John Gaboury, dean of li braries at Wingate College braries at Mississippi State and Greensboro College in University, was recently hon North Carolina; coordinator ored by the Mississippi Li People of technical services in the brary Association with its Health Sciences Library at Peggy May Award at its An in the Wright State University; and nual Conference in Jackson. head of acquisitions at Wake Gaboury was honored for his Forest University. A gradu leadership and contributions News ate of MacMurray College, on behalf of all types of Mis LaCroix received his MLS sissippi libraries. He was es from the University of Ken tucky, and an MBA from the pecially cited for his leader Pa m Spiegel ship in the planning for University of North Carolina statewide electronic access at Greensboro. to Mississippi library re sources, the establishment of the current State J. Andrew Magpantay, special assistant for in wide Information Network Task Force, and his novative projects and planning at the Library continued work in moving Mississippi libraries and Center for Knowledge Management, Uni ahead in the field of information technologies. versity of California, San Francisco, has been named director of ALA’s new Office for Infor Laurene E. Zaporazhetz, dean of libraries at mation Technology Policy (OITP), effective June Louisiana State University-Shreveport, has been 15. Magpantay has served as computer systems credited with providing the information on li manager at the College of William and Mary, brary resources used in the National Council visiting librarian at the Duke University Library, fo r the Accreditation of Teacher Education and applications programmer for online library (NCATE) Handbook for Board of Examiners information systems at the University of Cali Teams (1994). fornia, Los Angeles. He was also a reviewer for the Telecommunications Information Infrastruc ture Assistance Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and staff researcher for the Cali fornia Public Utilities Commission Task Force Appointments on Telecommunications Network Infrastructure. A member of ALA since 1986, Magpantay is Pamela Q. J. André has been appointed dir a member of the ALA Committee on Legislation’s ector of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Telecommunications. in Beltsville, Maryland. She has been serving He is also a member of ACRL, the Library Ad as acting NAL director since February 1994 ministration and Management Association, the Before that she served as NAL’s associate di Library and Information Technology Associa rector for automation and in several positions tion, and the Special Libraries Association. at the Library of Congress including computer Establishment of OITP is part of the ALA systems analyst and assistant chief of the MARC Goal 2000 proposal, a five-year plan to posi Editorial Division. She has served on the edito tion ALA for the Information Age. The new of rial boards of several library-related publications fice is designed to complement the Washing and is a member of ALA and the Interna ton Office’s efforts and serve as a public policy tional Association of Agricultural Information advocate for libraries in the area of informa Specialists. tion technology.
Michael LaCroix, formerly library director at Robert S. Martin has been named director and Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, has librarian of the Texas State Library in Austin. been appointed director of library services Martin has served as associate dean of the Loui at Creighton University’s Reinert/Alumni Me siana State University Libraries since 1985. Be morial Library in Omaha, Nebraska. Before join fore that he held library positions at the Uni ing Albright, LaCroix served as director of li versity of Texas at Austin and the University of
3 5 2 /C&RL News Texas at Arlington, and had extensive experi Administrative Studies Library at York Univer ence as a consultant to academic and research sity, Ontario. libraries and archives. A M. Robert Fraser has been appointed net graduate of Rice Univer work resources librarian at the University of sity, Martin earned his Michigan-Dearborn Mardigian Library. MLS at the University of Dorothy Gregor has been named assistant North Texas, and a Ph.D. to the president for academic and research li at the University of North brary relations at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio. Carolina. He has been an Kent Haworth has been appointed head active member of ALA, of Archives and Special Collections at York Uni the Society of American versity, Ontario. Archivists, and the Soci Cynthia Henderson has been named ety of Southwest Archi health sciences librarian at the University of Il vists. He edited a collec Robert S. Martin linois, Urbana. tion of essays published Jean Hines is a new librarian at the Smith by ACRL called Scholarly Communication in sonian Institution Libraries Cooper Hewitt Na an Electronic Environment: Issues for Research tional Design Museum Branch. Libraries (1993) and is currently a member of Julie Hoff is now map/reference librarian the C&RL News Editorial Board. at the Arizona State Library in Phoenix. Yolanda Hollingsworth has been ap Rosemary E. Walker has been appointed di pointed assistant electronic resources librarian rector of the Alumni Library at Wentworth In at the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Graduate stitute of Technology in Boston. Walker has Library for Public Affairs and Policy at the Uni served as the library’s associate director since versity at Albany, State University of New York. 1990. Before joining Wentworth she served as William T. Johnson has been appointed chief librarian for the French Library, head li subject librarian for science/biology, mathemat brarian at Newbury College, and librarian at ics, and physics at Texas Tech University, Lub Boston Edison Company’s Technical Library. A bock. graduate of Emmanuel College, Walker received Melissa L. Just has been appointed infor her master’s in English literature from Catholic mation specialist at the University of Southern University, her master’s in cinema studies from California Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles. New York University, and her MLS from Janice Krentz is now head of the Depart Simmons College. ment for Spain, Portugal, and Latin America at the University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence. Peter Accardo has been appointed cataloger John Lehner has been named half-time as and technical services coordinator in the Hough sistant reference librarian at the Governor Tho ton Library at Harvard University. mas E. Dewey Graduate Library for Public Af Jackie Druery is now reference librarian in fairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State the Government Documents/Administrative University of New York. Studies Library at York University, Ontario. Kenneth Liss is now career reference li Gregory Finnegan is now associate librar brarian in the Baker Library at Harvard ian for public services and head of reference in University’s Business School. Tozzer Library at Harvard University. Marilyn Moody has been named director Daphne Flanagan has been named refer of the Science and Engineering Library at the ence librarian in the Government Documents/ University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Mary Ann Nash is now director of OCLC Ed. note: Entries in this column are takenfrom Pacific, the OCLC service center for libraries in library newsletters, letters from personnel offices, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washing individuals using institutional letterhead, and ton, other western states, and Western Canada. other sources. To ensure that your personnel news James P. Niessen has been named subject is considered for publication, write to Pam librarian for humanities/history and foreign lan Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. guages at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: Brian Quinn has been appointed subject [email protected]. librarian for social sciences/psychology, soci-
May 1995/353 ology, and social work; health, physical edu Lake County Library System in many capaci cation, and recreation; and human development ties. As a member of MPLA, he served on prac at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. tically every standing committee MPLA has and Kathleen Burke Ryan is now business in chaired more than one. As the Utah Library formation analyst in the Baker Library at Har Association’s representative to MPLA, he served vard University’s Business School. for six years on the MPLA Board. Carrie Sundstrom has been named assis tant director of library development at Texas Nina D. P. Horio, reference librarian in the Tech University, Lubbock. Science-Technology Reference Department of Millie Syring has been appointed reference the Hamilton Graduate Library at the Univer and document delivery librarian at the Univer sity of Hawaii at Manoa, died last August of sity of Nevada, Reno. complications of therapy for breast cancer. Kristin Welton is now photo archivist at Horio received her MLS from Simmons College the University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence. in 1971. She served as president of the Univer Norma Yueh is the new director of research sity of Hawaii Professional Assembly, and re at Ramapo College, New Jersey. ceived the first Excellence in Librarianship Award from the Hamilton Library in 1993.
Philip J. McNiff, former director and librarian emeritus of the Boston Public Library (BPL), died in November. Before joining the BPL, D e a tk s McNiff served the Harvard College Library for many years. Starting in 1942, he rose through Edwin Truman Coman Jr., former librarian the ranks to become librarian of the Lamont of the School of Letters and Sciences at the Uni Library, the nation’s first library specifically for versity of California, Riverside, died in January undergraduates; and eventually became asso at the age of 91. Coman began his library ca ciate librarian of Harvard College and Archibald reer as a research assistant at the Claremont Cary Coolidge bibliographer. Colleges. From 1936 to 1942 he was director of the Graduate School of Business Library at Stan James S. McPhee, head instructional services ford University, then served as assistant profes librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas sor of business history from 1945 to 1950. (UNLV), died January 22 after a battle with pan Coman served as president of the California creatic cancer. McPhee began his tenure at Library Association in 1949. His publications UNLV in 1984 as the first orientation librarian. included Sources of Business Information (1949) In 1994 he was voted UNLV Librarian of the and Time, Tide and Timber (1949). Year. As a member of ALA’s Intellectual Free dom Committee, McPhee was a tireless defender Frances Fishburn, librarian at Park College of the right to free speech, fighting innumer in Parkville, Missouri, from 1943 to 1962, died able battles against censorship. last August. Fishburn graduated from Park Col lege in 1921, then received her BLS from Co Neil Ratliff, head of the Music Library and the lumbia University, and then became assistant International Piano Archives at the University librarian at Park College in 1927. Following her of Maryland at College Park, died last Septem retirement in 1962, she served as archivist at ber after a long illness. Ratliff served as a music the college until 1988. librarian in the performing arts collection at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center be Doug Hindmarsh, grants coordinator and con fore joining Maryland in 1980. From 1983 to sultant for the Utah State Library, died of a sud 1992 he also served as lecturer in music librari den illness on December 7, 1994, only one anship at Catholic University. Early in 1994 month after assuming the duties of vice-presi Ratliff, who spoke Greek fluently, received a dent/president-elect of the Mountain Plains Li Fulbright grant to establish a music library in brary Association (MPLA). Hindmarsh began his Greece in the new Athens Concert Hall. He career as a cataloger and library science instruc considered the project to be the culmination of tor at Brigham Young University. He later joined his life’s work, but was unable to carry out the the public library field and worked at the Salt assignment because of illness.
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