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Pam Spiegel

Lillian Castillo-Speed,di- rector of the Chicano Stud- ies Library and head of the Ethnic Studies Libraries at the University of California at Berkeley, has been named the 1996 REFORMA Librar- ian of the Year. REFORMA is the National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish Speaking. Castillo-Speed was recog- nized for her contributions in increasing access to Chicano Studies materials and Spanish resources; in pioneering bibliog- raphy on Chicanas/Latinas; and in promoting REFORMA to students. She has been instrumen- tal in the success of the Database on CD-ROM and the Chicano Index, and has made signifi- cant contributions to the Chicano/LatinoNet (CLNET) on the World Wide Web.

Isabel Hernandez,Medical Center Campus li- brarian at Miami-Dade Community College

(MDCC), has been awarded an endowed teaching chair at MDCC. The chair provides $7,500 a year for three years, allowing profes- sors to explore new teaching methods, de- velop new projects, en- hance technological ex- pertise, and further their knowledge in general. Hernandez, who was awarded the Steel Hector and Davis Endowed Teaching Chair, is a member of the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Infor- mation Professionals.

Deborah Jakubs,head of the International and Area Studies Department at Duke University Libraries, was named ARL visiting program officer for global resources. From last July to December 31 Jakubs will focus her efforts on developing the Association of American Uni- versities/ARL Global Resources Program, as well as coordinating the work of the three ongoing pilot projects on Latin America, Japan, and Germany. She has served as chair of the Advisory

Isabel Hernandez

Committee for the Latin Americanist Resources Pilot Project since its inception.

Eva Moseley,curator of manuscripts in the Schles- inger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University, has won a Silver Award from the U.S. National Commission on Li- braries and Information Sci- ence (NCLIS). In its an- nouncement, the commis- sion said, “Eva Moseley is a distinguished American archivist and an active worker in archival issues on the national, state, and local levels. . . . Her most important and lasting achievement is developing the most sig- nificant U.S. manuscript collection on the his- tory of women in America. …” Moseley has been curator of manuscripts since 1972. In 1995 she edited Women, Information, and the Fu- ture: Collecting and Sharing Resources World- wide, the proceedings of an international con- ference sponsored by the Schlesinger in 1994.

The AMIGOS Board of Directors has elected new officers for fiscal year 1996–97. They are: chair Robert Seal, university librarian at Texas Christian University; vice-chair Willie Hardin, dean of Torreyson Library at the University of Central Arkansas; secretary Elizabeth Snapp, director of libraries at Texas Woman’s University; and treasurer Sue Phillips, associate director for technical and network services at the University of Texas at Austin. Three new delegates have been selected to serve three-year terms on the AMIGOS delegation to the OCLC Users Council. Two of those delegates are Thomas Leonhardt, director of technical services and head of collection development at the University of Oklahoma, and Donald Smith, director of the library at Northeast Louisiana University.

Appointments

Joseph J. Branin,associate university librarian for public services and collections at the

Joseph J. Branin

University of Minnesota (UM), has been named dean and director of libraries at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Before join- ing UM in 1986, Branin served as assistant direc- tor for collection devel- opment at the University of Georgia Libraries. A member of ALA, the Re- search Libraries Group, and Beta Phi Mu (the In- ternational Library Sci- ence Honor Society), Branin was selected as a Council on Library Resources management in- tern and spent a year at Columbia University in 1984. He also participated in the UCLA Senior Fellows Program for leaders in academic librari- anship in 1991.

Hiram L. Davis

Hiram L. Davis,senior advisor for staff devel- opment at the Library of Congress, has been named dean of library services at California Polytechnic State Univer- sity. Davis was ap- pointed deputy librarian at LC in 1994 and served in that position until 1995. Before that he served as director of li- braries at Michigan State University (1989–94), head of the Undergradu- ate Library at UCLA, dean of libraries at the University of the Pacific, and dean of the University Library at New Mexico State University. Active in ALA and ACRL, Davis also helped establish the Michigan Research Li- braries Triangle Consortium in 1992.

Rodney Henshaw,director of the Public Services Division at the Emory University General Libraries, has been appointed director of Drake University’s Cowles Library in Des Moines, Iowa. In his 21 years in the field, Henshaw has served as chief of the Access Services Department at Penn State University and head of interlibrary services at Iowa State University. Henshaw said of his appointment, “Over the next several years, we’re going to have a historic opportunity to start creating the library of the future. … I look forward to working with the entire Drake community in this endeavor.”

James L. Mullins

James L. Mullinshas been appointed director of the Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University. Before that he served as director of the Franklin D. Schurz Li- brary at Indiana Univer- sity South Bend since 1978, and in various po- sitions at the School of Law Library at Indiana University Bloomington and at Georgia Southern University. Mullins has been active in state and national professional organizations including ALA, ACRL, and LAMA.

Jordan Scepanski

Jordan M. Scepanski,director of library and learning resources at California State University, Long Beach, since 1984, has been ap- pointed executive direc- tor of the Triangle Re- search Libraries Net- work. Based at the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the network is a coop- erative endeavor among Duke, North Carolina Central, and North Caro- lina State Universities, and UNC-CH. Scepanski served as senior ad- viser for library affairs in the Office of the Chan- cellor of the California State University system in 1995. Previously he served as director of the Central Library at Vanderbilt University and assistant director of the UNC-Charlotte Library. He also has been a Fulbright lecturer in Tur- key, a Council on Library Resources manage- ment intern, and a staff member at ALA.

Sarah Elizabeth Thomas,acting director of public service collections for the Library of Congress, has been named Carl A. Kroch University librarian at Cornell University. Thomas has also served as LC’s acting director of public service and collection management, and as director for cataloging. She also initiated the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, an international program to increase access to library materials. Before joining LC, Thomas served as associate director for technical services at the National Agricultural Library, a Council on Library Resources Academic Library managementintern at the University of Georgia, manager and coordinator for the Research Libraries Group, and as a librarian at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University. A member of ALA and ACRL, Thomas has also been widely published in library journals.

Richard Wendorf,librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University, has been appointed director and li- brarian of the Boston Athenaeum effective Feb- ruary 1997. Wendorf served also at Harvard as senior lecturer in the fine arts and acting librarian of the Fine Arts Library. Before that he served as professor of English and art history and associate dean for undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, and he taught at Williams College and Princeton University. The author and edi- tor of many articles and books, Wendorf wrote The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait- Painting in Stuart and Georgian England (Ox- ford) and Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society to be published this fall by Harvard University Press and the National Portrait Gal- lery.

Richard Wendorf

Phyllis L. Askeyhas been appointed collection management special projects librarian in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.

Rick J. Blockhas been named head of cataloging in the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Library at Boston College.

Amanda Bowenhas been appointed collection management librarian in the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University.

Kelly Cannonhas been appointed humanities reference librarian at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Victor Cardellhas been named music librarian at the University of Kansas.

Kathleen T. D’Angelohas joined the staff of East Carolina University Library as collection development librarian.

Scott Devinehas been appointed head of preservation at Texas Tech University, Lubbuck.

Cheryl Ewingis now health sciences reference librarian in the Alden Library at Ohio University, Athens.

Elaine Faddenhas been named serials team coordinator and cataloger in the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.

Katherine L. Fleminghas joined the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, as special collections archivist/librarian.

Catherine Hansenis now head of the Government Documents & Microtext Center at the University of Rochester, New York.

Deborah Harringtonhas been appointed business librarian at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Mark Haslettis now associate librarian, information services and systems at the University of Waterloo.

Karl Hensonis now systems librarian at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Norman Holmanis the new senior vice- president and director of the New York Public Library’s Branch Libraries.

Laura Hudsonhas joined the Alden Library at Ohio University, Athens, as reference librarian.

Deborah Janhas been appointed associate librarian in the Public Health Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Stephen Joneshas been named manager of library computing services in the Kuhn Library & Gallery at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Thomas M. Kelly Jr.is now humanities reference librarian at the University of Missouri- Kansas City.

Randall M. MacDonaldhas been appointed collection development librarian at the Florida Southern College Library in Lakeland.

Maryellen McCarthyhas been named librarian of the Littauer Library at Harvard University.

Thomas Michalakhas been appointed executive director of the Baker Library in the Graduate School of Business at Harvard University.

Carolyn Millshas been appointed sciences reference librarian in research and information services at the University of Connecticut’s Homer Babbidge Library, Storrs.

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John Oberis now development librarian for electronic resources at the new Monterey Bay campus of California State University.

Maria Otero-Boisvertis the new associate dean of the Learning Resources Center at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

Alexey Leonid Panchenkois now business reference librarian at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Kevin P. Rayhas been named head of special collections at Washington University in St. Louis.

Catherine Rhodeshas joined the Alden Library at Ohio University, Athens, as health sciences reference librarian.

Robin A. Riatis now science reference librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Dorman H. Smithis now associate university librarian at the University of Cincinnati.

Nancy Stanfillhas been appointed preservation librarian at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Eileen Theodore-Shustais now assistant to the dean/human resources coordinator at Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens.

John Tombarge Jr.has been named reference librarian at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Elizabeth (Libby) Wertinhas been appointed reference librarian and archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Elizabeth M. Williamshas joined the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, as an assistant reference librarian.

Laura Windsorhas been named reference librarian in Alden Library at Ohio University, Athens.

Mark D. Winstonis now assistant university librarian at Valdosta State University.

Rutherford Witthushas been named technical services/automation coordinator at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Retirements

Photo credit: Clive Russ

Rodney Armstrong

Rodney Armstrongwill retire in February after 23 years as director and librarian of the Boston Athenaeum Library. Armstrong joined the Athenaeum in 1973 after serving for 23 years as librarian of the Phillips Exeter Academy. A life member of ALA, Arm- strong has served as di- rector or officer of the New Hampshire Library Association and the New England School Library Association. He has also been director of the New England Deposit Library and the Manuscript So- ciety, and is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Antiquaries.

John Yung-hsiang Lai,associate librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library and head of the Cataloging Department at Harvard University, retired at the end of June after 24 years of service. Lai previously served as chairman of the Department of Library Science and professor at National Taiwan University. Eugene W. Wu, head of the Harvard-Yenching Library, said of Lai, “He has made many contributions to the library’s cataloging program over the years, including the planning and publication of the 72- volume printed catalog of the library’s Chinese and Japanese collections in 1985-86. . . . The library is deeply indebted to him for his long and outstanding service.” Lai compiled Catalog of Protestant Missionary Works in Chinese, Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University (G. K. Hall, 1980) and authored many articles on the history of Taiwan.

Remembering Louis Round Wilson (1876–1979)

Louis Round Wilson,former university li- brarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died on December 10, 1979, at the age of 103. Wilson was librarian at North Caro- lina for thirty-one years (1901 to 1932), the first dean (and founder) of the School of Library Science at North Carolina (1931–32), and dean of the Graduate Library School of the Univer- sity of Chicago (1932 to 1942).

While librarian at North Carolina, Wilson also served at various times as founder and director of the university press, director of university extension, and editor of the Alumni Review. At the University of Chicago, he presided over what has been termed the “golden age” of professional education for librarians. “Many of the subsequent leaders in librarianship and library education were the products of the Chicago doctoral program, which he did so much to encourage and sustain,” says Edward G. Holley, current dean of North Carolina’s Library School.

After his retirement from Chicago in 1942 Wilson taught part time in the University of North Carolina Library School until 1959. He undertook the editorship of the eighteen- volume sesquicentennial history of the University of North Carolina; was the coauthor with Maurice F. Tauber of an- other landmark work, The University Library; wrote three volumes of the history of the Univer- sity of North Carolina; conducted a regional sur- vey with Marion A. Milc- zewski, Libraries of the Southeast; and marked the centenary of his birth with the publication of a new book, Louis Round Wilson's Historical Sketches.

Wilson was one of the founders of the North Carolina Library Association (1904), served as first chair of the North Carolina Library Commission (1909–16), and was a founder and president of the Southeastern Library Association. He was president of ALA in 1935–36 and in his hundredth year added ALA’s Melvil Dewey Medal to his other honors. (Reprinted from C&RL News, March 1980.)

Louis Round Wilson

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