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

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

Cynthia Robinson has been appointed 
director of the George T. Harrell Library at 
Pennsylvania State’s Milton S. Hershey Medi­
cal Center and Pennsylvania State College 
of Medicine. Her previous positions include 
director of the Jacobsen Library and assistant 
director for the information services division 
at the Wisconsin National Primate Research 
Center, University of Wisconsin; associate 
director of the Bio­Medical Library, University 
of Minnesota; assistant director for collection 
services, Health Sciences Library, University 
of Virginia; and head of education, McGoogan 
Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska 
Medical Center.  

Nina Warren has been named director of 
library services at SUNY­Genesee Community 
College’s Alfred C. O’Connell Library. 

Joseph Weber has been appointed director 
of library services for Austin Peay State Uni­
versity in Clarksville, Tennessee. 

Marcy Allen is now head of the maps 
library at the University of Pennsylvania­
University Park. 

Thea Allen has been named special 
project cataloger in the North Carolina Col­
lection at the University of North Carolina­
Chapel Hill. 

Anne Bahde is now special collections and 
university archives librarian at San Diego State 
University Library and Information Access. 

Michelle Batchelor has been appointed 
access services/reference librarian at the Uni­
versity of Washington­Bothell and Cascadia 
Community College. 

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William Black is now professor at Middle 
Tennessee State University, where he directs 
administrative services for the James E. 
Walker Library. 

Marcia Boosinger has been appointed 
associate dean for public services at Auburn 
University Libraries. 

Katherine Carr has joined the University 
of Missouri­Columbia Libraries as print col­
lections librarian. 

Lisa R. Carter is now head of the special 
collections research center at North Carolina 
State University. 

Naun Chew has been appointed princi­
pal cataloger at the University of Minnesota 
Libraries. 

Kirsten Clark is now government pub­
lications and regional depository librarian at 
the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Patrick Cullom has been appointed vi­
sual materials archivist in the North Carolina 
Collection Photographic Archives at Univer­
sity of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

JeeHyun Davis has joined the University 
of Missouri­Columbia Libraries as digital tan­
gible media cataloger. 

Leslie Delserone has been named science 
librarian, physical sciences and engineering, 
at the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Valeda Dent is now associate university 
librarian for research and instructional ser­
vices at Rutgers University Libraries. 

Amy Elliott is now a reference librarian at 
Boise State University’s Albertsons Library. 

Eric Forte has been named head of public 
services at Boise State University’s Albertsons 
Library. 

Lila Fredenburg is the new director of admin­
istrative services for Rutgers University Libraries. 

Theodore Gerontakos has been ap­
pointed metadata/cataloging librarian, mono­
graphic services division at the University of 
Washington­Seattle. 

Leslie Haas has been appointed director 
of the information commons at Loyola Uni­
versity­Chicago Libraries. 

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Cody Hanson has joined the University 
of Minnesota Libraries as coordinated educa­
tional services librarian. 

Philip Her old has been appointed 
academic program director for agricultural, 
biological and environmental sciences at the 
University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Amy Hribar is now science librarian for 
agricultural, biological and environmental 
sciences at the University of Minnesota Li­
braries. 

Elizabeth Hull has been named assistant 
photographic archivist in the North Carolina 
Collection Photographic Archives at the Uni­
versity of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Thomas Izbicki is the new humanities 
librarian for Rutgers University Libraries. 

Keven Jeffery is now digital technologies 
librarian at the San Diego State University 
Library and Information Access. 

Kristi Jensen has been named head of 
the John R. Borchert Map Library at the Uni­
versity of Minnesota Libraries. 

Bruce Johnston has been named associ­
ate professor of learning resources/health sci­
ences librarian at the Robert Morris University 
Library in Pittsburgh. 

Nichole Julian has been appointed assis­
tant instruction coordinator at the University 
of Southern California Libraries. 

Rachel Kirk, team leader for acquisi­
tions, has been tenured and promoted to 
the rank of associate professor at the James 
E. Walker Library of Middle Tennessee State 
University. 

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Kim Leeder has been appointed refer­
ence librarian at Boise State University’s 
Albertsons Library. 

Wayne Loftus has been named science 
librarian, Health Sciences, at the University 
of Minnesota Libraries. 

Henry McCurley has been appointed 
head of cataloging with Auburn University 
Libraries. 

R. Ar vid Nelsen has been appointed 
archivist for the Charles Babbage Institute 
Archives at the University of Minnesota Li­
braries. 

David L. Podboy is now reference and in­
formation commons librarian at Smith College 
Libraries in Northampton, Massachusetts. 

Amy Rustic has been hired as reference 
and instruction librarian at the Pennsylvania 
State University­New Kensignton. 

Donna Schulman is now director of the 
Carey Library at the School of Management 
and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. 

Ted Schwitzner has joined Illinois State 
University as the head of the bibliographic 
services division. 

Sara Seely has been appointed as a ref­
erence librarian at Boise State University’s 
Albertsons Library. 

Jason Sokoloff has joined the business 
librarian team as a new liaison librarian for 
business at James Madison University Librar­
ies’ Carrier Library. 

Karen Spilman is the new collections 
archivist in Archives and Special Collections 
for the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Erin S. Stalberg is now head of meta­
data and cataloging at North Carolina State 
University. 

Stephanie Stewart is now moving image 
archivist in the Manuscripts Department at the 
University of North Carolina­Chapel Hill. 

Rick Stoddart has been appointed ref­
erence librarian at Boise State University’s 
Albertsons Library. 

Bruce Stoffel has been appointed refer­
ence coordinator for Illinois State Univer­
sity. 

Mayo Taylor, team leader for access 
services at the James E. Walker Library of 

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Middle Tennessee State University, has been 
tenured and promoted to the rank of associ­
ate professor. 

Rebecca Troy-Horton is now head of the 
government documents department at Frazar 
Memorial Library at McNeese State University 
in Lake Charles, Louisiana. 

Judit Hajnal Ward has been appointed 
director of the Center of Alcohol Studies 
Library at Rutgers University. 

Tao Yang is the new East Asian librarian 
at Rutgers University Libraries. 

Retirements 

Virginia Massey-Burzio, head of research 
services and collections at the Johns Hop­
kins’ Sheridan Libraries, retired July 1, after 
15 years at the university and more than 41 
years of service to the profession. Massey­
Burzio began her career at the Boston Public 
Library and went on to serve at Dartmouth 
College, Brandeis University, and the Uni­
versity of Maryland­College Park. While at 
Brandeis, Massey­Burzio created what be­
came known as the “Brandeis Model,” an 
in­depth type of reference service that best 
uses a librarian’s professional expertise. It 
delivers the kind of service library patrons 
need and librarians are most qualified to de­
liver, but are unlikely to receive in the tra­
ditional reference service model. She won 
ALA’s Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award in 1999 
“for distinguished contributions to reference 
librarianship.” The hallmark of her career 
has been encouraging staff to create services 
that make using the library easy and conve­
nient for users rather than focusing on what 
librarians think patrons ought to learn. 

Kathleen Conley has retired as head of 
general reference and documents at Illinois 
State University after 36 years of service. 

Paul A. Willis retired as dean of libraries at 
the University of South Carolina (USC) on 
June 30. Willis led the USC libraries for fi ve 

years, providing lead­
ership to staff mem­
bers in all areas, en­
hancing development 
efforts, and planning 
for a new special col­
lections library for the 
Columbia campus. His 
work at USC culminat­
ed a career of 41 years 
of service, primarily at 
the University of Kentucky. 

Paul A. Willis 

Deaths 

Virginia Phillips Whitney, 92, former 
university librarian at Rutgers University, 
has died in June. After earning her MLS 
degree at Rutgers University in 1962, she 
worked in the university’s libraries until her 
retirement. She was appointed university li­
brarian in 1971, becoming the fi rst woman 
administrator of a major university library 
system in the United States. In that role 
oversaw a system with 19 libraries and 260 
employees. One of her signature projects 
was the installation and integration of com­
puters throughout the Rutgers University 
libraries. Virginia was an active member of 
the ALA and the Association for Research 
Libraries and also taught in the Rutgers 
Graduate School for Library Science. 

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