ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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

A m y B la ir is the new editor o f the J o u r ­
n a l  o f  A g r ic u ltu r a l & F o o d  I n fo r m a t io n , a 
quarterly forum for the com m unication o f 
research, innovative practice, and all as­
pects o f agricultural and food inform ation. 
Blair is the coord in ator o f library outreach 
services and the agriculture/plant scien ces 
librarian at Michigan State University.

C h ris to p h e r Brow n-Syed, assistant profes­
sor at the Library & Information Science Pro­
gram at Wayne State University (WSU), is 
assuming editorship of the biannual L ib rary  
& A r c h iv a l Security, which provides infor­
mation to those co n cern ed  with security 
planning, policies, procedures, and strate­
gies for libraries and archives.

L ibrary  M osa ics and the Council on Library 
M ed ia T e c h n ic ia n s  h a v e  a w a rd e d  
A nnaM arie E ric k s o n  and Linda O w en the 
199S awards for Outstanding Supporter of 
Support Staff and Outstanding Support Staff, 
respectively. Erickson is the automation di­
rector for the Chicago Public Library Sys­
tem. Owen works in the Technical Services/ 
Cataloging Department o f the University of 
California, Riverside.

B etty  T u ro c k , a professor o f library and 
information science at Rutgers, has won the 
1998 Equality Award from the ALA in honor 
o f her career-long contributions in promot­
ing the equality o f men and women in the 
library profession and beyond. Turock is a 
member o f the faculty o f Rutgers’ School of 
Com m unication, Inform ation and Library 
Studies (SCILS), where she teaches courses 
on information policy and the management 
o f library and information services and sys­
tems. David Carr, chair o f the department 
o f library and information studies and di­
rector o f the master o f library service pro­
gram at SCILS, said, “Her leadership has 
made a continuing difference in the themes 
o f inclusion and representation in the infor­
mation professions. We see it here, in our 
new students, and we can expect it to co n ­

tinue for many more years. It’s a rare and 
lasting legacy.”

M arcia T uttle, who retired from the Uni­
versity o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
(UNC-CH) as head o f the Davis serials de­
p artm en t on May 1, 
1997, had a scholarship 
fund established in her 
h o n o r  by S w e ts  & 
Z e itlin g e r , In c . T h e  
$1,000 scholarship will 
assist stu d ents in ter­
e s te d  in s e r ia ls  
lib r a r ia n s h ip  at th e 
UNC-OH’s S ch o o l o f 
In fo r m a tio n  and Li­
brary Science (SILS). “I M arcia Tuttle
was very surprised and 
touched when Swets & Zeitlinger told me 
they wanted to name a scholarship after m e,” 
said Tuttle. “They asked for my permission—  
I practically burst into tears!” In 1983 Tuttle 
wrote the landmark textbook, In tr o d u c tio n  
to S erials M an a g em en t. From 1985-1995 she 
coedited A d v a n c e s  in S erials M a n ag em en t, 
a series that she originated to monitor and 
publicize trends in serials. As chair of the 
ALA’s Subcommittee on Serials Pricing, Tuttle 
began publishing the online N ew sletter on  
S erials P ricin g  Issu es in 1989- in 1985 Tuttle 
was the first recipient of the Bowker/Ulrich’s 
Serials Librarianship Award for excellen ce 
in serials work.

Appointments

A d ria n  W. A le x a n d e r  was named the first 
execu tiv e director o f the Big 12 Plus Li­
brary C onsortium . A lexan d er has spent 
alm ost 13 years in the serials industry in a 
variety o f sales, m arketing, and strategic 
planning roles. Most recently he was di­
re c to r o f s tra te g ic  d e v e lo p m e n t at the 
Faxon Company, Inc., a serials m anage­
ment services com pany. T he Big 12 Plus,

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to b e located at the Linda Hall Library in 
Kansas City, M issouri, is a regional c o n ­
sortium  o f research  libraries lo cated  in the 
greater Midwest with com m on interests in 
program s related to inform ation a cce ss, 
docum ent delivery, distance learning, new 
inform ation tech n o lo g ies, and co op erativ e 
co lle ctio n  develop m ent. A lexander holds 
an MLS and a Certificate o f Advanced Study 
in lib rary  a d m in istra tio n  from  th e U n i­
v ersity o f North T e x a s, w h e re  he a lso  
w o rk ed  as a r e fe r e n c e  lib ra ria n / b ib lio g - 
ra p h e r and as h ead  o f  a d m in is tr a tiv e  
s e rv ic e s . He is an a ctiv e  m em b e r o f th e 
ALA and se rv e s on the e d ito ria l b o ard  
o f S e r i a l s  R e v ie w .

G illian  M cC o m b s, assistant d irector for 
technical services and systems at the Uni­
versity o f Albany, State 
U n iv e r s ity  o f  N ew  
Y o r k , w ill b e c o m e  
S o u th e r n  M e th o d is t 
University’s (SMU) di­
rector o f Central Uni­
v e rs ity  L ib ra rie s  on 
J u n e  1, 1 9 9 8 . M c­
C o m b s, a n a tiv e  o f  
Y o r k s h ir e , E n g la n d , 
e a r n e d  a B . A . in 
French and European G illian McCombs

literature from the University o f Warwick, 
England in 1968. The follow ing year she 
earned her M.A. in librarianship from Leeds 
School o f Librarianship in Leeds, England. 
In May o f 1995, she earned a m aster’s de­
g r e e  in p u b l i c  a d m i n i s t r a t i o n  fro m  
R o ck e fe lle r C o lleg e at the U niversity at 
Albany, SUNY. She has published e x te n ­
sively and has held p o sitio n s in England 
and at D um barton O aks and oth er librar­
ies in W ashington, D.C.

Ire n e  T ic h e n o r  was appointed director of 
Library and Information Resources at SUNY 
College at Old Westbury, w here she is re­
sponsible for library functions and academ ic 
computing. Previously she was the head li­
brarian o f the Brooklyn Historical Society 
for nine years and acting director for one 
year. T ich en o r served two term s on the 
Board o f Trustees o f the New York M etro­
politan R e fe re n ce  and R esearch Library 
Agency.

J e a n  M. A le x a n d e r has been appointed 
head o f Hunt Library Information Center at 
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.

C in d y  B a d i l l a  has b e e n  a p p o in te d  
assistan t lib rarian  in th e re sid e n cy  p ro ­
gram  at th e U n iv ersity  o f M in n eso ta Li­
braries.

C h a rly  B a u e r has joined OhioLINK as 
assistant director o f Library Systems-Multi- 
Media Databases.

D on B eag le has been appointed assis­
tant director and head o f the Information 
Commons at the University o f North Caro­
lina at Charlotte.

D an a B e lc h e r  has been appointed peri­
odicals librarian at East Central University 
in Ada, Oklahoma.

J a n i c e  B ic k h a m  has b een  appointed 
assistant reference and Instructional Media 
Center librarian at the Drain-Jordan Library 
at West Virginia State College in Institute, 
West Virginia.

Laura Dale B isch o f has been appointed 
reference services librarian in MINITEX at the 
University o f Minnesota Libraries.

K a rla  B lo ck  has been appointed librar­
ian project manager/training coordinator at 
the Bio-M edical Library, University o f Min­
nesota Libraries.

R en ee B o u g a rd  has joined the Medical 
Sciences Library at Texas A&M University 
as manager o f user support services.

T a m a r B r e s la u e r  has been appointed 
reference services librarian in MINITEX at 
the University o f Minnesota Libraries.

M arth a B ro g a n  has been named direc­
tor o f Collection Developm ent and univer­
sity bibliographer at Indiana University Li­
braries, Bloomington.

G len n  B u n to n  is the new systems li­
brarian for Internet T ech n o lo g ies at Old 
Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

P au l C a m m a r a ta  has been appointed 
assistant reference librarian at the Thom as 
Cooper Library o f the University o f South 
Carolina at Columbia.

K im b e rly  C lark e is the new assistant 
librarian in the residency program at the 
University o f Minnesota Libraries.

E lain e C lin e has been appointed librar­
ian o f the National Air and Space Museum 
Branch o f the Smithsonian Institution Librar­
ies in Washington, D.C.

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Marsha Cornelius has been named catalog 
librarian at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

C h a rle s H. D avis has b een  appointed 
senior fellow at Indiana University’s School 
o f Library and Information Science.

F r a n c o i s  d ’E r n e v i l l e  has b e e n  a p ­
p o in t e d  n e w  s y s te m s  e n g i n e e r  fo r 
OhioLINK’s 65 research databases.

F ra n k  E llio tt has b een appointed engi­
neering librarian at the University o f Min­
nesota Libraries.

W illiam  F ie tz e r is the new digital re­
sou rces and hum anities catalo g er at the 
University o f Minnesota Libraries.

K ris tin e  F o w le r  has b een  appointed 
Mathematics librarian at the University o f 
Minnesota Libraries.

Lila F re d e n b u rg  has been named librar­
ies human resources officer at Indiana Uni­
versity Libraries, Bloomington.

B e v e rle e  F r e n c h  is the new associate 
director o f Shared Collections and Services 
for the California Digital Library.

C h u ck  H a m a k e r has b ee n  appointed 
the head o f technical services at the Univer­
sity o f North Carolina at Charlotte.

D eb ra H o lste r has b een appointed gov­
ernm ent docum ents/special collections li­
brarian at East Central University in Ada, 
Oklahom a.

T h o m a s  H o r r o c k s  was app ointed a s ­
s o c ia te  d ire c to r for s p e c ia l c o lle c tio n s  
a n d  c u r a t o r  o f  r a r e  b o o k s  in t h e  
C ountw ay Library o f M ed icine at Harvard 
U n iv ersity .

C h a rle s A. J u lia n  has been appointed 
manager o f Intellectual Property, Rights, and 
P erm issions at the N ational T ech n o lo g y  
Transfer Center o f W heeling Jesu it Univer­
sity in W heeling, West Virginia.

S a ra h  K irs c h  has been appointed assis­
tant social studies librarian o f Morris Library 
at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, 
Illinois.

V icto ria  M. K o g e r has been appointed 
public services librarian for circulation and 
periodicals at the Drain-Jordan Library at 
West Virginia State College in Institute, West 
Virginia.

Ed. note: To ensure th a t y o u r personnel news is 
considered fo r publication, w rite  to Ann-Christe 
Young, Production Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala.org.; fax: 
312-280-2520.

R o b e rt L a s n e r is a health sciences li­
brarian at the New York Academy o f Medi­
cine Library.

T e rry  L ip sco m b  is now an archivist in 
the South Carolina Library at the University 
o f South Carolina at Columbia.

L o ri M ardis has been appointed instruc­
tion librarian at East Central University in 
Ada, Oklahoma.

J i a  Mi has joined the New Brunswick Li­
braries faculty at Rutgers University as e le c­
tronic information services librarian.

D a n ie l M u rp h y  has b ee n  ap p oin ted  
head o f library systems at the University o f 
North Carolina at Charlotte.

C h e rie  N av arre has been appointed Vir­
ginia Beach Campus librarian at Old D o­
minion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

D an iel S ch w a rtz  is an assistant profes­
sor in the serials cataloging department at 
the University o f Nebraska, Lincoln.

M au reen  T a y lo r is now map librarian 
at the University o f Colorado at Boulder Li­
braries.

B eth  T ice has been appointed assistant 
music librarian at the University o f Minne­
sota Libraries.

M ich ael P. T o sk o  has been named ref- 
erence/instruction librarian at the Iris Holt 
McEwen Library at Elon College in Elon, 
North Carolina.

A m y U n d e rh ill is now the referen ce 
team coordinator at Muhlenberg College in 
Allentown, Pennsylvania.

J ie  Z h an g has been appointed education 
reference librarian at the Grasselli Library and 
Breen Learning Center o f John Carroll Univer­
sity in University Heights, Ohio.

C a ro l Z in d a has been appointed science 
and engineering librarian at the University 
o f Minnesota Libraries.

R e t i r e m e n t s

R o b e rt H. P a tte rs o n , director o f libraries 
at the University o f Tulsa (UT), will retire 
on May 31 after 17 years o f service. Before 
jo in in g  UT, P atterso n  h eld  p o sitio n s at 
Tulane, the Harry Ransom Humanities Re­
search Center at the University o f Texas at 
Austin, and directorships at the University 
o f Wyoming and at Tulsa. In the mid  80s

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he served as president 
of the ACRL/OK chap­
ter and on the Chapters 
Council. He founded 
and edited for 15 years 
the journal C o n s e rv a ­
t io n  A d m i n i s t r a t i o n  
News, which reported 
on the library and ar­
c h iv a l p r e s e r v a t io n  
field. In 1989 he was CLR/ Robert H. Patterson
UCLA Senior Fellow.

D e a t h s

K im ball C. Elkins, who retired as curator 
from the Harvard Library in 1971, died at 
the age of 94 on September 14, 1997. Elkins 
graduated from Harvard College in 1927 and 
received an A.M. in History in 1933. He 
joined the Documents Division of the library 
in 1928 and transferred to the university ar­
chives in 1943 as senior assistant. Elkins 
p u b lish e d  a n u m b er o f a rticle s in the 
H a r v a r d  L ib r a r y  B u lle t in  and H a r v a r d  
A lu m n i B u lletin  (now the H a r v a r d  M a g a ­
z in e ) , on such Harvard su b jects as the 
Quaker collection in the library, the use of 
H arvard-ow ned maps to help settle the 
Maine border dispute that resulted in the 
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the history of 
honorary degrees, and birds in Harvard Yard.

M arie G enung, retired reference librarian 
at the University o f California, Riverside 
(UCR), died on D ecem ber 28, 1997. Genung 
began her career at UCR in 1951 to help 
prepare for the opening of the new general 
campus of the university. She had a library 
certification from UC Berkeley, and had 
worked for five years as a cataloger at Mills 
College in Oakland, California. She orga­
nized the cataloging department of the UCR 
Library and was the department head until 
1963. She had combined responsibilities as 
a bibliographer, cataloger, and reference li­
brarian for the next ten years, and then 
worked full-time in Rivera Reference until
her retirement in 1986, after 35 years of ser­
vice.

R o b ert W. Lovett, retired archivist for the 
Harvard University Libraries, died on June

14, 1996. Lovett graduated from Harvard with 
an A.B. in 1935. Lovett’s archives and manu­
scripts career began at the Harvard Univer­
sity Archives in 1937. He served there until 
1948 when he accepted a position in charge 
of the Manuscript and Archives Division of 
the Harvard Business School Library. For 
two decades he divided his time betw een 
the Business School and the Medical School, 
where he developed an archive. The last de­
cade of his career he spent at the Business 
School, from which he retired in August 1979- 
Lovett was recognized relatively early in his 
career with election as a Fellow when the 
Society of American Archivists established 
that category in 1958. Among his other hon­
ors and offices was an award in 1979 by the 
Southern New England Chapter for the So­
ciety for Industrial Archaeology, election in 
I960 to honorary membership in the Alpha 
Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, and 
in 1984 he received a silver bowl for contri­
butions to the city of Beverly. Lovett was 
also a prolific writer, and his bibliography 
of books, articles, and reviews numbers over 
100 items.

M ary M. M eehan, university archivist for 
the Harvard University Library, died O cto­
ber 11, 1997. She helped develop the col­
lections of the Harvard University Archives 
during the middle decades o f this century. 
She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1934 
and in 1946 she came to the Harvard Uni­
versity archives, working on a variety of 
projects in a number of positions until her 
retirement in 1975.

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