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Ann­Christe 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  

Kristine Alpi has been appointed director 
of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of 
Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State 
University. As director, Alpi will develop and 
manage collections and services in support of 
the university’s veterinary medical programs 
and related disciplines. Alpi’s previous po­
sitions include adjunct science reference li­
brarian at New York University, information 
services librarian at Weill Cornell Medical 
Library, and library manager of the Public 
Health Library of the New York City Depart­
ment of Health and Mental Hygiene. Alpi 
actively participates in many professional 
organizations, including the American Medi­
cal Informatics Association and the Medical 
Library Association (MLA), where she is at 
the distinguished level within the Academy 
of Health Information Professionals. She is a 

member of the editorial board of the Jour­
nal of the Medical Library Association and 
Hypothesis, the journal of the Research Sec­
tion of MLA. She has developed and taught 
courses for librarians and information pro­
fessionals on Evidence­Based Public Health 
Resources, Bioinformatics, and Molecular 
Biology and Genetics. She was a National 
Library of Medicine Associate Fellow and 
the recipient of the Louise Darling Medal 
for Distinguished Achievement in Collection 
Development in the Health Sciences. 

Alison Aldrich has been appointed tech­
nology outreach coordinator for the National 
Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacifi c 
Northwest Region, Health Sciences Libraries 
at the University of Washington­Seattle. 

Cherry Dunham Williams has been 
appointed special collections librarian for 
the Sciences and the William Sweet Papers 
archivist in the History and Special Collections 
Division of the Louise M. Darling Biomedi­
cal Library at the University of California­Los 
Angeles. 

Jenny Emanuel is now digital resources 
and reference services librarian at the Uni­
versity of Illinois Library at Urbana­Cham­
paign. 

Cherie Geiser has been named assistant 
to the dean and head of interlibrary services 
at Kansas State University Libraries. 

William Ingram has been named visiting 
research programmer at the University of Il­
linois Library at Urbana­Champaign. 

Sarah Lawson has been appointed to 
the position of monograph cataloger at the 
Simon Fraser University Library (Burnaby, 
BC, Canada). 

Janis McKenzie has joined the Simon Fra­
ser University Library (Burnaby, BC, Canada) 
as the new head of library reference. 

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Tracy M. Nectoux is now visiting INP 
cataloger at the University of Illinois Library 
at Urbana­Champaign. 

Heidi Nickisch Duggan is the new as­
sociate director at the Galter Health Sciences 
Library of Northwestern University. 

Jenny Oleen is the new science librarian 
at Kansas State University Libraries. 

Tara Olivero has been appointed special 
collections librarian and college archivist at 
the Julia Rogers Library of Goucher College. 

Megan Perez is the first participant in 
a residency program at the University of 
Arkansas­Fayetteville’s Library, with a spe­
cial concentration in human resources and 
diversity. 

Mark A. Puente is now coordinator of 
music digital projects and special gift collec­
tions at the University of Illinois Library at 
Urbana­Champaign. 

Susan Raidy-Klein has joined Simmons 
College as associate director for collection 
services. 

Marcus Richter has been appointed 
catalog librarian at Truman State University 
in Kirksville, Missouri. 

Bryan Skib has been named collection 
development officer at the University of 
Michigan Library. 

Robert Slater is now Web tech and con­
tent coordinator at the University of Illinois 
Library at Urbana­Champaign. 

Tony Stankus has been named life sci­
ence librarian at the University of Arkansas­
Fayetteville. 

Adam Wathen has been named interim 
department head for collection services at 
Kansas State University Libraries. 

Kelley Wolfe Bachli has been appointed 
coordinator of the Center for Primary Re­
search and Training in the Department of 
Special Collections at the University of Cali­
fornia­Los Angeles. 

Kelly Jo Woodside is now the informa­
tion literacy librarian at Simmons College. 

Qiang Zhao has been appointed elec­
tronic resources research programmer at 
the University of Illinois Library at Urbana­
Champaign. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Michael Romary retired in September 2007 
after 17 years of service—first as coordinator 
of bibliographic in­
struction (1990–2002) 
and then as reference 
and instruction librar­
ian—from the Univer­
sity of Maryland­Bal­
timore County. His 
career has included 
appointments at Aus­
tin College in Sher­
man, Texas, where he 
worked as a reference 
and instruction librarian; Ohio State Univer­
sity­Mansfield, as reference and instruction 
librarian and interlibrary loan librarian; and 
the Hudson Institute on the Indiana Univer­
sity­Purdue University Indianapolis campus, 
where he was coordinator of services for 
the institute along with cataloging and inter­
library loan librarian. He also worked part­
time at the Lilly Library and Career Services 
Library in Bloomington after graduating in 
1983. 

Michael Romary 

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Barbara Via retired from her position at 
University at Albany as assistant director 
for the graduate and science library and 
circulation services division on March 28, 
2008. During her tenure at the University 
at Albany, she has been an active mem­
ber of a number of professional groups, 
chief among them is the Eastern New York 
Chapter of the Association of College and 
Research Libraries (ENY/ACRL), which she 
served as president. Via was also very ac­
tive in the State University of New York 
Librarians Association for many years, and 
served as president of that organization. 
She has published several articles and book 
chapters focusing on journal publishing in 
the field of library and information science. 
She has frequently taught as an adjunct in­
structor in the Department of Information 
Studies, College of Computing and Infor­
mation. In 2006, she was promoted to the 
rank of librarian. Following her retirement, 
Via will return to the library on a tempo­
rary, part­time basis. 

D e a t h s  

Kent Hendrickson, dean of the Univer­
sity of Nebraska­Lincoln (UNL) Libraries 
(1985–95) before being promoted to associ­
ate vice chancellor for information services 
(IS), has died. His tenure in the libraries saw 
the birth of the Friends of the Libraries, the 
adoption of new technologies (such as the 
online catalog and the addition of the 2­
millionth volume, Shakespeare’s Comedies, 
Histories and Tragedies, 1623). During his 
tenure in IS, many advances in computing 
technology services were accomplished, in­
cluding a 950 percent increase in the use 
of computing. From 1964 to 1970, he was 
associate director for technical services 
for the UNL Libraries. From 1970 to 1982, 
Hendrickson worked in the publishing indus­
try in Oregon for Richard Abel and Compa­
ny, which was later acquired by Blackwell’s 
North America. He joined the University of 
Arizona in 1982 in library services and later 
returned to UNL from Arizona. 

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Profi le of the United States from its 
beginning to the present day, covering 
all its vital sectors and hot topics. 

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Data for every U.S. state, county, metro­
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