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

Bonnie Allen, associate university librarian 
at Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries, 
is one of 15 top leaders in the college and 
university library field selected as a 2005 
UCLA senior fellow. Her selection followed 
a nationwide competition conducted by the 
UCLA Graduate School of Education and In­
formation Studies. A key member of the OSU 
Libraries management team since 1999, Al­
len is charged with oversight of the technical 
services, collection development, and library 
technology departments. She has more than 
25 years of experience in libraries. As a Se­
nior Fellow, Allen will attend a three­week 
program at UCLA, which is designed to foster 
the focused investigation and advanced study 
of key topics related to research library ad­
ministration through presentations by select 
faculty and invited speakers. 

Herb Hartsook of South Caroliniana Li­
brary has been named to the editorial board 
of Provenance, the journal of the Society of 
Georgia Archivisits, a regional association of 
Southeastern archivists. 

Marilyn R. Pukkila, head of instructional 
services at the Colby College Libraries, has 
won Colby’s Student Government Association 
Progressive Leadership Award for 2005. The 
award is offered annually to a member of the 
Colby faculty, staff, and/or student body who 
has demonstrated exceptional dedication in 
heightening awareness of humanitarian is­
sues and has worked to improve the cam­
pus climate by striving to make Colby a more 
accepting, inclusive community, particularly 
through improving understanding and rec­
ognition of the special concerns of students 
from underrepresented and traditionally mar­

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ginalized groups. Pukkila heads Project Ally, 
modeled after the nationally known Project 
Safe Zone program, and serves as faculty ad­
visor to the CIRCLE, a student group that pro­
motes a better understanding of “alternative” 
spiritual paths, such as Paganism, Buddhism, 
Wicca, and the like, as well as honoring reli­
gious diversity. She also served for two years 
as the chair of the college’s Muliticultural Af­
fairs Committee and has collection develop­
ment responsibility for queer studies, wom­
en’s studies, and multicultural studies. 

Terry Reese, Oregon State University Li­
braries cataloging librarian for networked 
resources, has been named a “Mover and 
Shaker” in the Digital Masters category in the 
March 15, 2005, issue of Library Journal. The 
Movers and Shakers nominations are collect­
ed annually from the library community to 
draw attention to those who are signifi cantly 
impacting the way libraries operate and pro­
vide services. Reese is being recognized for 
his skills in developing programming appli­
cations that save staff time in performing rou­
tine tasks within the library’s online catalogs 
and services. His applications are freely avail­
able to any library and are currently in use 
in libraries worldwide. Most notable is his 
improvement upon the Library of Congress’s 
MARC editing program, available online as 
freeware, which has been downloaded by 
more than 10,000 users. 

Tito Sierra, North Carolina State University 
Libraries digital technologies development li­
brarian, has been awarded a Digital Library 
Federation (DLF) Forum Fellowship for Li­
brarians New to the Profession. He received 
a stipend of up to $1,000 to help defray the 
costs of attending the DLF Spring Forum 2005 
in San Diego. 

Emily Tennant, library systems intern at the 
University of Michigan, and John Vickery, 
Carolina Academic Library associate for Latin 

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American and Iberian resources in collec­
tion development at the University of North 
Carolina, have been appointed North Caro­
lina State University (NCSU) fellows, class of 
2005–07. The NCSU Libraries Fellows Pro­
gram develops future leaders for academic li­
braries, with a focus on science, engineering 
and digital librarianship and library manage­
ment. NCSU Libraries fellows are appointed 
as librarians for a two­year term as members 
of the library faculty, combining work on an 
innovative project with a half­time assign­
ment in a home department. 

Debra Mills Nolan 

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

Debra Mills Nolan has been named execu­
tive director of the Library Binding Institute 
(LBI), an association dedicated to providing 

information and edu­
cation on the highest 
standards in library 
binding. Nolan has 
more than 15 years 
experience in associa­
tion management with 
extensive background 
in membership devel­
opment, marketing, 
public relations, and 
conference planning. 

Prior to working with LBI, Nolan served as 
interim executive codirector for the Society 
of American Archivists. 

Diane Baden has joined the staff of the 
Boston College Libraries as head of catalog­
ing. 

Heather Barrett is now serials/acquisi­
tions librarian at Southern Methodist Univer­
sity’s Center for Information Processing. 

Stacey McGee Beach is now a librarian 
in the Center for Information Processing at 
Southern Methodist University. 

Joanna Blair is now biological librarian in 
the reference services department at Colorado 
State University. 

Nicole L. Bouché has been named Pacifi c 
Northwest curator in the special collections 
division of the University of Washington­
Seattle. 

John Chapman has been appointed 
metadata librarian in the Wilson Library of the 
University of Minnesota­Twin Cities. 

Caroline Crouse has been appointed 
information literacy/undergraduate initiatives 
librarian at the University of Minnesota­Twin 
Cities. 

Deborah DeGeorge is the new rare/ 
nonbook cataloger at the University of 
Michigan. 

Rob Farrell is now geospatial initia­
tives librarian in the digital library initia­
tives department of North Carolina State 
University. 

Louise Feldmann has been appointed 
business librarian in the reference services 
department at Colorado State University. 

Chad Fennell has been appointed refer­
ence/Web services librarian in the University 
of Minnesota­Twin Cities’ Wilson Library. 

Beverly Gibbons has been named the 
fine arts librarian at Southern Methodist 
University. 

Brittney Goodman is now director of 
instructional resources at Minnesota State 
University in Moorhead, Minnesota. 

Alison Grodzinski is the new informa­
tion services librarian at the University of 
Michigan’s Taubman Medical Library. 

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AARP 370 
ACM 349 
Annual Reviews 373 
Archival Products 377 
ARL AC-16, 405 
Chemical Abstracts Services cover 2 
Choice 353 
EBSCO cover 4 
H. W. Wilson 358 
Iimage Retrieval 397 
Modern Language Association 350 
Oxford University Press 365 
RLG cover 3 
Springer 380 
University of Maryland  403 

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Alea Henle is the electronic resources 
librarian in the reference services department 
at Colorado State University. 

Kristi Jensen has been named science 
librarian in the University of Minnesota­Twin 
Cities’ Science and Engineering Library. 

Meghan Lafferty has been appointed 
science librarian at the University of Min­
nesota­Twin Cities’ Science and Engineering 
Library. 

Shu Liu is the metadata librarian in the 
technical services department at Colorado 
State University. 

Rozalynd McConnaughy has been pro­
moted to assistant director for education and 
outreach at the University of South Carolina 
School of Medicine Library. 

Jennifer Nardine is the new public ser­
vices librarian at the University of Michigan’s 
Shapiro Undergraduate Library. 

Kenley Neufeld has been named technol­
ogy librarian at Santa Barbara City College. 

Neil Rambo has been appointed associ­
ated director of the Health Sciences Libraries 
at the University of Washington­Seattle. 

Annemarie van Roessel is working with 
the Avery and Preservation staffs at Columbia 
University in a one­year appointment as a 
project archivist focusing on un­ and under­
processed collections. 

Dale Sauter has joined the staff of the J.Y. 
Joyner Library at East Carolina University as 
assistant professor/manuscript curator in the 
special collections department. 

Paul Soderdahl has been appointed co­
ordinator of digital initiatives at the University 
of Iowa Libraries. 

Jean Song is the new information services 
librarian at the Public Health Library and In­
formatics at the University of Michigan. 

Tracy Waterman has been appointed 
assistant librarian in monograph catalog­
ing/special projects and collections at the 
University of Michigan. 

Tanner Wray is the new director of public 
services for the University of Maryland Librar­
ies in College Park. 

John Wagstaff is now music librarian at 
the University of Illinois Library at Urbana­
Champaign. 

Josh Wilson is now reference librarian for 
physical and mathematical sciences at North 
Carolina State University. 

Felicia Yeh has been appointed assistant 
director for serials at the University of South 
Carolina School of Medicine Library. 

Sha Li Zhang has been appointed as­
sistant director for technical services at the 
University of North Carolina­Greensboro’s 
Jackson Library. 

(“Internet Reviews” cont. from page 401) 

NIST is involved in. It gives general interest 
information about standards and measure­
ments, including measurement converters, 
the official worldwide time, and more. The 
NIST Web site is well organized, though the 
terminology can be confusing. Navigation is 
facilitated by a Google­powered site search 
and an extensive index. 

The NIST Virtual Museum has many 
interesting exhibits, including “The Stan­
dardization of Women’s Clothing” and “The 
Reading Machine”—about the fi rst optical 
text reader. 

Researchers should use the NIST Data 
Gateway to search 80 NIST databases by 
keyword, property, or substance name. 

Some of the NIST databases are available for 
purchase only. The Virtual Library has some 
password­protected resources, but there are 
also subject guides for various science topics, 
including biotechnology, homeland security, 
patents, and more. Users can search the NIST 
technical publications database. The NIST 
publications deal with quality issues, physical 
and chemical data, technology, engineering 
and more. 

Overall, the NIST Web site is a good re­
source for businesses, manufacturers, scien­
tists, and students who want to learn about 
standards, technology, and measurement. 
—Kate Peterson, California State University, 
Long Beach, jpeters4@csulb.edu 

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