sept06c.indd Ann­Christe Galloway P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Martha Brogan, library consultant and inde­ pendent scholar, was selected from a national applicant pool to attend the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Sea­ port, one of 22 summer studies opportuni­ ties supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Brogan will participate in “The American Maritime People,” a six­week program held in Mystic, Connecticut. Jay Schafer, director of libraries at the Uni­ versity of Massachusetts­Amherst, has been appointed vice president/president­elect of the Management Council of the Boston Library Consortium. A p p o i n t m e n t s Christopher D. Barth has been appointed executive director of library and information services at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Barth had served as the director of informa­ tion resources in library and information services at Kenyon College since 2002. Richard E. Luce has been named vice pro­ vost and director of the university libraries at Emory University. Luce had served as research library director at Los Alamos Na­ tional Laboratory in New Mexico since 1991, where he managed a scientific library with a $12.5 million budget, supporting information delivery in a high­technology environment serving 4,000 Ph.Ds and 8,800 laboratory researchers. He has forged regional, national, and international public information and communication technology collaborations and helped organize the Berlin and Brazilian Declaration on Open Access. He was also 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. cofounder of the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self­archiving systems. Luce also serves as project leader for the Library Without Walls at Los Alamos. From 1988 to 1991, Luce served as executive director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network and from 1985 to 1988, he was network director of IRVING Library Network Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. Deborah Robinson has been appointed library director at St. Petersburg College, Florida. Robinson was most recently assistant library director at Howard Community Col­ lege. He previous position was at the United States Naval Academy Library. Richard Szary has been named director of the Louis Round Wilson Library and associ­ ate university librarian for special collections at the University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill (UNC). Szary has served as the Carrie S. Beinecke director of manuscripts and archives and university archivist, and prior to that po­ sition, was the assistant head of manuscripts and archives. From 1985 to 1988, Szary was assistant project manager and then program manager at the Smithsonian Institution’s Of­ fice of Information Resource Management. He previously held posts at the Smithsonian Institution Archives as assistant and associate archivist. Szary has written and published extensively, especially in the area of archival description. In 2000 he was named fellow of the Society of American Archivists. Holly Ackerman is now the librarian for Latin America and Iberia at Duke University’s Perkins Library. Elizabeth G. Adelman has been ap­ pointed head of collection management in the law library at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Hope Barton has been named director of central technical services at the University of Iowa Libraries. September 2006 521 C&RL News Linda Bourgeois has joined Regis Univer­ sity as the Colorado Springs branch manager and reference librarian. Lesley Brown has been named refer­ ence/instruction librarian at Michigan State University. Judi Bugniazet has been appointed as­ sistant academic dean at Montreat College in Montreat, North Carolina. Gerald Burke is now associate librarian at the University at Albany­State University of New York. Suzanne Chapman is the new user testing and interface specialist in the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan. Yu-Hui Chen has been hired as a bibli­ ographer/outreach librarian for education at the senior assistant level at the University at Albany­SUNY. Anne Cher naik has been appointed faculty reference librarian at the College of Lake County in Illinois. Alex Crosier has joined Columbia Univer­ sity Libraries as a serials cataloging librarian. Lewis Brian Day has been appointed technical services librarian in Harvard Uni­ versity’s Houghton Library. Kristina De Voe has joined Temple Uni­ versity as a reference librarian in English and Communications. Larry Duerr has been promoted to head of public services at the Alverno College Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Susanna Eng has been appointed fi rst year experience librarian at California State University­Northridge’s Oviatt Library. Erika Farr has been appointed digital programs team leader for the general libraries of Emory University. Patricia Flanagan is the new associate university librarian for public services at Vir­ ginia Commonwealth University. Laura “Lolly” N. Gasaway has become associate dean for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Alexia Hudson has joined Pennsylvania State University Great Valley School of Gradu­ ate Professional Studies as a tenure track reference librarian. Poliana Irizarry is now reference and cir­ culation librarian at the law library of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Monica Kauppi has joined the Columbia University Libraries as a cataloger for the law library. Jamie P. Kearley is now head of refer­ ence and instruction services at the University of Wyoming Libraries. A n g e l a K i l l e h a s b e e n a p p o i n t e d reference librarian at Michigan State Uni­ versity. Andrew Wick Klein has been appointed science librarian at California State Universi­ ty’s­Northridge’s Oviatt Library. Laura Leavitt has joined Michigan State University as labor relations and human re­ sources bibliographer/reference librarian at Michigan State University. Lucas Wing Kau Mak has joined Michi­ gan State University as catalog and metadata librarian. Jeffrey Marshall has been appointed di­ rector of research collections at the University of Vermont. Kristin Mar tin is now electronic re­ sources cataloger at the University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. Martha Martin has been appointed pub­ lic services librarian at Montreat College in Montreat, North Carolina. Sara Miller has been named instruction librarian at Michigan State University. Faith Oguz has been appointed assistant professor in the MLS program at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. John P. Renaud has been appointed as­ sistant director of collection development for the University of Miami Libraries. Emily Rogers has been named reference librarian at Valdosta State University in Val­ dosta, Georgia. Neil Romanosky has joined the access services division of Columbia University Li­ braries as a library specialist. Kelly Sattler has been appointed digital projects librarian at Michigan State University. C&RL News September 2006 522 Julia C. Simic has been appointed visual resources librarian at the University of Or­ egon­Eugene. Jane L. Smith has joined the staff of Parkland College as information services and instruction librarian. James Steffen has been appointed film studies and media liaison at Emory University. K. Gregor y Tourino has been named science, engineering and communication studies librarian for the University of Miami Libraries. Dominique Tur nbow has been ap­ pointed undergraduate services librarian for the University of California­San Diego Biomedical Library. Ray Uzwyshyn has been named head of the library digital and learning technology programs at the University of West Florida. John Bellarmine Vallier has been named head of multimedia services at the University of Washington­Seattle’s Odegaard Under­ graduate Library. Carroll W. Wilkinson has been named director of instruction and information literacy at West Virginia University. Sara R. Williams is now head of collec­ tion development at the University of Wyo­ ming Libraries. R e t i r e m e n t s George L. Abbott, head of media services at Syracuse University Library (SUL), re­ tired after 41 years in October 2005 and was granted librarian emeritus status. Abbott began as a clerk/typist in the SUL cataloging department in 1964 and became both a cataloger and part­time reference librarian at Upstate Medical Center Library. He became acting SUL acquisitions librarian in 1968. In 1969, Abbott was ap­ George L. Abbott pointed media librarian, overseeing a SUL unit, which expanded from a small collec­ tion of vinyl recordings and audio tapes to a multifaceted multimedia digital center. In 1972 he also became building manager for SUL’s new E. S. Bird Library and remained so until 1987. Abbott is a member of many library organizations, including the IFLA In­ stitutions Section on Audiovisual and Mul­ timedia, ALA, Special Libraries Association, and the American Society for Information Science and Technology, from which he re­ ceived the Watson David award in 1987 for continuing and dedicated service. Robert L. Evensen, director of information resources, has retired from Brandeis Uni­ versity’s Library and Technology Services. Evensen joined the staff of the university libraries in 1974 as creative arts librarian. In 1987 he was given responsibility for devel­ opment and management of all collections, and played a key role in the success of the libraries’ National Endowment for the Hu­ manities Challenge Grant. In 1990, Evensen was promoted to associate director. He has worked closely with the membership of the National Woman’s Committee to promote support for library resources and services, and has offered his expertise to numerous projects of the Boston Library Consortium. Larry Hardesty, dean of the library at the University of Nebraska­Kearney, has retired. Hardesty began his career at the University of Nebraska (then Kearney State College) in 1973 as a reference librarian. From 1975 Advertisers AARP 501 ACRL 467 Annual Reviews 485 ARL 463, 497 Bernan 472 Chemical Abstracts Service cover 2 Choice 511 EBSCO cover 4 Elsevier 464 Thomson Gale cover 3 September 2006 523 C&RL News to 1983 he served as head of reference at DePauw University. From 1983 to 1995 he served as director of library services at Eckerd College, and from 1995 to 2004 he served as college librarian at Austin College. He returned to the University of Nebraska­ Kearney in 2004 to serve his alma mater as the dean of the library. Long active in ACRL, Hardesty has served in numerous of­ fices, including on the ACRL Board of Di­ rectors (1987–91), chair of the College Li­ braries Section (1995–96), president of ACRL (1999–2000), and chair of the 11th ACRL National Conference (2003)—which set a record for attendance. As ACRL president, he initiated the Excel­ lence in Academic Li­ braries Award. He re­ cently ended terms as councilor­at­large on the ALA Council, chair of the ALA Council Resolutions Commit­ tee, and chair of the ACRL Task Force on Awards. While at Eck­ erd College, Hardesty organized five Earlham College­Eckerd Col­ lege Bibliographic Instruction Conferences held from 1984 to 1992, which resulted in the publication, Bibliographic Instruction in Practice (Pierian Press 1992). His other monographs include Faculty and the Li­ brary (Ablex 1991), and Books, Bytes and Bridges (ALA 2001). His article “Faculty At­ titudes towards the Library” was published in Library Trends and received ACRL’s In­ struction Section’s Publication of the Year Award in 1995. Hardesty received ACRL’s Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award in 2001. Hardesty is currently edit­ ing a book on the library and the fi rst­year experience to be published by the National Center for the First­Year Experience and Students in Transition and to be jointly dis­ tributed by the center and ACRL. Hardesty will continue to serve as the founding di­ rector the College Library Directors’ Mentor program (during the past 14 years he has Larry Hardesty matched more than 200 fi rst­year college library directors with mentors). D e a t h s Alan Clark, member of the Woodruff Li­ brary staff at Emory University, passed in February 2006 after a long illness. He began his career at Emory in 1972 in a circulation staff position, while working on a Ph.D. in religion. In 1977 he accepted a position as reference librarian. Clark served as acting head of the reference department from the fall of 1994 through the summer of 1995, leaving the library in 1997. For many years Clark literally served as the voice of the li­ brary; his speaking voice was used to record the library’s offi cial messages. (“The China Mission” cont. from page 507) between academic librarians from the People’s Republic of China and the United States was accomplished with great enthusiasm by both delegations. The opportunity for a true world wide web of information was created by the open discussion of academic library issues and ideas, thereby permanently transfi guring the path of Chinese librarianship (in accepting other perspectives on information) and inform­ ing American librarians of worldwide advance­ ments in information technologies. (“Internet Reviews” continued from page 517) from the study, are available together in a separate section in addition to their inclusion separately in appropriate chapters. “Roundtable” is a virtual discussion with industry leaders. Most roundtables are not available, but users may request an e­mail notification when that section is completed. The site is easy to navigate, with chapter and sections links on each page. It is simple in layout, with an attractive balance of text and image. Recommended for journalism stu­ dents and others with an interest in “watching the watchdogs.”—Ford Schmidt, Willamette University, fschmidt@willamette.edu C&RL News September 2006 524 mailto:fschmidt@willamette.edu