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Pam Spiegel

Lenore Coral, music librarian at Cornell University, re- ceived a Special Achieve- ment Award from the Music Library Association (MLA) in recognition of her contribu- tions to the establishment of the International Standard Music Number. The award is given for extraordinary ser- vice to the profession of music librarianship over a short period of time (three to five years). Coral is a past- president of MLA and currently serves as a vice-president of the Interna- tional Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres. She was general editor for the revised edition of the Interna- tional Standard Bibliographic Description, and project editor of the ISO Standard 10957: Inter- national Standard Music Number.

Nancy M. Cline, dean of University Libraries at Penn State University, began her term as vicepresident/president-elect of the Association of Re- search Libraries (ARL) at the first 1995 meeting of the ARL Board of Direc- tors in February. Cline has long been active in ARL, serving as chair of the Task Force on Tele- communications, as ARL’s representative to the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information, on the Task Force on Gov- ernment Information, and on the Information Policy Committee.

Nancy M. Cline

Kathryn Luther Henderson, professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign CUIUC), received the 1995 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Teaching Excellence in Library and Information Science Education Award at the ALISE annual meeting in Philadelphia in February. The award recognizes evidence of regular and sustained excellence in teaching; contributions to curriculum design which demonstrate subject expertise and the ability to integrate new developments; evi- dence of mentoring to stu- dents, alumni, and profes- sionals outside the class- room; and the use of effec- tive and innovative teaching methods. In 1991 Hender- son won the UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching. In 1993 she re- ceived the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the ALA/Beta Phi Mu Award for contribu- tions to library and information science educa- tion. She has been a member of the UIUC fac- ulty since 1965.

Edward Komara and Georgina Binns received the Walter Gerboth Award from the Music Library Association at its annual meeting in February. The award is presented to music librarians in the first five years of their professional careers to support research projects in progress. Komara is music librarian and blues archivist at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. A $600 award will help fund his travel to several jazz and record company archives in order to complete his publication of Charlie Patton’s 1930 Paramount Record Session, a comprehensive catalog of recording sessions by Charlie Patton and other blues artists.

Binns is music librarian at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. A $400 award will fund her travel to the two largest library centers in Australia, where she will inspect and obtain copies of all relevant materials for her project, An Annotated Bibliography of Australian Patriotic and Nationalist Songs to 1919.

Henry Latzke, director of library and media services at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, received LIBRAS’ Melvin A. George Award given for outstanding contributions to cooperative librarianship. LIBRAS is a consortium of 18 private academic libraries in the Northeastern Illinois area. At the ceremony, LIBRAS President Mary Joyce Pickett congratulated Latzke on his many achievements in LI-BRAS, the Private Academic Libraries of Illinois (PALI), and the Lutheran Education Association. He served as LIBRAS president for two terms, and as its statistician and parliamentarian.

Arthur H. Miller Jr., archivist and librarian for special collections at Lake Forest College, Illinois, was named the Academic Librarian of the Year by the North Suburban Library System, an agency headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois, which provides support to member libraries and their users, allowing the sharing of information, training, and materials. Miller won praise for the role he has played in promoting a system of shared library resources in the state.

Arthur H. Miller Jr.

Appointments

Linda S. Dobb, assistant university librarian for administrative services at San Francisco State University (SFSU), has been named dean of libraries and learning resources at Bowling Green State University in Ohio effective July 1. Dobb has served as head of the Cataloging Department at California Polytechnic State University, chief of the Bibliographic Control Section at the U.S. Government Printing Office, and processing librarian for the Library of Congress. As chair of the Educational Technology Advisory Committee at SFSU, Dobb worked with faculty to examine trends in multimedia, universal computing, and the use of Internet resources throughout the curriculum. Some of the projects she helped develop during her five years there include the creation of a CD-ROM network and the utilization of ATM technology for distance learning.

Eileen Hitchingham has been named dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Before joining Virginia Tech, Hitchingham served as dean of library services at Drexel University; dean of library services at the University of Idaho; and science and engineering librarian, head of reference, acting associate dean for public services, and automation coordinator at Oakland University. She has also served a consultant for companies and institutions including the Michigan Library Consortium, the National Librarians Association, and General Motors.

Judith G. Robinson is the new director of Moorman Memorial Library at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. Robinson previously served as associate director for administrative services at the Falk Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. She also worked at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Tompkins-McCaw Library and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia.

Margo Sassé has been named dean of college services, library, and academic computing centers at Modesto Junior College in California. She previously served as head of cataloging at Colorado State University.

Nolan T. Yelich has been appointed state librarian of Virginia. He has served as acting state librarian since June 1994. Yelich joined the library in 1973 as director of library services. Before that he served as director of public services at the College of William and Mary. A lifetime member of ALA and past-president of the Virginia Library Association, Yelich is the current president of the Virginia School Boards Association.

Steven D. Zink has been named dean of libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Zink has been with UNR since 1980 when he joined as head of government publications. In 1985 he became head of public services, and has served since 1993 as interim dean of libraries. The author of several books and over 120 book chapters, articles, and reviews, Zink has served since 1983 as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Government Information.

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Dawn Anderson has been named social sciences cataloger at Auburn University, Alabama.

Robert G. Anthony Jr. is the new head of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Margaret Bartley has been appointed collection management specialist/analyst at the Wellesley College Library, Massachusetts.

Michael L. Bowden has been named systems librarian at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Lauren Brosnihan is the new coordinator of library instruction at the University of West Florida, Pensacola.

Patricia Burson joined the Western State Law School Library as a cataloger.

Faye Chadwell has been appointed head of collection development at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Evan Cornell has been named reference/ public services librarian in the Bevier Engineering Library at the University of Pittsburgh.

Janice E. Dluzynski has been appointed head of the Transportation Library at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Jackie Dooley is now head of special collections and university archives at the University of California, Irvine.

Mary Maples Dunn has been appointed Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College, Cambridge.

Dale Foster has been named head of special collections at Auburn University, Alabama.

Paul Gahn is now music and media cataloger at Wichita State University, Kansas.

Jeffrey Garrett has been appointed humanities bibliographer at Northwestern University.

Denise Green is now instructional services librarian/coordinator of reference at Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois.

Patricia Hardesty has been promoted to technical services librarian for the Byzantine Library of Dumbarton Oaks at Harvard University.

Alberto Herrera Jr. is now head of reference services at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.

John E. Ingram is now chairman of the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Sandra S. Klein is the new librarian for human resources and organizational relations at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Joan Krizack has been appointed univer sity archivist and head of special collections at Northeastern University, Boston.

Shirley Lincicum has been named catalog librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

James Lowrey is now assistant director for automation at the University of Wisconsin-Mil- waukee.

Stuart MacKinnon has been appointed librarian in the Reference and Collections Development Department at the University of Waterloo Library, Ontario.

Martha Mahard has been appointed curator of visual collections in the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University.

Heidi Marleau has been appointed information services librarian at the Center for Health Services Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ellie E. Marsh is now associate university librarian for public services at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Shokoufeh Moghtassed has been appointed periodicals services librarian at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.

Nan Myers is now special projects cataloger at Wichita State University, Kansas.

Preethi M. Naidu has been named knowledge and consultation services librarian at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.

Elizabeth Patterson has been appointed digital library project coordinator for the Emory University Libraries, Atlanta.

Andrea Peterson has been named instructional services/reference librarian at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.

Robert C. (Roy) Ritchie has been named acting director of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Caren E. Smith has been appointed knowledge and consultation services librarian at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.

Ramona H. Thiss has been appointed HIV/ AIDS outreach librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Tompkins-McCaw Library.

R. James Tobin is now head of the Acquisitions Department at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.

Lisa Weikel is now head of access services at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Retirements

Anne O. Cramer, assistant dean for library and learning resources at Eastern Virginia Medical School’s (EVMS) Moorman Memorial Library, retired at the end of 1994 after 23 years of service. Cramer joined EVMS in 1972 in order to start the new medical school’s library.

Gordon H. Dunkin has retired after 22 years as education reference bibliographer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Before joining UAB, Dunkin served as reference and special collections librarian at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and as instructor of English at Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama.

Iris Wildman, Stanford University (SU) Law Library’s senior reference librarian, retired at the end of April after 20 years of service. Wildman began her tenure at SU as a part-time reference librarian in the Law Library in 1975. In 1976 she was appointed public services librarian, then became senior reference and special projects librarian in 1985. She is the author of FederalJudges andJustices, an important legal reference book.

Deaths

Jonathan R. Brown, assistant business and engineering librarian at Dartmouth College’s Feldberg Library, died March 13 at his home in Woodstock, Vermont. He was 43 years old. A graduate of Dartmouth, Brown received his MLS from Simmons College in 1977. Before joining the Feldberg Library staff, he held various positions at Dartmouth’s Baker Memorial Library and Kresge Physical Sciences Library.

Virginia Colley Burns, a retired Vanderbilt University librarian, died in April at the age of 95. Burns retired form the Catalog Department at Vanderbilt in 1969. She had previously worked at two other college libraries. She was the sister of late Grand Ole Opry legend Minnie Pearl, and worked as one of her script writers in the early days of Pearl’s career.

Susan C. George, physical sciences librarian at Dartmouth College’s Kresge Library, died March 13 at the age of 51. George received her B.A. in biology from the College of Notre Dame in Maryland, and her MLS from San Jose State University. She joined Dartmouth in 1983. Before that she served in research positions at Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University, and as a librarian at Chevron Research Company in California.

Gary Rossi, audiovisual cataloger and head of the Audiovisual Cataloging Section at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), died suddenly last January. A graduate of SUNY Buffalo, Rossi received his MLS from SUNY Geneseo and his master’s in French from Middlebury College. He spent 16 years at Mansfield University serving as humanities librarian, audiovisual cataloger, and automation librarian. He joined UCI in 1991.

Ellen Baker Wells, head of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Special Collections Department since 1979, died of cancer on April 2. She was 60 years old. Wells also served as the Libraries’ exhibition officer since 1990, and formulated the policies that govern the Libraries’ most valuable collections. She supervised the Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and curated a number of exhibitions for the Libraries’ Gallery in the National Museum of American History. Before joining the Smithsonian, Wells served at the National Library of Medicine, the Osier Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University, and Cornell University Library as associate librarian in the history of science collections.