ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 798 / C&RL News ■ Novem ber 1998 P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Ann-Christe Young Simmons College has awarded Miriam Drake, dean and director of libraries at Georgia Insti­ tute o f Technology, the degree of Doctor of Library Science, honoris causa, in recognition of her professional vision, scholarship, leader­ ship, and the impact she has made on higher education and the field of library and informa­ tion science. In 1994, she served as president o f the Special Libraries Association, an inter­ national organization o f 15,000 members. Drake is a member of numerous editorial and college advisory boards, and she has received many honors including the ALA’s Hugh Atkinson Award, the Library Automation Pio­ neer Award, and an honorary doctor o f hu­ mane letters degree from Indiana University. David Flaxbart and Ernestine Potter, li­ brarians at the University o f Texas (U T) at Austin, have won 1998 Librarian Excellence Awards from UT’s General Libraries. The awards carry a $1,000 stipend. Flaxbart has served as head o f the chemistry library since 1992. He has been cited on several occasions for his attention to user services and for the creative use of the new information technolo­ gies to provide fresh sources of information to students and faculty. Potter is head librarian o f the General Libraries Cataloging Depart­ ment, a position she has held since 1974. Harold Billings, director of General Libraries, said that Potter, “has helped guide a staff through the transformation from traditional cataloging practices to the introduction o f metadata cataloging and other means o f bib­ liographic control in a completely new digital information environment.” Potter has been recognized by her colleagues on numerous oc­ casions by election to major committee assignments. A p p o i n t m e n t s Karyle Butcher has been named the Oregon State University librarian and will continue to direct the Valley Library services and techno­ logical evolution during one of its largest peri­ ods of expansion in the school’s history. Butcher, who has filled this position for the last two years on an interim basis, was also chosen as the 1998 Oregon Librarian o f the Year— the only time a librarian from a univer­ sity has received this award. She will be recog­ nized with an endowed chair as the Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian and named deputy associate provost o f informa­ tion services. Butcher received an MLS degree in 1965 from the University o f Southern Cali­ fornia, and during her career she has worked in a variety o f library service and management positions at both public and university libraries. Olivia M. A . Madison has been appointed dean of library services at the Iowa State Uni­ versity (ISU) Library. Madison has been at ISU for 23 years, where she has served as associate director for public ser­ vices and collections, as­ sistant director for pub­ lic services, head o f the cataloging department, head of the monographs department, and head of the serials cataloging sections. Madison re­ Olivia M. A. Madisonceived a bachelor’s in history from ISU and an MLS from the Uni­ versity o f Missouri at Columbia. Active in a wide range of campus and professional organi­ zations, including serving as the president of the ISU Faculty Senate and the chair o f the IFLA Standing Committee on Cataloging, she currently chairs the ALCTS Committee on Budget and Finance. She has published and given papers in the area of bibliographic stan­ dards development. Gerald M unoff has been appointed univer­ sity librarian at the University of California, Irvine. He was most recently deputy director at the University of Chicago Library and prior to that served as deputy state librarian and deputy commissioner of the Kentucky Depart­ ment for Libraries and Archives. He received C&RL News ■ N ovem ber 1998 / 799 his MLS from the University of Kentucky and bachelor’s from Antioch College. Munoff is active in a wide range of academic and profes­ sional organizations, including ACRL and ARL, and is a founding member of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Gilda Baeza Ortego has been appointed dean of library and information technology at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. She has served on the ALA Committees on Status o f Women in the Profession and the Committee on Edu­ cation. From 1994-95 she was president of the National REFORMA (an ALA affiliate of Hispanic Librarians). In 1996 she was a recipi­ ent o f a Silver Medal from the U.S. National Commission on Library and Information Sci­ ences. She earned a bachelor’s from Texas Woman’s University, an MLS from the Univer­ sity o f Texas, and is completing a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from Texas Woman’s University. David M. Pilachowski is the new college librarian at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Prior to this he was director of libraries at Denison University, head of refer­ ence services at Colgate University (1985 -91) and later assistant university librarian for pub­ lic services. Pilachowski also served as acting university librarian and associate university li­ brarian at Colgate, where he worked with the university on all phases o f library administra­ tion. From 1977 to 1981, he was reference librarian at the University o f Vermont. Pilachowski received his bachelor’s from the University o f Vermont in 1971 and his MLS from the University of Illinois in 1973. Robin Wagner has been appointed director o f library services at Gettysburg (Pennsylva­ nia) College. Wagner was appointed interim director o f library ser­ vices at Gettysburg in July 1997. As interim di­ rector, Wagner led the reorganization o f the li­ brary, hired new staff and professional librar­ ians, and developed nu­ merous outreach pro­ grams. From 1994 to 1997, Wagner served as Robin W agner leader o f the delivery team of the information resources division of the college. Before joining Gettysburg, Wagner served as reference librarian, and later associ­ ate librarian, at Franklin & Marshall College. She also worked as director o f records and research for the development office at Franklin & Marshall. Wagner earned a bachelor’s degree in history, magna cum laude, from Dickinson College; an MLS from the University of Ken­ tucky, and a master’s degree in liberal studies from Dartmouth College. Althea Aschmann has been appointed principal cataloger at the University Libraries o f Virginia Tech. Roberta Astroff has been appointed hu­ manities librarian and the subject specialist for classics, religion, Jewish studies, Spanish, and Latin American Studies at Penn State Univer­ sity in University Park. Susan Sykes Berry is the new health sci­ ences library instruction reference librarian at the University o f Missouri in Kansas City. John M. Bewley has been appointed se­ nior assistant librarian in the music library at SUNY, Buffalo. Mary Brennan has been named serial co­ ordinator at the University Libraries o f Vir­ ginia Tech. Ladd Brown is the new acquisitions li­ brarian at the University Libraries o f Virginia Tech. Sharon W. Bullard has been appointed administrative services/personnel librarian at the University o f North Carolina, Greensboro. Mary Burgess has been appointed clini­ cal medical librarian at the University of Mis­ souri in Kansas City. Josephine Crawford has been appointed systems librarian at the Bio-Medical Library of the University o f Minnesota Libraries. Eric Delozier has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at Penn State, Harrisburg. James M. Evans has been appointed co­ ordinator of technical services/head cataloger at Grambling (Louisiana) State University. John W. Felts has been appointed net­ worked information services librarian at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. William K. Finley is the new head of spe­ cial collections at the University of North Caro­ lina, Greensboro. Maureen E. Hady has been appointed se­ rials librarian/assistant head of acquisitions at 800 / C&RL News ■ N ovem ber 1998 the Virginia Commonwealth University Librar­ ies in Richmond. Terri-Leigh Hinkle has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the Simmons College Libraries in Boston. Gerald V. Holmes has been named assis­ tant reference librarian at the University o f North Carolina, Greensboro. Bruce Jeppesen has been appointed li­ brary systems coordinator at Cleveland State University Library. Timothy Johnson has been appointed cu­ rator o f special collections at the University o f Minnesota Libraries. Lorraine Knox is now head o f the Sci­ ence and Technology Department at the Iowa State University Library in Ames. Johnnie Love has been appointed curricu­ lum development librarian at the Texas A & M University Libraries. Judith Markowitz has been appointed ref­ erence librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery at the University of Maryland, Bal­ timore County. Scott Marsalis has been appointed infor­ mation services librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Katherine McCready has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Minne­ sota Libraries. Samuel J. McDonald is the new Webmaster for the Rutgers University Libraries. Terry Metz has been appointed interim director o f administrative computing at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Barry K. Miller is the new special projects librarian at the University o f North Carolina, Greensboro. Heather S. Miller has been appointed as­ sistant director for technical services and sys­ tems at the University Libraries o f the Uni­ versity at Albany, SUNY. Andrew C. Morton has been appointed head of access services at Virginia Common­ wealth University’s health sciences library. Shane Nackerud has been appointed Web services coordinator at the University of Min­ nesota Libraries. Victoria M. Peters has been appointed regional manager (for the Southwest) for Blackwell’s Book Services. Edward J. Rock has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. Phyllis L. Ruscella has been appointed associate director for public services at Geor­ gia State University. Judith C. Russell has been named deputy director o f the National Commission on Li­ braries and Information Science (NCLIS). Gwen Schagrin has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Jane Schillie has been appointed college librarian for the College of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences at the University Libraries of Virginia Tech. Nan Seamans has been named director of University Libraries Media Services at Virginia Tech. Judith Senkevitch has been appointed as­ sociate dean o f the University o f Wisconsin- Milwaukee School of Library and Information Science. Martha M. Smith is now an assistant pro­ fessor at Long Island University’s Palmer School o f Library and Information Science. Paul Thomas has been appointed head li­ brarian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Mark Towner has been appointed assis­ tant director of the Northeast Document Con­ servation Center in Andover, Massachusetts. Sunny Worel has been appointed refer­ ence librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Advertiser index American Institute of Chemical Engineers Cover 3 American Psychological Cover 2 Bernan 787 Blackwell’s Information Services 775 Bowker 781 Choice 748, 793 Congressional Quarterly 778 EBSCO Cover 4 Gaylord 763 Graphics Press 745 Haworth Press 797 Marcive, Inc. 757 Northern Micrographics 794 OCLC 771 Primary Source Media 791 Sociological Abstracts 785 C&RL News ■ N ovem ber 1998 / 801 R e t i r e m e n t s Judith Fortson has completed her career at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Since her arrival in 1983, Fortson has held positions of increasing responsibility, includ­ ing head of library preservation services and, since 1991, head librarian o f the Hoover Li­ brary. Among her accomplishments, she was responsible for building the preservation pro­ gram into a nationally recognized program and instrumental in implementing the program to microfilm the Soviet Communist Party Ar­ chives in Moscow. Her publications, including her 1992 book Disaster Planning and Recovery, made her a leading authority in that field. Elizabeth (Betty) Herman has retired after 14 years as rare book cataloger at the Getty Research Institute Library in Los Angeles. Pre­ vious to this position, she served in the univer­ sity research library at UCLA. She also worked with AACR2 and AACR2R committees, espe­ cially in regard to MRDF (chapter 9) rules. Herman has been active in the ALA, princi­ pally ALCTS, serving as its ALA Council rep­ resentative and on a variety o f committees. She received her bachelor’s from UCLA and her MLS from the University of Southern Cali­ fornia School of Library Science. Dorothy Hagen Kettner, librarian at Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Community College, has re­ tired after 30 years o f service. She was one of two librarians who began the library at South­ west Minnesota State University in Marshall, where she was for seven years prior to her job at Fergus Falls. Her career spanned the introduc­ tion of computers, and she went from the use of punch cards to PALS (Project for Automated Library Systems) full online circulation; she was on PALS Deans and Directors for 15 years. D e a t h s David Jackson, head o f the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries’ Special Collections Department died August 14,1998, at the age o f 32. Jackson joined the NCSU Libraries in January 1995; he was also an alum­ nus of NCSU, holding a master’s in public his­ tory. He received a bachelor’s in history from Kenyon College. Jackson helped to found and implement the NCSU Libraries’ North Caro­ lina architectural archive and develop the library’s new special collections department. He also initiated the use o f digital technolo­ gies to make the department’s holdings acces­ sible over the Internet. Additionally, Jackson directed major exhibits honoring NCSU’s World War II classes and former School o f Design professor George Matsumoto. The fam­ ily has asked that donations in his memory be made to Preservation North Carolina, 101 St. Mary’s Street, Raleigh, NC 27605. Johannah J. Sherrer, director of the library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, since 1993, died September 12 o f melanoma. Sherrer served as coordinator of reference ser­ vices and collection development at the Uni­ versity o f Northern Colorado from 1979-85 at which time she was promoted to director of public services. From 1986-93 she served as head of reference at Duke University. She be­ gan her career in 1970 at the University of Dayton, first as reference librarian, then as head o f reference. Sherrer served as chair for the ALA Professional Ethics Committee, 1997- 98. She was committed to user-centered, state- of-the-art public service and was a prolific writer and speaker on the subject. Francis Brooke Whiting, retired UCLA li­ brarian, died July 27,1998, at the age of 79. A graduate o f the University of Virginia, Whit­ ing began his UCLA Library career in 1951 as a principal library assistant at the William Andrews Clark Library. In 1956 he left UCLA to attend Columbia University’s School of Li­ brary Service, where he earned his master’s in 1957 while working as an editorial assistant for Encyclopedia Americana. He then returned to UCLA as the literary manuscripts librarian in the Department of Special Collections at the University Research Library, subsequently became curator of rare books and literary manu­ scripts, and in 1971 was named assistant head of the department. He retired from UCLA in 1983 after more than 32 years o f service. ■ Ed. n o te : To ensure th a t y o u r p e rs o n n e l news is considered fo r publication, w rite to Ann-Christe Young, Production Editor, C&RL N e w s, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org; fax: 312-280- 2520. mailto:ayoung@ala.org