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Ann-Christe Galloway People in the News Elaine Didier, director of the Gerald R. son has been involved in regional and national Ford Presidential Library and Museum since professional association work, recently serving 2005, was presented with the Distinguished as president of the Alabama Association of Col- Alumni Award from the University of Michi- lege and Research Libraries, and as chair of the gan School of Information. This award recog- Resource Sharing Committee of the Network nizes and honors alumni who have at least of Alabama Academic Libraries since 2008. 25 years of professional service in the infor- mation professions and have made outstand- Courtney L. Young has been appointed head ing contributions to the field. Didier’s pro- librarian at Penn State-Greater Allegheny. fessional career prior to the Gerald R. Ford Museum and Library includes 22 years at the Stacey Carton has been appointed man- University of Michigan in various capacities, ager of the Fordham Multimedia Lab in the including associate dean of the Rackham Mabel Smith Douglass Library, in the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies, interim director University Libraries in New Brunswick, New of Academic Outreach, and director of Infor- Jersey. mation Resources at the business school. Her Gregory Davis has been named assistant service on professional associations includes director for information technology in the the ACRL Board of Directors, past presidency University Library at Iowa State University. of the Michigan Library Association, and a Natalia Fernandez is the new Oregon three-year term on the Library of Michigan multicultural librarian for Oregon State Uni- Board of Trustees. She was the first woman versity Libraries. elected president of the Ann Arbor Rotary Christine E. King has been named Club in 1993. associate dean for reference and instruc- tion at the University Library at Iowa State University. Appointments Martha Kruy has been named reference librarian with primary responsibilities in information literacy at Norwalk Community Rosemary Huff Arneson has been named li- College in Norwalk, Connecticut. brarian for the University of Mary Washington. Michelle Oswell has been appointed Arneson has served as university librarian for music/performing arts librarian at the Rut- Carmichael Library at the University of Mon- gers University Libraries in New Brunswick, tevallo in Montevallo, Alabama, since 1999. In New Jersey. addition, she served as chair of the university’s Victoria Lynn Packard has been named Web advisory committee and encouraged the coordinator of instructional services and library’s use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as distance learning at Texas A&M University Facebook, Flickr, and the instant messaging in Kingsville. platform Meebo. Arneson has given numerous Tibor Purger has been appointed direc- presentations addressing the use of technology tor of Integrated Information Systems at the in the library and in the classroom and has Rutgers University Libraries in Piscataway, contributed to several regional publications, New Jersey. including the Encyclopedia of Alabama. Arne- Joyce Tokuda is now learning resourc- es librarian at Kapiolani Community Col- Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is lege Library. considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Susan Weber is now librarian in the ref- Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: agalloway@ erence department at Kapiolani Community ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. College Library. January 2011 59 C&RL News Joleen Westerdale is now instructional voice for academic and research libraries,” not- services librarian at the Old Dominion Uni- ed ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen Davis. versity Libraries “He was a very engaged member of the ACRL Board who helped the Board consider Retirements multiple perspectives. Locke brought his Mary Marko, reference and collection de- enthusiasm and pas- velopment librarian at Kapiolani Community sions to the profession College Library in Honolulu, Hawaii, has re- and enriched us all.” tired after 34 years of service to Kapiolani’s “Locke will be missed Lama Library. for his laughter, te- nacity, commitment, and intellect,” added Deaths Locke Morrisey 2010–11 ACRL Presi- dent Lisa Hinchliffe. “And, most of all, for the Howard Dess, 81, retired physical science friendship he offered to everyone.” Morrisey resource librarian at the Rutgers University also served ACRL as a member of the Racial Libraries in New Brunswick, New Jersey, died and Ethnic Diversity Committee, Dr. E. J. Josey July 5, 2010. Dess worked as a librarian in the Spectrum Scholar Mentor Committee, Chapters Rutgers University Libraries for 25 years. He Council, Excellence in Academic Libraries oversaw the Rutgers’ Chemistry and Physics Award Nominations Committee, and sections, branch libraries and served as chair of the including CLS, IS, and ULS. He is remembered Rutgers’ New Brunswick Libraries Collections at USF for his thoughtful guidance to students Group, the Scholarly Communications Com- and colleagues, and the tireless example he mittee, and the Strategic Plan subcommittee set as a teacher, researcher, and mentor; and on scholarly communication. He also served across the academic library community for his as a member of the University Senate and as humor, intelligence, and commitment to the an active member of ACRL. He was a prolifi c profession. author of scholarly and professional articles, book reviews, and conference presentations. Advertisers In the April 2003 issue of C&RL News, Dess ACM 1 coauthored (with Myoung Wilson) “The bewil- Annual Reviews 52 dering new world of scholarly communication: Archival Products 19 Helping faculty understand the issues.” Association of Research Libraries 55 Atlas Systems 45 Brill 42–43 (centerspread) Locke Morrisey, head of collections, refer- Choice Reviews Online 57 ence, and research at the University of San Christian Periodical Index 41 Francisco (USF) Gleeson Library, has died. EBSCO cover 4 Morrisey was deeply committed to the library Georgia International Conference 2 profession, publishing and holding leadership on Information Literacy positions at the local and national levels; serv- H. W. Wilson 10–11 ing as a mentor to San Jose State University Wiley 48–49 library school students with internships at USF; Nature Publishing Group cover 2 and was a much-beloved and respected fi gure Project Muse 40 at his institution and in the academic library Rittenhouse Book Distributors 5 community. He served on the ACRL Board of Serials Solutions cover 3 University of Oklahoma Libraries 58 Directors as ALA Councilor from 2007 to 2010. Wilfrid Laurier University Press 47 “As a member of Council, Locke was a strong C&RL News January 2011 60.

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