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Pam Spiegel

Johanna Bradley, assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Sci- ence at Indiana University- Purdue University India- napolis and president of the Medical Library Association, was recently awarded a fel- lowship by the National Li- brary of Medicine for the study of World Wide Web- based information resources in the health sciences. As part of the two-year fellow- ship, Bradley will be study- ing the characteristics of the creation, access, and use of emerging health information re- sources on the Web. She will also be working with projects involving the National Library of Medicine’s Unified Medical Library System.

Nicholas C. Burckel, director of libraries at Marquette University, has been appointed by President Clinton to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). A member of ALA and ACRL, Burckel is president-elect of the Society of American Archivists. The NHPRC recommends historical works that should be recorded at public expense; encourages federal, state, local, and nongovernmental institutions in collecting, preserving, editing, and publishing papers of outstanding citizens; and makes preservation grants.

Herbert Hucks Jr. has been given an honorary doctorate of literature degree for distinguished alumni by Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Hucks has served for nearly 50 years as a librarian and archivist at Wofford, where he began his career in 1947 as associate librarian. He served as librarian from 1953 to 1966, archivist from 1966 to 1978, and archivist emeritus from 1978 to the present. Hucks graduate from Wofford in 1934.

Edward R. Johnson, dean of libraries at Oklahoma State University (OSU), has been named Administrator of the Year by the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. The annual tribute recognizes a public administrator whose career exhibits the highest standards of excellence, dedication, and accomplishment. Johnson was selected for efforts to strengthen the OSU Library and to promote library co- operation within the state.

Cheryl Smith, director of the Learning Resources Cen- ter at the University Medical Center in Lafayette, Louisi- ana, is the recipient of the 1996 Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award, which honors a medical librarian whose work has provided outstanding outreach ser- vices to rural and underserved medical popu- lations. Smith’s efforts to keep health profes- sionals posted on available resources and to keep medical information flowing to those who need it have won her high praise for “service to the community” from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, and her library has been designated an “Access Library” by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region.

Appointments

Maurice G. Fortin has been named library director of the Porter Henderson Library at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Fortin previously served as social sciences librarian, general reference librarian and database coordinator, head of General Reference Services, and assistant director of libraries for public service at the University of North Texas. A member of ALA and ACRL, Fortin is contributing editor for history for Texas Library Journal.

Joan R. Giesecke has been named dean of libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She previously served at Nebraska as associate dean for collections and services, and as assistant dean for automation and technical services. Before that Giesecke served as associate librarian at George Mason University. She also teaches for the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University. A member of ALA, ACRL, and the Nebraska Library Association, Giesecke is current editor of Li- brary Administration and Management.

Paul McCarthy has been named president and chief executive officer of WLN in Lacey, Wash- ington. Serving as acting president/CEO since last September, McCarthy has also served on the WLN Board of Directors since 1994, and chair of the Board since August of that year. As director of libraries at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (1987–93), McCarthy was an active WLN supporter and customer. In the early 1990s, he joined library leaders in the Pacific Northwest to assist WLN in its successful move from the public to the private sector.

Eugenia B. Ryner

Eugenia B. Ryner has been appointed admin- istrative librarian at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Ryner previously served as li- brarian for the Newseum, a new museum in Arling- ton, Virginia, acting di- rector and collection de- velopment librarian at California State Univer- sity, periodicals librarian at Yale University, and in several public library positions. Active in ALA, ACRL, and the California Library Association, Ryner was a Fulbright scholar in Uganda for the 1992–93 academic year.

Glenys A. Waldman has been appointed librarian and curator of the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Lisa Abbott recently became assistant head of the Research and Information Services Department at North Carolina State University.

Winston Atkins recently joined the North Carolina State University Libraries as preservation librarian and program officer.

John Boyd has been appointed electronic services librarian at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

Lisa Brennan has been named field librarian at Troy State University at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

Yu-lan Chou is now Chinese catalog librarian at the University of California at Berkeley.

Eric Cooper is now reference/acquisitions librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign’s Law Library.

Beth Cramer has been named principal cataloger at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

Jack Wesley Edens has been appointed reference librarian/bibliographer at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota.

Nancy Emery is now monographic cataloger at the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries.

Katherine Fox has been appointed special collections librarian at the University of Houston.

Robert R. Garrett is now librarian/archivist at the Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota.

Maggie Gewecke is a new serials specialist in current periodicals and microtexts at Stanford University’s Green Library.

Catherine L. Giaimo is now assistant librarian at the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania.

Craig Gibson has been appointed associate director for information services at George Mason University Libraries, Fairfax, Virginia.

Trudi Bellardo Hahn has been named manager of user education services at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Michele Hanson is now reference librarian/evening-weekend supervisor at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Martin Hollick has been appointed reference librarian in the Widener and Lamont Libraries at Harvard University.

Sherry Kelley has been named head of the Cataloging Services Department at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in Washington, D.C.

Milton Kenin is now archivist at the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania.

Shawn Renae King has been named serials librarian at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Mary Ann Laun has been appointed assistant dean of the library at Pasadena City College.

Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices, individuals using institutional letterhead, and other sources. To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Pam Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: pspiegel@ala.org.

Emmett Lombard has been named serials librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Patricia Lovett is now head of the Biology Library at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Stephen Luttman has been appointed assistant music librarian at the University of Houston.

Joanne Oud recently joined the North Carolina State University Libraries as collection management librarian for social sciences and humanities.

Carole J. McCollough has been appointed associate dean of the Wayne State University Libraries.

John H. C. Minott is now assistant curator at the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania.

Keith A. Morgan recently became client services librarian for networked resources at North Carolina State University.

Margaret O’Brien has been appointed assistant curator of the Mehra Collection at the University of Houston.

Patricia Painter is now social sciences bibliographer at Thomas Cooper Library on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Christine Pouncey is the new information technology librarian at the University of North Texas, Denton.

Cynthia E. Saylor is now reference bibliographic instruction librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina.

Jennifer Sheffield is now instructional services librarian at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Kevin Simons has been appointed reference instructional services librarian at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Regina A. Sinclair recently joined the staff of the University of Iowa Libraries as preservation librarian.

Wendy Sistrunk has been named music projects catalog librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Marcia D. Talley is the new systems librarian at the Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

Gail V. Tatum has been appointed AIDS resource librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Tompkins-McCaw Library.

Alison Warner is now cataloger for the Kemble Collection of maritime history at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

James Young has been named reference/ instructional services librarian at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Deaths

J. Richard Blanchard, university librarian emeritus at the University of California (UC)- Davis, died in March. He was 84. Blanchard’s 40-year library career included positions at the Library of Congress, the USDA Library, and the University of Nebraska Library before joining UC-Davis as university librarian in 1951. He retired in 1974. In 1994 the UC-Davis General Library established a special collections endowment fund in honor of Blanchard and his wife, Christine. The J. Richard and Christine H. Blanchard Special Collections Reading Room was subsequently named in their honor.

James F. Holly, former dean of library services at Evergreen State College (1969–73) in Olympia, Washington, died in November 1995 at the age of 80. Holly’s career included service as assistant director of the University of Omaha Library (1957–59) and director of the Macalester College Library (1959–69) in St. Paul, Minnesota. A lifetime member of ALA, Holly was also a member of ACRL and had served as an ALA Councillor. ■