ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ March 1998/209 P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Ann-Christe Young Tim McKimmie, agriculture librarian at New M exico State University, spent the summer o f 1997 as visiting librarian at the European B io lo g ica l C ontrol Laboratory (EBC L) in Montpellier, France. This project was sp on­ sored by the Agricultural Research Service o f the USDA and the National Agricultural Library. It involved organizing existing col­ lections, developing a database o f EBCL gray literature dating to the 1920s, and planning for a new library consisting o f French, Aus­ tralian, and U.S. contingents. Jam es J. Simonis, director o f the Le Moyne College Library, received the Academic and Special Library Section (ASLS) Franklin B ook Spirit o f Librarianship Award. Sim onis, w ho has been director o f Le M oyne’s Library since 1982, began his career at the Brooklyn Public Library and spent most o f h is 14 y e a r s at Mansfield State College in Mansfield, Pennsyl­ James J. Simonis vania as director o f libraries. He earned an AB from Findlay College; an MLS from Pratt Institute; and an MS in Information Science from the University o f Pittsburgh. A jointly edited work entitled “D ocum ent­ ing Cultural D iversity in th e R esu rg en t American South,” by F red J . Hay, librarian at Appalachian State University, and Mar­ garet Dittemore, branch librarian at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, was c h o ­ sen to receive the 1997 Brenda McCallum Memorial Prize. This annual award, given by the American Folklore Society, is given in memory o f Brenda McCallum for “e x c e p ­ tional work dealing with folklife archives or the collection, organization, and m anage­ ment o f folklife m aterials.” The prize com ­ mittee feels that this anthology o f essays will help increase aw areness about the impor­ tant role archives and libraries play in pre­ serving historically and culturally significant ethnographic documentary materials, and “in facilitating and forwarding scholarship.” A p p o i n t m e n t s Thomas W. Leonhardt was named direc­ tor o f the O regon Institute o f Technology Library. Leonhardt was formerly library techni­ cal services and collec­ tion d evelop m en t for the University o f O kla­ h o m a L ib r a r ie s an d served in similar posi­ tion at the University o f O regon and University o f the Pacific. He holds a b ach elo r’s degree in G e rm a n an d a MLS, Thomas W. Leonhardt both from the Univer­ sity o f California, Berkeley. He is a past presi­ dent o f the Library Information and T ech ­ nology Association, and his other profes­ sional affiliations include the ALA, the As­ sociation for Library Collections and T ech ­ nical Services, and the ACRL. Angee Baker is now the director o f the newly form ed E lectronic Inform ation Ser­ vices (EIS) unit for SOLINET, w hich includes licensing activities, the ASERL Electronic Re­ sources project, the W oodruff Foundation grant, the M o n tice llo E le c tro n ic Library project, and Preservation Services. SOLINET EIS focuses on regional library preservation efforts, digitization o f special collections, li­ censing o f third-party databases, archiving o f electronic collections, and regional ac­ cess to electronic data bases and services. Ed. note: To ensure that y o u r p e rso n n e l new s is co n sid e red fo r p u b lica tio n , w rite to A n n -C h riste Young, Production Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala.org.; fax: 312-280-2520. mailto:ayoung@ala.org 2 1 0 /C&RL News ■ March 1998 Prior to this position, B ak er w orked for the T h om son Corporation (G ales R esearch and Inform ation A ccess C om pany), w here she served m ost recently as vice president, mar­ k e t/ b u sin ess d ev e lo p m e n t. S h e has also w ork ed at U niversity M icrofilm s In tern a ­ tio n a l, Z iff-D a v is T e c h n ic a l In fo rm a tio n Com pany, and Inform ation H andling Ser­ vices. Nancy Allee, has b e e n appointed d irec­ tor o f the Public Health Inform ation Services and A ccess organization. Sandra Rios Balderrama has b e e n ap ­ pointed to the position o f diversity officer at the A m erican Library A ssociation. Paul Cam m arata is the new assistant referen ce librarian at the University o f South Carolina. Karen Dewitt is now architectu re librar­ ian at T exas T ech University, Lubbock. Paul Doty is now electro n ic services li­ brarian at St. Law rence University in Can­ ton, New York. Jim Douglas has b e e n appointed refer­ ence/electron ic services librarian at Nichols C ollege in Dudley, M assachusetts. Mary H. Drewes has b e e n nam ed refer­ en c e librarian/bibliographer at the Univer­ sity o f North D akota Library in Grand Forks. Carolyn S. Fang is now minority resident librarian at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Luke D. Feldm an b e c a m e th e North Carolina State University Libraries’ diversity and staff d evelop m ent librarian in the O f­ fice o f P ersonn el Services. Aimee Fifarek is now system s librarian at Louisiana State University Libraries. Laurie S. Filstrup b eca m e assistant head o f th e System s D ep artm en t at th e North Carolina State University Libraries. Ron Frankum has b e e n appointed ar­ chivist for the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Michael Golden has b een appointed the ch em istry / b io-ch em istry and g e o s c ie n c e s librarian in Inform ation Services at T exas T ech University, Lubbock. Jan e Kleiner is now coordinating c o l­ lection d evelop m ent at Louisiana State Uni­ versity Libraries. Russell Koonts b ecam e the librarian for University A rchives at the North Carolina State University Libraries. Terry Lipscomb is the new archivist at the University o f South Carolina. Suzan McGinnis is the n ew assistant head o f inform ation services for liaison and collectio n d evelop m ent in Inform ation Ser­ vices at Texas T ech University, Lubbock. Steven P. M orris jo i n e d th e N orth C arolina State U niversity Libraries as librar­ ian for sp atial an d n u m eric data s erv ic e in the R e sea rch and In fo rm atio n S erv ices D e ­ p artm en t. Jennifer O’Brien is now a cataloger at the North Carolina State University Libraries. Charles Pennell is the n ew head o f the N orth C arolina State U niversity L ibraries’ Cataloging Departm ent. Laurie Preston is now elec tro n ic ser­ vices referen ce librarian at Louisiana State University Libraries. Mary Rausch has b e e n appointed cata­ log librarian in B ib lio g ra p h ic S erv ices at T exas T ech University, Lubbock. Stephanie Schmidt is now the inform a­ tion tech n o log y librarian at Texas T ech Uni­ versity, Lubbock. Paul Seeman has b e e n appointed librar­ ian at T exas T ech University’s International Cultural Center, Lubbock. Daniel Schwartz is an assistant p rofes­ sor in the Serials C ataloging D epartm ent at the University o f N ebraska, Lincoln. Carol Ann Trinchitella is now librar­ ian II at the T ech n ical Services D epartm ent o f the University o f North Texas. Tsering Wangyal Shawa is now m inor­ ity resident librarian at Miami University in O xford, O hio. Monica Webster is the n ew coord in a­ tor o f library autom ation at the University o f Toled o. R e t i r e m e n t s M. Elese Colvin has retired from her p osi­ tion as person n el librarian o f the G olda Meir Library at the University o f W isconsin-M il- w au kee, after m ore than 28 years o f ser­ vice. Margaret Galloway retired from the Uni­ versity o f North T exas Libraries last August after 30 years o f service. C&RL News ■ March 1998/211 Dolores Tantco-Stauder has retired from the Notre Dame Libraries. After three years as a librarian at the University o f the Philip­ pines, Tantoco-Stauder a c c e p te d a grad u ate fellowship at Syracuse University w here she received her MLS. The N otre D am e L ibrary th e n h ired th e c a ta - loger in 1957. Then, af­ te r s e r v in g as c h i e f cataloging librarian at the University o f the Philippines (1 9 6 1 -6 4 ), Dolores Tantco-Stauder s h e w a s w e l c o m e d b a c k to the bran d new M em orial (n o w Hesburgh) Library to a position split between reference and cataloging. In 1969 she b e ­ cam e the libraries’ theology cataloger, the position in which she served until her re­ tirement. Joseph Huebner, also from the Notre Dame Libraries, has retired after serving the uni­ versity libraries in several capacities. In 1963 he began his career as a librarian in Memorial (n o w H e s b u rg h ) Li­ brary. From 196 7 to 1 9 7 9 he h e a d e d th e collection management d e p a r tm e n t, a n d in 1979 he was appointed fine arts bibliographer and assistant head o f c o l l e c t i o n d e v e l o p ­ ment. He becam e head Josep h H u eb n er o f the Collection D evelopm ent Department in 1992. In 1993 Huebner was given the Rev. Paul J. Foik Award for outstanding librarians. D e a t h s Fred Glazer, form er director o f the West Virginia Library Com mission for 24 years, died in D ecem ber o f kidney failure. Before com ing the West Virginia, Glazer served as director o f the C hesapeake Public Library System from 1967 to 1972. Glazer was an ALA m em ber for 32 years; an active mem­ ber o f the ALA International Relations Round Table, serving as chair o f the IRRT Publica­ tions Committee from 1 9 9 5 -9 6 ; and an ALA Library Fellow to Russia, w here he worked at the Library o f Foreign Literature in Mos­ cow from 1 994-95. ■ (Washington Hotline cont. from p. 197) C o u rt f r o z e th e N a tio n a l S c i e n c e Found ation’s (NSF) use o f $23 million in fu n d s c o l l e c t e d by N etw ork S o lu tio n s through fees for domain name registration. A lawsuit has b een filed challenging the fees as an unlegislated tax. The judge, while not deciding on the case itself, has ruled that there is enough merit in the charge to war­ rant freezing the m oney in dispute. NGI is affected b ecau se those funds w ere desig­ nated by congressional appropriations to be used for NSF’s NGI activities. The $23 mil­ lion was $12 million above the original NSF request, and, therefore, represents lost o p ­ portunity. Unless the agency can reallocate funds, however, the loss o f the other $11 million will cut sharply into the base fund­ ing for networking at the agency. For further information about NGI and related programs, contact Rick Weingarten at the ALA Washington O ffice at (80 0 ) 941- 8478, or e-mail at rw w@alawash.org. ■ A d v e rtis e r in dex ACRL 182 American Physiological 145 American Psychological Cover 2 Baker & Taylor 154 Blackw ell’s B ook Services 159 CISTI 168 CHOICE 148 EBSCO Cover 3 E BSC O .doc 173 ISI Cover 4 Library Corporation 185 Minolta 190 NICEM 172 OCLC 196, 208 PNAS 205 Primary Source Media 198 Routledge 200 Sociological Abstracts 170 Spacesaver Corporation 212 mailto:rww@alawash.org 2 1 2 /C&RL News U March 1998