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Jack Briody

Brad Baker, university librarian/director of media services at Northeastern Illinois University, was elected vice president/presidentelect of the OCLC Users Council Executive Committee at the council’s meeting May 18-20 in Dublin, Ohio. Dan Iddings, assistant director of networked and automated services at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Ed Meachen, associate vice chancellor for information services of the Library/Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin— Parkside, and Lizabeth Wilson, associate director of libraries at the University of Washington, were elected as delegates-at-large at the meeting.

Camila Alire

Camila Alire, dean of libraries at Colorado State

University in Denver and a member of the C&RL News editorial board, has been selected as the recipient of two awards. Alire was selected by REFORMA, the Latino affiliate of the ALA, as the 1997 REFORMA Librarian of the Year for her history of contributions to the organization. She was also named the first winner of ALA’s Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award, which was established to honor a librarian who makes positive changes in librarianship.

Pauline Collins has been recognized by the University of Massachusetts by its naming its Latin American collection in her honor. Collins, who retired as librarian for Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin America studies in June, helped build the collection to 180,000 volumes during her 28-year tenure.

Willie Hardin, dean/professor of the Torreyson Library at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, has been elected to chair the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council. Inc., Board of Trustees. Mary L. Johnson, deputy director of the Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records; Robert Shupe, library director for Mohave Community College Library in Kingman, Arizona; Elizabeth Snapp, director of libraries at Texas Woman’s University in Denton; and Steven W. Richards, general manager of Southwest MicroNet, Inc., of Dallas, were also elected as members of the board.

Charles Lord

Charles Lord, head of the Engineering Library at the University of Washington, has been selected by Engineering Information Inc. (Ei) and the Engineering Librarians Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) as the 1997 Ei/SLA Engineering Librarian of the Year. He was recognized for his professional contributions as well as his exceptional service to SLA.

Rosa Mesa has been named an honorary member of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Mesa, who retired from the University of Florida in 1992 as the Latin American librarian, compiled a countryby-country list of Latin American documents that has become a definitive guide.

Dane Ward, coordinator of information literacy at Wayne State University’s Undergraduate Library, was selected by the university’s Academic Staff Professional Development Committee to receive the Academic Staff Outstanding Contributor Award. The award recognizes academic staff with less than seven years experience who have had significant accomplishments during the past year and who are emerging leaders or scholars. Ward was also one of 30 librarians selected nationally to attend the Snowbird Leadership Institute (1995-96), and received a Bogle International Library Travel Grant from ALA in 1995.

Appointments

Thomas McFadden has been named director of the Schaffer Library at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Since 1993 he had served as associate university librarian at Cline Library at Northern Arizona University (NAU), Flagstaff. Before that he had held positions as head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Shields Library at the University of California, Davis; head of general reference at Rockefeller Library and Sciences Library at Brown University; and head of general reference at Wallace Memorial Library at the Rochester Institute of Technology. An active member of a number of professional associations and organizations, he has served as president of the College and University Libraries Division and as a member of the Legislative Committee of the Arizona Library Association. He has received citations from the ALA and from the U.S. Information Agency for his work on the Romania Library Relief Project (1991); an NDEA Fellowship in philosophy from Brown University (1971-74); and a Rhodes Scholarship in philosophy at Oxford University (1968-70).

Barry B. Baker

Barry B. Baker has been appointed director of libraries at the University of Central Florida. His most recent position in a career spanning 30 years was as assistant director of technical services at the University of Georgia, Athens. Prior to that, he held positions at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and at the University of South Carolina Libraries in Columbia. Baker received his MLS from Louisiana State University in 1967, after completing a B.A. in history the year before.

Catherine Quinlan has been appointed as university librarian at the University of British Columbia. She had previously served as director of libraries at the University of Western Ontario, and director of Memorial University’s Health Sciences Library prior to that. While at Western she administered a staff of 240 and a budget of $18 million.

Connie Kearns McCarthy, associate university librarian at Duke University’s William R. Perkins Library, has been named dean of university libraries at the College of William and Mary. Before going to Duke, she had served as assistant university librarian for collections at George Washington University and developed and directed the first federal grant awarded to the University Libraries. McCarthy has been active in ALA and the Research

Libraries group, and has served on the Collection Management and the Journal of Academic Librarianship editorial boards. She will assume her new position at the College of William and Mary on November 1.

Connie McCarthy

Maureen Pastine

Maureen Pastine, central university librarian at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, has been selected to be the university librarian of the Temple

University Libraries. She assumed her new position October 1, after having been at SMU since 1989. While at SMU, Pastine established a Center for Media and Instructional Technology/Digital Commons and played a leading role in getting legislation passed to expand the TexShare program, a regional academic library consortium, to include two-year colleges and private institutions in Texas in addition to the existing state-university libraries. Before coming to SMU she was director of libraries at Washington State University in Pullman (1985-89) and had also Served as university librarian at San Jose State University, reference librarian and undergraduate librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and chairperson of the Reference Department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Pastine has been an active member in ALA and its divisions, and was recently elected vice-chair/chair-elect of the ACRL University Libraries Section.

Rochelle Sager

Rochelle Sager has been named assistant vice president for information technology and director of library services at Molloy

College in Rockville Centre, New York. At her prior position as director of library and media services at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, Sager had implemented a library automation system, developed the Mildred Curtin Computer Lab, and served as chair of the Academic Computing Committee. She also served two years on the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO) Board of Trustees, and as Division Councilor on the ACRL Board of Directors from 1990 to 1994. In her new position, Sager will be responsible for the development of the library’s information technology at Molloy College.

Ali Abdulla is now head of the Government Documents Department at the Joyner Library at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Wanda Anderson has been named reference librarian/bibliographer at the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., Library of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Ruth Arnold has been named director of research for the Special Libraries Association.

Daniel Boivin was selected as director of OCLC Canada.

Michèle Valerie Cloonan has been named chair of UCLA’s Department of Library and Information Science in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Elizabeth (Libby) Cooley was recently appointed global biomedical services specialist at Readmore, Inc.

Patricia Kosco Cossard has been appointed reference librarian/collections specialist for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Sherry Crowther has been named evening and weekend reference services librarian at the North Campus of Florida International University Libraries.

Robert C. Dowd has been named cataloging/ preservation coordinator for the New York State Newspaper Project.

Martha M. Ferrer recently joined Elsevier Science, Secondary Publishing Division, New York, as manager of user services.

Lori D. Foulke has been appointed political science subject specialist in the Education and Social Science Libraiy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Rhonda Frevert has joined the staff of the Newberry Library as reference librarian.

Kathleen Gallagher has been named reference librarian at the Our Lady of the Lake University Library, San Antonio, Texas.

James S. Ghaphery has been appointed librarian for instructional technology at James Branch Cabell Library at Virginia Commonwealth University.

David Goldsmith has been named resource development librarian at the North Campus of Florida International University.

Stacy B. Gould is now the assistant university archivist at the Earl Gregg Swem library of the College of William and Mary.

Vicki Grahame has joined the Florida International University Libraries as head of the Catalog Department.

Karen Greig has been named acting head librarian and bibliographer of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Library at Stanford University.

Nancy L. Hadley is now the Warren E. Burger Archivist in the Earl Gregg Swem Library of the College of William and Mary.

Eric Holzenberg was recently appointed librarian of the Grolier Club of New York. Kriza Jennings is now an independent diversity consultant and presenter based in White Plains, New York.

Cynthia Kent has been named systems librarian for the libraries at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Suellyn Lathrop has been selected as university archivist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Gary A. LaValley has been appointed archivist at the Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Margaret Law has been named associate librarian and director of Science/Technology and Health Science Libraries at the University of Alberta.

Michael Macan is the new reference librarian at the Thomas Cooper Library of the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

E. Gail McClenney is now head of access services at the Old Dominion University Library.

Romona Niffenegger has been named general reference librarian in the Dupre Library at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Heidi Paulson is now evening and weekend reference services librarian at the North Campus of Florida International University.

Phoebe Peacock has been appointed reference librarian/recommending officer for the classics, Main Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress.

Linda L. Phillips is now head of collection development and management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries.

Jo Ann Proctor has been named night reference librarian at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Roger Stelk has been named director of public services of the Hunter Library at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Timothy J. Syzek has been appointed reference librarian at the Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Angela Thomas is now assistant IRRC librarian at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.

Tyler Walters was recently promoted to head of the Special Collections Department at the Iowa State University Library.

Kathryn Wayne has been appointed fine arts librarian and head of art history classics graduate service in the Humanities Area Studies Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

Christine Weber has been named business development coordinator of C. Berger and Company, a library personnel and information management service company.

Rebecca Wesley is now head of the academic computing for the Science and Engineering Resource Group at Stanford University.

Christine Whitaker has been appointed science reference librarian in the Science Library of the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Mary J. Withrow has been named director of the Technical Services Development Division at OCLC.

Retirements

Charles R. Andrews, dean of library services at Hofstra University, has retired after 20 years of service.

Lawrence Crumb recently retired as associate professor and reference librarian at the University of Oregon Library.

John G. Lorenz, consultant coordinator of the Library Statistics Program at the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), retired in September after 57 years as a librarian. Lorenz had worked at NCLIS since 1988, and served as acting executive director for a short period in 1990. He had also served as Deputy Librarian of Congress, acting Librarian of Congress, and executive director of the Association of Research Libraries.

Richard Manuck has retired from his position in the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Library at Stanford University.

Nancy H. Marshall, Dean of University Libraries at the College of William and Mary since 1986 retired September 1. During her tenure as dean two automated systems have been installed, access to electronic resources was expanded, and the library’s collections grew by 265,000 volumes. She also oversaw development of. a 28,000 square foot addition and planned an additional 98,000 square foot expansion.

T. John Metz, college librarian of Carleton College since 1979, will retire in December.

Deaths

Glendon T. Odell, who retired as deputy university librarian at Princeton University in 1990, died in July. Odell had joined the Princeton staff in 1969, and had served as assistant university librarian for science and technology, then as associate university librarian, prior to being named deputy.

Meseratch Zecharias, a Syracuse University librarian, died in February. Zecharias had served in the library since 1972. ■

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