ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 8 1 8 People in the News A n n -C h ris te Y o u n g C h r i s t i n e B o r g i n a n has b e e n appointed to the Uni­ versity o f C alifornia’s (UC) Presidential Chair in Informa­ tion Studies. UC P resid en t Richard Atkinson approved e s t a b lis h m e n t o f th e e n ­ d ow ed chair specifically in h o n o r o f B org m an ’s distin­ gu ished career and in recog­ nition o f the grow ing im por­ ta n c e and in terd isciplinary nature o f her field. Borgm an, w h o ju s t c o m p le te d tw o years as chair o f the D epart­ m ent o f Library and Inform ation S cie n c e in th Graduate Sch ool o f Education and Inform atio Studies, has lectured o r con d u cted research i 18 countries. In a recen t study o f faculty pro ductivity, B orgm an was ranked sec o n d m os productive sch olar and eighth m ost cited in th field for her scholarly journal articles. She hold a Ph.D. in com m u nications from Stanford Uni versity, having earned h er MLS at the Univer sity o f Pittsburgh and her b a c h elo r’s in m ath em atics from M ichigan State University. J o h n S h e r id a n , head librarian o f the Tutt Li brary at C olorado College in C olorado Springs Colorado, has b e e n appointed to the positio o f director-at-large with ACRL to fill a vacanc created w hen J a c q u e l y n M cC oy, director o the O cciden tal College Library in Los Angeles, resigned. Sheridan will sit on the ACRL Boar o f D irectors until a replacem ent is elected o the spring ballot. J u d i t h G askell, director o f D ePaul University’ law library and an assistant law professor, ha b e e n elec te d v ice presi­ d en t o f th e C h icag o Li­ brary System (CLS) Board o f Directors. As vice presi­ d e n t, o n e o f G a s k e ll ’s c h ie f responsibilities will b e to chair the system ’s s trateg ic p la n n in g c o m ­ m itte e . P rior to jo in in g D ePaul in 1983, G askell w orked as a referen ce li­ brarian and the h ead o f J u d i t h G askell read er services at the Uni­ versity o f C hicago Law Library. She received e n n ­ t e s ­ ­ ­ ­ , n y f d n s s a b a c h e lo r’s in English from C a r le to n C o lle g e , a MLS from the University o f Chi­ cago, and a law degree from D ePaul C ollege o f Law. She will serve as vice president o f the CLS board until Ju n e 1 9 8 8 . K . W a y n e S m it h , president and c h ie f execu tive officer o f OCLC O nline Com puter Library Center, a n n ou n ced he will step dow n in Ju n e 1998. Smith, w h o has b e e p resident sin ce 1989, has held key posts in a ca d em e, business, and governm ent. He taught a the U.S. Military Academy, P rinceton Univer sity, and W ake Forest University; h e served a chairm an and CEO o f W orld B o o k E n cy clop e dia; and h e was director o f program analysi for the National Security Council, w here he re ported directly to Henry Kissinger. Smith re ceiv ed a b a c h e lo r’s in political s cie n c e fro W ake Forest University and a m aster’s and Ph.D in eco n o m ics and political s cie n c e from Princ eto n University. Four University o f Georgia librarians have b e e r e c o g n iz e d fo r o u ts ta n d in g c o n tr ib u tio n s . M e rr y ll P e n s o n , associate university libraria for public services, was presented the Nix-Jone Award at the annual m eeting o f the Georgi Library A ssociation (GLA) for her distinguishe service to G eorg ia librarianship. “Her m ajo contribution has b e e n the evolu tion and fur th eran ce o f G eorgia Library Learning O nlin (GALILEO),” said Charles B eard, chairm an o th e GLA Centennial Com m ittee. L in d a T ad ic, head o f m edia archives and the P eabody Awar archive, will b e installed as presid ent o f th A ssociation o f Moving Im age Archivists; S h e ry V og t, head o f the Richard B. Russell Libraiy fo Political Research and Studies, is the n ew ed i tor o f P rov en an ce, a regional journal publishe by the Society o f G eorgia Archivists; and Su s a n M o r ris , h ead o f interlibrary loan s, wa elected to a two-year tenn as the GLA representa tive to the ACRL. T he T ex as State Library and Archives Com mis sion has approved the follow ing appointm ent to the new T exSh are Advisory B oard, created n ­ t ­ s ­ s ­ ­ m . ­ n n s a d r ­ e f d e l r ­ d ­ s ­ ­ s 8 19 to establish policies relating to the sharing of library resources in T ex as’ academ ic com m u­ nity: S. J o e M cC o rd , University o f Houston- Clear Lake; Gilda B a eza O rte g o , Sul Ross State University; G eorge H uffm an. Amarillo College; and P au l E. D u m o n t, Dallas Community Col­ lege. R o b e rt A. S eal, Texas Christian Univer­ sity; M arsh a W . H a r p e r . Abilene Christian Uni­ versity; an d M a r th a C . A d a m s o n o f th e University o f Texas Southwestern Medical Cen­ ter in Dallas will serve as members-at-large. Appointm ents Philip B. E p p a rd has been nam ed dean o f the School o f Information Science and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. Eppard, w ho has been interim dean since Septem ber 1995, joined the faculty in 1988 and has w orked to develop a specialization in archives m anagem ent within the school. He is also editor o f the A m erican Archivist‚ the leading archival journal in the United States. Eppard holds a Ph.D. in Ameri­ can civilization from Brow n University and an MLS from Simmons College. Stella B e n tle y , assistant university librarian for collections and information services at the Uni­ versity o f C aliforn ia at Santa Barbara (UCSB), has j been appointed dean o f libraries at Auburn Uni­ versity. B e fo r e jo in in g UCSB, she served as the assistant director for pub- j lie services and collection m a n a g e m e n t a t C a s e Western Reserve Univer­ sity and as the budget of­ ficer and assistant to the Stella B en tley dean at the Indiana Uni­ versity Libraries. Bentley received her MLS and Ph.D. from Indiana University. C h ristin e G od in has been appointed director of learning resources for Northwest Vista Col­ lege, a new institution in the Alamo Commu­ nity College District in San Antonio, Texas. The library will also provide services for students in an upper level high school and a private university partner, both o f w hich are b eing built on the campus with the community college. T jald a N auta has been appointed library di­ re c to r o f the S o lo m on R. B a k e r Library at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. She was previously associate library director for in­ formation services at Bentley and had served for a num ber o f years as business reference librarian at B entley and B abson College. For the last four years, she has b een an active par­ ticip an t in the B en tle y in Estonia program funded by the U.S. Information Agency, which assists libraries in Estonia with building collec­ tions o f business information. Her undergradu­ ate degree is from McGill University in Mont­ real, and her MLS is from Simmons College in Boston. A lb ert “J u l e s ” T ate is the new director o f li­ brary services for Nunez Community College Library in Chalmette, Louisiana. Tate last served as a department chair in the library at the Uni­ versity o f New Orleans. He earned his first m aster’s degree in religious studies from the University o f Louvain in Belgium. A few years later, he earned his MLS from the Catholic Uni­ versity o f America in W ashington, D.C. He pre­ viously was archivist and abbey librarian for St. Jo se p h Abbey, and for a brief time he was act­ ing director o f the undergraduate library at St. Jo s e p h Sem inary C ollege. Later h e was ap ­ pointed library director o f the graduate theol­ ogy library at Notre Dam e Seminary in New Orleans. For the last five years, Tate was a d e­ partment chair in the library at the University o f New Orleans. E r ic A lb rig h t has b e e n appointed head o f in­ formation and education services at the Duke University Medical Center Library. R o b e rt “P a t” A llen has accepted the posi­ tion o f head o f the Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Library at the Univer­ sity o f Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. P au l A n th o n y is now the business and en ­ gineering librarian at Southern Illinois Univer­ sity at Edwardsville. L ind a B a llin g e r is the new academ ic resi­ dent in the undergraduate library o f University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. B a r b a r a B a r n e s is the new academ ic resi­ dent assigned to the M ortenson Center at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. M ary B e th B etzo ld has been appointed as an instructional support technician in the cata­ loging department o f central technical services at the SUNY at Buffalo University Libraries. 820/C&RL News Elizabeth Blakesley-Lindsay has joined In­ diana State University Library in Terre Haute as information services librarian. H. Austin Booth has been appointed as the humanities librarian in the Lockw ood M em o­ rial Library at the SUNY at Buffalo University Libraries. Pascal V. Calarco has been appointed ad­ vanced technology librarian at the Virginia Com­ monwealth University Libraries. Jan Cellucci has accepted the position o f preservation manager at the Boston College Li­ braries. Janet Chisman has accepted the position o f systems librarian in the Washington State Uni­ versity Libraries Systems Office. Floyd Csir is the n ew electronic resources librarian at Christian Brothers University in Mem­ phis, Tennessee. Rita Czeck has b een ap p oin ted m o n o ­ graphic cataloger at the University o f Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Elena S. Danielson has been appointed ar­ chivist o f the H oover Institution Archives at Stan­ ford University. Lori DuBois has been appointed visiting as­ sistant undergraduate librarian and coordinator o f lib ra ry instru ction at the U n iversity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. James Elmborg has been appointed head o f Library User Education at Washington State University. Nancy Evans has been appointed head, ref­ erence services department at the University at Albany, SUNY. Kathleen Folger is n o w the coordinator o f reference and information services at the Uni­ versity o f Michigan’s Shapiro Undergraduate Li­ brary. Judith Fox has been appointed assistant dean for access and bibliographic description at Washington University in St. Louis. David Green has been named assistant di­ rector for te ch n o lo gy at the N orth Suburban Library System in Wheeling, Illinois. Marguerite Horn is n ow head o f the cata­ loging department at the University at Albany, SUNY. B. J. Johnston has been appointed assis­ tant dean fo r collection s at W ashington Uni­ versity in St. Louis. Alysse Jordan has joined the faculty o f the SU N Y at B uffalo University Libraries at the Undergraduate Library as the resident assistant librarian. Judith Jungles has been appointed as an instructional support assistant in the Center for Book Preservation at the SUNY at Buffalo Uni­ versity Libraries. Cynthia Kaag is now head o f the Brain Edu­ cation Library at Washington State University. Michael Kaplan has been named director o f technical services for Indiana University Li­ braries in Bloomington. Paul Kelsey was named circulation librar­ ian at Penrose Memorial Library, Whitman Col­ lege in Walla Walla, Washington. Anna Litten has join ed the staff o f the Emerson C ollege Library in Boston as the coor­ dinator o f library instruction and reference li­ brarian. Andrew Martinez has been appointed ar­ chivist at Rhode Island School o f Design. Regina McBride has been appointed direc­ tor o f technical and access services at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. John D. McDonald has been appointed col­ lection management librarian for social and be­ havioral sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. Hollis Rudiger is the resident in the refer­ ence room o f the University o f Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. Clara Schaeffer has been appointed elec­ tronic instruction librarian o f the Digital Infor­ mation Literacy Office, Undergraduate Library Services Division o f the University o f Texas at Austin. Paul Schaffner has been appointed the Middle English Compendium production librar­ ian at the University o f Michigan Library. Nancy Carlson Schrock has join ed the Harvard College Library as chief collections con­ servator. Denise Shorey has been appointed assis­ tant library directo r at W hitm an C o lle g e ’s Penrose Memorial Library in Walla Walla, Wash­ ington. Correction: Missing tables “Improving valid access to site-licensed res o u rc e s ,’’ b y Patrick Y o tt and C. H. H oebeke (N ovem ber 1997, page 698) was inadvertently published without four o f its tables. The full text o f the article and the complete tables which contain programming scripts for user validation are published on th e W e b at h ttp :/ / w w w .a la .o rg / a c rl/ c&rlne w2.html. The editors regret the error. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ December 1997/821 Mary Van UUen is now business/econom- ics bibliographer at the University at Albany, SUNY. Victoria Witte has been appointed assis­ tant dean for information services at Washing­ ton University in St. Louis. Angela W right is n o w head o f interli­ brary loan at The University o f Alabam a Li­ braries. Connie Zuga has been named vice presi­ dent for reference services at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Retirem ents The follow in g have retired from the University of Connecticut Libraries: Constance Cook, Avery Point Marine Science librarian (19 years of service); Dorothy Bognar, head o f the Cookson Music Library (26 years o f service); David Kapp, associate director for library ad­ vancement (26 years o f service); Nancy Kline, reference librarian (28 years o f service); Helen Lewis Koehn, reference librarian (24 years o f service): Marilyn Noronha, reference librar­ ian (19 years o f service); Valerie Oliver, refer­ ence librarian (28 years o f service); Laura Raccagni, reference librarian (13 years o f ser­ vice). Deaths Hanna Lide Coker, 96, a former assistant pro­ fessor o f music and music librarian emerita at the University o f Richmond (UR), died in June. During her 26-year teaching career at UR, she initiated the developm en t o f public school music courses. In 1955 she established the university’s music library. C oker earned a bachelor’s degree in English and history from Westhampton College; a second bachelor’s in music from Coker College (which was founded by her grandfather, James Lide Coker); and com­ pleted graduate work at the University o f Okla­ homa, the Eastman School o f Music, and North­ western University. She studied piano in Paris, taught at Judson College in Alabama, and was supervisor o f music for the Hartsville Public Schools from 1929 to 1938. Howard “Bud” Curnoles, 53, died o f a heart attack w hile jogging near his home. As elec­ tronic reference services and documents librar­ ian at the University o f Maryland Baltimore County (1974-1997), he had pioneered the use o f electronic resources and developed a widely used classification system for Maryland State documents. Jay Ladd, 65, head o f department libraries at the O hio State University Libraries since 1968, died June 6, 1997. He was one o f the founders o f the Academic Library Association o f Ohio (A L A O ) in the early ’70s, which was an outgrowth o f the O hio Library As­ sociation. He also served as president o f the Fran­ klin County Library As­ sociation, was a member o f the Ohio Library As­ sociation Board o f Direc­ tors, was editor o f the OLA Bulletin‚ and was ch air o f th e C A L IC O Board (Colum bus-Area Jay Ladd Library and Information Council o f O hio). Ladd received his MLS from Florida State. Andrew D. Osborn, 94, a former librarian in W idener Library, Harvard University, and dean o f the School o f Library and Information Sci­ ences at the University o f Western Ontario in Canada, died recently in a nursing home in Chatham. In 1938, Osborn became a librarian at W idener Library and also taught at Harvard, remaining on the staff for 20 years before re­ turning to his native Australia as the librarian o f the University o f Sydney. In 1962 he b e­ came professor o f library science at the Uni­ versity o f Pittsburgh. Six years later he became dean o f the School o f Library Science at West­ ern Ontario. For his passionate pursuit o f re­ sources for Australian libraries, he was named a m ember o f the Order o f Australia by Queen Elizabeth in 1986. ■ Ed. note: To ensure that y o u r personnel news is considered f o r publication, write to Ann-Christe Young, Production Editor, C&RL N ew s, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611- 2795; e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org.; fa x : 312- 280-2520 mailto:ayoung@ala.org