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People Serials – 22(3),November 2009 JOHN JARDINE People All People news and photos please to John Jardine at Swets, Swan House, Wyndyke Furlong, Abingdon Business Park,Abingdon, Oxon OX14 1UQ Tel: 01235 857500 Fax: 01235 857503 [email protected] Congratulations to Serials other positions with that LIBER (Association of European Joint Editor Hazel Woodward organization since its beginning. Research Libraries) Digitization on her MBE for her services to and Resource Discovery higher education. Hazel, At the end of July, Robert Steering Committee for the next Cranfield University’s Librarian, Vickers retired after 35 years two-year period. As Chair of was awarded the title as part of with the British Library. Robert one of the Steering Committees the Queen’s birthday honours began his library career at the she is also a member of the list. Hazel has managed the library in London where he LIBER Executive Board. university library’s transition worked for the Bibliographic from a print-based library to a Services division, becoming ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■ predominantly digital library. Editor of the British Education This transition has enabled the Index before relocating to Amanda Young joined the library to provide 24/7 access Boston Spa in 1992. For the rest Defence Science and Technology to information resources for all of his library career he worked Laboratory (DSTL) at the end staff and students wherever in Collection Acquisitions and of February as Information they are in the world. Descriptions, becoming Specialist. Amanda was Purchasing Acquisitions previously Librarian at MOD Congratulations also to Manager at the start of 2006. Larkhill. another illustrious member of the Serials editorial team, Cindy In September, Ronald Milne In August MarySusan Barry Hepfer, head of the electronic took up the post of Associate joined the HM Treasury & periodicals management Chief Librarian (Research Cabinet Office Library as department of the university Collections) at the Alexander Research and Library Services library at the State University of Turnbull Library, National Manager. MarySusan was New York at Buffalo. Cindy was Library of New Zealand. ‘The previously Knowledge Manager awarded the 2009 Ross Atkinson Turnbull’ is New Zealand’s at the Advisory Conciliation Lifetime Achievement Award at pre-eminent research library and Arbitration Service (ACAS). the Association for Library and most significant repository In July, Claire Duddy joined the Collections & Technical Services of New Zealand’s documentary library as Research & Library (ALCTS) Awards Ceremony at heritage. Ronald was formerly Services Adviser to the Cabinet the ALA annual conference in Director of the Scholarship and Office. Claire was previously July. Cindy has an outstanding Collections Directorate at the e-resources librarian at the record of professional British Library. Bodleian Library in Oxford. involvement in local, regional and national organizations, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, In October, JISC Collections, including serving as President the director of the Library the organization which manages of NASIG (North American Network Services at the the acquisition and provision of Serials Interest Group) in National Library of Finland, has digital resources for universities 1993–1994 and in numerous been appointed as Chair of the and colleges in the UK, 238 Serials – 22(3),November 2009 People announced their acquisition of College London where she retirement as Librarian at the Content Complete Ltd, the co-ordinated the management Faculty of Architecture and Oxfordshire- and development of services to History of Art, University of based licensing meet the learning, teaching and Cambridge. Maddie had been and research needs of the Faculty of with the library for 20 years and negotiations Medicine and the NHS at all is now following a degree in company. campuses where the faculty has Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin Content a presence. Prior to joining University. Complete was Imperial in 2007, Diane was established in Associate Director of At University College Cork, 2003 by Albert Prior and Paul Information Services at City Marianne Moore has joined the Harwood and University London. Serials Acquisitions Section since then has replacing Nóra O’Reilly who been JISC At the University of Bristol retired at the end of August Collections’ library there have been a after five years in Serials Negotiation number of changes. Following Acquisition. Marianne has wide Agent for Alison Allden’s appointment library experience and has spent NESLi2, the as Chief Executive of HESA the past four years in UK’s online (see above), Cathryn Gallacher Cataloguing at UCC. journal initiative for the higher and Tim Phillips are now Joint education and research Acting Director of Information At the communities. The company has Services. At the end of August, beginning of also worked very closely with Cathryn took over as Director October, Dr John JISC Collections on a range of of Library Services B Howard took projects and activities in this Communication from Peter up the post of area including archiving, usage King, who retired then after Librarian at data, online journal business 33 years at Bristol. University College Dublin. For models and, more recently, the past four years, John has e-textbooks. Paul joins JISC On the retirement of Joy been Associate University Collections as Deputy CEO. Smith and Janet Quasnichka, a Librarian at Arizona State Albert will retire at the end of new role of Inter-Library Loan University (ASU) with the year and will be doing some Supervisor was created, and responsibility for planning and consultancy. filled by Pete Barrett. administration of digital library services and all library At the beginning of August, Patricia Rogers technology functions, the Alison Allden took up the post took up the post metadata and technical of Chief Executive of the Higher of Senior Assistant processing areas, the University Education Statistics Agency Librarian, Archives and Special Collections. (HESA) on the retirement of Acquisitions at the John moved to ASU after Professor Robin Sibson at the end of August, on 25 years at Harvard University, end of July. Since 2004, Alison the retirement of Jean Bradford where he served as a faculty had been Deputy Registrar and and Peter Brading. Patricia’s member in the Department of Director of Information Services new role encompasses Music and held a variety of at the University of Bristol. management responsibility for positions in the Harvard the Inter-Library Loan, Serials, libraries, including: Richard F Diane Job took up the post of Book Orders and Book Binding French Music Librarian; Director of Library Services at and Processing teams. Patricia Librarian for Information the University of Birmingham at was previously Faculty Technology; Director of Digital the beginning of September. She Librarian, Engineering. Library Initiatives; and was previously responsible for Associate Director for the leadership of the Faculty of At the end of August, Informatics and Technology Medicine Libraries at Imperial Madeleine Brown took early Research at the Harvard 239 People Serials – 22(3),November 2009 Medical School. John replaces Jones Library, University of Hull service at the new Skolkovo Sean Phillips who retired as in 1972 under the poet-librarian School of Management in Librarian at UCD in March Philip Larkin. He moved to Moscow. Gill Dwyer, Deputy 2008. Oxford where he was assistant Head of Library, and Sue Watt, librarian at Nuffield College. In Manager of the Business Pauline Corrigan was Acting 1976 he went to Glasgow Information Service, have both Librarian at UCD following University Library where he has taken early retirement from LBS Sean’s retirement, until remained since, in a variety of after 24 years and 21 years December last year, when guises: first as reference and respectively. Stephen Graham, Pauline herself retired after government publications Electronic Resources Specialist, 38 years in UCD Library. In librarian, then social sciences has taken a new job as Library 1976 she was appointed as Sub librarian, serials librarian, Systems Officer at Queen Mary, Librarian with responsibility for acquisitions librarian, and University of London Library. periodicals and in 1980 she took finally as assistant director. Rebecca Howard, Corporate on responsibility for all Colin has been involved with Information and Serials acquisitions. Pauline was numerous library activities Librarian, has been redeployed appointed Deputy Librarian in outwith Glasgow, most recently to the School’s new Masters in 1985, a post she remained in in leading the Scottish books Management Programme team. until she was appointed Acting and e-books tendering processes Lee McLean, Business University Librarian in March and as director of the JISC-funded Information Specialist, has also 2008. EThOS Project. left LBS. The library staff, including the five remaining In September, Jon Purcell Congratulations to Louise professionally qualified librarians, took up the post of University Cole, Senior Information now report to the School’s Librarian at Durham University. Advisor (Collections) at Learning Centre Manager. He replaces John Hall who is Kingston University on her retiring this year. Most of Jon’s marriage to Colin Penn in Elizabeth Chapman has been 30-year career as a professional August. Louise is a valued appointed Director of Library librarian has been in university member of UKSG’s Publications Services at the London School of libraries. He was