ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ A p ril 2004 / 231

with the ARL com munity to establish SPARC; 
expan d ing aw aren ess through acad em e o f 
scholarly com m unication issues; framing and 
sustaining constructive dialogues on  intellec­
tual property and scholarly co m m u n ica tio n  
issu e s w ith h ig h e r e d u c a tio n  a s so c ia tio n s , 
s c h o la rly  s o c ie tie s , an d  c o m m e rc ia l p u b ­
lish ers; co o rd in a tin g  te le c o n fe r e n c e s  s p o n ­
s o re d  b y  th e S h a red  Legal C ap ability  on  
th e DMCA, UCITA, an d  th e USA P A TR IO T 
Act; an d  lead in g  the d ev e lo p m e n t o f “P rin­
c ip le s  fo r L icen sin g  E le c tro n ic  R e s o u r c e s .”

J o  C ates, library director at Columbia College- 
Chicago, has been appointed to the new position of 
dean o f the library. Cates began her professional 
career as reference librarian at Harvard’s Lamont 

Library. She was founding 
director o f the Eugene 
Patterson Library at the 
Poynter Institute for Me­
dia Studies in St. Peters­
burg, Florida, and also 
saved as head of the Trans­
portation Library at North­
western University. Prior 
to joining the Columbia 
College Chicago library in 

Jo Cates the summer o f  2001, Cates 
spent four years as regional research m anager 
at Ernst & Y ou n g’s Center for Business Knowl­
edge. She is the author o f Jou rn a lism : A G uide 
to the R eferen ce Literature 2d ed. (Libraries 
Unlimited, 1997). T he first edition w as nam ed 
a b est referen ce b o o k  by Library Jo u rn a l in 
1990; the third edition will b e  published by Li­
braries Unlimited/Greenwood Publishing Group 
later this year. She also has published numerous 
chapters, reviews, and articles, the most recent on 
the new  Art o f the Library program at Columbia 
(American Libraries, July/August 2003). She cre­
ated and wrote the “acKnowledge Management” 
column in the Business &F inance Division Bulletin 
(1999-02). Cates is a m em ber o f ALA, ACRL, the 
Association for Education inJ ournalism and Mass Com­
munication, and the Special libraries Association.

Thomas (Tom) M. Peischl was appointed dean 
of library services at Central Washington University 
last September, after spending ten years as chief 
information officer at the University of Wisconsin- 
Parkside (1998-03) and dean of academic informa­
tion services at N orthern M ichigan University 
(1994-98). His prior experience includes dean o f

the library at Mankato 
State University (1 9 8 4 - 
94), director o f college li­
braries (1979-84) and di­
rector of computer services 
( 1 9 8 1 -8 4 ) at SUNY Col­
lege-Potsdam, and a vari­
ety o f library positions at 
University o f Northern 
Colorado (1 9 7 4 -7 9 ) and 
the University o f Denver Thomas M. Peischl
(1 9 7 2 -7 4 ). Peischl is a renew ed m em ber o f 
ACRL, having previously served on many com ­
mittees from 1981 to 199 9 . He has also been  
active in the Library Administration and Man­
agem ent Association, the Council o f Univer­
sity o f Wisconsin Librarians Executive Committee 
(1998-2002), the Upper Peninsula Region o f Li­
brary Cooperation (1994—98), and MINITEX 
(1986-94). Peischl has given a number of presenta­
tions throughout the years and has been published 
in several publications.

Carole C. Wedge has b e e n  e lected  president 
o f  S h ep ley  B u lfin ch  R ich ard son and  A bbott 
(SBR A ). W e d g e , w h o  jo in e d  SBRA in 1 986, 
w as nam ed principal in 200 0  and for the past 
three years has served on  the Board  o f  D irec­
tors. As a sen io r m em ber o f  the firm ’s Educa­
tion Practice Group, W edg e has b e e n  a plan­
ner and programmer for academic buildings in 
higher education, including academic libraries. 
She is an active m em b er o f ACRL.

Donna Braquet has joined the University of 
Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries as life sciences librar­
ian.

Karl Debus-Lopez has been appointed associ­
ate university librarian for collections and technical 
services at Georgetown University Library.

A d vertiser index

ACM 209
Annual Reviews 233
Association o f Research Libraries 217
Blackwell’s B ook Services Cover 3
Chemical Abstracts Services Cover 2
Choice 203
EBSCO Cover 4
Emery-Pratt 190
Intelex 187
Oxford University Press 213