july12b.indd C&RL News July/August 2012 444 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. coordinated user services for the science and engineering libraries and later was named coordinator for user education for the uni- versity library. Ruelle also has experience as a faculty member, teaching gender and women’s studies courses at Hollins University and teaching cultural studies and compara- tive literature courses at the University of Minnesota. As a graduate student, she taught courses in cultural studies at the University of Minnesota and at Mankato (Minnesota) State University. A p p o i n t m e n t s Neil Dazet has been named information services librarian for the Natural and Behav- ioral Sciences at Brooklyn College-CUNY. Melissa Fernandez has joined the Mono- graph Receiving Unit of the Stanford University Libraries Acquisitions Department as mono- graph receiving and copy cataloging specialist. Sarah Burns Gilchrist has been ap- pointed education research and instruction librarian at the Albert S. Cook Library, Tow- son University. Valerie Hotchkiss, director of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was honored as the second Andrew S. G. Turyn endowed professor. The Andrew S. G. Turyn endowed professorship was established through a gift from the estate of alumnus, former librar- ian, and longtime Library Friend Andrew S. G. Turyn. Offered on a fi ve-year rotating basis, it is open to full professors of library administration at the Urbana campus who are pursuing innovative research in any scholarly area, including library/information science, the humanities, the sciences, the social sci- ences, area studies, the arts, or other fi elds. The professorship enhances the library’s services, programs, and reputation by rec- ognizing and fostering signifi cant research contributions of library faculty. More infor- mation is online at www.library.illinois.edu /news/2012turyn.html. Joan Ruelle has been named dean and uni- versity librarian at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. Since 2003, Ruelle has served as university librarian at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, pro- viding leadership for all operations, services, resources, and budgets of the school’s Wynd- ham Robertson Library and university archives. Under her leadership at Hollins, the university’s Wyndham Rob- ertson Library was recognized with ACRL’s Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in 2009. Ruelle began her library career at the University of Virginia in 1997, where she P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Joan Ruelle Advertisers Annual Reviews 416 Association of Research 389 Libraries Atlas Systems 432 Brepols 433 Brill cover 2 Cabell’s 377 Choice 443 Crowley 378 EBSCO cover 4 John Wiley 411 Mathematical Association cover 3 of America Rittenhouse Book Distributors 381 Society for Industrial and 399 Applied Mathematics July/August 2012 445 C&RL News Lydia Welhan has been appointed technical services librarian at Saddleback College, effective August 13, 2012. R e t i r e m e n t s Kate Hickey has retired after 16 years as dean and university librarian at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, following a career span- ning more than four de- cades. In 2000, Hickey was instrumental in the design of Elon’s new li- brary, which integrated the learning commons model throughout the building’s first floor— one of the first such commons at four-year institutions. Hickey served on the Librarians Governing Council of NC LIVE (North Carolina’s virtual library) Kate Hickey The Wizard of Oz As American Myth, by Alis- sa Burger (230 pages, March 2012), looks at six different expressions of L. Frank Baum’s uniquely American fairy tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the original novel (1900), the MGM classic movie (1939), Sidney Lumet’s film musical The Wiz (1978), Gregory Ma- guire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Broadway (“New Publications,” cont. from page 441) hit Wicked: A New Musical (2003), and the SyFy Channel miniseries Tin Man (2007). From Baum’s original conception of Oz as the American frontier, Burger follows the transformations of the myth into shifting representations of gender, metaphors of race and otherness, concepts of domestic space (“there’s no place like home”), and portrayals of magic and witchcraft as either destructive or empowering. $35.00. McFar- land. 978-0-7864-6643-6. for six years, was a founding member of the Triad Academic Libraries Association, and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Uni- versity of North Carolina-Greensboro School of Library and Information Science. She has been active in ACRL, CLS, and CJCLS com- mittees and programs for 27 years. She was a member of the Joint ACRL/LAMA Design- ing Academic Libraries and Learning Spaces Guide Task Force that published a wiki for practicing architects and was the coauthor of Collection Management in the Electronic Age, CJCLS’s first published monograph. She was an active participant in the College Li- brary Directors Mentoring Program, first as a participant and later as a mentor to five new library directors. Prior to her tenure at Elon, Hickey was director of the Shuman Library at the Pennsylvania College of Technology for 13 years. Her varied career included work at the National Fisheries Research and Develop- ment Laboratory in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and as an adult and children’s librarian at two public libraries. and its new building. I am using every op- portunity to start the conversation now. Notes 1. Liz Dwyer, “Just Google It: How Search En- gines Stunt College Students’ Research Skills,” Good Education, www.good.is, http://www. good.is/post/just-google-me-why-the-search -engine-might-be-stunting-college-students -research-skills/ (accessed June 13, 2012). 2. I would like to give special thanks to Sarah Faye Cohen, former assistant director of the Miller Information Commons at Cham- plain College, for graciously sharing her ideas, enthusiasm, and approaches to creatively engaging students in the classroom. 3. Lawrence Lessig, “The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge,” CERN Colloquium and Library Science Talk, http://cdsweb.cern.ch/ from http://vimeo. com/22633948 (accessed June 13, 2012). 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