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

Geneva Henry, executive director of Rice 
University’s Digital Library Initiative, has been 
named a Digital Library Federation (DLF) dis­
tinguished fellow. Working with a team of 
DLF colleagues, Henry will develop the DLF 
Services Framework, an initiative that seeks 
to understand and communicate the busi­
ness processes of libraries in the new world 
of digital information and to relate them to 
emerging services. It is intended to provide 
the community with a roadmap and a com­
mon reference vocabulary around which to 
organize collective attention to library ser­
vices in a changing networked environment. 
The fellowship is part of the Council on Li­
brary and Information Resources (CLIR)/DLF 
Distinguished Fellows Program, which was 
established in 2000 as a means of giving tal­
ented individuals an opportunity to pursue 
their own research while helping advance 
the agendas of CLIF and DLF. 

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

Douglas Anderson has been appointed di­
rector of the Dawes Memorial Library at Mari­
etta College in Ohio. Anderson previously 
served as systems officer with the University 
of Alabama Libraries. Prior to that he had been 
director of the library at Presbyterian College 
in South Carolina and head of automated sys­
tems and cataloging at Furman University. 
While in South Carolina he served as chair 
of the Library Directors Council of the South 
Carolina Independent Colleges and Universi­
ties and was a founding cochair of PASCAL, 
the Partnership Among South Carolina Aca­
demic Libraries. 

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Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron 
St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -mail: agalloway@ 
ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. 

Dalia L. Hagan is now the director of Whit­
man College’s Penrose Library. She had 
served as library director at Saint Martin’s 
College in Lacey, Washington, for 17 years. 
Hagan’s professional memberships include 
service on the boards of the Library Ad­
ministration and Management Association; 
the Orbis Cascade Alliance; the Northwest 
Association of Private Colleges and Univer­
sities, Libraries; the Puget Sound Academic 
Independent Libraries; and the Washington 
Library Association. 

Joyce Ogburn is now director of the J. 
Willard Marriott Library at the University of 
Utah. She has more than 
20 years of experience 
in academic libraries. 
In addition to her most 
recent position as asso­
ciate director of the li­
braries for resources and 
collection management 
services at the University 
of Washington, Ogburn 
has served in similar 
posts at Old Dominion 
University, Yale University, and Pennsyl­
vania State University. She is involved in 
several national organizations, including 
the American Anthropological Association, 
ACRL, the Center for Research Libraries, 
and SPARC. 

Virginia Steel has been named university 
librarian at the Univer­
sity of California­Santa 
Cruz (UCSC). Steel had 
previously been direc­
tor of libraries at Wash­
ington State University­
Pullman and prior to 
that position, she spent 
four years at the Mas­
sachusetts Institute of 
Technology as associ­

Joyce Ogburn 

Virginia Steel 

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ate director for public services. She also held 
several high­level library management posi­
tions at University of California­San Diego 
between 1988 and 1997. Steel said that one 
of her high­priority goals in her new position 
is to facilitate the McHenry Library expansion 
and renovation project that began in the fall. 

Tom W. Dillard has been appointed head 
of the special collections department at the 
University of Arkansas­Fayetteville. 

Elaine Dong has joined the University 
of Arkansas­Fayetteville as the new special 
formats cataloging librarian. 

Tess Gibson has been named head of the 
interlibrary loan department at the University 
of Arkansas­Fayetteville. 

Patricia E. Kirkwood is now the en­
gineering and mathematics librarian at the 
University of Arkansas­Fayetteville. 

Rich McGowan has been appointed as­
sistant librarian in information services at the 
Weill Medical College of Cornell University. 

Michelle McKinney has joined the staff 
of University of Cincinnati’s Raymond Wal­
ters College Library as reference/instruction 
services librarian. 

Fran Mentch has joined the staff at Cleve­
land State University as social and behavioral 
sciences librarian. 

Timothy G. Nutt is the new manuscripts 
and rare books librarian in the special col­
lections department at the University of 
Arkansas­Fayetteville. 

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Judy Ruttenberg has been appointed 
Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) 
project librarian at the University of North 
Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Diane Worrell has been named special 
projects librarian in the special collections 
department at the University of Arkansas­
Fayetteville. 

JiPing “Tim” Zou is the new head of the 
access services department at the University 
of Arkansas­Fayetteville. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Sharon Bonk, chief librarian of Queens 
College­City University of New York, has 
retired after a 36 year career in academic li­
brarianship. Bonk served as chief librarian 
of Queens for 12 years, where she was ac­
tive in City University and a variety of New 
York state library com­
mittees. She served on 
the boards of METRO, 
(Metropolitan New 
York Library Council), 
NYSHEI (New York 
State Higher Education 
Initiative), and SUNY/ 
OCLC and its succes­
sor NYLINK. She was a 
member of OCLC Us­
ers Council and OCLC’s Advisory Committee 
on College and University Libraries. She also 
served on and chaired the New York State 
Regents LSCA/LSTA Advisory Council. Prior 
to Queens College, she held a number of po­
sitions at the University at Albany­State Uni­
versity of New York, including assistant di­
rector for user services, assistant director for 
technical services, and interim director. While 
at Albany, she was involved in a number of 
RLG and ARL activities, including the initial 
RLG ILL cost study. While at Albany, she re­
ceived the Nancy Stirling Lambert Scholar­
ship, which provided her the opportunity 
to do research in the UK book trade while 
affiliated with the College of Librarianship 

Sharon Bonk 

February 2006  117 C&RL News 



Wales. Later, she was awarded a Fulbright 
Travel Award for work at the British Library 
Document Supply Center on the econom­
ics of interlibrary loan and document sup­
ply services. She began her career at North­
eastern University, where she held positions 
in collection development, online search 
services, and serials. She taught courses in 
the Northeastern University library science 
minor program. She was active in ALA, in­
cluding service on the ACRL ULS Board and 
Program Committees, and numerous ALCTS 
committees, including the ALCTS Board of 
Directors, Budget and Finance Committee, 
and the Council of Regional Groups. She also 
served on the New York Library Association 
Executive Board when she was president of 
NYLA’s Section of Management of Resources 
and Technology, from which she received 
Professional Achievement Award in 2000. 

William Young, a member of the Refer­
ence Management Team of the University 
at Albany (UA) Libraries­State University of 
New York, retired on January 20, 2006, after 
31 years of service to the library profession. 
Young began working at the UA Libraries in 
1980, where he served as a member of the 
reference group and was twice selected to 
be the team leader. In his retirement, Young 
plans to work in the private sector. 

D e a t h s  

Gerald Hodges, 61, ALA associate executive 
director for communications and market­

ing, has died. Hodges 
joined the ALA staff 
in 1989 as director of 
Membership Services 
and the Chapter Rela­
tions Office. His fi rst 
professional job was 
as head librarian and 
Spanish teacher at 
Florida Central Acad­
emy in Sorrento fromGerald Hodges 

1968 to 1970. A longtime member and sup­
porter of ALA, Hodges had stipulated that a 
portion of his estate be used to establish the 
Gerald Hodges Fund, in support of intellectual 
freedom issues and legal challenges to legisla­
tion such as the Children’s Internet Protection 
Act and the USA Patriot Act. Hodges had also 
asked that, inlieu of flowers, memorial contri­
butions be made to the Gerald Hodges Fund. 
Make checks payable to the American Library 
Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 
60611, and send to the attention of Judith Krug, 
director, Office for Intellectual Freedom. 

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