People in the News Ann-Christe Young Linda Solow Blotner, head of the Allen serving as president (1996-97), and ALA’s In Library at the University of Hartford, is the tellectual Freedom Committee (chair since new editor of Notes, the Music Library 1997). Herb also serves on the Board of Di Association’s quarterly journal. rectors of the Freedom to Read Foundation. Jo Burgess, assistant librarian 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 librarians; 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 libraries 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 School library (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 Law library (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 collection development 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.