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C&RL News December 2013 624

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Libraries and was recognized for his leadership 
efforts to digitize the entire 75 year back run of 
the Journal and place the digitized issues in a 
publicly accessible Web site. Sewell was also 
active in national library organizations, and, in 
1996, he established the library materials budget 
survey for ALA’s Chief Collection Development 
Officers Roundtable. This survey tracked the 
expenditures for electronic resources among 
the 40 largest university research libraries in 
North America and six nationally prominent 
organizational or governmental libraries.   

Deaths

Yvonne Breaux Carter, 90, former administra-
tor of the Higher Education Act: Title IIB Library 
Education Grant Program for the Department 
of Education, died on July 22, 2013. Through 
her career, Carter was a classroom instructor, 
principal, assistant professor of library science 
at Northwestern University and University of 
Southwestern Louisiana, educational program 
specialist for School Libraries for the U.S. Office 
of Education in Dallas, and, finally, administrator 
for the Department of Education in Washington, 
D.C. Carter retired in 1993 from the U.S. Depart-
ment of Health Education and Welfare after 
many years of service. 

Joyce L. Ogburn, dean of libraries and 
Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor 
at Appalachian State University, has received 
the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 
School of Information and Library Science 
Distinguished Alumna Award for 2013.

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

Charlene Chou has been appointed head 
of technical services at the University of Wash-
ington East Asia Library. 

Elizabeth Novak is now assistant director 
of library systems/electronic resources special-
ist at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Bob Sewell has retired as associate university 
librarian for collection development and man-
agement at Rutgers University Libraries, after 24 
years with the libraries. Sewell began his career 
in 1970 by serving as Japanese bibliographer at 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
where he received tenure and was appointed as-
sociate professor and then assistant to the direc-
tor of library collections. He moved on to serve 
as assistant director for collection management 
and development at the State University of New 
York-Stony Brook. In 1989 he was appointed 
associate university librarian for collection de-
velopment and management at Rutgers, where 
he also served for one year as acting associate 
university librarian for technical and automated 
services. He took particular pride in his service 
as editor of the Journal of the Rutgers University 

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

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