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

Lura Joseph, assistant professor of library 
administration and geology and digital proj­
ects librarian at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana­Champaign, has received the Geo­
science Information Society’s Best Paper 
Award for her article “Image and Figure 
Quality: A Study of Elsevier’s Earth and Plan­
etary Sciences Electronic Journal Back File 
Package,” published in Library Collections, 
Acquisitions & Technical Services, Septem­
ber–December 2006. 

David Pinto, library director at Richard 
Stockton College of New Jersey­Pomona, was 
elected chair of the VALEnj (Virtual Academic 
Library Consortium in New Jersey) Executive 
Committee. Pinto will serve a two­year term. 

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

Rand Bellavia has been named director of 
D’Youville College’s Montante Family Library, 
replacing the previous director Leon D. 
Shkolnik who retired earlier this year. He will 
be responsible for operation, planning, and 
development of the college library and will 
supervise a staff of 18. The library, housed in 
the former Holy Angels Elementary School, a 
West Side landmark adjacent to the campus, 
has 100,000 volumes and an annual budget 
of $600,000. Bellavia also serves as an adjunct 
professor at the college and as a visiting pro­
fessor at the University at Buffalo. Bellavia 
was previously acquisitions librarian at the 
library for seven years and was a cataloger at 
Coults Library Services in Niagara Falls, New 
York, prior to joining D’Youville. 

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Jan Chindlund has been named library 
director at Columbia College­Chicago. Be­
fore joining Columbia, Chindlund was man­
ager/head librarian of the Global Consumer 
and Business Insights (formerly known as 
Business Research) Information Center at 
McDonald’s Corporation. Prior to her work 
at McDonald’s, Chindlund was assistant vice 
president and head librarian at Duff & Phelps, 
an investment advisory fi rm. 

Eloise Hitchcock has been named director 
of the Doris and Harry Vise Library at Cum­
berland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. 

Margaret Anderson has joined the Texas 
A&M University Libraries as education and 
social sciences librarian. 

Jason Battles has been named head of Web 
services at the University of Alabama Libraries. 

Melissa Sergent-Button has been ap­
pointed business manager for the Albin O. 
Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland­
Baltimore County. 

Robert Cartolano has joined Columbia 
University Libraries as director of the libraries 
information technology offi ce. 

Mark Ehlert has been named contract 
cataloger, MINITEX, at the University of Min­
nesota Libraries. 

Sharon Favaro has been appointed 
bibliographic and metadata librarian for the 
Albin O. Kuhn Library at the University of 
Maryland­Baltimore County. 

Jason Fetty has been appointed reference 
librarian of the Ottenheimer Library at the 
University of Arkansas­Little Rock. 

Mary Francis has joined Dakota State 
University’s Karl E. Mundt Library as reference 
and instruction librarian. 

Valerie Glenn has been appointed gov­
ernment documents and reference librarian/ 
information consultant at the University of 
Alabama Libraries. 

Susan Graham has been appointed 
special collections librarian for the Albin O. 

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Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland­
Baltimore County. 

Yolanda Hood is the new youth collec­
tion librarian at the University of Iowa’s Rod 
Library. 

Rebecca Imamoto has been appointed 
research librarian for history at the University 
of California­Irvine Libraries. 

Mildred Jackson has been named associate 
dean for collections at the University of Alabama 
Libraries. 

Lisa Johnston is now librarian, physical 
sciences and engineering, at the University of 
Minnesota Libraries. 

Rebecca Kennison has joined Columbia 
University Libraries as director of the Center for 
Digital Research and Scholarship. 

Peter Kirlew is now biosciences librarian at 
the University of Minnesota Libraries. 

Sara Klink has joined Ashland University as 
a reference and instruction librarian. 

Kari Kozak has joined the Texas A&M 
University Libraries as science/engineering 
librarian. 

Beth Larkee is the new information technol­
ogy and liaison librarian at Hollins University. 

Lindsey Loeper has been appointed visit­
ing librarian for special collections at the Albin 
O. Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland­
Baltimore County. 

Jill Parchuck has joined the Yale University 
Library as director of social science libraries and 
information services. 

Tim Peters has recently been appointed 
director of off­campus library services at Central 
Michigan University. 

Lisa Robinson has been promoted to head 
of cataloging and metadata services at Michigan 
State University. 

Todd Samuelson is now outreach curator 
at Texas A&M University’s Cushing Memorial 
Library and Archives. 

Laura Sare is the new government in­
formation librarian at Texas A&M University 
Libraries. 

Karla Schmit is now education and behav­
ioral sciences librarian at Penn State University 
Libraries and assistant director of the Pennsylva­
nia Center for the Book­University Park. 

Win Shih has been named head of 
library systems at the University at Albany 
Libraries­SUNY. 

Danielle Skaggs is the new coordina­
tor of online instructional design at Cali­
fornia State University­Northridge’s Oviatt 
Library. 

Steven E. Smith has been named as­
sociate dean for collections, scholarly 
communications, and development at the 
Texas A&M University Libraries. 

Jane Stephens has been appointed sci­
ence/engineering librarian at Texas A&M 
University Libraries. 

Deborah Stansbur y Sunday has been 
appointed associate university librarian for 
administrative services at the University of 
California­Irvine Libraries. 

Frederick “Rob” Tench has been hired 
as the acquisitions and preservation ser­
vices librarian at Old Dominion University 
Libraries. 

Allen Townsend is now director of the 
Arts Library at Yale University. 

Luke Vilelle is the new public services 
and liaison librarian at Hollins University. 

Sonia Yaco has been hired as the spe­
cial collections librarian at the Old Domin­
ion University Libraries. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Deborah M. Ebster, associate librarian and 
head of Universal Orlando Foundation Li­
brary at the Rosen College of Hospitality 
Management, retired from the University of 
Central Florida (UCF) Libraries on June 30, 
2007. She started her career at the Rock Val­
ley College Library in Rockford, Illinois, as 
a public services librarian and coordinator 
of instruction. After 28 years, she decided 
to take her librarianship skills to the next 
level in a different environment as the pub­
lic services librarian at the College of the 
Bahamas­Nassau, where she learned hospi­
tality management and tourism. Ebster later 
accepted the position with the UCF Librar­

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ies’ faculty as the first head of the new hos­
pitality management library. She has been 
recognized in numerous articles, including 
as the featured subject of “Building a Li­
brary for the Business of Fun,” in the “Job 
of a Lifetime” column in College & Research 
Libraries News (February 2007). 

Cheryl A. G. Mahan, university librarian, 
reference department, retired in early 2007 
from the University of Central Florida 
(UCF) Libraries with 30 years of service. 
After several years at the Howard­Tilton 
Library and the internationally known Lat­
in American Library at Tulane University, 
she was hired in 1977 at UCF (then Flor­
ida Technological University), where she 
worked in cataloging, interlibrary loan, 
and reference. Active in the library profes­
sion, with the university, and in her com­
munity, Mahan received UCF’s Excellence 
in Librarianship Award and served as a 
mentor and championed four colleagues 
to win the same award. 

Leslie A. Manning has retired as dean of 
the Kraemer Family Library at the Univer­
sity of Colorado­Colorado Springs after 27 
years of service and 35 years as an aca­
demic librarian. 

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Carla M. Summers, university librarian 
and head of the department of special col­
lections and university archives, retired in 
late June 2007 from the University of Cen­
tral Florida Libraries. She worked in Florida 
as an archivist, manuscripts librarian, and 
administrator for 30 years, fi rst with the 
State Archives of Florida and then the Uni­
versity of Florida. Summers was the found­
ing president of the Society of Florida Ar­
chivists, served two terms as treasurer of 
the Academy of Certified Archivists, and is 
currently on the Council of the Society of 
American Archivists, where she will contin­
ue to serve while maintaining her archives, 
special collections, and records manage­
ment consulting practice. 

D e a t h s  

Paul Evered Baldwin died October 7, 2007, 
from complications of diabetes. Baldwin 
worked at a number of 
libraries in the San Fran­
cisco Bay area and later 
moved Vancouver, Brit­
ish Columbia, Canada, 
in 1971, where he as­
sumed various library 
administrative roles and 
eventually retired as as­
sociate university librar­
ian from Simon Fraser 
University in 2001. Baldwin led the initiative 
to bring British Columbia postsecondary li­
brary card catalogs online and was among 
the first to recognize the potential of the In­
ternet in enhancing library services. 

Paul Evered Baldwin 

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Art and computer science students of all 
education levels, educators, art enthusiasts, 
information architects and librarians, will 
all find Steve Museum a very interesting 
site.—Mark McBride, Buffalo State College, 
mcbridmf@buffalostate.edu 

December 2007  765 C&RL News 

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