ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■¡ February 1998 / 123

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

Jam es G. Neal, director of Johns Hopkins 

University Library, joined the Board of D i­

rectors of the Community of Science, Inc. 

(COS), a Web publishing company in Bal­

timore. Neal, the 1997-98 president of the 

A s s o c ia tio n  o f R e­

search L ib rarie s 

(ARL), is a le ad in g  

expert in the fields of 

copyright law, library 

development, and the 

role of Internet tech­

nology in scholarly 

p u b lis h in g . He was 

named the 1997 ACRL 

A c a d e m ic /Research 

James G. Neal Librarian of the Year. 
For the past fo u r 

years, he has chaired the Information Poli­

cies Committee and the Copyright Work­

ing Group at the ARL. Neal also serves on 

the Executive Board of the ALA. COS 

works with more than 200 research uni­

versities, scientific societies, and publish­

ers to create virtual communities of scien­

tists and scholars on the Web. The com ­

pany has developed advanced technology 

systems for database publishing, journal 

publishing, and secure authoring on the 

Internet. The Johns Hopkins University 

founded the company in 1988 and remains 

a major shareholder. For more informa­

tion about COS, call (410) 563-2378 or visit 

the Web site at http://cos.gdb.org.

Paul Evan Peters, founding executive di­

rector of the Coalition for Networked Infor­

mation (CNI), was given posthum ously 

CAUSE’S top individual honor— the Award 

for Exemplary Leadership and Information 

Technology Excellence (ELITE). Before his 

death in November 1996, Peters spent six 

years drawing librarians, information tech­

nologists, publishers, and leaders in the 

nonprint communications world into a net­

work of CNI initiatives. Among his many 

leadership roles, Peters chaired the Board 

of Directors of the National Information Stan­

dards Organization and was an elected coun­

cilor of the ALA. He was instrumental in the 

development of the National Initiative for a 

Networked Cultural Heritage. A $5,000 

scholarship stipend, which accompanies the 

ELITE Award, will be contributed to the Paul 

Evan Peters Scholarship Fund administered 

by CNI, at the request of his w idow , 

Rosemarie Kozdron. For information about 

this fu n d , co n tact the C o a litio n  at 

info@cni.org or at (202) 296-5098.

G ordon Rowley, university bibliographer 

and head of collection development at Davis 

Library at the University of North Carolina 

at Chapel Hill, is assuming editorship of the 

quarterly Collection Management, published 

by The Haworth Press, Inc. Collection M an­

agement examines the latest developments 

in the field of managing library collections 

and their implications for college, univer­

sity, and research libraries of all types. From 

1990 to 1997, Rowley was the assistant di­

rector for collections at Iowa State Univer­

sity. Prior to 1990, he served as the associ­

ate director responsible for developing and 

managing the libraries’ collections at North­

ern Illinois University for over ten years. In 

the 1980s, Rowley served two terms as chair 

of the editorial board for Choice and con­

tributed to the development of guides on 

aspects of collection development and man­

agement published by the Association of 

Library Collections and Technical Services. 

He completed a Ph.D. in musicology at the 

University of Iowa.

Evelyn Silverm an received the Queens 

College Graduate School of Library and In­

formation Studies (GSLIS) Alumnus of the 

Year award. This award is given to a gradu­

ate of GSLIS who, “as a professional librar­

ian, has made a significant contribution to 

the field and who represents the highest ide­

als of the profession.” Silverman (class of 

1976) was recognized for her work as liai­

son between the Queens College Library and 

the GSLIS.

http://cos.gdb.org
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A p p o i n t m e n t s

Karen Adams has been appointed director 

of library and information services for the 

University of Alberta Library, Canada’s sec­

ond largest library system. A graduate of the 

Universities of Manitoba and Western O n ­

tario, Adams background includes experi­

ence as director of public library services in 

Manitoba and as provincial librarian of 

Saskatchewan. Since 1991 she has served as 

the executive director of the Canadian Li­

brary Association. Adams has become one 

of Canada’s authorities on copyright legis­

lation as it affects libraries and library ser­

vices.

Stephen Bloom , former director of univer­

sity libraries at the University of the Arts 

(UA) in Philadelphia has been named di­

rector of University of Southern Maine (USM) 

Library. Bloom will oversee the libraries on 

the Portland, Gorham and Lewiston-Auburn 

campuses. Prior to his tenure at UA, Bloom 

served as administra­

tive services librarian at 

the University of Illi­

nois at Chicago, and 

earlier as the univer­

sity’s architecture and 

art librarian. He has 

written on automating 

library catalogs, library 

archives, and on devel­

oping film and video 
S tephen B loom

collections at libraries. 

He has served on the committees of the In­

ternational Federation of Library Associations 

and Institutions, the ALA, and the Art Li­

braries Society of North America. Bloom 

earned his MLS from Columbia University 

and a master’s in history and bachelor’s de­

gree in education from the University of Ver­

mont.

Ju d  C opeland has been appointed direc­

tor of library services at the William Allen 

White Library of Emporia State University 

(ESU) in Emporia, Kansas. Copeland’s library 

experiences include library residency at the 

University of Franche Comte Library in 

Besancon, France, and a research associate 

for the Kansas State Library and Community

Analysis Research Insti­

tute. He also collected 

and analyzed data for 

the 1994 Kansas State 

Public Library Statistics 

R eport an d p a r tic i­

pated in the develop­

ment of an automated 

information system for 

the Kansas H e alth  
Jud C o p e la n d Foundation. Copeland 

earned his bachelor’s in 

French with a minor in foreign languages 

from Centenary College, a master’s degree 

in French from the University of Arkansas 

in Fayetteville, and master’s and doctoral de­

grees in library science from ESU.

Elaine K. Didier, director of Residential and 

University Programs, Academic Outreach, 

has been appointed interim director of Aca­

demic Outreach at the University of Michi­

gan. She continues to serve as adjunct asso­

ciate professor in the School of Information, 

where she teaches management. Didier 

joined the Academic 

Outreach Department 

in 1996. Prior to that, 

she was associate dean 

o f the H orace H. 

R ackham  School of 

Graduate Studies at the 

University of Michigan, 

where she served as 

CEO and deputy dean, 

o v ersee in g  b u d g e t, E laine K. D id ie r
personnel, and admin­

istrative operations, and primary liaison to 

units reporting to the graduate school. Didier 

has been active in a number of state and 

national professional associations, including 

the Michigan Library Association, Michigan 

Association for Media in Education, and the 

ALA. She currently chairs ACRL’s Leadership 

Development Committee. She earned her 

B.A., A.M.L.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the 

University of Michigan and also studied at 

Oxford University.

Ellen Isenstein has been named director 

of the library of the John F. Kennedy School 

of Government at Harvard University. Prior 

to being named library director, she held 

the positions of acting director, associate li­



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brarian, and reference 

librarian in the John F. 

K ennedy School of 

Government. She was 

also reference librarian 

in the G o v e rn m e n t 

D ocum ents D e p a rt­

ment of the Boston 

Public Library. Isen- 

stein has held the of­

fices of secretary and Ellen Isenstein
treasurer of the Boston 

Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. 

She has a MSLS from the Simmons College 

Graduate School of Library and Information 

Science and a Certificate of Special Studies 

in Management and Administration from the 

Harvard Extension School.

Alexa T. McCray has been named director 

of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) 

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical 

Communication. The Lister Hill Center sup­

ports and conducts research and develop­

ment in health science communication. 

McCray is a recognized expert in the field 

of informatics and in the development of 

communications technologies to improve 

access to biomedical information by health 

care professionals. McCray has been with 

the Lister Hill Center since 1986 and was 

previously chief of the Center’s Cognitive 

Science Branch. Prior to her NLM service, 

McCray worked as a research affiliate at the 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an 

assistant professor at Georgetown Univer­

sity, and as a research staff member at the 

computer sciences department of IBM’s Tho­

mas J. Watson Research Center.

Deborah Bernnard has been appointed 

reference/user education librarian (half-time) 

at the Govern Thomas E. Dewey Graduate 

Library for Public Affairs and Policy at the 

University at Albany, State University of New 

York.

Melinda F. Brown has been appointed 

bibliographer/reference librarian of the Cen­

tral Library at Vanderbilt University.

Rodrigo A. Bustos is now a reference librar­

ian/computer specialist at the William Russell 

Pullen Library at Georgia State University.

Jane Carpenter is now rare book and 

manuscript cataloger at the Newberry Library.

Lauren Corbett has been appointed seri­

als librarian at the Old Dominion University

Library in Norfolk, Virginia.

Jean Cottingham has accepted a position

as assistant interlibrary loan librarian at the

University of South Carolina’s Thomas Coo­

per Library in Columbia.

Stefanie DuBose has been named assis­

tant interlibrary loan librarian in the Univer­

sity of South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper Li­

brary in Columbia.

Wayne Halliday has been appointed in­

structor and electronic information systems li­

brarian at Lehman College in New York City.

Julia Harvey has been named technical

services librarian at the Bishop Library of Leba­

non Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania.

W illia m  P. K ane has been nam ed

Blackwell’s Book Services regional manager

for the Midwest.

Alan Leopold is now director of the De­

partment of Collection Services at the

Newberry Library.

Yaping Liu has been appointed head of

the library systems support department at the

University of Delaware Library.

Erin McCaffrey has joined the staff of the

Newberry Library as acquisitions librarian.

Barbara Nichols Randall has been ap­

pointed head of the Database Maintenance,

Processing and Bindery Department at the Uni­

versity at Albany, State University of New York.

Robert Skinder has been selected as as­

sistant science librarian at the science library

of the University of South Carolina’s Thomas

Cooper Library in Columbia.

Jo h n  Brewster Smith has been appointed

chief librarian at the Bronx Community Col­

lege Library-Learning Center.

A d vertiser index

Academic Press Cover 4

Amigos 122

Blackwell’s Book Svcs. 82
CISTI 77
EBSCO 95
Emery-Pratt 72

Graphics Press 69
Library Corporation Cover 3
McGraw-Hill 96
OCLC 88, 102
Primary Source Media 114
R. R. Bowker Cover 2

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W illiam Stoneman is the new librarian of

he Houghton Libraiy at Harvard University.

Karen Sitton Vaughan has been selected 

s the digital services coordinator for the Old 

ominion University Library in Norfolk, Virginia.

Shelley Warwick has joined the faculty 

f the graduate school of library and informa­

ion studies at Queens College.

Donald Waters has joined the Council on 

ibrary and Information Resources (CUR) as the 

irector of the Digital Library Federation (formerly 

he National Digital Library Federation).

James C. Watson has been appointed as­

istant professor and educational technology 

ibrarian at Lehman College in New York City.

e t i r e m e n t s

uella Allen, head of the Media Services 

epartment at the University of Delaware Li­

rary since 1989, retired. Prior to her service 

t University of Delaware, she worked in the 

ealth Services Library at SUNY Buffalo.

am es Davis, rare books librarian for the 

CLA Library, has retired after 38 years of

ervice. Davis began his tenure at UCLA in 

1959 as a library school intern from the Uni­

ersity of Washington. Then hired as a pro­

fessional from 1959 to 

1983 he labored to 

renovate the Powell Li­

brary Building, spent a 

year at UC Berkeley as 

an “interlibrary loan” to 

assist in designing the 

undergraduate library 

there, served as college 

librarian for five years, 

developed courses and 

James Davis taught in the UCLA 
Graduate School of Li­

rary & Information Service, and joined the 

ibrary Administrative Office to work with 

he Friends of the Library and to maintain 

he University Research Library exhibit pro­

ram. In 1983 he became Rare Books Li­

rarian in the department of special collec­

ions. During this time the Ahmanson- 

urphy Aldine Collection was modified and 

n offshoot became the Ahmanson-Murphy 

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Allen L. Dollerschell retired as coordinator 

of Goddard Library, Rochester Community and 

Technical College in Rochester, Minnesota.

D onald K. Tribit, associate professor and 

periodicals librarian, retired on Jan. 2, 1998, 

from Millersville University in Millersville, 

Pennsylvania after 36.5 years of service.

D e a t h s

Marjo Dobbs Arseneau, interlibrary loan 

librarian at the William Russell Pullen Li­

brary of Georgia State University, died of 

cancer in November. Prior to her appoint­

ment at Georgia State, she served in the 

DeKalb County, Georgia, Public Library Sys­

tem and at Louisiana State University Library.

Sarah D ow lin Jones, college librarian, died 

November 28, 1997. She received her AB 

(1937), AM (1939), and Ph.D. in English lit­

erature (1954) from the University of Penn­

sylvania and BS in Library Science from the 

Pratt Institute (1944). Between 1939 and 

1943, she held clerical positions with the 

Lippincott Library of the Wharton School of 

Finance and Commerce, first as secretary to 

the librarian, then as acquisitions and refer­

ence assistant. After serving as assistant ref­

erence librarian at the Pratt Institute Library 

(1944-45), reference librarian at the Ameri­

can Library of the U.S. Information Service 

in London, England (1945-47), librarian of 

the Mathematics-Physics Library of the Uni­

versity of Pennsylvania (1947-49), and head 

of the reference department of the Univer­

sity Library, University of Pennsylvania 

(1949-52), she was appointed librarian with 

the rank of professor at Goucher College in 

1952, a position she held until her retire­

ment in 1981. After membership on several 

important committees of the ALA, she was 

elected to its national council. She served a 

term as representative of the College Sec­

tion to the ACRL.

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