People in the News Ann-Christe Young

Linda Solow Blotner, head of the Allen serving as president (1996-97), and ALA’s In at the University of Hartford, is the tellectual Freedom Committee (chair since new editor of Notes, the 1997). Herb also serves on the Board of Di Association’s quarterly journal. rectors of the Freedom to Read Foundation.

Jo Burgess, assistant and head Althea H. Jenkins, executive director of of Conservation Services at Indiana Uni ACRL since 1991, has been awarded Florida versity in Bloomington, and Karen Rege, State University’s School of Information Stud musicologist and librarian at the Delaware ies 2000 Distinguished Alumni award. Since College of Art and Design, were awarded assuming the top leadership position at ACRL, the 2000 Dena Epstein Award for Archival the association’s pro and Library Research in American Music. grams have expanded to include information The following were elected the Board of literacy; a stronger em Music Library Association: James P. Cassaro phasis has been placed (head of the Theodore M. Finney Music Li on continuous learning brary at the University of Pittsburgh) is vice for academic ; president/president elect; Lynn Gullickson and institutes covering (music technical services librarian at North timely topics have been western University) is recording secretary; and developed. The na Allie Wise Goudy (music librarian at West tional conference pro ern Illinois University), Leslie Troutman grams have expanded Althea Jenkins (music user services coordinator at the Uni and Web-based pro versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and gramming is on the horizon. Jenkins’ ca Philip R. Vandermeer (music librarian at the reer in librarianship includes positions as University of Maryland) are new members- director of Library Services at the Univer at-large. sity of South Florida, Sarasota/New Col lege Campus; library director at Miami- Steven Herb, head of Pennsylvania State’s Dade Community College-Wolfson and Education and Behavioral Sciences Library Kendall campuses; and school librarian for since 1992, has been named this year’s Indian River County in Vero Beach, Florida. Most Innovative Teacher by the Schreyer Jenkins will be honored at the Florida Institute for Innovation in Learning and the State’s Annual Convocation and Homecom Undergraduate Student Government Aca ing ceremony on October 14, 2000. demic Assembly. Herb was nominated for his course “Stories and Storytelling: How Hu Hannelore B. Rader, university librarian mans Become People.” at the University of Louisville, received the He coauthored The Literati 2000 Award for Excellence for her Nittany Lion: An Illus Outstanding Paper “The Learning Environ trated Tale, a history of ment—Then, Now and, Later: 30 Years of the Penn State mascot. Teaching Information Skills,” published in Herb was recently Reference Services Review. MCB University named executive direc tor of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. He Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe has been active in the Young, Production Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Association for Library Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: [email protected]; fax: Steven Herb Service to Children, (312)280-2520.

C&RL News ■ June 2000 / 535 Press, a British pub speaker, consultant, and he writes lisher of more than about information science related topics 150 scholarly journals in professional journals. covering such diverse topics as accounting, Paul McCarthy has been appointed director banking, business, of and information technology at the education, engineer University of Alaska, Fairbanks. McCarthy ing, logistics, market joined WLN as president and CEO in 1995. ing, management, sci In January 1999, following the merger of ence and technology, WLN and OCLC, he was named executive Hannelore Rader honored the outstand director of OCLC/WLN Pacific Northwest ing article in each Service Center. Before joining WLN he journal on April 14, 2000, in London, En spent 30 years at the University of Alaska, gland, by presenting 95 authors with a spe Fairbanks, including seven years as direc cial award. tor of libraries. In this new position, McCarthy will be responsible for both li Jeanette C. Smith of New Mexico State braries and campus computing. University (NMSU) has been awarded the first Edmund Lester Pearson Library Hu Ruth Parlin has been appointed director mor Award from the Molesworth Institute. of Library Services for Green Mountain Col She received the award—which consists lege in Poultney, Vermont. Parlin served of a miscellaneous assortment of ephem as reference librarian era published by the Molesworth Institute and head of reference and a contribution to a library develop services at Green ment fund at the NMSU Library— for her Mountain before be article “One Book Over the Line,” which ing named interim di appeared in the April 1999 issue of Cita rector in July 1999. tions—the newsletter of the NMSU Library. Her previous experi ence includes service as G. Dale Vargason Jr. and John M. Bewley head of reference at the are winners of this year’s Walter Gerboth University of Miami Law Award, offered annually to members of the (1992- Ruth Parlin Music Library Association, in their first five 94), reference/electronic years of their professional library careers, services librarian at the University of Arkansas to assist research-in-progress in music or Law School library (1991-92), and reference music librarianship. librarian at New England School of (1988-90). She was a member of the Ameri can Association of Law Libraries (1988-94) and is a member of ACRL and ALA, serving on the Appointments Social Responsibilities Round Table.

Joseph J. Branin is now director of li Louis A. Rachow, library director of the braries at Ohio State University in Colum International Theatre Institute of the United bus. He was dean and director of Univer States since 1988, continues to hold this sity Libraries at SUNY Stony Brook from position upon the November 1999 consoli 1996 to 1999. From 1986 to 1996, he served dation of the Institute with the Theatre as associate university librarian for collec Communications Group in New York. tions and services at the University of Min nesota. Prior to that position, he served as Wilson M. “Bil” Stahl has been named humanities librarian at the University of head librarian at Western Carolina Univer Georgia Libraries and branch librarian at sity, effective August 1. Stahl is currently Kent State University. Branin is an active university director of information technol member of several professional organiza ogy at University of North Carolina (UNC)- tions, including ACRL. He is a book reviewer, Charlotte, and also has been serving as act­

536 / C&RL News ■ June 2000 ing associate vice Kevin Deemer has been appointed ref chancellor for library erence librarian at Pennsylvania State Uni and information ser versity Shenango. vices since July 1999. Natalie Delker has been appointed ref He previously worked erence/instruction librarian at the Univer at UNC-Charlotte as sity of Washington, Bothell. director of information Laura Dickson is now Government technology planning, Documents librarian at Michigan State Uni and held a special as versity. signment of develop Joseph Fennewald has been named head Wilson M. "Bil" Stahl ment of an informa librarian at Pennsylvania State Hazleton. tion technology plan Jan Figa is now mathematics librarian at for the university. Prior to joining the UNC- Michigan State University. Charlotte library staff as associate library Nancy Fleck has been appointed head director in 1983, he was vice president and of Technical Services at Michigan State Uni head of design for Pro Libra Associates Inc., versity. and held several positions in the library at Heidi Frank has joined Michigan State Stockton State College (now the Richard University as an electronic resources catalog Stockton College of New Jersey). librarian. Ellen Griffin has been appointed histori Susan Ardis has been appointed head cal collections cataloger at the University of of the Science Libraries Division at the Alabama at Birmingham. University of Texas at Austin. Curtis Hanson has been named academic Mark Bartlett is now head o f technical librarian/assistant archivist in the Chester Fritz services at the Ross-Blakley Law Library at Library at the University of North Dakota in Arizona State University in Tempe. Grand Forks. Daniel K. Blewett has been appointed Karen Hein has been appointed refer coordinator and ence and electronic services librarian at the reference librarian at Loyola University Chi University of Nebraska at Omaha. cago. Anne Houston is now head librarian at William E. Brown Jr. is now coordi Mallinckrodt Library at Loyola University Chi nator for Research and Instruction at the cago. Bancroft Library at the University of Cali Wen-ying Lu is now bibliographic en fornia at Berkeley. hancement catalog librarian for Michigan State Bertram (Chip) Bruce h as b e e n University. named professor of Library and Informa Cecile Maciulus has joined Loyola Uni tion Science at the University of Illinois at versity Chicago as a reference librarian. Urbana-Champaign. Daniel Mack has been appointed hu Sheila Bryant was hired as reference manities librarian at Pennsylvania State librarian at Michigan State University. University. Tom Carter has been appointed dean Melissa McAfee has been appointed head of academic resources at St. Mary’s Col of the Preservation Department at Indiana lege in Moraga, California. University. Cynthia D. Clark has been named di Michael J. McLane is now executive di rector of technical services for the Re rector of the Central New York Library Re search Libraries at the New York Public sources Council in Syracuse. Library. Lesley Moyo is Pennsylvania State Uni Daniel Coffey is now literatures and lan versity Libraries’ new gateway librarian. guages librarian at Iowa State University in Robert Noel is now head of the Swain Ames. Hall Library at Indiana University. Patricia Kosco Cossard has been ap Michele Ostrow is now access services pointed team manager for Arts and Humani librarian in the Undergraduate Library Ser ties at the University of Maryland in College vices Division at the University of Texas at Park. Austin.

C&RL News ■ June 2000 / 537 Gwen Owens has been appointed head Tanya Zanish-Belcher has been ap of the Blommer Science Library at pointed head of the Georgetown University. Department at Iowa State University in Henry Pisciotta is the new arts and ar Ames. chitecture librarian and assistant head of the Nevenka Zdravkovska is now science Arts and Humanities Library at Pennsylvania reference librarian at the Blommer Science State University. Library at Georgetown University. Jason Polko has been named reference librarian/bibliographer in the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Retirements Christie Resha is now manager of Library and E-Commerce Interfacing for EBSCO. Joseph F. Lindenfeld, director of library H. James Robin has joined Michigan services at Shelby State Community Col State University as a systems librarian. lege in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1972 to Edward J. Rock has been appointed 1989, has retired. He was chair of the ACRL information services librarian (Humanities/ Community and Junior College Libraries Reference) at Tulane University in New Section from 1983 to 1984. His most re Orleans. cent position was computer project librar Debbi Schaubman is now head of ian at Memphis/Shelby County Public Li Government Documents and the Map Li brary and Information Center. brary at Michigan State University. Pongracz J. Sennyey is the new collec Heather Lloyd, after 21 years as head of Gen tion development librarian at Western Caro eral Reference and 12 years as head of Spe lina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. cial Collections and University , has Teresa Tickle has been appointed retired from Oklahoma State University (OSU). Slavic, East European and Central Asian Lloyd volunteered or belonged to numerous bibliographer for Michigan State Univer organizations, including the Oklahoma Library sity. Association, Oklahoma Chapter of the Asso Judith Trump is now government ciation of College and Research Libraries, documents reference librarian at the Oklahoma Conservation Congress, Society of Lauinger Library at Georgetown University. Southwest Archivists, ALA, Oklahoma Histori Catherine Von Elm is now head o f Ac cal Society, and the Payne County Historical cess Services at the Lauinger Library at Society. Georgetown University. Robert Van Volkenburg has been pro moted to director of product marketing, OCLC Library Resources, at the OCLC Deaths Online Computer Library Center. LuLen Walker is now Arts Collection Eileen D. Cooke, 71, former director of curator at the Lauinger Library at George ALA’s Washington Office, died April 30 fol town University. lowing complications with surgery. Cooke Kathleen Weessies will be joining retired from ALA on Michigan State University as a map librar December 31, 1993, ian on July 1. after 30 years of ser Celestina Wroth has been appointed vice. She began her librarian for History, Religious Studies and career with ALA as as History and Philosophy of Science at Indi sistant director of the ana University. ALA W ashington O f Patricia Xia is now head of library sys fice in 1964 and as tems at Loyola University Chicago. sumed the director Dee Yost has been appointed public position in 1972. Dur services librarian at Hastings College in ing her tenure at ALA, Hastings, Nebraska. Cooke played a major Eileen D. Cooke

538 / C&RL News ■ June 2000 role in the development, renewal, and Jack Edward Pontius, 59, communica funding of key library legislation, includ tions librarian and head of the Periodicals ing the Library Services and Construction and Microforms departments at Pennsyl Act, the Higher Education Act, the Elemen vania State University Libraries, died April tary and Secondary Education Act, the 5. Pontius was nationally known for ex Assistance Act, the Copy pertise in micropublishing and was com right Revision Act, and the establishment mitted to improving access to information, of the National Commission on Libraries including the application of information and Inform ation Scien ce. Prior to ALA, technologies. Among his accomplishments, Cooke worked at the Minneapolis Public he developed Mass Media Index, a Web- Library, first as a librarian based index to journals in mass media— (1957-62) and then as public relations spe originally created for Penn State students cialist and hospital librarian (1958-63). She and faculty but now used worldwide. He took a leave of absence to work as a was active in ALA and held a variety of branch librarian in the Queensborough committee positions and chairmanships in (New York) before return the Association for Library Collections and ing to Minneapolis. Cooke was the first Technical Services and the Library Infor female president of the Joint Council on mation and Technology Association. ■ Educational Telecommunications and served on the boards of several Washing ton, D.C.-based organizations. She was a member of the Women’s Joint Congres sional Committee and the School of Library and Information Science Board of Visitors ACRL dvertiser indexA 495, 518 at Catholic University. ACRL/ARL/SPARC 514 ALIBRIS 465 Kenneth J. LaBudde, 80, died in March. American Chemical Society 513 He was briefly on the staff of the Milwau American Institute of kee Public Library before enlisting in the Chemical Engineers 466 Army during World War II. In 1950 he be American Psychological Assn. 530 came director of li American Theological braries at the Univer Library Association 470 sity of Kansas City. Blackwell's Book Services 533 After 35 years, he re CHOICE 505, 529 tired from the Univer Dialog Corporation Cover 3 sity of Missouri-Kan EBSCO 502 sas City and was ap Endeavor Info. Systems 498 pointed professor ESRI Cover 4 emeritus. He contin Gale Group 487 ued to work as a cu InfoUSA 492 rator of collections. Kenneth J. LaBudde ISI 497 LaBudde was one of IEEE 534 the founders of the Kansas City Metropoli Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 482 tan Library Network, supported network LJ Academic Newswire 496 ing initiatives across Missouri, served as a Libraries Unlimited 522 leader in the Missouri Library Association, netLibrary 477 and played a pivotal role in the achieve OCLC 467, 526 ment of academic status for librarians at Primary Source Microfilm 506 the University of Missouri. He was a life Rowecom 481 member of ALA, Organization of Ameri ScienceDirect Cover 2 can Historians, American Studies Associa SPARC 540 tion, the Society of Architectural Histori Swets & Zeitlinger 520 ans, the Missouri Library Association, and Swets Blackwell 525 several alumni associations.

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