James Estrada, director of community, and active par­ the Trecker Library at the ticipation in BCALA. University of Connecticut, Hartford, was presented with People Ernie Ingles, director of li­ the 1994 Special Achieve­ braries at the University of ment Award by the Con­ in the Alberta, received the Out­ necticut Library Association. standing Academic Librarian Award of the Canadian As­ Karen Nelson Hoyle, di­ N ew s sociation of College and rector and curator of the University Libraries, pre­ Kerlan Collection of Child­ sented at that society’s an­ ren’s Literature at the Univer­ Pam Spiegel nual meeting in Vancouver. sity of Minnesota, received The award is based on ser­ the 1994 Distinguished vice to the profession, the Alumni Award from St. Olaf planning and implementing College, which she graduated from in 1958. of exemplary library programs, research and For the last 25 years Hoyle has built the Kerlan publication, mentorship, and leadership. Collection into one of the largest such reposi­ tories in the world. In 1992 she received an Jessie L. Matthews, reference and evening li­ honorary doctorate from the University of St. brarian at Rutgers University Law Library, has Thomas and the Minnesota Library Association’s been named the 1994 recipient of the Spirit of Distinguished Achievement Award. Law Librarianship Award, presented annually to the American Association of Law Libraries M oham m ed Aman, dean of the School of Li­ member who makes a contribution toward the brary and Information Science at the Univer­ improvement of a social condition or the in­ sity of Wisconsin-Mil­ creased awareness of a social concern. waukee, was awarded Matthews is being honored for her work with the Black Caucus of the the Patient Learning Resource Center at the American Library Asso­ Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia. ciation (BCALA) Leader­ ship Award at the Sec­ W illiam A. Moffett, director of the Hunting- ond National Confer­ ton Library in San Marino, California, was re- ence of African Ameri­ can Librarians in August. (Washington cont.from page 651) Aman is a founding necting a multistate consortium of public and m em ber of BCALA. private colleges and universities to a public li­ Gladys Smiley Bell, co­ brary and an historic library.” This funding was Mohammed Aman ordinator of electronic originally in the Senate-passed version of H.R. information services at Kent State University, 4606 where S. Rept. 103-318 indicated that “Port­ Ohio, received the 1994 Distinguished Service land State University, in conjunction with the to the Profession Award from BCALA. The Oregon Historical Society, would be especially awards are given to librarians, educators, and suited to operate” such a program. trustees who have shown distinguished service The Senate had passed a total of $8,270,000 to the profession, scholarship, service to the for HEAII-B research and demonstrations, with $3,994,000 for “demonstration projects involv­ ing the digitization of research library collec­ Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken tions and the development of related organiza­ from library newsletters, letters from personnel tional tools for access to these digital resources.” offices, individuals, and other sources. To ensure However, House-Senate conferees cut the Sen­ that yourp ersonnel news is consideredfor pub­ ate total to $6.5 million, deleted the digitiza­ lication, write to Pam Spiegel, Assistant Editor, tion projects, and switched $2.5 million of that C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL funding to bring the statewide fiber optic net­ 60611-2795; e-mail: [email protected]. work project funding to $5 million. ■

November 1994/681 cently presented with the 1994 Alumni Achieve­ Paul Kobulnicky has been named director of ment Award at the Simmons College Graduate university libraries at the School of Library and Information Science’s University of Connecti­ Alumni Day. cut, Storrs. He previ­ ously served as interim Mary Joyce Pickett, director of library servic­ director of the Univer­ es at Illinois Benedictine College, has been sity Library System at the elected president of the LIBRAS consortium of University of Pittsburgh 18 northern Illinois private academic libraries. since 1990. Kobulnicky She will serve during the 1994-95 fiscal year. received his B.S. in physics and math from William Gray Potter, director of libraries at Pennsylvania State Uni­ the University of Georgia, and Ellen Waite, versity, and his MLS in Paul Kobulnicky university librarian at Loyola University of Chi­ administration and sys­ cago, have been elected to six-year terms on tems analysis from the University of Pittsburgh. the OCLC Board of Trustees. Rush Miller is now director of the University The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quo­ Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. tations (Oxford Univ. Press, 1993) by Fred Before joining Pitts­ Shapiro, associate librarian for public services burgh, Miller was dean at Yale Law School, has been named the win­ of libraries and learning ner of the 1994 Joseph L. Andrews Award by resources at Bowling the American Association of Law Libraries. Green State University erkBu (1986-1994); director of Linda Watson, director of the Claude Moore the libraries at Sam Jim

Houston State University : Health Sciences Library at the University of Vir­ itcred ginia, has been appointed by Gov. George Allen (1982-1986); and direc­ tor of library services at to to a three-year term on the State Networking ohP Users Advisory Board. The nine-member board Delta State University advises the state librarian and State Library (1975-1982). Long ac­ Rush Miller Board on the development and direction of the tive in ALA and other Virginia Library and Information Network. professional associations, Miller has published many articles on topics like TQM, multicultur­ alism in libraries, and support staff develop­ ment.

Appointments Paul Schrodt has been appointed director of the John W. Dickhaut Library at the Methodist Carolyn Gray has been named director of li­ School of Theology Library in Ohio. brary services at Florida Gulf Coast University. Gray has served since Kevin Starr, professor of regional and urban 1988 as associate direc­ planning at the University of Southern Califor­ tor for public services nia (USC), has been appointed state librarian and library development of California by Gov. Pete Wilson, who said, officer at Brandeis Uni­ “Starr has a statewide and national reputation versity, where she also as an expert on California. Over the years, he served as assistant direc­ has distinguished himself as a public librarian, tor for technical services a historian, a journalist, and a communications and automation, and as­ consultant.” Starr will remain on the USC fac­ sociate director for tech­ ulty and will teach one course there. He previ­ nical and reader ser­ ously served as city librarian of San Francisco. vices. Before that she Carolyn Gray held positions at West­ Rick Bean has been named coordinator of ern Illinois University, the University of Okla­ O’Hare Campus Library at DePaul University, homa, and the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council. Des Plaines, Illinois.

682/C&RL News Michael Biggins is now assistant Slavic and Patrick Mahoney has been named busi- East European librarian at the University of ness/reference librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle. North Dakota, Grand Forks. Richard Bleiler is now reference librarian/ David R. Majka has been named reference selector for the humanities at the University of librarian/business specialist at Robert Morris Connecticut, Storrs. College, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Jan Blodgett is the new college archivist Stephen Mantz is now music librarian at and records management coordinator at Dav­ Davidson College, North Carolina. idson College in North Carolina. Hideyuki Morimoto is the new Japanese Navjit Brar has been appointed access ser- cataloger at the University of California, Ber­ vices/periodicals librarian at Trenton State Col­ keley, East Asian Library. lege, New Jersey. Eva S. M oseley has been appointed acting Barbara Butler is now reference librarian director of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Cali­ College, Cambridge. fornia. Thomas A. Peters has been appointed as­ Nancy Chaffin is now bibliographic ser­ sociate director for collection development at vices librarian at Arizona State University West. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Cynthia Churchwell is the new social sci­ N ancy S. R einhardt has been named spe­ ences reference librarian at the University of cial collections librarian at Colby College in Missouri-Kansas City. Waterville, Maine. Martha Creedon has been named library Julia Robinson is now reference librarian reporting specialist in the Office of Informa­ at Ohio University, Lancaster. tion Systems at Harvard University, Cambridge. Beverly Ryan is the new bibliographic sys­ Francine D eFranco has been promoted to tems librarian at the University of California at Reference Services Unit head at the University Santa Barbara. of Connecticut, Storrs. Tony Stukel has been named director of A nn D ykas has been named to a two-year ODIN, the Online Dakota Information Network position as retrospective conversion project li­ headquartered at the University of North Da­ brarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. kota, Grand Forks. A lison Elms is now coordinator of the Oak Aaron Trehub has been named acting di­ Brook Campus Library at DePaul University, rector of the Illinois Researcher Information Westchester, Illinois. Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Margaret E ricson has joined Tufts Univer­ Champaign. sity in Medford, Massachusetts, as head of the Jim W alsh has joined the Arts & Sciences Music Library. Library at Tufts University in Medford, Massa­ Joanne Evanoff has been appointed sci­ chusetts, as head of reference. ence/reference librarian at the University of WeiWei Wang is now assistant law librar­ North Dakota, Grand Forks. ian at the University of Illinois at Urbana- N ancy M. G odleski has joined the Central Champaign. Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, as Joyce Wright has been appointed under­ bibliographer/reference librarian. graduate librarian at the University of Illinois Anne Gordon is now head of technical ser­ at Urbana-Champaign. vices at DePaul University Library, Chicago. Frank Graubart-Cervone is now Systems Department head at DePaul University Library, Chicago. Mary Hawkins has become a member of Retirements the staff of the Kansas Collection at the Univer­ sity of Kansas. Eva L. Kiewitt retired as associate dean of Re­ Karen Ingish has been appointed coordi­ gent University Library & Information Services nator of the South Campus Library of DePaul in July after 13 years in that position. Before University, Oak Forest, Illinois. joining Regent, Kiewitt served as associate pro­ Amy Leimkuhler is the new special col­ fessor and librarian at the School of Library and lections reference librarian at the University of Information Science at Indiana University, Missouri-Kansas City. Bloomington. She served on many ALA and

November 1994/683 ACRL committees, authored Evaluating Infor­ at Davidson College in North Carolina, died in mation Retrieval Systems, and coauthored the June at the age of 87. first two editions of The Directory o f Curricu­ lum Materials Centers. She has been named li­ Louis Kaplan, emeritus professor, retired chief brarian emeritus at Regent. librarian of Memorial Library, and director of university libraries (1957-1971) at the Univer­ Lois J. Lehman retired in August as dean of sity of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM), died in July library and information services at Regent Uni­ at the age of 85. Kaplan’s career at UWM versity in Virginia Beach, Virginia. During her spanned the years 1937 to 1977, interrupted by 47-year career, Lehman taught at all levels and a three-year leave to serve in World War II. served as a librarian in public, school, and uni­ During that time he organized the first Refer­ versity libraries. She has been active in ALA ence Department of the library and played a and ACRL, coauthored the first two editions of leading role in the design of library facilities, The Directory o f Curriculum Materials Centers, including Memorial Library and College Library. and served as chair of ACRL’s Education and He taught in the UWM library school until his Behavioral Sciences Section’s committee that retirement in 1977. produced The Directory of Historical Curricu­ lum Collections. She has been named librarian John Kelly, chief bibliographer at the Univer­ emeritus at Regent. sity of Alabama since 1990, died in July. Kelly formerly served as university bibliographer and Norman D. Stevens retired as director of uni­ curator for special collections at the University versity libraries at the University of Connecti­ of Southern Mississippi and as special collec­ cut (UC), Storrs, in May, tions reference librarian at Mississippi State Uni­ when he became emeri­ versity. tus director. Before join­ ing UC in 1968, Stevens Patricia Miller King, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer served as acting univer­ Foundation director of Radcliffe College’s sity librarian at Rutgers Schlesinger Library on the History of Women University, and acting in America since 1973, died of lung cancer last director of university li­ May. King’s career at Radcliffe included over­ braries at Howard Uni­ seeing a $3.4 million renovation in 1987. In versity. He has authored 1990 the Schlesinger Library received the Dis­ or e d ited 12 m o n o ­ tinguished Service Award from the Society of graphs, and written Norman D. Stevens American Archivists, and in 1993 the Carl and more than 175 articles Lily Pforzheimer Foundation contributed a $2 and more than 100 “Our Profession” columns million gift to endow King’s position. Chair of for the Wilson Library Bulletin. He is known the National Council for Research on Women’s for his writings on library humor and his col­ Board from 1989 to 1992, King also served on lections of librariana and library postcards. He’s the membership committees of the American been a life member of ALA since 1957. Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts His­ torical Society. ■

Deaths Advertiser index J osep h C. Borden, serials librarian at Purdue Chadwyck-Healey cover 3 University until his retirement in 1974, died on EBSCO 638 June 10. Borden had also served as associate Henry Holt 626 librarian at the University of Arkansas Marquis Who’s Who cover 4 (1947-1965) and on the staff of the New York OCLC 632, 676 Public Library. Roper Center 623 K.G. Saur cover 2, 647 Chalmers G. Davidson, college archivist Sociological Abstracts 640 (1975-1994) and library director (1936-1975)

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