mary Ellen Brooks, director emerita of the University of Georgia’s (UGA) Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, received a Governor’s Award in the Humanities on May 11 in Atlanta. Citing her “indefatigable energy,” “amazing degree of knowledge about the history of Georgia and its au- thors” and calling her “one of our state’s unacknowledged leaders in the humani- ties,” Brooks was nominated for the award by Betty Jean Craige, director of the UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and Nicole Mitchell, director of the Univer- sity of Georgia Press. Brooks served the last 15 years of her career as director of the Hargrett Library, during which time she ac- quired 532 manuscript collections and built the library’s collection of Fine Printing and Small Press books and other works related to the Book Arts, making it the fifth largest in the country. Brooks supervised the digi- tization of historical maps of Georgia and the Southeast, among the first projects of its kind in the nation. Jay Gaidmore has been appointed uni- versity archivist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Gaidmore was most recently university archivist at Brown Uni- versity in Providence, Rhode Island. From P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Jay Gaidmore july10b.indd 385 6/23/2010 10:59:16 AM C&RL News July/August 2010 386 Prior to CRL, Trevvett was associate dean for libraries at Loyola University-Chicago; associate director, Information and Research Services, DePaul University Libraries; and head of reference services, University of Chicago Library. Jill Anderson is the new history librar- ian at the Georgia State University Library. Laura Carscaddon has been appointed business librarian at the Georgia State Uni- versity Library. Amy Edwards has joined the University of South Carolina Libraries as reference librarian with responsibilities for the health sciences. Renee Ettinger is the new reference and instruction librarian at the Cofrin Library at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh has been appointed sociology librarian at the Georgia State University Library. Tom Lamb has been appointed catalog- ing and metadata librarian at Carleton Col- lege in Northfield, Minnesota. James (Cliff) Landis is the new Web services librarian at the Georgia State Uni- versity Library. Jamie Lausch has accepted the position of North Quad program coordinator for the University Library at the University of Michigan for two years. Lausch will develop, manage and present innovative exhibit and events program for the shared spaces in North Quad, a new internationally themed residential and academic complex. Jeffrey Makala has been named librar- ian for special collections education and outreach, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, at the University of South Carolina Libraries. Heidi Nance has been appointed head of interlibrary loan and document delivery services at University of Washington-Seattle’s University of Washington Libraries. Elizabeth Sudduth has been named associate director, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, at the Uni- versity of South Carolina Libraries. of supercomputing, the next generation of the UC’s MELVYL union catalog, the design and use of UCSD’s university library build- ings, and rationalizing of UC’s library col- lections. Before joining the UCSD Libraries, Schottlaender held positions at the Califor- nia Digital Library, UCLA, the University of Arizona, and Indiana University. A p p o i n t m e n t s James K. Bracken has been named dean of Kent State University’s University Librar- ies, effective August 1. Bracken replaces Mark Weber, who is retiring. Bracken cur- rently serves as the assistant director for collections, instruction, and public services at Ohio State University Libraries, a posi- tion he has held since 2005. At Ohio State, he also has served in the positions of as- sistant director for collections, instruction, and main library research and reference services; head of Second Floor Main Library Information Services; professor in the Uni- versity Libraries; and adjunct professor in the English department. Bracken is active with many professional organizations. He serves as reviewer-consultant for Choice and reviewer and assistant editor for CBQ: Communication Booknotes Quarterly. He also is a member of ALA. Melissa Trevvett, vice president and direc- tor of programs and services at the Center for Research Libraries, has been named the executive director of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), starting September 7. With a background in consortium and library program management, Trevvett brings a portfolio of experience to BLC. At the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a consortium of more than 250 academic libraries, she initiated and expanded the digitization of collections and digital delivery of research material, improved the information tech- nology environment, and was successful in attracting grants from public sources. july10b.indd 386 6/23/2010 10:59:16 AM July/August 2010 387 C&RL News Nat Wilson has been named the digital archivist and library technology coordi- nator at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Kelly Jo Woodside is now head of reference and information literacy services at Emmanuel d’Alzon Library at Assump- tion College. Eric Young has been appointed assistant dean of the Law Library and Information Technology Center and assistant professor of law at the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University. R e t i r e m e n t s Dwight Gardner will be retiring from his position as head business librarian of the Springs Business Library at the University of South Carolina (USC) Libraries-Columbia with the title librarian emeritus after joining USC in 1976. Gerald Gordon, collection development librarian at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, has retired after 30 years of service to Radford’s McConnell Library. Dave Hayes, university librarian at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, has retired after 34 years of working in libraries. He worked at Radford’s McConnell Library for the last 30 years, holding positions includ- ing reference librarian and head of public services. At Radford, he served on many committees within the library and the uni- versity, as well as library advisory council member with the State Council on Higher Education, and comprehensive university representative for VIVA’s Steering Commit- tee, public services forum chair for Virginia Library Association (VLA) and VLA council member. Hayes will retire as a professor emeritus of the library. Sara Heitshu, librarian, retired on Jan. 15, 2010, after 26 years of service to the uni- versity libraries at the University of Arizona (UA). She was subject liaison to Anthropol- ogy, American Indian Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Communication. In 2006 she received an Award for Distinguished Service from UA’s department of American Indian Studies. John P. Kondelik has retired as the direc- tor of libraries at the Stockwell-Mudd Li- brary of Albion College after 17 years as director and 44 years in the profession. Kondelik began his career at Eckerd Col- lege in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1966 and served as library director at Olivet College (1974–83), Butler University (1984–93), and Albion College (1994–2010). He has held leadership roles in many associations in- cluding the Florida Library Association, the Indiana Library Federation, and the Michi- gan Library Association. Connie Kearns McCarthy has retired as dean of university libraries at the College of William & Mary (W&M). She served the profession in a number of leadership po- sitions in ACRL, RTSD, ALCTS, ASERL, VIVA, and SOLINET. She par- ticipated in the UCLA Senior Fel- lows Program, was an adjunct faculty member at Catho- lic University, and directed a W&M summer program in Galway, Ireland. Before coming to W&M, McCarthy was associate university librar- ian at Duke University, assistant university librarian and acting university librarian at George Washington University, and a cata- loger at The Folger Shakespeare Library. Martha McPhail retired from San Diego State University (SDSU) Library after 22 years of service. She served as catalog li- brarian and as bibliographer for Spanish, Connie Kearns McCarthy july10b.indd 387 6/23/2010 10:59:16 AM C&RL News July/August 2010 388 Advertisers American Society for 341 Civil Engineers Annual Reviews 342 Association of Research cover 3 Libraries Choice 382 Modern Language Association cover 4 New England Journal cover 2 of Medicine OECD 367 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 345 Portuguese, women’s studies, and linguis- tics. She also served as special collections librarian for six years. She was selected twice as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching and consulting in Honduras and El Salvador. SDSU named her as Outstanding Faculty in 2002, and Greensboro College gave her its Outstanding Alumni Award in 2000. Her fi rst professional position was extension li- brarian at the Medical University of South Carolina, then she worked at several sci/ tech special libraries in San Diego. She has been active in SLA and IFLA. Gail Kern Paster, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library since 2002, has an- nounced her decision to retire July 1, 2011. As Director—only the fi fth in the Folger’s 78-year history—Paster fi rst encountered the Folger collection as a doctoral student researching her thesis. Under Paster there have been more than 14,000 new acquisi- tions to the collection, including a 16th- century manuscript on magic that com- pleted a grimoire already in the collection; a copy of Martial’s epigrams (Paris, 1617), owned and annotated by Ben Jonson; the only known 1849 broadside about the Astor Place Riots; James Northcote’s 18th-century painting, Romeo and Juliet, act V, scene III: Monument Belonging to the Capulets; and two watercolor costume designs for Derek Jarman’s 1979 fi lm, The Tempest. Paster, who taught English at The George Wash- ington University for 28 years, has also formed the library’s fi rst programs for col- lege undergraduates, a semester-long semi- nar on the history of the book that uses the Folger collection as a resource. Paster continues to pursue her scholarly interests in the cultural history of the body and the emotions. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books. She has been a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and its President in 2003. Until July 2009, she served as editor of Shake- speare Quarterly, a joint publication of the Folger and GWU, where she was a Profes- sor of English from 1974–2002. Atifa Rawan, librarian, retired on March 13, 2010, after 25 years of service to the university libraries at the University of Ari- zona. A native of Afghanistan, Rawan has taken a leadership role in rebuilding Af- ghan libraries that were decimated under Taliban rule. She was honored in 2005 with the ALA Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award. Bonnie Travers, associate librarian, retired April 2, 2010, after 31 years of service to the University of Arizona. Travers retired as as- sociate librarian in special collection where her collaborative skills brought nationally renowned exhibits, including the “Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collec- tion at the Heard Museum,” and recognized lecture series, including the well-received “Early Book Lecture Series,” to Special Col- lections. In addition, Travers curated and co-curated numerous exhibits on South- west history, culture, and tradition. Nancy H. Washington will be retiring from her position as director of publica- tions at the University of South Carolina (USC) Libraries in Columbia with the title distinguished librarian emerita. Washington came to USC in 1986 after holding profes- sional positions at the University of South- western Louisiana and the University of West Florida. july10b.indd 388 6/23/2010 10:59:17 AM