ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


5 5 0 /C&RL News ■ M ay 2001

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s A n n-Christe Young

J a n e  B lock, architecture and art librarian at 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
(UIUC), has b e e n  ap p ointed as an associate 
to the Center for A dvanced Study (CAS) at 
the UIUC for the spring sem ester 2002. In an 
annual com petition, associates are selected 
from  distinguished tenured faculty to pursue 
individual scholarly projects and interact with 
the CAS com m unity for o n e semester. Block 
is the first m em ber of the library faculty to 
receive this honor. During her tenure as a 
CAS associate, Block hopes to redefine the 
Neo-Impressionist m ovem ent of the late 19th 
century by focusing on a significant b ody of 
portraits created in France and Belgium.

A p p o i n t m e n t s

K aren A. Butter has b e e n  ap p ointed uni­
versity librarian and assistant vice chancellor 
for Library Services and Instructional Tech­

nology at the University 
o f California, San Fran­
c isco  (UCSF). B u tte r 
joined UCSF in 1992 as 
the director o f Informa­
tion Resources and Ser­
vices for the library and 
Center for K now ledge 
M anagem ent. She b e ­
came deputy director in 
1993 an d  has served as Karen A. Butter
acting university librar­

ian since D ecem ber 1997. Before com ing to 
UCSF, Butter w as the deputy director of the 
William H. W elch Medical Library at Johns 
Hopkins University. She has been the driving 
force in the developm ent of the library’s new  
Center for Instructional Technology, w hich 
serves as a coordinated campuswide resource 
for faculty involved in developing W eb-based

Ed. note: To ensure th a t y o u r p e rsonnel news is 
considered f o r  p u b lic a tio n , w rite  to  A nn-C hriste  
Young, p roduction editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala.org; fax: 
(312) 280-2520.

curriculum. In addition, Butter is participating 
in research initiatives related to tobacco con­
trol efforts and is leading a major resource- 
sharing initiative for the California Digital Li­
brary. She is also planning library services for 
a second UCSF campus site currently under 
construction.

C hris F ilstrup w as ap p ointed dean and di­
rector o f libraries at SUNY-Stony Brook last 
August. He had b e e n  in 
c h a rg e  o f c o lle c tio n s 
and technical services at 
N o rth  C a ro lin a  State 
University. Prior to that 
position, he w orked at 
G e o r g e  W a s h in g to n  
U niversity, Library o f 
C o n g r e s s , a n d  N ew  
Y ork P u b lic  Library, 
w here he b egan his ca­

Chris Filstrupreer as a M iddle East 
specialist. Filstrup has published articles on 
cooperative collection developm ent and n o n ­
Roman script displays in online catalogs, and 
books on China and beads.

H o lly  A ck erm an  was appointed Andrew 
W. M ellon P o st-d o c to ra l F ellow  in Latin 
A m erican R esearch Librarianship at D uke 
University.

B eth B ern h ard t has joined the faculty of 
Jackson Library at the University o f North 
Carolina, G reensboro as an electronic jour­
nals/inform ation delivery librarian.

Ruth Bryan has accepted a two year ap ­
pointm ent as Archivist/Manuscript Cataloger 
in the Rare Book, M anuscript and Special 
Collections Library at Duke University.

R obert B urger has b e e n  ap p ointed asso­
ciate university librarian for services at the 
U niversity o f Illinois Library at U rb an a- 
Champaign.

K athy K ald en b erg is n o w  librarian for 
the Florida M etropolitan University’s Tampa 
Campus.

G loria L. Tibbs is n o w  th e Miller Nichols 
Library Information Commons specialist at the 
University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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F ran W ilk in s o n  has b e e n  a p p o in te d  
deputy d ean  for Library Services at Univer­
sity o f New Mexico General Library.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Kay Berger, after almost 29 years with the 
library and cataloging department at the Uni­
versity of California (UC), Berkeley, retired on 
January 2, 2001. Berger began her career in 
the UC Berkeley Library as a serials cataloger 
in the Serials Cataloging Division and later b e­
came the assistant head of the division. Even­
tually, Berger took on an assignment in the 
area o f social sciences and humanities origi­
nal cataloging, which she continued until her 
retirement. She also served many years as RLIN 
liaison to the library. She had a long-standing 
interest in automation and its potential for help­
ing improve technical services operations in 
the library. Most recently, she was involved in 
the extensive planning and load of the Library 
of Congress Name Authority File into GLADIS. 
Her outside activities included the Chinese Li­
brarian Association, w here she was a found­
ing m em ber and one of the first two editors of 
the association’s bilingual newsletter.

T hom as (T om ) W. Shaughn essy, university 
librarian for the University of Minnesota (UM)- 
Twin Cities Campus Libraries since 1989, re­
cently announced his retirement effective Sep­
tem ber 30, 2001. Shaughnessy w as director 
of libraries at the University of Missouri Co­

lumbia and held posi­
tions at Rutgers Univer­
sity and the University 
o f H o u s to n . U n d e r 
Shaughnessy’s lead er­
s h ip , th e  E lm e r L. 
A ndersen Library and 
its u n d e rg ro u n d  cav­
erns for storage o f m a­
terials from the librar­
ies of the university and 

Thomas W. Shaughnessy
from other libraries in 

Minnesota was completed. He was instrumen­
tal in the creation of the Committee for Insti­
tutional Cooperation (CIC) Virtual Electronic 
Library, a project that allows students and fac­
ulty on all o f the Big Ten cam puses to have 
readily available access to the collections of

all m em ber libraries. Among his other ac­
complishments at UM w ere the creation of a 
Friends o f the Library support group, a resi 
dency program  to attract minority librarian;, 
to the university and to w ork in research li ­
braries, and innovative service programs to 
support distance learners and provide b ib­
liographic instruction via the Web. In 1996 
he w on the Hugh M. Atkinson Award, given 
by four divisions of ALA, ACRL, ALCTS, LAMA, 
and LITA.

B ill W h itson , G overnm ent and Social Sci­
ence Information (GSSI) selector for Linguis­
tics, Development Economics, Labor and Eco­
nomic History, Demography, Information and 
Library Science since 1994, retired at the end 
of February, with more than 31 years of ser­
vice to the library. He his career as a librar­
ian in the n ew  Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 
w hich o p e n e d  in September 1970, and con­
tinued there until Moffitt was disbanded as 
an undergraduate library in 1993. Whitson 
was a leader in the two-year lobbying cam ­
paign in Sacramento for a salary inequity in­
crease for librarians, and, in 1974 and 1975, 
was twice elected chair of the Librarians As­
sociation o f the University of California-Ber­
keley. A long-time union leader, Whitson was 
president of the librarians’ AFT Local 1795 
from 1977-79 and from 1984-86. Whitson was,

A d v e r t is e r  in d ex

ACM 541
ACRL 533 
American Chemical Society 509
American Psychological Cover 4
American Theological 498 
Library Association

Archival Products 508 
Chemical Abstracts Service Cover 2
CHOICE 484
F.BSCO Cover 3 
F.ndeavor Information
Systems 499

Info LJSA 515
IEEE 503
ISI 539
netLibrary 494—95
OCLC 536
R.R. Bowker 481
SPARC 521
Swets/Blackwell 543



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active professionally during the 1970s and 
1980s in the California Clearinghouse on Li­
brary Instruction, and the California Library 
Association (CLA), serving o n  the CLA Coun­
cil from 1984 to 1986, and subsequently on 
the editorial and organization committees. He 
w as also active in CARL, the academ ic librar­
ians’ chapter, an d  served as its president in 
1995. He w as instrum ental in establishing 
CARL’s annual tw o-day statewide conference 
an d  creating th e CARL Web site. He w as 
nam ed  CARL Member o f the Year in 1997.

D e a t h s

H arold H. J. E rick son , 69, librarian of the 
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), from 
1965-90, died on  N ovem ber 3, 2000, of com ­

plications from  d iabe­
tes. During his tenure at 
UNLV, h e d e v e lo p e d  
the library to six times 
its original size, built up  
an endow m ent of more 
th a n  $2 m illion, a n d  
created a Departm ent of 
S p e c ia l C o lle c tio n s , 
w hich is k n o w n  for its 
materials on the gaming 

H a rold  H. J. Erickson
industry, before retiring 

in 1990. After brief stints at the Cincinnati 
Public Library, and at Syracuse University Li­
brary, Erickson becam e librarian for w hat was 
then Nevada Southern University, later to b e ­
com e UNLV.

D on ald  F. Joyce, dean of library and media 
se rv ic e  at A u stin  P e a y  State U n iv ersity  
Clarksville, Tennessee, died March 8 after a 
short illness. Joyce followed the late Charlamae 
H. Rollins as head of the George Cleveland 
Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library (CPL) 
and as curator of the Vivian G. Harsh Collec­
tion of Afro Americana w hich was first housed 
at Hall Branch. After completing the plans for 
moving the Harsh Collection to the Carter G. 
W oodson Regional Library (circa 1974), Joyce 
took a leave of absence from CPL to pursue a 
Ph.D. in Library Science at the University of 
Chicago. His dissertation was expanded, re­
vised, and published by G reenw ood Press in

1983 as Gatekeepers o f  Black Culture: Black 
O w ned B ook Publishing in  the U.S., 1871­
1981. He published several more books with 
G reenw ood during a 17-year relationship. He 
left CPL in the early 80s to w ork at the Univer­
sity of Tennessee-Nashville Campus, now  a 
dow ntow n campus of Tennessee State Uni­
versity. Joyce was a long time mem ber of Black 
Caucus of the American Library Association 
and was recognized with its Distinguished Ser­
vice Award in 1994. He w as regularly called 
upon to review books by such publications as 
the Nashville Tennessean, Tloe Jo urnal o f  A ca ­
dem ic Librarianship, and the Chicago Sun 
Times.

Albert P rince (A. P.) Marshall, 86, noted li­
brarian and educator, died March 9, 2001. 
Marshall began his career in librarianship at 
Lincoln University, w here he served as assis­
tant librarian (1939-41).
He w ent on to w ork as 
a librarian at the State 
T e a c h e rs  C o lle g e  in 
W inston Salem, North 
Carolina (1941-50), and 
university librarian at 
L in c o ln  U n iv e rs ity ,
(1950-69). In 1969, he .
moved to Eastern Michi­
g an University, w here 
he was director of librar­ A lb e r t P. M arshall

ies (1969-72), d e a n  o f Academic Services 
(1972-78), and professor (1978-80). A life­
long m em ber o f ALA, Marshall w as a m em ­
b er of ALA’s Council (1963—76). He w as a 
candidate for ALA President in 1971. He was 
elected and served (1971-72) as 2nd vice­
president (an office that w as elim inated in 
1972-73). Marshall was also a m em ber o f the 
N orth C arolina N egro Library A ssociation 
(1941-48), w here he served as bulletin edi­
tor and m em ber o f the Executive Board; the 
Missouri Library Association, w here he served 
as secretary (1954—56) and president (1961­
62); an d  the Michigan Library Association. 
Marshall w as the author o f Soldiers’ Dream: 
A  P ic to ria l H isto ry o f  L in c o ln  U niversity 
(19 6 6 ). H e r e c e iv e d  n u m e r o u s  a w a rd s  
throughout his career, including election to 
the Alpha Phi Alpha Hall of Fame (1964), the 
Lincoln U n iv ersity  A lum ni A c h ie v e m e n t 
Award (1965), an d  the Missouri Library As­
sociation Citation of Merit (1969). ■