ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


48 / C&RL News ■ January 2003

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s A nn -C h riste G allow ay

The following are participants in the Leadership 
Fellows Program, sponsored by the National Li­
brary o f Medicine and the Association o f Aca­
demic Health Sciences Libraries: Judy Consales, 
interim director, UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Bio­
medical Library; Charles J .  G reenberg, head 
reference librarian, Cushing/Whitney Medical Li­
b r a r y  at Y a le  U n iv e r s ity ; P a t r i c i a  C. 
Higginbottom, assistant director for informa­
tion and instructional services, Lister Hill Library 
o f the Health Sciences at the University o f Ala­
bama-Birmingham; Gerald J . P erry , head o f 
information services, Arizona Health Sciences Li­
brary, University o f Arizona; Linda J. Walton, 
associate director, Galter Health Sciences Library, 
Northwestern University.

Betty Gard, head o f reference and research ser­
vices at the University o f North Dakota’s (UND) 
Chester Fritz Library, was named 2002 Librarian 
of the Year by the North Dakota Library Associa­
tion (NDLA). Gard has w orked at UND since 
1971. She served as NDLA president and has 
chaired many NDLA sections and committees over 
three decades. She has also been state representa­
tive to the ALA Council for two terms and re­
mains active on many ALA committees and task 
forces.

Fred M. Heath, dean o f the University Libraries 
at Texas A&M University, began his one-year term 
as president o f the Association o f Research Li­
braries.

Three new  Association o f Research Libraries’ 
board members were elected by the membership 
to serve three-year terms: Rush Miller, univer­
sity librarian, University o f Pittsburgh; Sherrie 
Schm idt, dean o f university libraries, Arizona 
State University; and Paul W illis, dean o f li­
braries, University o f South Carolina.

Mary Ja n e  Scherdin, director o f the Oscar 
Rennebohm Library, Edgewood College in Madi­
son, Wisconsin, has been named the 2002 Librar­
ian o f the Year-Demco Award recipient by the 
Wisconsin Library Association. Scherdin worked 
in public, school, and academic library settings, 
including positions at the University o f W is­

co n sin  (U W )-W hitew ater, UW -M ilw aukee, 
and UW-Madison, before being named library 
d irecto r at Edgew ood  
College in 1992. She 
chaired the ACRL Task 
Force on Vocational Inter­
est Inventories ( 1 9 9 1 - 
93), was a member of the 
ACRL Image Enhance­
ment Committee (1993—
9 6 ), and c h a ir e d  the 
ACRL A p p o in tm e n ts  
C om m ittee ( 1 9 9 7 -9 8 ) .
She has also been  active M ary Jane Scherdin
in the ACRL College Li­
braries Section’s College Library Director Men­
tor Program. Scherdin’s national study o f the 
vocational characteristics o f the library and in­
formation profession was funded by ALA, ACRL, 
and Consulting Psychologists Press, resulting in 
the book Discovering Libraians: Profiles o fα P rofes­
sion  (ACRL, 1994).

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

Lavema M. Saunders has been appointed uni­
versity librarian at Duqesne University’s Gumberg 
Library.

Katherine C. Adams has b e en  appointed 
assistant catalog librarian at Bowdoin College.

Jessica Alverson is now electronic resources 
librarian at Columbia College (Chicago) Library.

Sandra Ballasch has be en  appointed the 
University o f Iowa Libraries as interim head of 
access services.

James Beattie has been appointed reference 
librarian in the Bio-Medical Library at the Uni­
versity of Minnesota Libraries.

Ed . n o te : 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 
Galloway, production editor, C&RL N e w s , 50 E. Huron 
St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: agalloway@ala.org; 
fax: (312) 280-2520.

mailto:agalloway@ala.org


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Denise Britigan is now reference and educa­
tion librarian at the Hardin Library for the Health 
Sciences at the University of Iowa Libraries.

Jam etoria Burton has been appointed mi­
nority research librarian resident in the research 
and information services department o f the Uni­
versity o f Iowa.

Faye Chadwell is now head o f collection 
development and acquisitions at the University 
of Oregon Libraries.

Mary Alice Fields has been appointed head 
of information services at the University o f Ala­
bama Libraries.

Lara Friedman-Shedlov has been named 
YMCA project archivist at the University of Min­
nesota Libraries.

Brian Fr ykenberg has been appointed cu­
rator o f the Jam es Ford Bell Library at the Uni­
versity of Minnesota Libraries.

Anne Gehringer has been appointed refer­
ence and education librarian at the Hardin Library 
for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa 
Libraries.

Samantha Hager has joined Rice University 
as the government information librarian in the 
Frondren Library.

Todd Hines has been appointed business ref­
erence librarian in the Angelo Bruno Business Li­
brary at the University of Alabama.

Janet Hulm has been named serials acquisi­
tions librarian in the central technical services de­
partment of the University of Iowa Libraries.

JonJablonski has been appointed science 
librarian at the University o f Oregon Libraries.

Katharaine James is the new librarian/cata- 
loger in Milner Library at Illinois State University.

Melissa Kalpln is now reference and in­
struction librarian in the humanities and social 
sciences in the Wilson Library at the University 
of Minnesota Libraries.

Emily E. Keller has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at the University o f Washington 
Libraries at the University o f Washington-Tacoma 
Library.

Leslie Kriebel is the new collection man­
agement specialist for social sciences at Wellesley 
College Library in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Mangala Krishnam urthy has been ap­
pointed reference librarian in the Rodgers Science 
and Engineering Library at the University o f Ala­
bama.

Betsy Luce is now the acquisitions and seri­
als librarian for the Mondor-Eagen Library at Anna 
Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts.

Michael R. Macan has been  named refer­
ence/bibliographer for English in the Nimitz Li­
brary at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Timothy Maloney has been appointed head 
of the music library at the University o f Minne­
sota Libraries.

Douglas G. McGee has joined the Nimitz 
Library at the U.S. Naval Academy as a reference/ 
bibliographer for engineering.

Steve Ostrem was appointed reference li­
brarian in the research and information ser­
v ices departm ent at the University o f Iow a 
Libraries.

Ron Renchler is the new director of library 
communications at the University o f Oregon Li­
braries.

Chris Schaffer has been appointed assistant 
director o f public services at the Hardin Library 
for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa 
Libraries.

Nancy Slight-Gibney is now the director of 
library budget and management information ser­
vices at the University of Oregon Libraries.

Ann Snowman is the new head o f access 
services at the University Park Libraries at Penn­
sylvania State University.

Jo d i L. Spillane is now a cataloger in the 
Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Duncan Stewart has been appointed mono­
graphic cataloging librarian in the central techni­
cal services department of the University of Iowa 
Libraries.

Jennifer J. Sundheim has been appointed 
reference librarian at the University o f Washing­
ton Libraries at the University o f Washington- 
Tacoma Ubrary.

Helga Visscher has been appointed head of 
McLure Education Library at the University of 
Alabama.

Dorothy Willis has been promoted to de­
partment chair o f public services at the Univer­
sity of Nebraska-Omaha.

Angela J . Wright has been named human 
resources officer at the University o f Alabama 
Libraries.

Michael Wright has been appointed mono­
graphic cataloging librarian in the central techni­
cal services department at the University of Iowa 
Libraries.

Hongx¡a Yang has been appointed media librar­
ian at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas.

Mandy York is now the archivist/special col­
lections librarian in the Woodson Research Center 
o f the Fondren Library at Rice University.



50 / C&RL News ■ January 2003

R e t i r e m e n t s

Richard Eimas has retired from his position as 
curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room and 
coordinator of access services in the Hardin Li­
brary for the Health Sciences at the University of 
Iowa Libraries, after 28 years of service.

C harlene Lehm an has retired from her posi­
tion as reference librarian in the research and in­
formation services department at the University 
of Iowa Libraries.

Sharon Stewart has retired from the University 
of Alabama Libraries after 30 years of service.

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Jo se p h  Periam  D anton, 94, professor emeri­
tus and former dean of the school of librarianship 
at the University of California-Berkeley, has died. 
After serving with the New York Public Library, 
the Williams College Library, and ALA (1928— 
35), Danton served as librarian and associate pro­
fessor of bibliography at Colby College and Temple 
University. He moved to Berkeley to become dean 
o f the school o f librarianship in 1946, where he 
served as dean until 1961 and retired in 1976. 
Danton’s numerous publications are cataloged in 
J . P eria m  D an ton : A B ib lio g ra p h y  (School of 
Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley: 
1976).

Helen H. Lyman, 92, librarian, teacher, scholar, 
and consultant in adult library services and lit­
eracy, died on November 4, 2002. She had most 
recently served as an adjunct professor in the li­
brary and infonmation studies program at the Uni-

versity at Buffalo (1977-98). Lyman taught a 
course in adult resources and services yearly until 
the age of 88. She had previously served as a 
faculty member at the University of Wisconsin 
Library School from 1966 until her retirement as 
professor emeritus in 1977. Her library career be­
gan at the Buffalo Public Library (1932-52), where 
she served as head o f the Adult Education De­
partment. In 1954, ALA published her seminal 
study on adult education activities in U.S. librar­
ies, the first research study on this topic. She went 
on to serve as adult services librarian for the Chi­
cago Public Library, Public Library Consultant in 
Adult Services for the Wisconsin State Libraiy, 
and Public Library Specialist in Adult Services for 
the U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C, 
Among her many honors and recognitions were: 
University at Buffalo Distinguished Alumni 
Award; the ALA Joseph W. Lippincott Award for 
Distinguished Librarianship; and ALA’s Margaret 
Monroe Library Adult Services Award.

Rose M arie Service, 81, education-psychol- 
ogy subject specialist for 25 years before her 
retirement in 1986 at the University of Or­
egon (UO) Libraries, died in Eugene, Oregon. 
She served as reference librarian for six years 
at Carleton College. Service was known as an 
innovator and a champion of the rights of stu­
dents and citizens. She was one o f the UO 
Libraries’ early adopters of new infomaation prod­
ucts and was one of the first online searchers. ■

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