ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


334 /C&RL News ■ March 2001

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

M arianna T ax C h old in , th e C. W alter and 
G erda B. M ortenson D istinguished Professor 
at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana- 
Champaign, has b e e n  selected as th e sixth 
recipient of the Library Q uarterly aw ard for 
ex cellen ce in refereeing. T he criteria are 
prom ptness, d e p th  o f analysis, an d  construc­
tive criticism. Choldin w as selected from more 
than 100 p e e r referees w ho read m anuscripts 
in 2000.

C o n n e ll B. G allagh er has received the New 
England Archivists’ (NEA) D istinguished Ser­
vice Award. G allagher has served as director 
o f research collections at the University of 
Vermont (UVM) since 1992. Previously he 
served as h ead  o f special collections, univer­
sity archivist, an d  curator of m anuscripts at 
UVM. H e also served as staff archivist for U.S. 
Senators R obert Stafford an d  Patrick J. Leahy 
(1988-89). G allagher is the author o f num er­
ous publications, including “A R epository 
Archivist on Capitol Hill” an d  “Problem s of a 
Collection D evelopm ent Archivist.” H e was 
h o n o red  by m em bership in national libraiy 
science an d  history h o n o r societies, as a fel­
low  of the Vermont A cadem y o f Arts an d  
Sciences, an d  by UVM w ith a Faculty Devel­
opm ent Award. H e is a form er p resident of 
th e V ermont Library A ssociation, a n d  has 
chaired the Manuscripts and College an d  Uni­
versity Archives Sections o f the Society of 
American Archivists. A m em ber of NEA since 
1973, he has served th e organization in a 
num ber o f capacities, including a term  as 
president (1983-84).

A lfred K agan, African studies bibliographer 
at the University o f Illinois Library at Urbana- 
C h a m p a ig n , w a s s e l e c te d  as th e  2000 
Conover-Porter Award finalist for outstand­
ing achievem ent in Africana bibliography and 
reference w orks. Reference G uide to Africa: 
A  Bibliography o f  Sources {Scarecrow  Press, 
1999), w ritten by K agan an d  his predecessor 
Yvette Scheven, provides a un iq u e bibliog­
raphy of the m ost im portant resources for 
African study. T he aw ard, p resen ted  bienni­

ally by the African Studies Association, w as 
established in 1980 to h o n o r tw o Africana 
librarians, H elen F. C onover of the Library of 
Congress an d  D orothy B. Porter of H ow ard 
University.

M ary R e ic h e l, p re s i­
dent-elect o f ACRL and 
u n iv ersity  lib rarian  at 
A ppalachian State Uni­
versity in B oone, North 
C a r o lin a , h a s  b e e n  
n a m e d  the first Carol 
G ro tn e s  B elk  D istin ­
g u is h e d  P ro fesso r for 
L ibrary a n d  In fo rm a ­
tional Studies. T he p ro ­

Mary Reichel
fesso rsh ip  w as e s ta b ­
lished through a gift to the university from 
Irwin a n d  Carol G. Belk o f Charlotte and 
matching funds from a state program  designed 
to attract and retain exceptional faculty. “Truly 
one o f th e keys to lifelong learning is the 
ability to use an d  evaluate inform ation re­
sources an d  to gain a love o f n ew  ideas and 
reading,” said Reichel. “This professorship will 
allow  the library to increase this kind o f im­
p act.” Reichel w as n am ed  university librar­
ian at A ppalachian in 1992. She has also held 
positions at th e University o f N ebraska at 
O m aha, SUNY Buffalo, Georgia State Univer­
sity, an d  th e University o f Arizona. She re ­
ceived the Miriam D udley Instruction Library 
Award in 1999.

J a n e  N. R yland , m em b ersh ip  consultant. 
Internet2, an d  a higher education technol­
ogy consultant, w as elec ted  to th e  OCLC 
B oard o f Trustees. Ryland w as p resident of 
CAUSE from 1986-98.

C h ristin a W oo, social sciences librarian at 
the University o f California, has received the 
CARL (California Academic & Research Li­
braries) M em ber of the Year Award. Woo has 
b e e n  a CARL m em ber since 1987. From 1997 
to 1999, she w as the editor of the quarterly 
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A p p o i n t m e n t s

Keith Cottam  is now  dean o f libraries at the 
University o f Wyoming. He had b e e n  direc­
tor o f libraries there since 1983.

Beth A shm ore is now instruction librar­
ian at Mississippi State University’s Mitchell 
Memorial Library.

Je a n  B isch off has been  appointed to a 
three-year term as a project archivist with the 
Dole Collection at the University o f Kansas.

Paul Callister has joined the University 
o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as law refer­
ence librarian.

K aren  S. Chafin is now  a catalog librar­
ian at the University o f Virginia College at 
Wise.

Susan Clark has b e e n  appointed  user 
education coordinator/reference librarian in 
the Odegaard Undergraduate Library at the 
University o f W ashington in Seattle.

Ju lie M. Cook is now  engineering infor­
mation services librarian in the Engineering 
Library at the University o f Washington in Se­
attle.

Jo n a th a n  Dembo has been  selected as 
head o f special collections at the J. Y. Jo y n er 
L ib rary  a t E a st C a r o lin a  U n iv e rs ity  in 
Greenville, North Carolina.

Brenda Ellis is now  reference and instruc­
tion  lib ra ria n  at M id d lebu ry C o lleg e  in 
Middlebury, Vermont.

Susan G ardner has joined the reference 
staff at J. Y. Jo y n er Library at East Carolina 
University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Paul Healey is now  head o f public ser­
vices for the Law Library at the University o f 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

P eter Hook has joined the University o f 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a law refer­
ence librarian.

David Hursh has assumed the position of 
head o f the Fletcher Music Library at East Caro­
lina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

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

Jim  Kent is the new  coordinator o f Me­
dia-Microtext Services at Stanford University.

Kevin Medows is now  the visiting assis­
tant music librarian at the University o f Illi­
nois at Urbana-Champaign.

Amy M urphy has joined Mississippi State 
University’s Mitchell Memorial Library as a 
serials cataloger.

C hristop h er P ro m  is now  assistant uni­
versity archivist at the University o f Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign.

Laverna Saunders has been  nam ed in­
terim academ ic vice president at Salem State 
College.

M algorzata Schaefer is now  coordinator 
o f Instructional Services at Stanford Univer­
sity.

Douglas Stehle has been  appointed head 
o f reference at Southwest Missouri State Uni­
versity.

Scott W alter has b e e n  appointed head of 
the G eorge B. Brain Education Library at 
Washington State University in Pullman, Wash­
ington.

David Ward is now  assistant undergradu­
ate librarian for referen ce services at the 
University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Ja n e  Williams is now  foreign, com para­
tive, and international law librarian at the 
University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Bonita B ryant, assistant director o f collec­
tion development, has retired from the Uni­
versity Libraries at the University at Albany, 
after 20 years o f service. She began her li­
brary career in 1967 as a library assistant at 
the Sandia Corporation T echnical Libraries in 
Albuquerque, New Mexico. She joined the 
University at Albany Libraries in 1981 as an 
associate librarian and achieved tenure and 
the rank o f librarian shortly thereafter. Dur­
ing her tenure as assistant director, she was 
responsible for a successful reorganization 
o f the Libraries’ Collection D evelopm ent Di­
vision, as well as the guidance and leader­
ship o f bibliographers in the selection o f elec­
tronic resources. She provided the necessary 
leadership for the developm ent o f the Librar­
ies’ Preservation Program. Her activities also 
included the publication o f a num ber o f jour­

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nal articles, active leadership o f national and 
regional collection development committees, 
and numerous memberships in national and 
local professional organizations.

Pam ela J .  Cravey, most recently head o f ac­
cess services at Georgia State University’s 
Pullen Library, has retired after 32 years o f 
service to four university libraries. Awarded 
emerita status, she has started a consulting 
business and has written Protecting Library 
Staff, Users, Collections, an d  Facilities (Neal­
Schuman, forthcom ing).

Carol Parke has retired from the Syracuse 
University Library after serving 14 years as 
associate university librarian for public ser­
vices. She also w orked in libraries at the Uni­
versity o f Delaware, where she was an assis­
tant director, and at Virginia Commonwealth 
University, where she was head o f reference 
and interim director. Parke’s first academic 
library position was at Yale, w here she was 
a reference librarian, and later, head o f gov­
ernment publications. Betw een 1977 and 1984 
Parke was also a visiting lecturer at the School 
o f Library Science, University o f North Caro­
lina, Chapel Hill. Her first ca reer p osition

A d v e r tis e r  in d e x

ACM 298
American Chemical 323

Society
American Psychological Assc.  307
American Theological 322

Library Association
Chemical Abstracts Service Cover 2
CHOICE 306
EBSCO Cover 4
Endeavor Information Sys. Cover 3
G ale Group 273
Gem teq 274
H. W. Wilson 268
InfoUSA 293
Jo h n s Hopkins Univ. Press 325
Libraries Unlimited 327
netLibrary 2 7 8 -2 7 9
OCLC 317
OECD 289
R.R. Bow ker 295
ScienceDirect 265
SwetsBlackwell 28 6

was as an assistant ch ild ren ’s librarian at 
the New York Public Library. A life m em ber 
o f ALA, Parke was active in the ACRL heads 
o f public/reader’s services discussion group. 
She was also active in the Research Libraries 
Group Shared Resources Program.

Lois Sher has retired after 20 years o f ser­
vice to the Engineering Library at the Stanford 
University Library (SUL). She began working 
as head o f circulation in 1980 and was pro­
moted to operations manager, w here she re­
sponsible for the day-to-day operation o f the 
library in addition to assisting with reference 
services. Sher served on many SUL commit­
tees including NOTIS Circulation Im plem en­
tation, president o f SULSA (now  SLSA), Uni­
corn  W orkflows Circulation Planning and 
Implementation, the Binding Task Force, and 
numerous search committees. O ne o f Sher’s 
achievements was the organization and imple­
mentation o f NOTIS C irculation in the E n­
g in eerin g  Library.

D e a t h s

Douglas Birdsall, 53, associate dean o f the 
University Libraries at Texas Tech, has died. 
His administrative du­
ties in clu d ed  th e r e ­
cently com pleted, 17.5 
million dollar renova­
tion o f the university li­
brary. The Tech library 
was also accredited as 
a m em ber o f the Asso­
ciation o f Research Li­
braries (ARL) under his 
leadership. He began 

Douglas Birdsall
his career as an assis­
tant professor at Idaho State University in 
1979. He then moved into library adminis­
tration at North Dakota State University in 
1984 and to Texas Tech in 1989. He has had 
articles published in a variety o f library jour­
nals including the Encyclopedia o f Library 
and Information Science, the Journal o f Aca­
dem ic Librarianship, and College and Re­
search Libraries. He was a m em ber o f the 
TTU International Affairs Council and the Aca­
demic Council, and had served on the TTU 
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