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December 1994 / 749

People 
in the 
N ews

Pa m Spiegel

Jerry Campbell, university 
librarian at Duke University; 
Richard De Gennaro, Roy
E. Larson librarian o f Harvard 
College; and Carole Moore,
chief librarian o f the Univer­
sity o f Toronto, have been 
elected to the Research Li­
braries Group Board o f Di­
rectors. Their terms will ex­
pire in 1997.

C. Jared Lowenstein, Ibero- 
American bibliographer and 
curator o f the Jorge Luis 
Borges Collection at the University o f Virginia, 
Charlottesville, was awarded the José Toribio 
Medina Prize in publishing for his 1993 compi­
lation, A Descriptive Catalogue o f the Jorge Luis 
Borges Collection at the University o f Virginia 
Library (University Press o f Virginia). Nearly a 
decade in the making, the book is an anno­
tated checklist o f works by and about the Ar­
gentine literary giant. The award was made by 
SALALM during its annual conference.

Alice Hastings Murphy, library director emeri­
tus at the University at Albany, State University 
o f N ew  York, was honored recently by the es­
tablishment o f a new endowed scholarship fund 
in her name. It will provide scholarships for 
student library employees and full-time library 
staff who plan to become librarians. Murphy 
led the libraries from 1956 to 1970.

Rowena Olsen, McPherson College librarian, 
has assumed the position o f president o f the 
Kansas Library  Association (KLA). Olsen has 
been a member o f KLA for more than 20 years, 
and served since 1993 in the second and then 
first vice-president positions.

Patricia Owens, director o f library develop­
ment and administrative services at the Connecticut

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 State Library, was 
awarded the Connecticut Li­
brary Association ’s Out­
stan din g A c h ie v e m e n t 
Award for 1994.

Pamela Snelson, assistant 
director for automation and 
public services, Drew Uni­
versity, has been elected 
to the PALINET Board o f 
Trustees along with Eileen 
Hutchingham, dean o f li­
braries at Drexel University, 
and Sandra Millard, assis­

tant director for library public services at the 
University o f Delaware. They will serve three- 
year terms. Mary Ann Griffin, director o f the 
Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova Univer­
sity, was reelected to the board. PALINET con­
sists o f 381 member libraries from N ew  Jersey, 
N ew  York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, 
and the District o f Columbia.

A p p o intm ents
F. Landon Greaves Jr. has been named di­
rector o f the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library 
at the University o f South Florida, St. Peters­
burg. Greaves has been director o f libraries at 
Southeastern Louisiana University since 1969- 
He holds a bachelor’s degree in business ad­
ministration from Louisiana Tech University, an 
MLS from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. 
in library science from Florida State University.

Patricia M. Larsen, assistant director for ac­
cess services at the University o f Northern Iowa, 
has been named director 
o f  the U n iv e rs ity  o f  
Texas at El Paso Library.
In her 22-year career as 
a librarian, Larsen has 
held professional posi­
tions at three academic 
libraries, and served as a 
Fulbright lecturer in Bu­
charest, Rom ania, in 
1992-93. She holds an 
MLS from the University P a t r i c i a  L a r s e n

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o f Kentucky and a master’s in business admin
istration from Portland State University.

Barbara McFadden Allen has been ap
pointed director o f the newly established Cen
ter for Library Initiatives o f the Committee o
Institutional Cooperation (CIC), an academi
consortium o f Big Ten universities and th
University o f Chicago.

Chris Anderson joined the Commerce Li
brary at the University o f Illinois at Urbana
Champaign as visiting assistant librarian.

Suzanne Castroman has been named to 
two-year appointment as visiting minority li
brarian at the University at Buffalo, State Uni
versity o f New York.

Catherine Chamberlain is now academi
resident librarian in the Library o f the Healt
Sciences, University o f Illinois at Chicago.

Diane J. Chladil has been appointed peri
odicals services librarian at the University o
Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.

Derek Dixon has been appointed educa
tion librarian in the Grasselli Library at Joh
Carroll University, Cleveland.

Doralyn Hickey Edwards is now an aca
demic resident librarian in the Main Library a
the University o f Illinois at Chicago.

Kathleen Eisenbeis has been named di
rector o f the Social Science Library and Infor
mation Services in the Yale University Library

Karen L. Eliasen has been appointed ac
cess services/reference librarian in the Odegaar

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broaden our efforts to educate staff and users
as well as to purchase specialized equipmen
to repair and preserve the library’s print an
electronic collections.” Wijeyasingha and Barbe
believe the portion o f the proceeds going t
the Staff Development Fund will help to en
hance educational and training opportunitie
for library staff: “Libraries are moving towar
more and better electronic access to collection
all over the world. These funds will directl
assist the staff to obtain additional training t
keep abreast o f changing technologies."

N ow  that the project has been launched
the entrepreneurs will limit their time to th
development o f new products. Sales will b
handled through the Friends o f the Library Of
fice, D. H. Hill Library, Room 1137, North Caro
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Undergraduate Library at the University o f 
Washington, Seattle.

Kaia L. Even is now assistant university ar­
chivist at Northwestern University, Evanston, 
Illinois.

Jeffrey Frisbie is now science librarian at 
Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.

Violet Gilboa has been named Littauer 
Hebraica technical and research services librar­
ian in the Judaica Division at Harvard Univer­
sity, Cambridge.

Joan Goh is now information services li­
brarian at Stanford University, California.

Karen J. Hunt is now assistant university 
archivist at the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the 
College o f William and Mary, Williamsburg, 
Virginia.

Amy Kautzman has been appointed refer­
ence librarian in the Lamont Library at Harvard 
University, Cambridge.

Martha J. King has been named informa­
tion and instructional services librarian at Vir­
ginia Commonwealth University’s Tompkins- 
McCaw Library, Richmond.

Scott Kraft is now half-time public services 
librarian in special collections at Northwestern 
University, Evanston, Illinois.

Joan D. Krizack is now university archi­
vist and head o f the Special Collections De­
partment at Northeastern University, Boston.

Norma Levy has been appointed interim 
director o f library services at William Paterson 
College’s Sarah Byrd Askew Library.

Johnnie Love is now librarian I in the Ref­
erence Department at the University o f Kansas 
Libraries.

Amy Lucker has been appointed cataloger 
in the Harvard University Library Theatre Col­
lection, Cambridge.

Bonnie M. McNeely joined the University 
o f Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, as assistant 
library director.

Krystyna Mrozek has been named half- 
time government publications reference/state 
documents librarian at Northwestern Univer­
sity, Evanston, Illinois.

Laurie Nalepa is now assistant cataloger in 
the Grasselli Library at John Carroll University, 
Cleveland.

Stephen G. Nichols has been named in­
terim director o f the Milton S. Eisenhower Li­
brary at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Gerald Parnell recently joined the Univer­
sity o f North Carolina at Wilmington as refer­
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Marybeth Peters has been appointed reg­
ister o f copyrights at the Library o f Congress.

Mark Paul joined the Grainger Engineer­
ing Library Information Center at the Univer­
sity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as visiting
assistant librarian.

Veronda Pitchford is now an academic
resident librarian in the Main Library at the Uni­
versity o f Illinois at Chicago.

Mary Schlembach joined the Grainger En­
gineering Library Information Center at the Uni­
versity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as vis­
iting assistant librarian.

Christopher Shaffer is now an academic
resident librarian in the Library o f the Health
Sciences at the University o f Illinois at Chicago.

David Stem is now director o f the Science
Libraries and Information Services in the Yale
University Library.

Bruce Swann has been named to a half-
time appointment as visiting classics librarian
and half-time to the Rare Books and Special
Collections Library at the University o f Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.

Caroline Szylowicz joined the University
o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as visiting Kolb-
Proust librarian.

Michael Troudt is now catalog librarian in
the Transportation Library at Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois.

Patricia Wasson is the new head librarian
at the Illinois State Water Survey Library.

Phyllis Holman Weisbard has been ap­
pointed women’s studies librarian for the Uni­
versity o f Wisconsin system.

Penny Whitten is now temporary reference
librarian at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo­
rado.

Cindi Wolff has been named assistant head
o f the Government Publications Department at
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Hua Yi is now reference librarian/social sci
ences bibliographer at the University o f Oregon,
Eugene.

D eaths
Scott Benjamin Birkinshaw, instructor and
general reference bibliographer at Weber State
University (WSU), Ogden, Utah, died in Au­
gust. Birkinshaw began working at WSU in 1972
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University. He received his B.A. in music from 
the University o f Utah, and was a member of 
the Utah Symphony.

Richard Alan Farley, director o f the National 
Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, from 
1974 to 1983, died in September at the age o f 
76. Farley began his career in 1941 as assistant 
librarian at Beloit College. In 1946 he joined 
the staff o f the University o f Nebraska-Lincoln 
(UNL) Library, where he became assistant di­
rector, left in 1949 to become director o f librar­
ies at Drake University, and returned to UNL 
in 1954 as associate director. Farley also served 
as professor and librarian at Kansas State Teach­
ers College (1963-66), professor and head o f 
the land-grant library system at Kansas State 
University (1966-72), and director o f libraries 
at McGill University, Montreal (1972—74). A 
member o f ALA for 53 years, Farley served on 
its Council from 1962 to 1966, and held offices 
in ACRL and other professional organizations.

Philip Lindell, a librarian at the University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) from 1957 
to 1979, died September 21. Lindell served as a 
librarian at the University o f Southern Califor­
nia (1953-57), and at UIUC as binding librar­
ian, serials cataloger, and principal classifier.

Martha Jane Phillips, assistant for public ser­
vices operations at the University o f Texas at 
Austin (UTA), died in May. She had worked in 
the UTA General Libraries since 1976.

Iona Wells Speas, former reference librarian 
at Wake Forest University, died in August at 
the age o f 90. ■

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