nov05c.indd Ann-Christe Galloway P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Marcia J. Bates, professor in the department of information studies at University of Cali- fornia-Los Angeles Graduate School of Edu- cation and Information Studies, has received the American Society for Information Science and Technology’s 2005 Award of Merit. The award is given annually to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to the field of library and information science. Bates has dedicated her career to understanding and teaching the elements that go into effec- tive information acquisition and use, and her findings have influenced the design of auto- mated information systems for the past sev- eral decades. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for Science and a recipient of the American Society for Information Science Research Award (1998). Twice she has received the Journal of the American Society for Informa- tion Science Best Paper of the Year Award. In 2001, she received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Informa- tion Technology. Three of her articles are among the 20 most highly cited library and information technology papers of all time. Barbara Dewey, dean of libraries at the Uni- versity of Tennessee, is now serving a three- year term as a representative of academic libraries on the Tennessee Advisory Council on Libraries. The advisory council counsels the State Library and Archives regarding their ongoing five-year plan and other long-range planning, policy matters, program evalua- tions, services, and other activities. Stephen Rollins, dean of the Consortium Li- brary at University of Alaska-Anchorage, has been re-elected as president of the Biblio- 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. graphical Center for Research (BCR). Brenda Bailey-Hainer, director of networking and resource sharing at Colorado State Library, was elected BCR vice president. A p p o i n t m e n t s Lorene Flanders has been appointed direc- tor of university libraries at the University of West Georgia. Flanders held several positions at Georgia College and State University, in- cluding associate university librarian, acting university librarian, assistant/associate direc- tor for instruction and reference services, and information/instruction librarian. She was also young adult librarian at the Oconee Regional Library in Dublin and worked with the Cobb County Public Library System in Marietta. In addition to serving on the University System of Georgia Board of Regents Academic Com- mittee on Libraries (2003–04), Flanders has participated in numerous campus and profes- sional organization committees. She is a mem- ber of ACRL and the Bibliographic Instruction Group of Georgia: Eastern Region. Ruth Kifer has been appointed dean of the university library at San José State Univer- sity. Kifer had been employed for the last nine years at George Mason University, most recently as the associ- ate university librarian for distributed libraries. She serves as president of the Virginia Library Association and is one of the founding mem- bers of the newly established VLA Founda- tion, Inc. She also serves on the resource sharing committee of the Virtual Library of Virginia and ACRL’s Government Relations Committee. Ruth Kifer C&RL News November 2005 748 Pat Wand Pat Wand, university librarian at American University (AU) until December 31, has been named dean of libraries at Zayed University in Dubai. She will begin her new position in Feb- ruary 2006. Zayed Uni- versity was founded in 1998 by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates, and offers Western-style edu- cation, professional training, and academic degrees to Emirate women. Wand has been university librarian at AU since 1989, repre- senting the library before university lead- ership and key campus constituencies. In recent years, under Wand’s leadership, the library has reached major milestones, which include increasing the collection to more than 1 million volumes, providing access to 17,000 journal titles, establishing an ef- fective Friends of AU Library group, raising more than 1.6 million dollars, creating an award-winning marketing program, adding a coffee service, upgrading interior spaces, and incorporating high-end information technology. Prior to joining AU, Wand was professor and assistant university librarian at the University of Oregon Library from 1982 to 1989. She also held positions in the libraries of Columbia University, the Col- lege of State Island, and Wittenberg Univer- sity. Early in her career, Wand was a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia. She serves on the ALA International Relations Committee and for three years represented the ACRL membership on the ALA Council. She has published 32 articles and delivered 46 pa- pers at conferences. Diana Vogelsong will serve as acting uni- versity librarian at American University be- ginning in January 2006. Ivy Anderson is now director of li- censed content at the California Digital Library. Nick Baker has been appointed reference and Web services librarian for Sawyer Library at Williams College. Judy Carol Bell is now assistant librarian in the reference department at Louisiana State University Libraries. Alison Bobal is now science librarian at the Oregon State University-Corvallis Librar- ies. John Bolcer is now university archivist in the special collections division of the Univer- sity of Washington-Seattle. Susan Broome has been appointed as- sociate director for technical service at Mercer University’s Jack Tarver Library. Leslie Bussert has been appointed refer- ence and instruction/ethics and humanities librarian at the University of Washington- Seattle’s Bothell Library/Cascadia Community College. Maiko Ota Cagno has joined the staff of C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University as a project archivist. Jeff Carrico has joined the Georgia In- stitute of Technology Library as head of the acquisition services department. Jayati Chaudhuri has joined the reference services department at the University of North- ern Colorado’s James A. Michener Library. Consuela Cline has joined Jack Tarver Library at Mercer University as reference ser- vices coordinator. Alyssa Deutschler has been appointed reference and instruction/policy studies librarian at the University of Washington- Seattle’s Bothell Library/Cascadia Community College. Maria L. Fredericks has been appointed the Drue Heinz book conservator at the Mor- gan Library. Ligaya Ganster has been named visit- ing senior assistant librarian as the Jean Blackwell Hutson Library Resident in the Arts and Sciences Libraries at the University of Buffalo. David Gansz has been named dean for learning support and information systems at Edison State Community College in Piqua, Ohio. November 2005 749 C&RL News Julie Griffi n is now digital initiatives librarian at the Georgia Institute of Technol- ogy Library. Jill Grogg has been appointed electronic resources librarian at the University of Ala- bama Libraries. Kathryn S. Gronemyer is now refer- ence and instruction librarian at Oregon State University-Bend. Wanda Gunther is now authority control librarian at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Jianye He is now librarian for the Chinese Collection at the University of California- Berkeley. Dayna Holz has joined the Environmental Design Archives at the University of Califor- nia-Berkeley as a full-time archivist. Amanda Hornby has been appointed reference and instruction/media and tech- nology studies librarian at the University of Washington-Seattle’s Bothell Library/Cascadia Community College. Selma K. Jaskowski has been promoted to assistant director for systems and tech- nology at the University of Central Florida Libraries in Orlando. Charles E. Jones has been appointed head of the Blegen Library at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. Stephanie Joseph has been named li- brary residency program reference librarian in reference and library instruction at the University of Iowa Libraries. Amanda Langendoerfer is now special collections librarian/archivist at Truman State University. John Lawton has been appointed assis- tant map librarian at the University of Min- neapolis. Jennifer Leffl er has joined the techni- cal services department as an electronic re- sources librarian at the University of Northern Colorado’s James A. Michener Library. Lisha Li has joined the Georgia Institute of Technology Library as reference and sub- ject librarian. Charles Lyons has been appointed busi- ness/management librarian in the Arts and Sciences Libraries at the University at Buf- falo-State University of New York. Gail Rodgers McCormick is now special collections librarian at Goucher College. Lisa McGuire is now reference librarian at the University of Minnesota’s Bio-Medical Library. Catherine Michael has been appointed communications librarian at Ithaca College. Eleanor Mitchell has been appointed direc- tor of library services at Dickinson College. Amy Jansen Minkov has joined the staff of Agnes Scott College as access services librarian. Lisa Nichols is the new instruction co- ordinator in the Camden-Carroll Library at Morehead State University. Elizabeth Pankl has joined the reference department at Louisiana State University Li- braries as assistant librarian. Christa Poparad is now the public ser- vices librarian for the curriculum lab and the system administrator at Lynchburg College. Jennifer Quinlan has joined Mount Hood Community College in Oregon as a faculty librarian. Jenna Ryan has been appointed assistant librarian in the reference department at Loui- siana State University Libraries Martha Rice Sanders has accepted the newly created position of knowledge man- agement librarian for the HELIN Consortium, a collective of academic and medical libraries in Rhode Island. Susan Sanders is the new dental instruc- tional resources librarian at the University of Mis- souri-Kansas City School of Dentistry Library. Mark Stengel is now associate dean of the library at California State University-San Marcos. Bradley Teale has been appointed Web ap- plication developer in the Digital Library Devel- opment Lab at the University of Minnesota. Bonnie Tijerina has joined the Georgia Institute of Technology Library as a collection development librarian. C. Scott Walker is now science librarian in the Valley Library at Oregon State Univer- sity-Corvallis. C&RL News November 2005 750 Dean P. Walton has been named science librarian at the University of Oregon Librar- ies-Eugene. Jeannette Ward has been promoted to associate director for collections and technical services at the University of Central Florida Libraries-Orlando. Linda Watson has been appointed director of Health Science Libraries at the University of Virginia. Kate Wenger is the new reference librar- ian at Muskingum College Library. Andrew Whitis is now head of user ser- vices at Muskingum College Library. Beth Williams is now reference librar- ian in the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia University. Stephanie Wright is now natural sci- ences information services librarian in the Natural Sciences Library at the University of Washington-Seattle. Susan Xue is now head of the Center for Chinese Studies Library and electronic resources librarian at the University of Cali- fornia-Berkeley. R e t i r e m e n t s May Stack has retired as director of D’Amour Library at Western New England College fol- lowing a 40-year career. Stack joined the col- lege in 1965 as a circulation clerk and rose through the ranks, serving as library director Advertisers AARP 727 Annual Reviews 719 Association of Research Libraries 702 Chemical Abstracts Service cover 2 Choice 705 College of DuPage 747 EBSCO cover 3 Elsevier ScienceDirect cover 4 Iimage Retrieval 710 Nature Publishing Group 714 R. R. Bowker 742 RLG 701 for the past 16 years. She helped guide the college through many changes, including the opening of D’Amour Library in 1983. D e a t h s Donald Howard Shively, 84, an authority of Japanese urban life and popular culture in the Tokugawa period and former head of East Asian Library at the University of Cali- fornia-Berkeley, has died. Shively served as a Japanese language officer in the Marine Corps during the Pacific War. Following doctoral training and election to the Society of Fel- lows at Harvard, he held professional appoint- ments at the University of California-Berkeley (1950–62), Stanford University (1962–64), and Harvard University (1964–83). He returned to Berkeley in 1983, serving until his retirement in 1992 as professor of East Asian Languag- es and Cultures and head of the East Asian Library. Shively was editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (1955–59) and the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (1975–83). He also directed the conservation and cataloguing of the Mitsui Collection of early Japanese printed books and maps. (“Internet Reviews” continued from page 741) IDEA defines itself as a “South-based” or- ganization. Thus, one may be led to believe that this site would focus on developing countries south of the equator. However, a review of the organization’s writings reveals an emphasis on developing countries in southern Asia, while a thorough analysis of Latin American countries is lacking. The IDEA site is recommended primarily for the subject areas of business and eco- nomics, though it may also be suitable for political science. College students of all levels, academics, and specialists with an interest in business or economics may find the Web site useful. Not recommended for a general audience.—Brad Matthies, Butler University, bmatthie@butler.edu November 2005 751 C&RL News mailto:bmatthie@butler.edu