ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


896 /  C&RL News ■  D ecem ber 1998

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s A n n -C h ris te  Y o u n g

William Gray Potter, 
university librarian at 
the University o f Geor­
gia, has received the 
Nix-Jones Award. This 
award, given by the 
Georgia Library Asso­
ciation, honors a prac­
ticing librarian who has 
made substantial contri­

W i l li a m  G r a y  P o t t e r butions to the library 
p r o fe s s io n , s u ch  as 

stimulation of library development, leadership 
in library programs, unusual and imaginative 
services, or outstanding support o f Georgia’s 
libraries. Potter served as chair of the Univer­
sity System o f Georgia Regents Academic 
Committee on Libraries and spearheaded the 
initial proposal to share electronic databases 
between the academic, public, technical, and 
school libraries in the state. “This was the 
seed from which GALILEO sprang,” said 
Rebecca Ziegler, chair o f the awards commit­
tee. “He also authored the ‘white paper’ seek­
ing funding for the second phase o f the 
GALILEO project, which will result in an in­
tegrated library system for the 34 university 
system libraries in Georgia enabling coop­
erative collection development, borrowing, 
and interlibrary loans, so that they will virtu­
ally function as one library.” Earlier this year, 
Potter received the 1998 Blackwell’s Scholar­
ship Award from the Association for Library 
Collections and Technical Services for an ar­
ticle on library consortia.

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

Sonia Bodi has been appointed director of 
the library at North Park University in Chicago.

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Bodi worked as North Park’s interim director 
o f the library, head reference librarian, and chair 
of the division of humanities. Prior to her work 
at North Park, Bodi served as librarian at the 
Wilmette Public Library and at Kendall Col­
lege. In 1998, Bodi, a member of the Beta Phi 
Mu National Library Science Honor Fraternity, 
won the Best Research Paper Award at the 
spring 1998 Conference of the Illinois ACRL. 
She also was recognized by the ALA for writ­
ing one of the top 20 articles on bibliographic 
instruction published in 1995.

Kathryn H. Carpenter has been appointed 
director o f library services at Purdue Univer­
sity Calumet. She previously served as uni­
versity librarian at Valparaiso University library. 
She also held several positions at the Univer­

sity o f Illinois at Chi­
cago, including acting 
head of regional sites, 
bibliograph er for the 
health sciences, associ­
ate professor, acquisi­
tions librarian, interli­
brary loan librarian, and 
d ocu m en ts librarian. 
Carpenter was recently 
appointed associate edi­

K a th r y n  H. C a rp e n te r tor o f the ALA journal 
Library Administration a n d  Management; she 
will serve as editor from 2000-02. Last spring 
she was elected to the membership advisory 
council of INCOLSA to represent members in 
the northwest Indiana region. Carpenter has 
authored numerous scholarly publications and 
she wrote the book Sourcebook on Parenting 
a n d  Child Care, published in 1995. She has 
been a reviewer for Booklist for: seven years.

Murilo B. da Cunha has been appointed di­
rector o f the university library system at the 
Universidade de Brasilia.

Nunzia B. Giuse, has been appointed direc­
tor o f the Eskind B iom edical Library at 
Vanderbilt University. Giuse, who is also an 
associate professor in the medical school’s

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division o f biomedical informatics, was pre­
viously the library’s deputy directory.

Maryhelen Jones has been appointed direc­
tor of the Fogelson Library at the College of 

Santa Fe. Jones comes 
from Central Michigan 
University in Mt. Pleas­
an t, w h e re  s h e  has 
served as the director of 
off-campus library ser­
vices for the last six 
years. She has held nu­
merous appointments 
with the ACRL Distance 
Learning Section and is 

M aryhelen Jones currently DLS Discus­
sion Group chair. She 

also serves as ACRL Council o f Liaisons repre­
sentative to the University o f Continuing Edu­
cation Association.

Jam es A. Kaser has been appointed director 
of the library o f the New Jersey Historical So­
ciety. Kaser is author o f At the B iv ou ac o f  
Memory: History, Politics a n d  the B attle o f  
C h ickam au g a and was a special collections 
curator at George Washington University in 
Washington, D.C. Kaser chaired the 1998 ACRL 
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section’s Precon­
ference Local Arrangements Committee.

Clarence Toom er has been appointed 
dean o f library and learning resources for 
Chicago State University.

Ali Abdulla has been appointed head of 
re fe re n ce  at East Carolina University in 
Greenville, North Carolina.

Megan Adams has been appointed refer­
ence librarian and bibliographer at the Uni­
versity o f Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

Cathy Aster has been appointed head of 
preservation services at the Hoover Institu­
tion Library at Stanford.

Guy A. Bennett has been appointed ref­
erence/instruction librarian intern at East Caro­
lina University.

Donna Breyfogle has been appointed as­
sociate director o f collections at the Univer­
sity o f Manitoba Libraries in Winnipeg.

Julie Chapman has been appointed in­
formation services librarian at Valdosta State 
University in Valdosta, Georgia.

Stephen Dew has accepted the position 
of coordinator for off-campus library services 
at the University o f Iowa in Iowa City.

Carol Pitts Diedrichs has been appointed 
assistant director for technical services and 
liaison to the regional campus libraries for 
Ohio State University in Columbus.

Dick Fairfield is the new manager o f 
outsourcing services for the Faxon Company 
in Westwood, Massachusetts.

Yale Fineman is now the user services 
librarian in the Music Library at Duke Univer­
sity.

Christof Galli has been appointed data 
services coordinator in the Public Documents 
and Maps Department at Duke University.

David Hursh is now the music librarian 
at East Carolina University in Greenville, North 
Carolina.

Lee Ireland has b een appointed vice 
president of marketing for Auto-Graphics, Inc. 
in Pomona, California.

Lisa Julka has been appointed reference 
and electronic services librarian at Schreiner 
College in Kerrville, Texas.

Elizabeth A. Kopley has been appointed 
d irecto r o f d evelopm en t for the B oston  
Athenæum.

Marilyn Lewis has been appointed cata- 
loger at East Carolina University in Greenville, 
North Carolina.

Erin Lfotis is now the assistant conserva­
tor at the University o f South Carolina.

Jerilyn  Marshall is now head of the Ref­
erence and Instructional Services Department 
at the University o f Northern Iowa in Cedar 
Falls.

Pat McGee has been appointed head of 
media and teaching resources at East Caro­
lina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Cindy Nuhn is now the instructional ser­
vices librarian at Eckerd College in St. Peters­
burg, Florida.

Afeworki Paulos has been appointed in­
ternational studies bibliographer at the Uni­
versity o f Iowa Libraries in Iowa City.

Richard A. “Rick” Peterson has been 
named associate director of the Laupus Health 
Sciences Library at East Carolina University.

Charlcie Pettway has been appointed 
information services librarian at Valdosta State 
University in Valdosta, Georgia.

Jacqueline V. Reid is now the reference 
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Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in 
the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Col­
lections Library at Duke University.

Stacy W. Rideout has been appointed 
reference/instruction librarian intern at East 
Carolina University.

Leena Siegelbaum has been appointed 
Germanic languages cataloger at the Harvard 
Law School Library.

Jo h n  H. “Ja c k ” Sulzer has been ap­
pointed associate dean for Campus College 
Libraries at Pennsylvania State University.

Shelley Sweeney is now the head of Ar­
chives and Special Collections at the Univer­
sity of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

Sue Thompson is the new library sys­
tems coordinator at California State Univer­
sity in San Marcos.

Markel D. Tumlin has been appointed 
literature/humanities reference librarian at San 
Diego State University.

Janice Simmons-Welburn has been ap­
pointed director of human resources and pro­
cessing services at the University of Iowa in 
Iowa City.

Barbara Winters has been appointed 
associate university librarian for collection 
services at the University of Georgia in Ath­
ens.

Lawrence Woods is now the director of 
health sciences and information technology 
at the University o f Iowa in Iowa City.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Carolyn L. Robison, associate university li­
brarian at Georgia State University, has re­
tired after 31 years of service. An active mem­
ber o f ALA, ACRL, the Georgia Library Asso­
ciation, and the Southeastern Library Asso­
ciation, Robison has served on numerous 
professional committees and task forces and 
has been a frequent Library Evaluator and 
Reaffirmation Committee member for the 
Southern Association o f Colleges and Schools. 
Most recently she chaired the Membership 
Committee o f the Board of Directors of the 
Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET); the 
GALILEO Assessment Committee; and the 
COPERNICUS (G2) Assessment Committee, 
which will implement statewide library bor­
rowing throughout Georgia.

D e a t h s

Richard Hoover, retired librarian at Rutgers, 
The State University of New Jersey, died in 
August. He retired in March after almost 30 
years in the Rutgers Libraries, the major part of 
his career spent at its Library of Science and 
Medicine. Hoover received a bachelor’s from 
the University of Hartford and his MLS from 
Rutgers in 1965.

Francis A. Johns, university bibliographer 
(1958-79) and later research bibliographer from 
1979 until his retirement in 1998 at the Rutgers 
University Libraries in New Brunswick, New 
Jersey, died on August 4 at the age of 75. After 
extended service in the Royal Air Force during 
World War II, he became a Fellow of the Li­
brary Association. He held various library po­
sitions in Great Britain and Canada from 1948 
until coming to the United States and Rutgers 
in 1955. He earned a bachelor’s in French and 
an MLS and master’s in French literature from 
Rutgers. During his tenure at Rutgers, he was 
responsible for substantial enhancement in the 
scope, size, and quality of the library’s collec­
tions. Johns was an expert on the noted En­
glish Sinologist and translator Arthur Waley and 
compiled A Bibliography o f  Arthur Waley. He 
was a member of the Bibliographic Society of 
America, the Bibliosmiles, the Grolier Club, and 
the Oriental Ceramic Society. He was also the 
cofounder, and a Fellow, of the Molesworth 
Institute. ■

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