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Pam Spiegel

Elizabeth Byrne,head librarian of the Environmental Design Library at the University of California at Berkeley, received the Holway Jones Award from the Council on Planning Librarians (CPL) in honor of her contributions to the Council, to the field of planning librarianship, and to the planning field at large. Byrne is past-president of CPL, prepared its organizational poli— cies and procedures manual, and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the CPL Bibliographies in the Journal of Planning Literature.

Lourdes T. David,head librarian at the University of the Philippines College of Science in Manila, has been awarded the UMI Library Technology Award recognizing librarians who have made significant contributions in developing innovative information systems and services that directly benefit patrons. David is the first librarian outside of the U.S. to receive this award. She is also coordinator for the Department of Science and Technology Engineering and Science Education project for networking academic libraries. One of her major achievements involved automating eight public and private libraries. Part of that effort included obtaining funds from UNESCO to construct a fiber optic data network that linked two college libraries across campus.

Jacqueline Donaldson Doyle,director of continuing medical education and learning resources at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix, has been elected presidentelect of the Medical Library Association (MLA) for 1997-98. An active member in MLA, Doyle chaired the 1996 MLA National Program Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, and the Task Force on the Role of the Librarian in Information Management. Elected to threeyear terms on MLA’s Board of Directors were Bernie Todd Smith, director of the library and the Circuit Librarian Program at Werner Health Sciences Library, Rochester General Hospital, and Diane Schwartz, executive director of the Primary Care Resource Center at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Carla Conrad Freeman,director of the Scholes Library of Ceramics at Alfred University, has received the 1997 Worldwide Books Publication Award for her book The Visual Resources Directory: Art Slide and Photograph Collections in the United States and Canada. The award recognizes outstanding publications in librarianship and the arts each year. Freeman received a State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship in 1993-

Jennifer Ottervik,head of the Music Library at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, has been named winner of the 1997 Walter Gerboth Award by the Music Library Association. The award is given annually to a music librarian in the first five years of his or her career who is engaged in research likely to lead to publication. Ottervik’s research topic, “The Use of Jazz in Opera,” will result in the production of a bibliography of operas that use jazz elements.

Thomas W, Shaughnessy

Thomas W. Shaughnessy,university librarian at the University of Minnesota, has been elected to the OCLC Board of Trustees. He will serve a four-year term. Shaugh-nessy is past-chair of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Board on Library Resources and Services. He received the 1996 Hugh C. Atkinson Award honoring outstanding achievement in academic librarianship that is given jointly by ACRL, ALCTS, LITA, and LAMA.

Dana C. Rooks,dean of libraries at the University of Houston, has been named Librarian of the Year by the Texas Library Association (TLA). Rooks was honored for her “contributions to the library profession statewide, especially her work promoting and directing the TexShare academic library consortium.” TLA also praised Rooks’s strong leadership qualities, her willingness to mentor other librarians, and her wealth of knowledge about libraries and librarianship.

Appointments

Karen Hackleman Dahlenhas been named director of the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She most recently worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she held a joint appointment in medical education and health information management, and actively participated in several grant projects. Before that she served an internship at the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University and a leadership apprenticeship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Marianne I. Gaunt

Marianne I. Gaunthas been appointed university librarian at Rutgers University. She had served as acting university librarian since February 1996. Before that, Gaunt served in a number of capacities at Rutgers including associate university librarian for research and undergraduate services, online services coordinator, circulation librarian, and director of Alexander Library. A member of the

ACRL 8th National Conference Executive Committee, Gaunt currently serves on the governing board of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, a joint program of Rutgers and-Princeton Universities.

Mohammed A. S. Khanhas been named head librarian/librarian specialist at South Florida State Hospital Medical Library in Pembroke Pines. Khan has worked as a library consultant for California Technical University and the U.S. Department of Public Health Services in New

York. He also worked as head librarian of the Engineering Research Library at the Automobile Club of Southern California; senior information specialist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research; lecturer/librarian at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah,

Saudi Arabia; and expert librarian at the University of Sulaimaniyah in Iraq. A member of several professional organizations including ALA, Khan is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in information systems from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.

Mohammed Khan

Clifford A. Lynch,director of library automation at the University of California (UC) Office of the President, has been appointed executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Lynch has been at UC since 1979, and is internationally known for his development of Melvyl, an information system that serves all the UC campuses. He has played a key role in developing information standards, especially Z39-50, which addresses the need for interoperability among information retrieval systems. Lynch has served on the Board of Directors of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and currently is a member of NISO’s Standards Development Committee. Immediate past-president of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Lynch has received several awards including ALA’s LITA/Gaylord Award, an ASIS Dissertation Award, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.

Janet Martin Welch,director of the Rochester Regional Library Council for the past 20 years, has been named assistant commissioner for libraries and state librarian by the New York State Board of Regents. Welch has professional experience in school, public, academic, and corporate libraries. Professionally active, she has held more than two dozen elected or appointed posts including president of the New York Library Association (NYLA) (1991-92), chair of the New York State Regents Advisory Council on Libraries (1985-86), and delegate to the White House Conference on Library and Information Services (1991). She received the ALA Anniversary Award for Nationwide Library Legislative Success and Improvement of Library Services for the American People (1996) and the NYLA President’s Award for Development and Leadership of Nationwide Public Awareness of Libraries Campaign (1995).

Patricia Weaver

Patricia Weaverhas been appointed head librarian of Woodland Library at the Abington College, one of the newly formed colleges of the Pennsylvania State University. Weaver has spent the last five and a half years as business reference librarian, adjunct faculty, and acting head of reference at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, where she received her MBA degree in 1995. She is currently vice-president/ president-elect of the

Delaware Valley Chapter of ACRL and is a member of PALINET’s Finance Committee.

Michael Burgmeieris now head of media resource services at Virginia Commonwealth University’s James Branch Cabell Library.

Karen Clayhas joined the University of Manitoba Libraries as agriculture/science/engineering reference librarian.

Constantia Constantinouhas been named coordinator of information access and library technology at the Helen T. Arrigoni Library/ Technology Center at Iona College.

Willy Cromwell-Kessleris now library and bibliographic services officer at the Research Libraries Group.

Brian Cuthrellis now electronic access archivist at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Robin Dalehas joined the Research Libraries Group as member services officer.

Kathel Dunnhas been named head of public services at the New York Academy of Medicine Library.

Susan Ellikerhas been appointed a reference librarian in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Information Transfer Source.

Mary Ann Itogais now head of the Cataloging Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Stephanie Midkiffhas been named law reference librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Scott Muirhas been appointed head of systems at the Boston College Libraries in Chestnut Hill.

Angus Nesbithas been appointed law reference librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Emily Nuernbergerhas been appointed public services librarian at the Technical College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Sue Parksis now assistant media librarian at the University of North Texas Media Library.

Lorraine Perrottahas joined the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, as acquisitions librarian.

Alan Pochiis now head of cataloging at in the Tisch Library at Tufts University.

Diane Richardsonhas been appointed reference librarian/urban epidemiology specialist at the New York Academy of Medicine.

Daniel J. Slivehas been named coordinator of reader and bibliographic services at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island.

Liv Valmestadhas been appointed reference librarian/bibliographer at the University of Manitoba’s Architecture/Fine Arts Libraiy.

Daphne Wanghas been named East Asian catalog team leader at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

James C. Woodmanhas been appointed assistant librarian for reference and technical services at the Boston Athenaeum.

Retirements

Jennie S. Boyarski,director of library services at Paducah Community College Library, retired July 1 after 30 years of service.

Virginia Holtz,director of the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1971, retired at the end of April. During her tenure, Holtz led the expansion of the libraries’ outreach services in reference and in both basic and continuing education support for hospital and health science libraries across the state. On a national level, she was active in the Association of Academic Health Science

Library Directors and the Medical Library Association (MLA) and was named an MLA Janet Doe lecturer. In 1993 the Wisconsin Health Science Library Association named her Librarian of the Year.

Dorothy Kanter,collection access librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Libraries, will retire this summer after 32 years of service. Kanter began work at the libraries as a project assistant while still in library school, then quickly moved into positions of responsibility in acquisitions and serials. She participated in the move to computerized journal records and to computer programs tracking journal usage.

Phyllis Kauffman,history of medicine librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) Health Sciences Libraries, will retire this summer. Kauffman began working at UW in 1982 and served in cataloging, interlibrary loan, and reference. During her husband’s sabbatical, she worked in a Dutch medical libraiy. She took responsibility for the History of Medicine Collection in 1991.

George Mitchell,libraries development officer at the University of North Texas in Denton, retired in March after more than 28 years of service.

Corinne J. Potter,director of the library at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, retired at the end of June after 20 years of service. Potter spearheaded the move for construction of the new library building, which opened in March 1996. She has been active in the Iowa Private Academic Libraries Consortium since it organized in 1978 and in the Iowa Association of College and Research Libraries. ■

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