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

Diane d’Almeida received a Fulbright Senior 
Specialists scholarship to spend six weeks 
in a library in an Arab country. She is vis­
iting the Mohammad VI library at the Al 
Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, to 
learn more about the Arab world, literature, 
and language. She will advise the director 
of the library, as well as give talks at vari­
ous other libraries in Morocco. 

Marianne I. Gaunt, university librarian at 
Rutgers University, was elected vice presi­
dent/president elect of the Association of 
Research Libraries (ARL). Under Gaunt’s 
leadership, the Rutgers University Librar­
ies have played a leading role in revising 
the university’s copyright policies. Gaunt 
cochaired the university­wide copyright 
policy review committee, which drafted a 
policy statement that was approved unani­
mously by the University Senate in October 
2005. Gaunt is the chair of ARL’s Working 
Group on Fair Use and previously chaired 
the Scholarly Communication Committee. 
She is the founding chair of VALE (Virtual 
Academic Library Environment of New Jer­
sey) and is currently a member of the VALE 
executive committee. She was president of 
the board of trustees of PALCI (Pennsylva­
nia Academic Library Consortium, Inc.) and 
currently serves as a member of the board 
of trustees of PALINET, a membership or­
ganization of libraries, information centers, 
museums, archives, and other organizations 
throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jer­
sey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. ARL 
presidents are elected to one­year terms. 

Michele Reutty, library director of the Free 
Public Library in Oakland, New Jersey, has 

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received the 2006 Robert B. Downs Intellec­
tual Freedom Award given by the faculty of 
the University of Illinois at Urbana­Cham­
paign’s Graduate School of Library and 
Information Science (GSLIS) for her com­
mitment to upholding privacy laws. In May 
2006, area police asked Reutty, then library 
director at the Hasbrouck Heights Public Li­
brary in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, to 
supply library circulation records to aid in 
an investigation. Complying with state stat­
utes, Reutty told police she couldn’t supply 
the records without a subpoena. After they 
returned with one, she provided the infor­
mation as requested. Soon after, however, 
local officials expressed their shock and 
disappointment, accusing Reutty of putting 
the library’s interests ahead of a police in­
vestigation. Reutty faced disciplinary action 
from the library’s board, in part because 
she consulted a lawyer who was familiar 
with the statutes regarding state libraries 
and not the borough lawyer as is required 
by borough law. After months of disagree­
ment, Reutty resigned on October 2, 2006. 

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

John J. Burke has been appointed direc­
tor of the Gardner­Harvey Library on the 
Middletown regional campus of Miami 
University. 

Steven J. Bell has been appointed as­
sociate university librarian for research and 
instructional services at Temple University 
Libraries. 

Mar tha L. Brogan is now associate 
university librarian for collection develop­
ment and management at the University of 
Pennsylvania Library. 

Diane Butler is now assistant university 
librarian for information technology at Rice 
University’s Fondren Library. 

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John Chenault has been appointed 
reference librarian of the Kornhauser 
Health Sciences Library at the University of 
Louisville. 

Mary L. Chute has been appointed to a 
second terms as deputy director for library 
services at the Institute of Museum and 
Library Services. 

Leah McGinnis Dunn is now director 
of undergraduate and branch libraries at the 
University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Carol Elsen is now collection manager 
and reference librarian at the University of 
Wisconsin­Whitewater. 

Rebecca Graham has accepted the 
position of associate librarian of Harvard 
College for Administrative Services, effec­
tive July 1. 

Margaret Adams Groesbeck has been 
promoted to head of public services at Am­
herst College. 

Kelly Hafermann has joined the Uni­
versity of Wisconsin­Whitewater Library 
as the education reference and instruction 
librarian. 

Terri Holtze is now head of Web Services 
for the University of Louisville Libraries. 

Kathy Magarrell has been appointed 
head of reference and library instruction 

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at the University of Iowa Libraries in Iowa 
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Patrick Mullin is now associate uni­
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systems at the University of North Carolina­
Chapel Hill. 

Kyle Naff is the business and distance 
education reference and instruction librarian 
at the University of Wisconsin­Whitewater. 

T h e r e s a  N awa l a n i e c  h a s  b e e n  a p ­
pointed sciences and engineering librarian 
at Cleveland State University Library. 

Lisa Norberg has been appointed direc­
tor of public services at the University of 
North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Anne Ostendarp has been appointed 
project archivist at Amherst College. 

Sue L. Raymond has been appointed 
hospital librarian for the University of Lou­
isville Libraries. 

Edward J. Rock has been appointed 
languages and general education librarian 
for the R. M. Cooper Library at Clemson 
University. 

Corey Seeman has been named direc­
tor of the Kresge Business Administration 
Library at the Stephen M. Ross School of 
Business at the University of Michigan. 

Diane Strauss is now associate univer­
sity librarian for collections services at the 
University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Vickey Topp, reference and instruction li­
brarian, has retired from the University of 
Wisconsin­Whitewater. 

Duane E. Webster has announced that he 
will retire from his position as executive di­
rector of the Association of Research Librar­
ies (ARL) no later than May 2008. By an­
nouncing his retirement plans now, Webster 
provides the ARL board of directors with 
ample time for a search and a seamless tran­
sition of leadership. Webster has led ARL 
for two decades, following his appointment 

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in 1988 as interim executive director and 
then in 1989 as executive director. Under 
Webster’s leadership, ARL emerged as a sig­
nificant agent for change in the world of re­
search libraries and in scholarly communica­
tion. Webster also provided the energy and 
resourcefulness required to reposition the 
ARL agenda twice. He first led ARL through 
a strategic planning process in 1988, which 
called for a much­expanded agenda for the 
Association, engaging ten key challenges 
facing the future development of research 
libraries. The second strategic planning pro­
cess through which Webster led ARL was 
the 2004 call for a refocusing of association 
efforts on three strategic directions: schol­
arly communication; public policies affect­
ing research libraries; and the role of re­
search libraries in research, teaching, and 
learning. 

Mickey Zemon, executive director of the 
Emerson College Library since 1983, will re­
tire April 2007. She was awarded emeritus 

status last year, and she 
received the Friend of 
the Faculty award in 
2005 and the Alumni 
Association award in 
1996. Zemon was ac­
tive in the ACRL Col­
lege Library Section, 
serving as chair (2000– 
01), member­at­large 
(1998­2000), secretary 

(1997–98), and chair of the committee on 
research for college librarians (1993–96). 
She was also active in the Boston library 
community, serving two terms on the NELI­
NET Board of Directors (2000–06) and as 
chair of the Boston Regional Library Sys­
tem Advisory Board (2004–05), chair of 
the Fenway Library Consortium (1996–98), 
and president of Fenway Libraries Online 
(1992–93). She authored 20 articles in the 
library literature (1982–2005) and served 
on nine NEASC reaccreditation teams 
(1992–2004), the editorial board of College 
and Undergraduate Libraries (2000–04), 

Mickey Zemon 

the ACRL New Publications Advisory Board 
(1998–2002), and the ACRL CLIP Notes Pub­
lication Committee (1997–99). At Emerson, 
Zemon was cochair of the Emerson College 
Reaccreditation and Self­Study (2001–02), 
chair of the Search Committee for the Dean 
of the School of the Arts (1997), and chair 
of the college’s Strategic Planning Com­
mittee (1992–93). Zemon was librarian at 
Simmons Graduate School of Library and 
Information Science (1981–83). 

D e a t h s  

Margaret Ann Otto, 69, librarian of Dar­
mouth College, has died. Otto became the 
first woman to head the library in 1979 and 
the library made a number of advances un­
der her leadership, including establishing a 
strong customer service ethic among the staff 
and creating one of the first online library 
catalogs in the country. A number of ma­
jor library building projects were completed 
during her tenure, and she is remembered 
for the growth of collection and access tools 
at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Dartmouth, 
Otto was assistant science librarian and later 
associate director of the Massachusetts In­
stitute of Technology Libraries (1964–79). 
She was a longtime member of ALA, having 
served on many committees. She also served 
on the Executive Board of the Association 
of Research Libraries Group, was a member 
of the Board of Governors for the Research 
Libraries, and served on a number of impor­
tant working groups and committees for that 
organization. 

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109) 

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job of assigning subject terms and providing 
a user­friendly interface. Users looking for 
first­person primary resources will fi nd this 
a valuable resource.—Gene Hyde, Radford 
University, wehyde@radford.edu 

February 2007  117 C&RL News 

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