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

Jane Block, architecture and art librarian for 
the University of Illinois at Urbana­Cham­
paign, has been named the first recipient of 
the Andrew Turyn Professorship, a fi ve­year 
appointment that supports research and col­
lections in the university library. 

Tom Teper, head of preservation at the Uni­
versity of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign, has 
been named the first recipient of the John 
“Bud” Velde Endowed Professorship, which 
focuses on preserving endangered and rare 
library materials. 

Melissa Jadlos 

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

Gordon N. Baker was appointed director of 
libraries at Clayton State University (CSU) in 
Morrow, Georgia. Baker has served as head 
of public services and interim library director 
previously. Prior to his association with CSU, 
Baker was a coordinator of instructional tech­
nology and media services and library/media 
specialist with the Henry County (Georgia) 
Schools in McDonough for 15 years. 

Melissa Jadlos has 
been appointed library 
director of Lavery Li­
brary at St. John Fisher 
College in Rochester, 
New York. Active in 
academic librarianship 
for more than 15 years, 
Jadlos has served in 
public and private col­
leges. Jadlos was most 

recently associate director at Milne Library, for 
the State University of New York­Geneseo. 

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Colleen Alstad has been appointed liai­
son librarian for political science and sociol­
ogy and anthropology at the Simon Fraser 
University Library in Burnaby, British Co­
lumbia, Canada. 

Kaijsa J. Calkins has joined the Univer­
sity of Wyoming Libraries as English refer­
ence librarian. 

Marcy A. Carrel has joined the reference 
staff of Poynter Library at the University of 
South Florida­St. Petersburg. 

David Clendinning has been named 
associate director of Penfield Library at the 
State University of New York College­Os­
wego. 

Erica L. Coe has been appointed head 
of instruction services at the University of 
Washington­Seattle’s UW Tacoma Library. 

Jennifer Darragh is reference librarian 
for behavioral and social sciences at Virginia 
Commonwealth University. 

Barbara DeFelice has been named di­
rector of digital resources program at Dart­
mouth College Library. 

Eugene Dickerson has been appointed 
lead librarian for cataloging and metadata in 
the Ralph J. Bunche Library at the U.S. State 
Department in Washington, D.C. 

Elizabeth Kirk has been named associ­
ate librarian for information resources for 
Dartmouth College Library. 

Emily Love is outreach librarian for mul­
ticultural services for the University of Illi­
nois at Urbana­Champaign. 

Tansy Matthews has been named associ­
ate director of the Virtual Library of Virginia. 

Tami Morse McGill is now a catalog librar­
ian at the University of Wyoming Libraries. 

Jean E. McLaughlin has been appoint­
ed honors college/assessment librarian at 
the University at Albany, State University of 
New York. 

Anna Leta Moss has been named cir­
culation/instruction librarian at Lipscomb 
University’s Beaman Library, Nashville, Ten­
nessee. 

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Kathleen Mullen has been appointed 
collection conservator at the University at 
Albany, State University of New York. 

Michael Ours is now public services 
librarian/electronic resources at Lynchburg 
College. 

David Seaman has been named associ­
ate librarian for information management at 
Dartmouth College Library. 

Christy Stevens has been appointed 
humanities librarian at California State Uni­
versity’s Sacramento Library. 

Sharon Tabachnick has joined the Uni­
versity of Memphis as instructional services 
librarian. 

Greg Tourino has been appointed liaison 
librarian for computing science and engineer­
ing science at Simon Fraser University Library 
in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. 

Kaya M. Townsend has joined the refer­
ence staff of University of South Florida­St. 
Petersburg’s Poynter Library. 

Scott Walter has been appointed associate 
university librarian for services and professor 
of library administration at the University of 
Illinois at Urbana­Champaign. 

Patricia J. West has been named refer­
ence and instruction librarian at American 
University Library in Washington, D.C. 

Robin Williams has been named cata­
loger/public services librarian at Lynchburg 
College. 

Tracie Wilson is now CLIR fellow and 
folklore scholar for the University of Illinois 
at Urbana­Champaign. 

Nikki Wright is now assistant engineering 
and technology librarian for the University of 
Illinois at Urbana­Champaign. 

Stephen Wynn has been appointed head 
of technical services and systems at Truman 
State University. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Robert Burger, associate university librar­
ian for services at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana­Champaign, has retired. 

Gladys Chaw took early retirement at the 
end May 2006, after serving as librarian 
with increasing levels of responsibilities for 
College of San Mateo (CSM) Library for 33 
years. During her tenure at CSM, she en­
joyed teaching and helping students and 
faculty in their research questions, and ac­
tively served on campus and on Peninsula 
Library System committees, events, and proj­
ects. She has served as advisor for a youth 
organization on campus, which successfully 
brought cultural awareness through events 
and activities to the campus community for 
21 years. She has been active in CARL and 
ACRL as a member serving in various pro­
gram planning committees, campus liaison 
for Northern California, and chaired the Co­
alition of Academic and Research Librarians 
from Underrepresented Groups. She has 
also been an active member with ALA, CLA, 
and Chinese American Librarians Associa­
tion, serving as board member for the latter 
and president for the California Chapter. She 
has been involved with all these profession­
al organizations for over three decades and 
plans to continue to do so. 

Ron Force, dean of library services at the 
University of Idaho Library, has retired af­
ter 24 years of service. Prior to this position, 
Force was at the Ohio State University and 
Washington State University libraries. His ca­
reer has been devoted to using technology to 
further the interests of library practice, having 
ushered in the University of Idaho’s fi rst inte­
grated library system and developing a mod­
el of library collections built on electronic 
resources. He worked to develop statewide 
resource sharing based on a model of online 
resources during his tenure as dean. His lead­
ership in Idaho was evidenced by his par­
ticipation on statewide initiatives, his service 
as president of the Idaho Library Association, 
and his work on building cooperative agree­
ments with other academic libraries. 

Tom Kilton, modern language and linguis­
tics librarian at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana­Champaign, has retired. 

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Maria Porta, assistant acquisitions librarian 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana­Cham­
paign, has retired. 

D e a t h s  

Paula Pearce Hinton, 62, social sciences 
reference librarian at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), died on Sep­
tember 17, following a sudden illness. Hin­
ton joined the reference staff at UNC’s Davis 
Library in 1991 and was known to library 
staff and patrons for her knowledge com­
bined with a deep commitment to service. 
Hinton was an active and widely respected 
leader in state and national library organiza­
tions. In 2005, she began a two­year term 
as secretary of the North Carolina Library 
Association (NCLA), serving simultaneous­
ly as chair of NCLA’s Reference and Adult 
Services Section. From 2001 to 2002, she 
chaired the Documents Section of NCLA. At 
the time of her death, she was an associate 
editor of North Carolina Libraries, the offi ­
cial publication of NCLA. Hinton also made 
contributions as a member of ALA’s Refer­
ence and User Services Association and as 
a member of the Librarians’ Association at 
UNC­Chapel Hill (LAUNC­CH). From 1999 
to 2000, she served as elected treasurer of 
LAUNC­CH. She chaired the association’s 
Program Committee in 2000­2001. Prior to 

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working at UNC, Hinton was an elementary 
school teacher from 1963 to 1974. She then 
returned to Campbell University in a vari­
ety of library positions that included head of 
circulation, cataloger, assistant librarian for 
technical services, and assistant librarian for 
public services and head of reference. 

Kay L. Shaffer, senior associate librarian 
at the University at Albany (UA)­State Uni­
versity of New York, died on September 16. 
She joined the UA Libraries in 1973. In her 
nearly 33 years at Albany she held a number 
of assignments, including her most recent 
duties as bibliographer for Russian and East 
European studies. During her tenure at UA 
she was involved in an exchange program 
with Moscow State University and traveled 
more than six times to Bulgaria to participate 
in a U.S. Information Agency (USIA) project 
with Sophia University. Shaffer belonged to 
a number of national and state professional 
organizations, including ALA, ACRL, ALCTS, 
ENY/ACRL, and the State University of New 
York Librarians Association. 

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The strengths of this site include links to 
digitized collections, sound recordings avail­
able for listening, and “Teachers Resources” 
available for select collections. Links to 
digitized or online collections makes this a 
dynamic resource for users. The encyclopedia 
also provides the users with the opportunity 
to listen to musical recordings, such as the 
folk songs from the American Tour. Some 
collections offer information and links for 
K–12 educators, such as themed resources, 
lesson plans, and activities. While the col­
lections themselves are only available at the 
Library of Congress, this encyclopedia is a 
wonderful reference tool for anyone begin­
ning research in the performing arts.—Debbi 
Renfrow, University of California-Riverside, 
debbir@ucr.edu 

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