oct04c.indd P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Ann-Christe Galloway Janis Bandelin, director of libraries at Furman University, is one of 60 representa­ tives worldwide to be elected to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Members Council, an international nonprofi t coop­ erative dedicated to furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs. With headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, more than 45,000 libraries in 84 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, and preserve library materials. She will represent the libraries of SOLINET for a three­year term that begins this month. Carla Hayden, executive director of Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore and immedi­ ate ALA past­president, has been appointed to fill the unexpired term of PALINET Board member Rosann Bazirjian. Scott Salzman has been appointed the Associated Colleges of the South Environ­ mental Fellow at Furman University for 2004–2005. A p p o i n t m e n t s Rosann Bazirjian has been appointed uni­ versity librarian at the University of North Carolina­Greensboro (UNCG). Prior to this position, she had served as assistant dean for technical and access services in the Pennsylvania State University Libraries since 1999. She previously held positions at Flori­ da State University, Syracuse University, and Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: agalloway@ ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. the University of West Florida. Bazirjian is a member of the OCLC Members Council and has served on committees and task forces for several professional library organiza­ tions. She is the author of 28 articles, chap­ ters, and reviews. Bazirjian is president­elect of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. Mary M. Case is now university librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago University Library. Case has been a national fi gure in advancing alternative models for scholarly communication and publication as the direc­ tor of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Earlier in her career, Case served in several positions at Northwestern University, includ­ ing head of serials and acquisition services. Steve LaBash has been appointed director of the University of Baltimore Langsdale Library. H. Carton Rogers III has been named vice provost and director of libraries at the Uni­ versity of Pennsylvania (UP); he has been serving in an interim capacity since April 2003. Rogers was previously the Goldstein director of information processing at the UP library and acting director of collections de­ velopment and management. His fi rst position at UP was as head of reference and technical services at the Biomedical Library, after which he became the senior business officer for the university library (1979–85). J. Robert Verbesey has been appointed director of library services at the new Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. Shaunta Adams is now collection devel­ opment librarian at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. 556 / C&RL NewsOctober 2004 Patricia Bakunas has been named profes­ sional library associate and visiting instructor in a split appointment in the special collection and catalog departments at the University of Illinois­Chicago. John Ballestro has been appointed ac­ quisitions librarian for the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University­Carbondale. Brooke Becker is now reference librar­ ian for social and behavioral sciences at the University of Alabama­Birmingham’s Mervyn H. Sterne Library. Paul Bern has joined Syracuse University Library as numeric data services librarian. Sara Blaszczak has joined the library sys­ tems department at the University of Illinois­ Chicago as academic resident librarian. Ann Goebel Brown has joined the Gel­ man Library at George Washington University as a reference and instruction librarian. Jef f Campbell has been appointed systems librarian at the University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. Raquel Cogell is librarian at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina­ Chapel Hill. Gregory Colati has been named head of special collections at George Washington University’s Gelman Library. Mark Costa has been appointed academic resident librarian in the reference department at the University of Illinois­Chicago. Alice Daugherty is now information lit­ eracy librarian at Louisiana State University. Marcia Dellenbach has been appointed visiting assistant reference librarian in the university library at the University of Illinois­ Chicago. Karen Dennison is now engineering reference librarian at Louisiana State Uni­ versity. Jeremy Donald has been named refer­ ence/liaison librarian at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Cathy Eisenhower has joined the Gel­ man Library at George Washington University as an insruction and collection development librarian. Mar yam Fakouri has joined the staff of the Columbia College Chicago Library as reference and instruction librarian. Mitch Fontenot is now information lit­ eracy librarian at Louisiana State University. Jeremy R. Garritano has been appointed chemical information specialist at the Purdue University Libraries. Gregory Green has been named curator of the Donn V. Hart Southeast Asia Collection at Northern Illinois University. Benjamin Harris has been appointed reference/liaison librarian at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Jonathan Harwell has been appointed reference librarian for education at the Uni­ versity of Alabama­Birmingham’s Mervyn H. Sterne Library. Martha Higgins has been hired as social sciences reference librarian at Old Dominion University Libraries. Kristin Hitchcock has joined the infor­ mation services department in the Library of the Health Sciences as academic resident li­ brarian at the University of Illinois­Chicago. Kristina Howard has been appointed academic resident librarian in the informa­ tion services department of the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Il­ linois­Chicago. Rahn Huber has been appointed business information services librarian at Vanderbilt University. Mark A. Jacobs has been hired as elec­ tronic resources librarian at the University of Wyoming Libraries. William Jordan has been appointed associate director for information technical services at the University of Washington Libraries. Jennifer Gunter King has been named head of archives and special collection at Virginia Tech University Libraries. Bruce Kresnoff has been named visit­ ing access services librarian in the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois­Chicago. Rodney Lippard has been named in­ tegrated systems workflow librarian at the C&RL NewsOctober 2004 / 557 University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. Carina MacLeod Love has been ap­ pointed technical services librarian at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California. Barbara Mann is now coordinator of information literacy programs/research and instruction librarian at the University of South­ ern Maine’s Glickman Library. Melissa McAfee is now associate librarian at the Newberry Library. Lisa McDaniels is now serials cataloging librarian in the Serials Department, Central Technical Services, at the University of Iowa Libraries. Michael J. Miller has been appointed coordinator of access services at Queens College, CUNY. Sachié Noguchi has joined the Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University as the Japanese Studies librarian. Jennifer Oates is now head of the Music Library at Queens College, CUNY. Henry Owen III has joined the library documents department at the University of Illinois­Chicago as academic resident librar­ ian. Jessica Patterson is now business/pat­ ents/trademarks librarian at Louisiana State University. John “Mike” Puckett has joined Syra­ cuse University Library as a visual resources specialist. Robert E. Renaud has been named vice president of library and information services and CIO at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Ellen Schellhause has been named health sciences librarian in the Library of the Health Sciences (Rockford) at the University of Illinois­Chicago. Helen Schmierer has been appointed as­ sistant catalog librarian and clinical professor in the University Library at the University of Illinois­Chicago. Rachael Shaevel has been appointed aca­ demic resident librarian in the reference depart­ ment at the University of Illinois­Chicago. Ann Shincovich has joined Syracuse University Library as a fine arts library. Amy Stewart-Mailhiot is now govern­ ment information services librarian at Van­ derbilt University. Lynne M. Thomas has been named head of rare books and special collections at Northern Illinois University. Vincent Tinerella has been appointed reference librarian at Northern Illinois Uni­ versity. Rachel Vacek is the new electronic resources/information services librarian at Vanderbilt University. Jennifer Varney has joined the Boston Li­ brary Consortium, Inc. as assistant director. Lisa Wallis has been appointed assistant information services librarian in the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois­Chicago. Felicity Walsh has joined the Johnson Library at Southern Polytechnic State Univer­ sity in Marietta, Georgia, as a catalog/serials librarian. Victoria Welborn has been appointed science librarian at Furman University. Ann C. Weller has been promoted to curator, special collections in the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Il­ linois­Chicago. Elizabeth (Beth) Winstead is now head of access services at East Carolina Univer­ sity. Jami Xu has joined Northwestern Uni­ versity Library as a reference librarian and liaison to Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. R e t i re m e n t s Ken Marks, dean of University Librar­ ies for the University of Nevada­Las Vegas, has retired after seven years of service. He has served as director of Academic Li­ brary Services for East Carolina University (1990–97); university librarian and executive director for the Merrill Library and Learn­ ing Resources Program at Utah State in Lo­ gan (1984–90); associate director for public services at the University of Tennessee in 558 / C&RL NewsOctober 2004 Knoxville (1978–84); and head of reference at Iowa State University (1971–78). A leader in library technology, marketing and plan­ ning, Marks leaves a legacy of publications, presentations, and professional committee guidance throughout ALA and various state associations. Alan Pollard has retired from the University of Michigan after 13 years of service as head of the Slavic and East European Division in Area Programs. Pollard edited USSR Facts & Figures Annual (1988–1991), both the 1990 and 1997 editions of Guide to Offi cial Pub­ lications of Foreign Countries, Russian Ar­ chives by Patricia Grimstead, and is transla­ tor and editor of the first two volumes of The Laws on the Russian Peasant Emancipation 19 February 1861. His papers span more than 40 years, addressing issues in either li­ brarianship or Russian history and culture. Pollard was elected to the position of chair of ACRL’s Slavic and East European Section in 1994 (serving two terms) and was ap­ pointed to the Executive Board of the Bibli­ ography and Documentation Committee of the American Association for the Advance­ ment of Slavic Studies (1988–91). Thomas L. Wilding, director libraries at the University of Texas­Arlington, has retired after a career in libraries spanning nearly 50 years. During his career he held a number of posi­ tion at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the Libraries of the Massachusetts Insti­ tute of Technology. He taught at the library schools of both the University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University. Wilding held numerous committee and elected positions within ALA, including LAMA president. He was an active participant in IFLA and has a number of published works. D e a t h s Hardy R. Franklin, retired director of the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL), has died. During Franklin’s administration, the library system introduced a wide variety of programs, activities, and special events to attract customers. Franklin brought DCPL high visibility both locally and nationally, serving as advisor to a number of universities; was named a delegate to the White House Confer­ ence on Libraries; received the Public Library Association’s Allie Beth Martin Award, which honors a librarian who, in a public library setting, has demonstrated extraordinary range and depth of knowledge about books or other library materials and has distinguished ability to share that knowledge; and served as D.C. Library Association president and ALA president (1993–94). William Matheson, 77, chief of the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collec­ tions Division from 1972 until his retirement in 1987, has died. He first joined the Library of Congress in 1959 as a special recruit, but left in 1961 to take up the first Lilly Fellowship award at Indiana University’s Lilly Library. He subsequently served as the founding rare books librarian at the Olin Library of Washing­ ton University in St. Louis before returning to the Library of Congress in 1971 as assistant to the chief of the Rare Book Division. Matheson coauthored Printer’s choice: A selection of American press books 1968–1978, in addition to writing many exhibit catalogs, brochures, and reports. He was an active member of ACRL’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, IFLA, Association Internationale de Bibliophi­ lie, and Bibliographical Society of America, among many other national and international biibliographic societies and clubs.  Advertisers Annual Reviews Cover 3 Archival Products 513 Assoc. of Research Libraries 517, 532–33 Chemical Abstracts Cover 2 Choice 498 EBSCO Cover 4 Elsevier 503 LAMA 520 Library Technology Alliance 553 Oxford University Press 495 Tech Books 523 C&RL NewsOctober 2004 / 559