ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Caroline M. C oughlin, di­
rector of the Drew Univer­
sity Library, Madison, New 
Jersey, receiv ed  th e 1992 
Distinguished Service Award 
from the College and Uni­
versity Section of the New 
Jersey Library Association.
Coughlin was hon o red  for 
h er n u m ero u s an d  varied 
p ro fe s s io n a l a c c o m p lis h ­
ments. She sp earh ead ed  a 
grant en ab lin g  13 private 
colleges and universities to 
add 1.2 million retrospective 
entries to the OCLC database. She has served 
as president of the New Jersey College and Uni­
versity Section and been a speaker and panel­
ist at a num ber of state library conferences. This 
year she coauthored the fifth edition of Lyle’s 
Adm inistration o f the College Library.

Sally W eimer, associate librarian at the Uni­
versity of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has 
received the California Federation of Teachers’ 
(AFT) 1993 W omen in Education Award. Pre­
sented in recognition of a commitment to the 
rights of w om en in public education, the award 
honors Weimer for her scholarship and teach­
ing, notably in w om en’s studies, and her lead­
ership as the librarian’s representative to the 
UCSB Executive Board of the University Coun- 
cil-AFT. Weimer is a charter m em ber o f the 
W om en’s Studies Consortium and is currently 
the librarian representative on the UCSB Sen­
ate Affirmative Action Committee.

Appointments
(Appointment notices are taken from library 

newsletters, letters from personnel offices and 
appointees, and other sources. To ensure that 
your appointm ent appears, write to the Editor, 
C&RLNews, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 6O6II- 
2795.)

C athleen Bourdon, deputy executive direc­
tor of ACRL, has been appointed executive di­
rector of the Reference and Adult Services Di­
vision (RASD) and the Association of Specialized

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a n d  C o o p e ra tiv e  Library 
Agencies (ASCLA). She will 
assume her duties at RASD 
and ASCLA on June 7, 1993.

In  h e r  n e w  p o s t, 
Bourdon will serve as head 
of the 5,500-member RASD 
division and 1,200-member 
ASCLA division. Both are 
divisions of the American Li­
brary Association.

“It is a great pleasure to 
look forward to a future in 
w hich Cathleen B ourdon’s 
leadership qualities, organi­

zational skills, and ability to work with a great 
variety o f people will be of service to RASD 
and ASCLA,” said Peggy Sullivan, ALA execu­
tive director. “She is a
respected colleague at 
ALA headquarters and it 
is great that she has ac­
cepted this opportunity.”

Bourdon previously 
served as acting direc­
tor of ACRL, library di­
rector at Alverno Col­
lege, Milwaukee, and as 
supervisor, cataloging 
department, and assis­ Cathleen Bourdon
tant professor of library
and information science at Alverno. Bourdon 
also served for three years as a Peace Corps 
volunteer in Ethiopia teaching English as a sec­
ond language.

Bourdon received her bachelor’s degree in 
political science from the University of Wis­
consin, Milwaukee, and a master’s degree in 
library science from the University of Wiscon­
sin, Madison.

Bourdon succeeds Andrew Hansen w ho will 
serve as the RASD associate executive director 
until his retirement in March 1994.

B obbie Cook J o h n s o n  is the new  director of 
library services at Big Bend Community Col­
lege in Moses Lake, Washington. She previously 
w orked at the Houston Public Library.

C harles B. Lowry assum ed the position of 
university librarian at Carnegie Mellon Univer­
sity in September 1992. His previous positions 
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Texas at Arlington (1985-1992), director of li­
braries at the University of South Alabama in 
Mobile (1980-1985), head librarian and direc­
tor of learning resources
at Elon College, North 
Carolina (1978-1980), 
social science reference 
bibliographer and head 
of reference at the Uni­
versity of North Caro­
lina at Charlotte (1974—
1978), and chairman of 
the Social Sciences Di­
vision at Faulkner State 
C o m m u n ity  C ollege,

Charles B. LowryBay Minette, Alabama 
(1965-1969)- Lowry re­
ceived his B.S. in history from Spring Hill Col­
lege, an M.A. in history from the University of 
Alabama, Tuscaloosa, an MLS from the Univer­
sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. 
in history from  th e U niversity o f Florida, 
Gainesville. He has published many articles and 
commentaries, and has served as a panelist at 
numerous meetings and conferences. Lowry is 
a 1992 recipient of the K. G. Saur Award for 
best article in C&RL. Lowry has served on the 
board of SOLINET (1983-1986) and the AMI­
GOS board of directors (1987-1992) which he 
chaired. He has also served on numerous com­
mittees of the American Library Association and 
state library associations.

D en n is A. N orlin has been appointed direc­
tor of the Devereaux Library at the South Da­
kota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid 
City. Norlin is a graduate of Augustana College 
(B.A.), Luther Theological Seminary (B.D.), the 
University of Iowa (Ph.D.), and the University 
of Illinois (MLS). After 14 years of teaching phi­
losophy and religion, he became media/micro- 
computer librarian at the University of Illinois’ 
Undergraduate Library. He is a member of the 
ACRL Audiovisual Committee, an intern on the 
ACRL Copyright Committee, and a member of 
the BIS Instruction for Diversified Populations 
Committee.

Kathryn O’Gorman, head of the Acquisitions 
Department at the University of Cincinnati, has 
been named director of the Learning Resource 
Center at Cincinnati Technical College. In this 
position she will direct the operations and per­
sonnel of the Johnnie Mae Berry Library and 
the college’s media center. O ’Gorman has also

served as head of the Serials and Acquisitions 
Departments at the Wright State University Li­
brary. She is chair of the Ohio-Kentucky Coop­
erating Libraries Union List of Serials Board, 
and a member of ALA, ACRL, and the Greater 
Cincinnati Library Consortium. She earned her 
bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Uni­
versity of Vermont and master’s degrees in 
mathematics and library science from Indiana 
University.

Sara R ichardson has been named director of 
the Pennsylvania College of Optometry Library, 
Philadelphia. She most recently served as di­
rector of the library at
Methodist Hospital, and 
p re v io u s ly  s e rv e d  at 
T e m p le  a n d  H a h n e ­
m a n n  U n iv e rs itie s .
Richardson received her 
B.A. in English from 
Blue Mountain College,
Mississippi, her M.A. in 
history from the Univer­
sity of North Carolina, 
a n d  h e r  MLS fro m  
D re x e l U n iv e rsity . Sara Richardson
W idely p u b lis h e d  in
professional journals, she also authored a book 
on the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, 
and received the Lois Allen Publication Award 
from the Nurses Association for Teacher Edu­
cation and the Medical Library Association 
Achievement Award from the MLA’s Philadel­
phia Chapter.

Patricia Suozzi has been named library direc­
tor at Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Ver­
mont. She previously served as director of the 
C hatham  C ollege Li­
b r a ry  in P itts b u r g h  
(1989-1992), h ea d  of 
the Forbes Quadrangle 
Libraries at the Univer­
sity of Pittsburgh (1987- 
1989), adjunct assistant 
professor in the College 
o f Library Science at 
Clarion U niversity of 
P en n sy lv a n ia (1 9 8 7 - 
1989), and head of the 
Economics Library and Patricia Suozzi
eco n o m ics b ib lio g ra­
pher at the University of Pittsburgh (1982-1987). 
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Organizational Misfits” published in C&RL (No­
vember 1992), o f a num ber o f book reviews, 
and two National Science Foundation grants. 
She w as also associate ed ito r of Econom ic 
Books: Current Selections from 1982-1989. She 
received both her bachelor’s degree in English 
and her MLS from the Catholic University of 
America.

T hom as A m os is now  assistant librarian 
and assistant head of public services at Indiana 
University Libraries.

D aniel Barkey has joined the Northwest­
ern University Gaiter Health Sciences Library, 
Chicago, as head o f information systems.

C atherine A. B ell is how  collections con­
servation librarian, preservation department, at 
the University o f Texas at Austin Libraries.

Joan  B ew ley has b een  appointed reference 
librarian and liaison to the Psychology and Phi­
losophy Departments at Carnegie Mellon Uni­
versity Libraries, Pittsburgh.

Karen Havill B ingham  is the new  coordi­
nator of collection management at Middle Ten­
nessee State University, Murfreesboro.

J o h n  Bloom berg-R issm an has b een  ap­
pointed assistant director of the Center for Bib­
liographical Studies and Research at the Uni­
versity of California, Riverside, an d  at the 
Huntington Library, San Marino.

J. C assidy Chestnut, Jr. has b een  nam ed 
humanities reference librarian at the Auburn 
University Libraries, Alabama.

Lucinda D ailey has been nam ed catalog 
lib r a ria n  a t th e  U n iv e rs ity  o f A lab am a, 
Tuscaloosa.

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M aureen D aw ley has b een  prom oted to 
reference librarian and liaison to the Art De­
partm ent at Carnegie Mellon University Librar­
ies, Pittsburgh.

D o in a  Farkas is now  head of technical ser­
vices at the University of North Texas Librar­
ies, Denton.

Alan D ale Gabehart has been appointed 
assistant director of the Noel Memorial Library 
at Louisiana State University, Shreveport.

B lake G u m b rech t has b e e n  ap p o in ted  
docum ents librarian at Temple University Li­
braries, Philadelphia.

Catherine Hitti has joined the staff of the 
Davis Library Reference Department, Univer­
sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Elizabeth H oagg has been nam ed director 
of the Torrington Regional Campus Library, Uni­
versity of Connecticut, Storrs.

D o n n a  H ogan has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the University of Alabama, 
Tuscaloosa.

Ting Jam es has b een  nam ed catalog librar­
ian at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

R oger K elly is n ow  h ead  of the Marine 
and Atmospheric Sciences Information Cen­
ter at the State University of New York at Stony 
Brook.

N ancy K line is now  coordinator for the ref­
erence collection at the University of Connecti­
cut Libraries, Storrs.

M elissa Lam ont has been nam ed reference 
librarian (documents) in the Research and In­
formation Services Department at the Univer­
sity of Connecticut, Storrs.

H elen  Lewis has been appointed coordi­
nator for instructional services at the Univer­
sity of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs.

Susan M assey is now  catalog librarian at 
the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Cinda A nn May has b een  nam ed special 
co llectio n s/rare b ooks cataloger at Tem ple 
University Libraries, Philadelphia.

Stacey A. N ick ell is now  public services 
c o o rd in a to r a n d  au d io v isu a l c a ta lo g e r at 
Paducah Community College Library, Kentucky.

Kristan Norvig has joined the staff of the 
Brandeis University Library, Waltham, Massa­
chusetts, as microcomputer/network analyst,

Todd C. Peters is now  assistant documents 
and electronic information services librarian at 
the University of Texas at Austin Libraries.

Benita Strand has been nam ed curriculum 
materials/education librarian at the University 
of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.



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J o h n  L. Tofanelli has been named refer­
ence librarian and liaison to the English and 
M odern Languages D epartm ent at Carnegie 
Mellon University Libraries, Pittsburgh.

Carol Trinchitella has been appointed se­
rials acquisitions librarian at Auburn University 
Libraries, Alabama.

Patricia J. Vaught is now  cataloger of Latin 
American/Iberian materials at the University of 
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Retirements
Norm an B. Brown, professor of library ad­
ministration at the University of Illinois (UI), 
Urbana-Champaign, retired August 21, 1992. 
During his 39-year career at UI he served as 
assistant reference librarian, documents bibli­
ographer, serials acquisitions librarian, assistant 
serials librarian, head of the Collection Devel­
opment Division of the Collection Development 
and Preservation Department, and assistant di­
rector for special collections and preservation. 
From 1962-1984 he was a major contributor to 
the annual serials price indexes published in 
Library Journal.

A sgeir Ingibergsson, university librarian at 
Augustana University College, Alberta, Canada, 
will become librarian emeritus w hen he retires 
August 1. He will have
been Augustana’s head 
librarian for 15 years.
Ingibergsson holds two 
degrees from the Uni­
versity of Iceland, his 
native land; in Canada 
he earned an MLS from 
the University of Alberta.
He spent 20 years as a 
p arish  p a s to r (1 9 5 8 - 
1978), half in Iceland 
and half in Canada, and Asgeir Ingibergsson
m ost recently chaired
the Alberta Private Colleges Librarians Group.

Mary Mac Mosley, associate librarian and di­
rector of library services at Shorter College, 
Rome, Georgia, retired May 31 after 25 years 
of service. Mosley joined the Shorter staff in 
1968 after earning her MLn from Emory Uni­
versity. She earned a B.S. from Auburn Univer­

sity and com pleted additional graduate-level 
studies at Athens College, West Georgia Col­
lege, the University of Georgia, and Georgia 
State University. Mosley has been a member of 
many organizations including ALA, the South­
eastern Library Association, the Georgia Library 
Association, and the National Education Asso­
ciation. She was listed in Who’s Who o f Am eri­
can Women, 1974; Who’s Who in South a n d  
Southwest; the Dictionary o f International Bio­
graphy, 1975; and W ho’s Who in A m erican 
Education, 1992.

Deaths
Carol B ondhus Fitzgerald, chief of readers’ 
services at the Graduate Center Library of the 
City University of New York, died December 
22, 1992, after a six-month battle with cancer. 
A graduate of Rosary College in River Forest, 
Illinois, Fitzgerald held master’s degrees from 
New York and Columbia Universities. She 
joined the Mina Rees Library staff in 1969 and 
served as deputy chief, acting chief, and chief 
of readers’ services there. She also was series 
editor of several ongoing, multivolume bibli­
ographies including Bibliographies o f the Ameri­
can Presidents, Bibliographies o f the United 
States, and Bibliographies o f American Notables.

Mary Louise Gladish, biomedical research ser­
vices librarian at Vanderbilt University Medical 
Center, Nashville, died January 14 at the age of 
73- Gladish chose librarianship as a second ca­
reer after medical problems forced her to stop 
teaching. She had served as a Swift Fellow in 
nutrition at Harvard and as associate professor 
of health education at East Tennessee State Uni­
versity. She earned a master’s degree in public 
health from the University of North Carolina 
and another in education from the University 
o f Chicago. Her MLS was earned at Peabody 
College.

J o h n  K in g, ac tin g  h e a d  o f re fe re n c e  at 
Hornbake Library, University of Maryland (UM) 
at College Park, died January 17 after a linger­
ing illness. He was 44 years old. King received 
a B.A. in speech pathology and audiology from 
Hampton Institute in 1970, then w ent on to 
earn his M.A. in speech science from the Uni­
versity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1971,



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and his MLS from Catholic University in 1984. 
King’s career at UM began in 1985 w hen he 
joined the staff as an associate librarian in ref­
erence. Before that he served as an adjunct lec­
turer at Catholic University while serving there 
as information specialist, library operations 
manager, and then project specialist for the 
National Rehabilitation Information Center from 
1982 to 1985. From 1975 to 1981 King was a 
speech and language clinician for the Baltimore 
City Public Schools. King was a member of ALA 
and its Black Caucus, the DC Library Associa­
tion, and the Association of Specialized and Co­
operative Library Agencies.

Myra Jo M oon, preservation librarian at Colo­
rado State University Libraries, died after a brief 
illness on March 15. Moon joined the libraries 
in 1965 first as assistant
catalog librarian, then as 
h ea d  o f the P repara­
tions Department. She 
took on her most recent 
position in 1982. Moon 
was an active workshop 
presenter and consult­
a n t o n  p r e s e rv a tio n  
problems in Colorado.
A founding member of 
the Colorado Center for 

Myra Jo Moon
the Book, the Colorado 
Preservation Alliance,
and the Colorado Library Association Preserva­
tion Roundtable, she was currently the project 
director of an LSCA grant for a state preserva­

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tion action plan. Nationally, she was a member 
of the ALA PLMS Library Binding Institutes Plan­
ning Committee.

H elen  S. Olney, former librarian at the School 
of Public Health, Harvard University, died Janu­
ary 14. She worked at Harvard from 1935 until 
her retirement in 1970.

D onald Charles Y elton died February 23 in 
Warwick, Rhode Island, at the age of 75. He 
had a long library career serving as head li­
brarian at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, from 
1952-1965; head librarian at New York State 
College at Buffalo (1965-1967); and director of 
libraries at the State University of New York at 
Potsdam (1967-1972). Yelton graduated from 
H am ilton College in 1935 an d  received a 
master’s degree from Georgetown University 
in 1950. He also received an MLS from Colum­
bia University in 1950 and was awarded his 
Ph.D. there in 1962. The author o f B rief Am eri­
can Lives: Four Studies in Collective Biography 
(Scarecrow Press, 1978), Yelton had recently 
been active in the affairs of the Westerly Public 
Library in Westerly, Rhode Island. ■