ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 142 / C&RL News ■ February 2000 P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Ann-Christe Young Hwa-Wei Lee, dean emeritus o f university libraries at Ohio University (OU), is one of the winners o f the 1999 Hall o f Fame Librar ian Award. N o m in a tions for this award are m ad e by th e 5 ,0 0 0 members o f the Ohio Library Council. During Lee’s tenure, the hold ings o f the Vernon R. Alden Library at OU doubled to more than 2 endowments rose from Hwa-Wei Lee less than $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 to more than $7 million; the library achieved membership in the Association o f Research Libraries and is currently ranked 75th in the nation; and the library’s Southeast Asia Col lection is ranked as one o f the best in the world. Lee is credited with the library’s suc cess in being the only academic library in the state to function as a reference and inter- library loan resource library for public librar ies. C erise O b erm an , dean o f library and infor mation services at Plattsburgh SUNY, has been named Librarian o f the Year 1999 by the East ern New York Chapter of ACRL in recognition of her outstanding and e x e m p la ry c o n trib u - tions to library service within the region and to the library profession. She was also honored for founding the ACRL Cerise Oberman Institute for Information Literacy and its Immersion program. G reg P ro n ev itz is the recipient o f the 1999 Ja y Ladd D istin g u ish ed S erv ice Award. Pronevitz is regional administrator for the Northeast M assachusetts Regional Library System in North Andover, Massachusetts. This award recognizes a member o f the Academic mill Library Association o f Ohio (ALAO) who has promoted academic libraries and librarianship not only on his or her own campus, but within the state, as well. It also recognizes those w ho have provided leadership in ALAO. Pronevitz is a long-term ALAO member who promoted academic librarianship throughout the state and provided ALAO with staunch presidential leadership. He was also a leader in founding the Technical Services Interest Group, launching ALAO’s Web presence, and serving as ALAO’s first liaison to the ALA ioCn opurincnitl ovro. luTmo eqsu; ote one o f his nominations: “He is a mentor and one who not only ex udes professionalism, but encourages it in others.” B ob by L. R ob erts, director o f the Central Arkansas Library System, has been nominated to serve as a member o f the National Com mission on Libraries and Information Science. This commission is a permanent, indepen dent agency o f the federal government com posed o f 14 members, serving 5-year terms, and 2 ex officio members. C. J a m e s S c h m id t, p ro fesso r o f library and inform ation sci e n c e at S a n J o s e State University and ALA and ACRL m em b e r, h as b e e n a p pointed to the Com m is s io n on O n lin e Child P ro tectio n by Rep. Dick G ephardt C. James Schmidt(D -M issouri). A nn S ym on s, librarian at Juneau Douglas High School in Alaska and immediate past president of ALA, is the recipient o f the 1999 R o b ert B. D ow ns In te lle c tu a l F reed o m Award— presented by the faculty o f the Graduate School o f Library and Information Science at the University o f Illinois. The award acknowledges her long-term efforts to resist attempts to censor information. Symons was C&RL News ■ February 2000 / 143 h o n o re d during the ALA Midwinter meeting in San Antonio, Texas. She has cham pioned o p e n a c c e s s to the Internet for library pa tro n s and h o s te d a meeting in March 1999 at which librarians and filtering software manu Ann Symons facturers came together to seek solutions for the free-speech issues raised by filtering. Symons served as chair of the ALA Intellectual Free dom Committee from 1996 to 1997 and is co editor of Speaking Out! Voices in Celebration o f Intellectual F reedom (ALA Editions, 1999). A p p o i n t m e n t s William J . Crowe, Spencer librarian at the University o f Kansas in Law rence, was elected chair of the OCLC Board of Trust ees. Before being named Spencer Librarian in June 1999, Crowe served as vice chancel lor for information services and dean of li braries at the University of Kansas. He was assistant to the director and then assistant director of libraries at Ohio State University Libraries in Columbus from 1979 to 1990. Before that he held management positions at Indiana University Libraries and technical services posts at Boston Public Library. Crowe was elected to the OCLC Board of Trustees in November 1996 by the OCLC Us ers Council. W. Lee Hisle has been appointed vice presi dent for Information Services and librarian of Connecticut College. Hisle’s previous po sition was associate vice president for Faculty D e v e lo p m e n t and Learning Resources at Austin Community Col- lege. He has held vari ous p o s itio n s s in c e 1984 at A ustin, a multicampus institution serving 26,000 students. These positions include W. Lee Hisle interim chief academic officer and positions of increasing responsi bility in the Learning Resources area. Hisle started his career in the University of Ken tucky Community College System as a media specialist and left as library director. He is the author of numerous papers and presen tations and has consulted on a variety of li brary and technology projects. He is a past president of ACRL and is chairing its 10th National Conference in Denver in 2001. He has also been active in the American Asso ciation of Community Colleges. Steve Su itts has been appointed to the SOLINET Board of Directors. Shelley Wood Bu rgett has been appointed library director for Somerset Community Col lege. Burgett’s previous position was head librarian at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee. Prior to this position, she was director of library services at Sue Bennett College. Burgett has worked for more than 20 years in libraries in Kentucky, Mis souri, and Indiana. Regina B each is now head of library in formation technology at the University of Ar kansas in Little Rock. Michele D. B eh r has been named mem bership services librarian at SOLINET in At lanta. Philip Blackw ell has been appointed group chief executive for Blackwell’s Book Services. B ran d on B urnette has been appointed a reference librarian at Murray State Univer sity. B ryan C arson is now coordinator of ref erence and instructional services at Western Kentucky University. A n n e C liffo rd has b een ap p oin ted Women’s Studies Program administrator at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. K aren C roneis is now associate dean for Collections and Information Services at the University of Alabama. Holly Stec D anker t has been appointed reference/instruction librarian at DePaul Uni versity in Chicago. F ran k Davis has joined the University of Kentucky Medical Center Library as its new team leader for information and education services. 1 4 4 /C&RL News ■ February 2000 Renee Davis is now the science and tech nology reference librarian at Old Dominion University. H unter Eck is the new head o f ca ta loging/periodicals at C olum bus State U ni versity. Kathy Fescemyer has been appointed life sciences librarian at Pennsylvania State Uni versity. Marilyn Hall is the new health sciences librarian at San Diego State University. Debra Hill is now electronic services li brarian at the University o f Alabama. Mickey Ann Hinojosa is now associate director o f information and research services at DePaul University in Chicago. Jo h n Hoft has been appointed govern ment documents/information services librar ian and liaison for the School o f Business at Columbus State University. Christopher Holly has been appointed reference/instruction librarian at DePaul Uni versity in Chicago. Patricia Iannuzzi has b een appointed associate university librarian and director o f Doe/Moffitt at the University o f California at Berkeley Library. Laura Kirkland has been named catalog librarian at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Kara Malenfant has been appointed ref erence/instruction librarian at DePaul Uni versity in Chicago. Giles Martin is now assistant editor o f the Dewey Decimal Classification at OCLC Forest Press. Julia Martin has joined Murray State Uni versity as a reference librarian. Michael N. Matis has joined the Dewey Graduate Library at the University o f Albany, SUNY, as senior assistant librarian. Toni M oore h as b e e n a p p o in te d a s sistan t team le a d e r o f th e L e arn in g R e s o u rc e s C e n te r at E a ste rn K e n tu c k y U n i v ersity. C arol L. N urse has b e e n a p p o in te d evening reference librarian at Montclair State University. Edward Owusu-Ansah has b e e n ap pointed a reference librarian at Murray State University. Silvia Pinzon is now assistant library di rector at Miami-Dade Community C ollege’s Hialeah Center. Carolyn Poole has been appointed c o ordinator o f library services at Chipola Ju n ior College. Tim Pyatt has been appointed curator o f manuscripts and director o f the Southern His torical Collection at the University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Patricia Ratkovich is now catalog librar ian at the University o f Alabama. Ed Sanchez has b een appointed systems support librarian at the University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Don Share has been appointed instruc tional services librarian at Fisher College. Greg Sidberry is now assistant library director at Miami-Dade Community College’s Entrepreneurial Education Center. Jen n ifer Smith has b een appointed user services librarian at Fisher College. Pat Stevens has been appointed director o f Product Planning and Strategy at OCLC. Mark Stover is now psychology librarian in General Reference at San Diego State University. M arsha Sullivan has b e e n appointed consum er health coordinator at the Houston Academy o f M edicine-Texas Medical Center Library. Ed Tallent is now head o f reference and instructional services in the Thomas P. O ’Neill Jr. Library at Boston College. Terri Townsend has joined Columbus State University as information services librar ian and humanities liaison. Advertiser index American Institute o f Chemical Engineers 85 American Psychological 97 Association o f Research Libraries 121 ATLA 88 Blackw ell's Information Services 128 Blackw ell’s B ook Services 102 Chemical Abstracts Services Cover 2 CHOICE 98, 138 Endeavor Information Systems Cover 3 epixtech Cover 4 Graduate Institute 127 infoUSA 130 Marcive 114 Neschen 132 OCLC 141 netLibrary 92 Society o f American Archivists 135 C&RL News ■ February 2000 / 145 J a s o n V ance has been appointed refer ence/public services/instruction librarian at Lindsey Wilson College. Lea W ade has been appointed chair of reference services at the Earl K. Long Library at the University of New Orleans. C h ris W eaver has been appointed infor mation access design consultant at DePaul University in Chicago. W il W eston is now a reference librarian and engineering bibliographer at the Univer sity o f New Orleans. K a ra M. W h atley is now science librar ian at Texas Tech University. R e t i r e m e n t s Ju lia B aldw in has retired as director o f in formation and instruction services at the Uni versity of Toledo after 30 years o f service. J e n n ie S. B o y arsk i, director o f library ser vices, retired from the Paducah Community interdisciplinary reference works. Alan H o g an has retired as director o f library systems and processing at the University of Toledo after 30 years o f service. Dean Riggs, acquisitions librarian at University of Toledo, has retired after 25 years of service. B ria n R o g ers has retired from Connecticut College in New London. After eight years in the library at Wesleyan University, Rogers was appointed college librarian at Connecticut C o lle g e in 1 9 7 5 . In 1993, he succeeded re- tiring sp e cia l c o lle c - tio n s lib ra ria n Mary Kent to work with the Sheaffer-O’Neill Collec tion, which he had ac q u ired from E u g en e O ’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize 5 w in n in g b io g ra p h e r, Louis Sheaffer. In addi Brian Rogers tion, Rogers acquired the William Meredith papers and the Rachel Carson archive o f Carson biographer, Linda Lear. As library director, he worked with the Wesleyan and Trinity College library direc tors to form the CTW Consortium, now in its 11th year o f operation as a shared automa tion and delivery system. Ed Seufert, library director at Lindsey Wil son College for 20 years, has retired. B a rb a ra S h affer has retired as serials librar ian at the University o f Toledo after 25 years o f service. G eorge T elatnik has retired as library direc tor at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Telatnik guided the building program o f the newly expanded Bouwhuis Library. In 1989, Telatnik applied for Title III grant funds to procure an integrated library system. The original CanDO was the result. In the current round o f Title III grant funding, Telatnik se cured another grant that will significantly enhance CanDO’s capabilities. D e a t h s A rch ie L. McNeal, former director o f librar ies at the University of Miami (UM) has died at the age o f 86. McNeal joined UM in 1952 as director o f libraries until his retirement in 1979 During his tenure, the holdings of the Richter Library grew from 273,000 volumes to approximately 1.4 million. McNeal also oversaw the construction of UM’s central de pository, the Otto G. Richter Library , which was completed in 1962. Prior to joining UM, McNeal held library positions at the Univer sity of Tennessee and East Tennessee State College. In 1968, he served as vice-president o f ALA, he was a member of the ALA Execu tive Board, he served on numerous ALA com mittees (1 9 5 5 -6 5 ) and was a m ember o f the ALA Council. In addition, McNeal was presi dent o f ACRL (1 9 6 4 -6 5 ); the Florida Library Association (1 9 5 8 -5 9 ); the Tennessee Library Association (1 9 4 0 -4 2 ); and the Southeastern Library Association (1 9 6 4 -6 6 ); and was a founding member o f the Association of Car ibbean University and Research Libraries. ■ Ed. n o te : To ensure th a t y o u r p e rs o n n e l news is co n s id e re d f o r p u b lic a tio n , w rite to A n n -C h ris te Young, Production Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org; fax: 312-280-2520. mailto:ayoung@ala.org