ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 6 4 6 /C&RL New s ■ June 2001 P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Ann-Christe Young B eth J . Dodd and M argo G utierrez won 2001 Librarian Excellence Awards from the University of Texas-Austin. The awards carry a $1,000 stipend. Dodd has served as curator of the Alexander Architectural Archive in the Architecture and Planning Library since 1995. Colleagues identify her as one who has made a difference in the growth o f the collection and in the high level of services that users have come to expect. Gutierrez heads the Mexican American Library Program in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. As a bibliographer for Mexican American and Latino Studies materials, she has been instru­ mental in acquiring important archival col­ lections for the Benson Collection. Rita Gibson, access services technician at the State Law Library of Montana in Helena, Mon­ tana, and Sue M ahm oodi, continuing edu­ cation and library research specialist for the Minnesota state library agency, have won Li­ b rary M osaics and the Council on Library/ Media Technicians 2001 award for outstand­ ing support staff and outstanding supporter of support staff, respectively. A p p o i n t m e n t s Keith C. Cottam, dean of libraries at the Uni­ versity of Wyoming since 1983, has accepted the position of associate dean and director of the University of Wyoming Casper Col­ lege (UW/CC) Center. During Cottam’s ten­ ure, the UW Libraries collection doubled to more than 1.2 million, with additional hold­ ings of 1 million government documents and 2.8 million microforms. He led the installa­ tion of the first automated public access li­ brary catalog in 1985 and the migration to Ed. note: To ensure th a t y o u r perso n n el new s is co n sid e re d fo r p u b lica tio n , 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. Voyager last year. Cottam is active in the Wyo­ ming Library Association, serving as presi­ dent (1998-99). He is also involved with ALA, particularly with the Committee on Accredi­ tation and the accreditation of graduate li­ brary education. David Gansz is now director of the Watson Library at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. From 1993 to 1995, Gansz served as director of the library at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and from 1995 to 1998 he was a senior research librarian in the Elec­ tronic Database Department at Bell & Howell Information and Learning, Inc. For the past three years, he has been head of the refer­ ence department at the Rockbridge Regional Library in Lexington, Virginia. He is a mem­ ber of Beta Phi Mu. Gansz published a book of poetry in 2000, M illen n ial Scriptions: The A shen B o o k o f Logres, and has been nomi­ nated for literary awards by the poetry Cen­ ter of San Francisco State University and the Library of Virginia’s Center for the Book. L o rra in e J . H arico m b e has been named dean of libraries and learning resources at Bowling Green State University. She has served as associate dean for the public ser­ vice division of the Northern Illinois Univer­ sity (NIU) Libraries since 1998. The prior six years she was head of the circulation depart­ ment at NIU and was involved in library and statewide initiatives to prepare libraries for emerging changes in the profession, includ­ ing initiatives to serve regional distance-edu- cation centers. From 1975 to 1986, Haricombe was library director at Pennisula Technikon in the Republic o f South Africa. A member of several professional organizations, including ALA and ACRL, she has written for several publication and co-edited the book Creating the Agile L ib r a iy fo r a C hanging Environment, published by Greenwood Press in 1998. Priscilla A nderson has been named con­ servator for Harvard University’s Weissman Preservation Center. mailto:ayoung@ala.org C&RL News ■ June 2001 / 647 Matt B le s s in g has been appointed head of the special collections and university ar­ chives at Marquette University Libraries. R an d all B o w m a n is now reference/in- struction librarian at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. M artha B ra n tig a n -S to w e ll is the new senior cataloger in the Germanic Division at the Harvard College Library. K e v in B u tterfield is now head of techni­ cal services in the law library at the Univer­ sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. D a v id B u x to n is now campus librarian at Cooperative Academic Library Services at the W ashington State University, Spokane campus. P a u l C allister has been appointed law reference librarian at the University of Illi­ nois at Urbana-Champaign. C r is tin a C a m p e ll has b e e n ap p o in ted M elvyl U n io n C atalog Im p le m e n ta tio n project m anager for the California Digital Library. T im o th y C o le is now mathematics librar­ ian at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. K a ren C o y le has been appointed Melvyl Union Catalog Database and Technology team lead for the California Digital Library. R ich a rd E llis has been nam ed head of the St. Jo h n ’s College Libraiy at the Univer­ sity of Manitoba. José-M arie G riffiths has been nam ed the first holder of the Doreen E. Boyce chair in Library and Information Science in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. E u g e n e H a in e r has been nam ed as di­ rector of library developm ent at the Colo­ rado State Library. L eigh H a y n e s is now programmer/ana- lyst at the University of California-Berkeley. P a u l H e a le y is the new head of public services in the law library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. P eter H o o k has been appointed law ref­ erence librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. J e n n i f e r J a c o b s is the new university archivist at the University of California- Irvine. A n n J e n s e n is now Melvyl Union Cata­ log Implementation services team lead for the California Digital Library. R a ch el K aczor has been appointed cata­ loger of the Photo Access Project in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. M ic h e lle LaVoie has been nam ed assis­ tant librarian in the health sciences library at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. G eorgin a L ew is has been appointed head of the Father Harold Drake Library at the University of Manitoba. C raig L ik n ess is now head of archives and special collections at the University of Miami’s Otto G. Richter Library. R ob M e lto n is now literature/humanities bibliographer of the Geisel Library at the University of California-San Diego. E lle n M eitzer is now senior associate for Education, Usability, and Outreach for the California Digital Library. B arbara M itc h e ll has been appointed head of public services in the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard University. O p h e lia M o rey has joined the University at Buffalo, SUNY, as an assistant librarian in the health sciences library. M ich a el M o rin has been appointed se­ nior assistant librarian in the University Li­ braries at the University of Buffalo. A n d y M orton is now head of access and delivery services at the University of Richmond. C h r isto p h e r P r o m is now assistant uni­ versity archivist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. G reg R a sch k e has been appointed head of the Spahr Engineering Library at the Uni­ versity of Kansas. A lix R e isk in d is the new assistant visual resources librarian in the Frances Loeb Li­ brary at the Harvard Design School. D a v id R io s has been appointed assistant university librarian for the sciences at the University of California-Riverside. H arry S a m u els has joined Endeavor In­ form atio n Systems as the digital library projects coordinator. S teve S c h e u le r has been appointed ref­ erence librarian at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. Lisa S cott has been appointed social sci­ ences librarian at the University of Richmond. H e a th e r S m ith has been nam ed refer­ ence librarian and diversity intern program coordinator at Oberlin College. M ary S u lliv a n has joined the Emerson 648 / C&RL News ■ June 2001 College staff as coordinator for outreach and reference librarian. E d w ard H. T eagu e has been appointed head of the Architecture and Allied Arts Li­ brary at the University of Oregon. M elissa D . T r e w e t t has been nam ed vice president and director of programs and ser­ vices at the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. H e a th e r T u n e n d e r has been appointed electronic reference services librarian at the University of California-Irvine. Lara U r s in is now science librarian and reference coordinator in the O w en Science and Engineering Library at Washington State University. M ary Van W in k le has been appointed serials librarian in the Baker Library at Harvard Business School. P a u l C. V e r m o u th is now English bibli­ ographer for the Social Sciences in the Wid­ ener Library at Harvard College Library. D a v id W ard has been appointed assis­ tant undergraduate librarian for reference ser­ vices at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. B e th W arn er is now director of Digital Library initiatives at the University o f Kansas. Marne W arren has been nam ed project coordinator of academic publishing at the Advertiser index ACM 636 ACRL 633, 634 ALA/CIPA 629 í American Chemical Society 584 American Psychological Association Cover 4, 622 American Theological Library Association 580 CHOICE 641 EBSCO 607 Endeavor Information Systems 608 Faxon/Rowecom Cover 3 Gale G roup 601 H. W. Wilson 642 IEEE 645 infoUSA 619 Johns Hopkins University7 Press 628 netLíbrary Cover 2, 577 OCLC 595 Probalt AB 606 Swets Blackwell 602 M ilton S. E ise n h o w e r L ibrary in J o h n s Hopkins University. D a is y P. W aters has been appointed as­ sistant librarian in the Central Technical Ser­ vices unit of the University Libraries at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. K e ith W eim er is now governm ent infor­ m ation librarian at the University of Rich­ mond. T h o m a s W e issin g e r is now Afro-Ameri­ cana Studies librarian at the University of Illi­ nois at Urbana-Champaign. S te v e n W ise has joined O ur Lady of the Lake University as a reference librarian. E ric M. W o lf is now assistant cataloger for the Frick Art Reference Library in New York, New York. S u z a n n e W o n e s is now reference librar­ ian in the John E K ennedy School of Gov­ ernm ent Library at Harvard University. G eetha Yapa is the new science reference librarian at the University of California-Riverside. L ih o n g Z h u has been appointed catalog­ ing librarian at Washington State University. R e t i r e m e n t s W ilm a G e il is now music special collections coordinator and associate professor emerita at th e U niversity o f Illinois at U rbana- Champaign. L o u ise L e o n a r d has retired after m ore than 20 years as Middle East and Africana cata­ loger at the George A. Smathers Libraiy of the University of Florida in Gainesville. P a trick J. R u s s e ll Jr., rare book cataloger, has retired after 26 years at the Brancroft Li­ brary at the University of California (CU)- Berkeley. Prior to his position at Berkeley, Russell w orked as a rare book cataloger at Washington University Libraries in St. Louis. At CU, Russell h elped develop the special online bibliographical access that becam e a part of the GLADIS online catalog. He worked on special projects, such as cataloguing the rare books of William Randolph Hearst and the records of the Tebtunis papyrus m anu­ scripts— acquired by the university from an archaeological expedition sponsored 1899 by Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Russell served on C&RL News ■ June 2001 / 649 the ACRL’s RBMS Standards Committee. His w ork on the committee involved the devel­ opm ent of specialized thesauri for use in rare book and manuscript libraries. B eth Stafford, Women’s Studies librarian, has retired from the University of Illinois at Ur­ bana-Champaign. D e a t h s B e n C. B o w m a n , 88, retired librarian, died February 1, 2001. He began his library ca­ reer at the Newberry Library, w here he spent 16 years. His other positions included direc­ tor of libraries at the University of Vermont, librarian at Hunter College in New York City, and director of libraries at the University of Rochester, from which he retired in 1976. He then spent three years at Johns Hopkins Uni­ versity, in the rare books and special collec­ tions department, before completely leaving the profession. C h r is t in e B lu c h e r G e r m in o , bibliogra­ pher and reference librarian in the Central Library at Vanderbilt University, died April 10, 2001, after a brief illness. Germino began w ork in the library in 1983 as a library assis­ tant in the circulation departm ent of the Cen­ tral Library and becam e a bibliographer in 1990. She specialized in German language and literature and comparative literature. She also served as co-coordinator of instruction in the Central Library. Ilh a m K iun, 73, retired chairman of the De­ p a r tm e n t o f L ib ra ria n sh ip at T u rk e y ’s Hacettepe University in Ankara, died on Janu­ ary 3, 2001. Kum distinguished himself as a medical librarian, as a university administra­ tor—for a time he was Hacettepe’s secretary general, the institution’s chief operating of­ ficer—and as a library educator. While at­ te n d in g th e U niversity K entucky, Kum worked in the university library’s circulation departm ent and was later employed by the Science and Industry branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Kum was founding director of the medical library at Hacettepe and w ent on to establish the university’s Institute of Librarianship and D ocum entation. L a w ren ce Clark P o w e ll, 94, UCLA’s second university librarian, died March 14, 2001, in Tucson. Powell began his career at UCLA in 1938 as a junior assistant in the library’s ac­ quisition department. He becam e university librarian and director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in 1944 and directed the UCLA Library over the next 17 years. During his tenure, the library’s holdings grew from 400,000 volumes to 1.5 million volumes, in 1959, toward the end of his tenure as uni­ versity librarian, Powell led the effort to cre­ ate the School of Library Service, which later becam e the Graduate School of Library and Inform ation Science. Powell retired from UCLA in 1966 and had the Powell Library Building nam ed for him. He m oved to Tuc­ son in 1971 and served as a consultant to the University of Arizona on library projects. Among his many books are California Clas­ sics: The Creative Literature o f the Golden State (1971) and The Manuscripts o f D. H. Lawrence (1937). He also wrote numerous articles on literary, historical, and bibliographic topics for scholarly and general-interest periodicals. He was a life m em ber of ALA. J o y c e M. W atson, 65, building planning co­ ordinator for the University of H aw aii at Manoa Library, died March 14, 2001. She co­ ordinated the library’s planning program dur­ ing the design and con­ struction of the second (1 9 7 0 -7 9 ) a n d th ird (1990-01) additions to H am ilton Library. As th e only lib raria n in Hawaii qualified in this specialty, Watson was well known not only on c a m p u s , b u t a lso am ong architects and contractors in the com­ Joyce W atson munity for her energetic involvement and ability to communicate the complex, chang­ ing nature of the library’s needs and opera­ tions. In the academic library world, she con­ tributed her practical solutions to library pest m anagement in tropical environments. She was also a leading horticulturist. Her panax collection is the most complete in Hawaii and will be the basis for the memorial garden at Hom‘omaluhia Botanical Garden outside Ho­ nolulu. ■