april07c.indd Ann-Christe Galloway P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Nancy Kranich has been elected a direc­ tor of the National Issues Forums Institute, which promotes public deliberation in the United States. Kranich will take offi ce at the institute’s annual meeting in Washing­ ton, D.C., in May 2007. The institute’s di­ rectors are volunteers drawn from leaders in government, colleges and universities, libraries, civic organizations, the media, and medicine. A champion of the public’s information rights, Kranich has led efforts by the library community to promote civic engagement, open access, and free expres­ sion. Kranich served as ALA president in 2000­2001, focusing on the role of librar­ ies in democracies. During this period, she edited the book Libraries and Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty. Since serving as ALA president, Kranich has continued to promote democratic participation, launch­ ing ALA’s civic engagement membership initiative, participating in the Kettering Foundation’s ongoing dialogue between the U.S. and Russia, and teaching civic engage­ ment. In 2004, she moved to State College, Pennsylvania, where she now chairs one of the oldest National Issues Forums groups in the country. In 2003­2004, Kranich served as a senior research fellow at the Free Ex­ pression Policy Project in New York, writ­ ing “The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report,” which documents the dam­ age of restrictive copyright regimes on free speech, civic participation, and innovation. Previously, she was associate dean of li­ braries at New York University. Neil Rambo, associate director of health sciences libraries at the University of Wash­ ington (UW)­Seattle, has been appointed 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. the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) visiting program officer to pursue ARL’s agenda regarding library support for re­ search and e­science. The assignment if half­time for the next two years. Simultane­ ously Rambo is taking on new responsibili­ ties at UW as director of cyberinfrastructure initiatives and special assistant to the dean of university libraries for biosciences and e­science. The assignments at ARL and UW are designed to reinforce one another and provide synergy between institutional and community­wide perspectives on the same set of issues. A p p o i n t m e n t s Mona C. Couts has been appointed director of the Triangle Research Libraries Network. Anne Kenney, senior associate university librarian for public services and assessment, has been appointed interim university librar­ ian at Cornell, succeeding Sarah Thomas, who is leaving the university to direct the University of Oxford’s libraries. Kenney joined Cornell University Library in 1987 and served as associate director for the De­ partment of Preservation and Conservation until 2001. From 2002 to 2006 she was the associate university librarian for instruction, research, and information services. Active in the archival and preservation communities, Kenney is a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists. She cur­ rently serves on the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Libraries and Ar­ chives of Cuba and is a member of Advisory Committee of Portico, a nonprofi t digital preservation service. Kenney has served as a commissioner of the National Histori­ cal Publications and Records Commission (National Archives), the National Science Foundation/European Union Working Group 262C&RL News April 2007 on a Digital Preservation Research Agenda, and was a member of the Clinton/Gore Tran­ sition Team. Her research interests include digital imaging, preservation, and public services in research libraries. LeRoy LaFleur has been appointed head of the Arlington Campus Library at George Mason University. Nedra Peterson is now director of library services at Woodbury University. Heidi Abbey has been appointed hu­ manities reference librarian at the Penn­ sylvania State­Harrisburg Library. Maryellen M. Allen has been named ref­ erence librarian/distance education special­ ist at the University of Alabama Libraries. Julie Artman has been promoted to head of reference and instruction at the Leatherby Libraries of Chapman University. Friederike Baer is now special col­ lections librarian in the Horner Memorial Library at the German Society of Penn­ sylvania. Amia Baker has been named business librarian at Auburn University Libraries. Douglas A. Boyd has been appointed digital services program manager in the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama Libraries. Charlene Chou is now Chinese cata­ loger for the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. Amalia Contursi has joined the Co­ lumbia University Libraries as offsite stor­ age project manager. Suhua Fan is now catalog librarian at the University of Alabama Libraries. Gabriel Farrell has joined Drexel Uni­ versity Libraries as library systems devel­ oper. Bill Gillis is now reference and in­ struction librarian at the Simmons College Library. Cheryl Highsmith has joined the Leath­ erby Libraries of Chapman University as electronic resources librarian. Irina I. Holden has been appointed outreach and instructional service librarian, Science Library, at the University at Albany Libraries­State University of New York. Claudia Holland has been appointed communication, sociology and anthropol­ ogy liaison librarian at George Mason University. Peter D. Ivanick has joined Drexel University Libraries as head of library sys­ tems. Helen Josephine has been named head librarian for engineering at Stanford University Libraries. Zack Lane has assumed the role of offsite storage project manager for the original serial and monograph cataloging department at Columbia University Librar­ ies. Danya Leebaw has been appointed business research librarian in the Goizueta Business Library of Emory University. Pamela J. Morgan has been named reference librarian/information consultant at the University of Alabama Libraries. Michael W. Pearce has been appoint­ ed catalog librarian at the University of Alabama Libraries. Nathan Putnam has been appointed special formats cataloger at George Mason University. Advertisers ACM cover 3 Annual Reviews 222 ARL 221, 244 Chemical Abstracts Svc. cover 2 Choice 266 EBSCO cover 4 Haworth 239 Institute of Engineering 253 and Technology Island Press 234 National Resource Center 264 for the First-Year Experience Nature Publishing 261 Perry Dean Architects 238 Plunkett Research insert Rittenhouse Books 225 April 2007 263 C&RL News Stacy Russo has joined the Leatherby Libraries of Chapman University as in­ struction librarian. Robert Schwarzwalder will join Stan­ ford University Libraries and Academic In­ formation Resources as associate univer­ sity librarian for engineering and science, beginning August 2007. Heather Shalhoub has been appoint­ ed reference/user education librarian at the Dewey Graduate Library of the Univer­ sity at Albany­State University of New York. Joan Sommer has been named head of access services at Marquette University­ Raynore Memorial Libraries. Joseph Straw has joined Marietta Col­ lege as reference and instruction librarian. Anu Vedantham has been appointed di­ rector of the David B. Weigle Information Commons at Pennsylvania State University. Suzy Westenkirchner has been named education librarian at Auburn University Li­ braries. Thomas C. Wilson has been appointed associate dean for library technology at the University of Alabama Libraries. Susan Wynne has joined the Univer­ sity of Wyoming Libraries as catalog li­ brarian. Maurice York is now associate head of information technology and North Carolina State University. R e t i r e m e n t s Dale Canelas, director of university li­ braries at the University of Florida (UF) since 1985, has retired. Having served as the director for 22 years, Canelas had the longest tenure of any library director at the university. Before joining UF, Cane­ las served as Stanford University libraries’ director for public services. Her major ac­ complishments at UF include: established a collection management department and collection management program through which subject specialists direct the acqui­ sition and management of collections and act as liaisons between academic depart­ ments and the libraries; established a pres­ ervation program to prevent, confront, and repair physical damage to the collec­ tions (caused by age, use, heat, humidity, insects, dust, etc.); established a develop­ ment program to identify friends and raise funds to support the collection and other needs of the libraries; established the Dig­ ital Library Center to digitize, preserve, and make accessible electronically re­ sources of the libraries and the university; oversaw the renovation of the Smathers Library (Library East); established the SUS Electronic Resources Committee to pro­ vide for statewide consortial pricing, thus reducing UF’s costs for electronic collec­ tions; oversaw construction and opening of the Marston Science Library to support science, agriculture, and engineering pro­ grams; oversaw renovation and expansion of Library West, the main humanities and 264C&RL News April 2007 social sciences library; created an off­site storage facility; implemented integration of technology with collections and ser­ vices; and created a human resources of­ fi ce. In addition to her accomplishments at UF, Canelas has served as a leader among her professional library colleagues in the state and nation. For ten years she chaired Florida’s State University System Council of Library Directors and the Board of Di­ rectors for the Florida Center for Library Automation. She served on the Governing Board of the Research Libraries Group. For ten years she served on the Board of the Center for Research Libraries, which provides sophisticated area studies re­ search support for member libraries. She was elected to the Board of the Associa­ tion for Research Libraries, served as a member of numerous ARL committees, and chaired its Committee on Research Collections. She was an elected member of the ALA’s Council and was president of the Library Administration and Manage­ ment Association. Sandra (Sandy) K. Peterson, director of Social Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University Libraries, retired January 31, 2007, after 40 years of service to the profession as government informa­ tion librarian at the West Virginia State Li­ brary, Oberlin College, University of North­ ern Iowa, College of William and Mary, and Yale University. Peterson is a champion of free public access to government informa­ tion; she served in various offices of ALA in­ cluding the Government Documents Round Table; as Association of Research Libraries visiting program officer; and as member and chair of the Depository Library Coun­ cil to the Public Printer. In 1994 she was awarded the James Bennett Childs Award for lifetime and significant contribution to the field of documents librarianship. Bernie Sloan, senior library information systems consultant, has retired from the Consortium of Academic and Research Li­ braries in Illinois (CARLI) after nearly 30 years of service. Sloan has devoted his career to expanding library resource shar­ ing in Illinois libraries, a commitment to be marked by a significant milestone this month as I­Share surpasses 10 million re­ source­sharing transactions since 1979. Sloan joined the CARLI staff well before it was known as CARLI, and even before CARLI’s predecessor organization ILCSO (the Illinois Library Computer Systems Or­ ganization) became known by that name. Sloan is the author of Linked Systems for Resource Sharing (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990) and many articles and is a well­known con­ tributor to many library­related electronic forums. He is noted for his work in the areas of resource sharing, and, in recent years, virtual reference service. He was awarded the Illinois Library Association’s Hugh Atkinson Award in 1996. (“Internet Reviews” continues from page 257) A gray sidebar menu listing other resourc­ es travels with users each step of their search. Information listed on this sidebar include links to information about the site and the First Amendment Center, a Supreme Court case tracker, Congressional Research Service reports, guest editorials, regular columnists, including respected Bill of Rights expert and jazz critic Nat Hentoff, as well as a list of experts on First Amendment concerns. There is also a search function. The information here is current and ap­ pears to be updated daily. While not with­ out some political bias to the left of center, First Amendment Center seems to aim for a balanced viewpoint on issues. It is recom­ mended for general users, undergraduate students, and others interested in keeping informed about issues related to some of our most fundamental rights.—Ford Schmidt, Willamette University, fschmidt@willamette. edu April 2007 265 C&RL News