ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ O ctober 2003 / 631

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s Ann-Christe Galloway

Sandra Rios Balderrama, former director of 
ALA’s Office for Diversity and former president 
of REFORMA, has been selected as REFORMA’s 

2003 Arnulfo D. Trejo Li­
brarian o f the Year. 
Balderrama’s professional 
career in librarianship has 
been closely associated 
with issues of diversity 
and the recruitment and 
retention of librarians of 
color. As a junior librar­
ian at Berkeley Public Li­
brary, she was instrumen- 

Sandra Rios Balderrama
tal in the creation o f the 

Multiethnic Committee. She then became the co­
ordinator o f Recruitment, Staff Development 
and Retention for the Oakland Public Library 
(1995-97). As the first librarian to hold the posi­
tion of director for ALA’s Office for Diversity 
(1998-2002), Balderrama was aggressively in­
volved in determining the path and successful fu­
ture o f the ALA Spectrum Scholars Program. 
When Balderrama left this position, the ALA Coun­
cil passed a resolution on June 19,2002, honoring 
her work.

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

Carolyn Argentati has been appointed associ­
ate vice provost and the Donald E. Moreland 
deputy director of libraries at North Carolina State 
University. She will focus on leadership and coor­
dination of the internal work of the libraries and 
will stand in for and serve as a proxy for the vice 
provost and director at campus, library, and de­
velopment events.

Nancy Busch has been named associate dean for 
the University Libraries at the University of Ne- 
braska-Lincoln. Her academic teaching experience 
includes an appointment as visiting faculty for the 
School of Library and Information Management 
at Emporia State University (1990-98 and 2000). 
She also served as adjunct faculty for the Teacher’s 
College at the University o f Nebraska-Lincoln

(1995-97) and the School of Information and 
Library Studies at the University of Michigan 
(1986-88). Busch previously served as deputy di­
rector of the Nebraska Library Commission. 
Busch’s articles have appeared in LibraryA dmin­
istration & Management, Wilson Library Bulletin, 
and the Nebraska Library Association Quarterly. 
She has also authored many reports for the Ne­
braska Library Commission.

Lisabeth Chabot has been named college li­
brarian at Ithaca College. She was previously col­
lege librarian at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. 
While in Virginia, Chabot served a term as presi­
dent of the Virginia Library Association; she is 
the immediate past president of the Virginia In­
dependent College and University Library Asso­
ciation; and she served on the Virginia LSTA Ad­
visory Council and the State Council for Higher 
Education in Virginia Library Advisory Council. 
As an ACRL member Chabot has been active with 
the College Library  Section (CLS), most recently 
serving on the CLS executive committee and the 
CLS standards committee

Linda Matthews has
been named vice provost 
and director of libraries 
at Emory University.
Matthews has been direc­
tor of the Special Collec­
tions and Archives Divi­
sion in the Robert W.
W oodruff Library at 
Emory since 1982. She 
joined Emory as a refer­ Linda M atth e w s
ence archivist in 1972.

Catherine Murray-Rust has been named dean 
of libraries at Colorado State University-Ft. 
Collins. She was previously the associate univer-

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C allow ay, p ro d u c tio n  e dito r, C&RL News, 50 E. H uro n  
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sity librarian for Public 
Services and Innovative 
Technology at Oregon 
State University in 
Corvallis, and was the se­
nior administrator for sev­
eral departments, includ­
ing reference, access ser­
vices, library technology, 
university archives and 

C atherine M urray-R ust records, special collec­
tions, and the Guin Li­

brary. Prior to her tenure at Oregon State, she 
served for 21 years in reference services and li­
brary administration at Cornell University. She is 
active in ACRL, LAMA, and LITA.

Verne W. Newton has been named director of 
the James A. Cannavino Library at Marist College. 
Newton was previously director of the nearby 
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde 
Park, New York. He has published two books on 
Roosevelt-era history and wrote and produced 
the PBS feature documentary Harry Hopkins: At 
FDR’s Side.

Janice Simmons-Welburn has been named 
associate dean of the University of Arizona Li­
braries.

Ann St Clair has been appointed library direc­
tor of Montana Tech Library at the University of 
Montana.

Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon Univer­
sity librarian since April 1998, has been named 
dean of university libraries at Carnegie Mellon 

University. Carnegie 
Mellon University Presi­
dent Jared Cohon said that 
the new title “more aptly 
reflects the importance of 
the libraries in the 
university’s academic life.” 
St. Clair edited College & 
Research Libraries from 
1990 to 1996. She then 
became the managing edi­

G lo ria n a  St. C la ir tor of Journal o f A ca ­
demic Librarianship. When Elsevier bought that 
journal, St. Clair, Sue Martin, Charles Lowry and 
many board members founded a new journal, por­
tal: Libraries and the Academy, which is published 
electronically in “Muse.” She has led or partici­

pated in various leadership activities in the field 
of library science and was chair of ALA’S Library 
Research Roundtable and the ACRL Excellence 
in Academic Libraries Award Committee. She is a 
member of the Digital Library Federation, and 
past chair of the Pennsylvania Academic Library 
Consortia] Initiative, among many other organi­
zations and committees.

J. Daniel Vann HI, retired dean of library ser­
vices at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 
has been appointed interim director of the Will­
iam Smith Morton Library and adjunct professor 
of bibliography at Union 
Theological Seminary and 
Presbyterian School of 
Christian Education. He 
was previously a bibliog­
rapher at the Newberry 
Library  and librarian/di­
rector at Charleston 
Southern University,
Keuka College, Staten Is­
land Community College 

J. D a n ie l V a n n  III
of CUNY, the Lockwood 
Library at SUNY-Buffalo, and the University of 
Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Vann has been chair of 
ACRL’s Community and Junior College Librar­
ies Section and its membership and constitu­
tion and bylaws committees as well as a mem­
ber of ACRL’s Board of Directors; CHOICE 
editorial board, the Academic/Research Li­
brarian of the Year Committee, and the Intel­
lectual Freedom Committee. He was a Council 
on Library Resources intern and has served on 
ALA and LAMA panels.

William D. Walker has been named director 
of libraries at the University of Miami (UM). 
Walker, who oversaw the 
New York Public Li­
brary, previously served as 
director of the Medical 
Library Center of New 
York and as the head of 
information services at 
the University of Illinois 
Medical Center’s Library 
of the Health Sciences.
At UM, Walker will over­

W illia m  D. W a lk e rsee a library system an­
chored by the newly refurbished $17.5 million 
Otto G. Richter Library, which houses 1.8 million 
of the university’s volumes.



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Margaret M. Cohen is now head librarian 
of the Educational Resource Center at Boston 
College.

Elizabeth Cooper has been appointed an­
thropology librarian for the General Libraries of 
Emory University.

Holly Eggleston has joined the Maureen 
and Mike Mansfield Library at the University of 
Montana-Missoula as a reference librarian.

Stephen Enniss has been appointed direc­
tor o f special collections and archives for the 
General Libraries of Emory University.

Tiffeni J. Fontno has been appointed busi­
ness and management librarian at Case Western 
Reserve University.

Eric Glass has been appointed serials librar­
ian at Columbia University’s Arthur Diamond Law 
Library.

Stephen Greenberg has been named co­
ordinator o f public services for the History  of 
Medicine Division at the National Library of 
Medicine.

Judith Haydel has joined the reference de­
partment of the Dupré Library at the University 
of Louisiana-Lafayette.

Emily Holmes is now assistant director for 
preservation reformatting and digitization in the 
preservation division of the Columbia University 
Libraries.

Dena Hutto has been promoted to director 
of reference and instruction in the Reed College 
Library.

Juliet Kerico has been appointed literature 
and humanities librarian at Indiana State Univer­
sity.

Jean Laponce is now Western European and 
Philosophy librarian in the Humanities and His­
tory Division at Columbia University Libraries.

Colleen Major has joined the Maureen and 
Mike Mansfield Library  as a reference librarian at 
the University of Montana-Missoula.

Erin McCaffrey has been appointed dis­
tance learning librarian at Regis University in 
Denver.

Patrick McCarthy has been appointed co­
ordinator of instruction/reference services at 
Colorado State University Libraries.

Emily J. McElroy is the new collection de­
velopment and acquisitions librarian at the Uni­
versity of Oregon-Eugene Libraries.

Matthew Parsons has been appointed map 
librarian in the Map Collection and Cartographic 
Information Services at the University of Wash­
ington Libraries.

Anne Pemberton is now public services li­
brarian at the University of North Carolina- 
Wilmington.

Tom Riedel is now distance services librar­
ian at Regis University in Denver.

Krista Schmidt is the new reference/sci­
ence librarian at Western Carolina University’s 
Hunter Libraiy.

Dongfang Shao has been appointed head of 
the library at Stanford University’s East Asia library.

Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh has been ap­
pointed consulting librarian for the social sciences 
at Cornell College.

Leigh Thompson is now reference/instruc­
tional services librarian at the Roberts-LaForge 
Library at Delta State University.

MinTian has been appointed Chinese studies 
librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries.

Maurice York has joined the General Li­
braries of Emory  University as team leader for 
circulation and reserves.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Rosemary E. Buhr, director of the Learning 
Resources Center at the Logan College of Chiro­
practic in Chesterfield, Missouri, has retired after 
20 years of service. Previously she was librarian at 
Barnes Hospital School of Nursing for 11 years.

Joan Gotwals, vice provost and director of 
Emoiy University Librar­
ies, has retired after 15 
years of service. She has 
lead the library to national 
recognition for its major 
research collections, invit­
ing physical facilities, and 
innovations in digital ser­
vices. Prior to joining 
Emoiy, Gotwals spent 26 
years in the library  system 

Joan Gotwals
of the University of Penn­
sylvania, where she became deputy director of 
libraries in 1981.

Nancy Koller, bibliographer of social sciences 
and humanities and distinguished librarian at the 
University of California-Riverside (UCR), has re­
tired. She was an active member in many library 
associations, including ALA, California Librarians 
Association, and California Association of Aca­



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demic Libraries. She has 
published articles in 
Books at UCR and taught 
at Riverside Community 
College, Chapman Col­
lege, and UCR in the ar­
eas of library organiza­
tions and functions, li­
brary research methodol­
ogy and strategies, and 

Nancy Koller bibliographic instruction.

Chang C. Lee has retired after 20 years of ser­
vice at the University o f Central Florida (UCF) 
Library. He began his library career in 1969 and 
has worked at various institutions, including 
Florida A&M University and the Behrend Col­

lege, Pennsylvania State 
University-Erie. After 
teaching library science 
and education at the Na­
tional Chengchi Univer­
sity of Taiwan for a year, 
Lee came to UCF as the 
head o f circulation in 
1983 and became the spe­
cial collections librarian in 
1986. Lee has also been a 

Chang C. Lee professor of Chinese lan­
guage and civilization at UCF since 1985. He has 
published 55 papers relating to education, Chi­
nese language and culture, library science and ar­
chives; made 28 presentations and consultations; 
and served as a consultant for several college li­
braries in Taiwan. He has been one of the execu­
tive editors of the Journal o fE ducational Media 
and Libraty Sciences since 1985. Lee has been a 
member o f the Florida Library Association and 
ALA and served as the president of the Chinese 
American Library Association (an affiliate organi­
zation o f ALA) from 1988 to 1989-

Bob Sickles, reference/collections librarian in 
the area of agriculture/life sciences at Iowa State 
University, has retired after 35 years of service.

D e a t h s

Bernard McTigue, 57, head of special collec­
tions at the North Carolina State University 
(NCSU) Libraries, has died. Before joining the 
NCSU Libraries in 1999, McTigue served as di­

rector o f the Division of 
Special Collections and 
University Archives at the 
University of Oregon and 
as chair o f the Depart­
ment o f Special Collec­
tions at the University of 
Florida’s Smathers Librar­
ies. From 1974 to 1990 
he worked at the N ew  
York Public Library, first B ern ard M cT igue
as curator o f the Arents 
Collections, then as curator of the collection and 
keeper o f rare books. McTigue also worked in 
various editorial capacities for a number of jour­
nals, including the Bulletin of Bibliography, Ameri­
can Book Collector, Bulletin du Bibliophile, and 
Biblio, and authored several books. He was active 
professionally, holding membership in several or­
ganizations, including ACRL’s Rare Books and 
Manuscripts Section.

Elizabeth Ellen Winkelmann Morrissett,
82, has died. Morrissett worked as the DuPont 
organic chemistry department librarian (1944-45), 
as science and technical librarian at Antioch Col­
lege (1945-48), as a librarian at the University of 
California-Berkeley (1948-50), as librarian at the 
University of Colorado (1969-7®, as librarian at 
Auraria Library in Denver (1976-80), as head li­
brarian at Montana College o f Mineral Science 
and Technology in Butte (1980-86), as library di­
rector at Alaska Pacific University-Anchorage 
(1986-90), and as a librarian at Alaska State Li­
brary in Juneau from (1990-91). She was a mem­
ber of ALA, Colorado Library Association, Moun­
tain Plains Ubrary Association, and the Interna­
tional Federation of Library Associations. ■

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