ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


October 1996/607

People 
in the 
News

Pa m Spiegel

Jean L. H iron s, a ctin g 
CONSER coordinator o f the 
Library o f Congress, is the 
winner o f the 1996 annual 
B ow ker/U lrich Serials Li­
brarianship Award. She is 
b ein g reco gn ized  fo r her 
unflagging commitment to 
quality and cooperation in 
serials cataloging through 
her significant contributions 
to the CONSER Cataloging 
Manual, which she created. 
The manual took three years 
to prepare and presents the 
policies and practices for serials cataloging in a 
logical arrangement.

Ernest B. Ingles, chief librarian and executive 
director o f learning systems at the University o f 
Alberta, was awarded the Marie Tremaine Medal 
for excellence in Canadian bibliography by the 
Bibliographic Society o f Canada. Ingles was 
founding director o f the Canadian Institute for 
Historical Microreproductions, and as such laid 
the groundwork for and superintended the task 
o f transferring Canada’s printed heritage to 
microfiche. Ingles is also the author o f more 
than 20 publications, among them are three 
major works: Canada: The Printed Record: A 
Bibliographic Register with Indexes (4th ed., 
1984), Canada (W orld Bibliographic Series #62, 
1990), and Bibliography o f Canadian Bibliog­
raphies (3rd ed., 1994).

Marilyn Myers, head o f collection develop­
ment and bibliographic services at Arizona State 
University West, was honored as the fifth re­
cipient o f the H olw ay R. Jones Award for Dis­
tinguished Service by the Council o f Planning 
Librarians (CPL). During her membership in 
CPL, Myers has served as president, as a mem­
ber o f the Editorial Advisory Board o f the CPL 
Bibliography Series, and as a member o f CPL 
Nominating Committees. She is currently the 
listserv administrator for CPLFYI-L, and chair 
o f the Strategic Planning Committee.

Mary Reichel, university librarian at Appala­
chian State University in North Carolina, is the 
newly elected chair o f the SOLINET (Southeast­
ern Library Network) Board o f Directors. Reichel 
served on the ALA Council from 1990 to 1994

and currently serves on the 
ACRL Board o f Directors. 
Other new SOLINET offic­
ers are: vice-ch air: Jean 
Major, university librarian at 
O ld  Dom inion University; 
secretary: Karen McDaniel, 
director o f libraries at Ken­
tucky State University; and 
treasurer: Sandra M. Coo­
per, state librarian o f North 
Carolina. A lso, Jennifer 
Cargill and Paul A. Willis 
were elected to three-year 
terms on the SOLINET Board 

o f Directors. Cargilll is dean o f libraries at Loui­
siana State University; Willis is director o f li­
braries at the University o f Kentucky. Finally, 
tw o new  delegates have been elected to serve 
three-year terms on the SOLINET delegation to 
the OCLC Users Council. They are: Larry P. 
Alford, senior associate university librarian at 
the University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
and Birdie O. Weir, director o f libraries at Ala­
bama A&M University.

John V. Richardson Jr., associate professor 
in the Department o f Library and Information 
Science in the Graduate 
School o f Education and 
Inform ation Studies at 
UCLA, w ill be a visiting 
distinguished scholar at 
the Research and Special 
Projects O ffic e  o f  the 
OCLC Online Computer 
Library Center in Dublin,
Ohio, during his 1996-97 
academic year sabbati­
cal. Richardson will work John V. Richardson
on aspects o f general ref­
erence work, notably the architectural logic o f 
question-answering and knowledge-based or 
expert system front ends that could be made 
available on the W orld W ide Web.

A p p o in tm e n ts
D. Russell Bailey has been named library di­
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Vermont. Bailey was formerly with Eckerd Col­
lege in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he served 
as a faculty member and instructional services 
librarian. A  graduate o f Florida Presbyterian 
(Eckerd) College, Bailey received master’s de­
grees from the University o f Kentucky and the 
University o f South Florida, and master’s and doc­
toral degrees from Louisiana State University.

Nancy M. Cline, dean o f University Libraries 
at Penn State since 1988, has been named Roy 
E. Larsen librarian o f Har­
vard College. Cline be­
gan her career at Penn 
State in 1970 as a docu­
ments librarian, then was 
named head o f the Gov­
ernment Documents Sec­
tion in 1971, a position 
she held until 1980 when 
she was named chief o f 
the B ibliograph ic Re­
sources Department. In Nancy M. Cline
1984 she became assis­
tant dean and head o f Bibliographic Resources 
and Services until 1988. Currently president o f 
ARL, Cline is also a member o f ALA, EDUCOM, 
and RLG, and serves on the RLG Board o f Di­
rectors and has chaired its Finance and Admin­
istration Committee. She also serves on the 
Board o f Directors o f the Association o f Ameri­
can Colleges and Universities.

Ronald F. Dow, associate dean o f university 
libraries at Penn State University, has been ap­
pointed dean o f River 
Campus libraries at the 
University o f Rochester 
(UR). D ow  has served as 
associate dean at Penn 
State since 1993, and was 
assistant dean there from 
1990 to 1993. Before that 
he served as director o f 
libraries for Shearson 
Lehman Brothers in New 
York. UR provost Charles Ronald F. Dow
E. Phelps said, “Ron D ow 
brings to the university a combination o f out­
standing experience and a level o f enthusiasm 
for his work that are unmatched.”

Mark L. Daganaar has been appointed direc­
tor o f Eilender Memorial Library at Nicholls State 
University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Daganaar

has served as acting director and associate di­
rector since 1994. Before that he served as di­
rector o f library services at Three Rivers Com­
munity College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. A 
graduate o f Midland College, Daganaar received 
his MLS from the University o f Missouri.

Frances Groen has been appointed director 
o f libraries at McGill University in Montreal. 
Green has been at McGill 
since 1974, serving as life 
sciences area librarian, 
associate directo r fo r 
public services and col­
lections, and deputy di­
rector o f libraries. She 
has also held positions at 
Stanford U n iv e rs ity ’s 
Lane Medical Library and 
the University o f Pitts­
burgh. She is active in Frances Groen
IFLA and is a past-presi­
dent o f the Medical Library Association. In 1996 
she received the Canadian Association o f Col­
lege and University Libraries Outstanding Aca­
demic Librarian Award.

Suzanne Thorin, associate librarian at the Li­
brary o f Congress, has been appointed dean o f 
the Indiana University 
Libraries, Bloomington. 
Thorin served in many 
capacities at LC during 
her 16 years there, in­
cluding chief o f staff, act­
ing director o f the Library 
o f Congress Public Ser­
vice and Collection Man­
agement, ch ief o f the 
General Reading Rooms 
Division, assistant chief Suzanne Thorin
o f that division, head o f 
Research Facilities, and head o f the Music Sec­
tion in National Library Services for the Blind 
and Physically Handicapped. She also served 
as the official U.S. representative, appointed by 
the White House, for the G-7 Electronic Librar­
ies Project. She was responsible for the Na­
tional Digital Library Program; for THOMAS, a 
legislative information system; and for GLIN, a 
global law information network.

Karin Trainer, associate university librarian 
at Yale University since 1983, has been ap­
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versity. Trainer began her career as a descrip­
tive cataloger at Princeton in 1972. She then 
served as catalog maintenance librarian from 
1974 to 1978, then became director o f techni­
cal and automated services at New  York Uni­
versity. An early proponent o f online catalogs 
for academic libraries, Trainer has worked with 
RLG on a number o f electronic applications for 
scholarship and served for six years as review 
editor for Information Technology and Librar­
ies. A graduate o f Rutgers University, Trainer 
received her MLS from Drexel University and 
her master’s in liberal arts from N ew  York Uni­
versity.

Philip M. Turner has been named dean o f the 
School o f Library and Information Sciences at 
the University o f North 
Texas (UNT ) in Denton. 
Since 1988 Turner had 
served as dean o f the 
School o f Library and 
Information Studies at 
the University o f Ala­
bama, where he had also 
served since 1991 as as­
sistant vice-chancellor 
for academic affairs. In 
addition to his role as Philip M. Turner
dean at UNT, Turner will 
serve as associate vice-president o f academic 
affairs for distance education, and he will chair 
the university’s Information Resource Council. 
The author o f many books and articles, Turner 
was only the second academic ever to win the 
Annual Award for Achievement in Managing 
Information Technology given by Carnegie 
Mellon University and American Management 
Systems.

Nicole Auer is now coordinator for client 
educational programs at Virginia Tech Univer­
sity Libraries.

Marcia Bianchi has been appointed cata­
log librarian at Reed College in Portland, Or­
egon.

Mikel Breitenstein has joined Long Island 
University’s Palmer School o f Library and In­

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formation Science as undergraduate program 
director.

Lisa Browar is now head o f the Lilly Li­
brary at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Catherine Candee is the new physics li­
brarian at Stanford University.

Tom French has been appointed reference 
and access services librarian at Linfield College 
in McMinnville, Oregon.

Christof Galli is the new librarian for the 
Haas School’s Evening MBA Program at the 
University o f California, Berkeley.

Laura Galván-Estrada is now physical sci­
ences librarian at California State University, 
Long Beach.

Peter Hanff has been named deputy direc­
tor o f the Bancroft Library at the University of 
California, Berkeley.

Eloise R. Hitchcock has been appointed 
head o f reference at the University o f the South 
in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Michael P. Johnson has been named elec­
tronic services librarian at LaGuardia Commu­
nity College, City University o f N ew  York.

Charlene Loope has been appointed ref­
erence librarian at the University o f South 
Carolina’s Thomas Cooper Library.

Michael Lorenzen is now library instruc­
tion coordinator at Michigan State University, 
East Lansing.

Nancy Lorimer is the new music cataloger 
at Stanford University.

Glenn McCullen is now curator of the Loui­
siana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections 
and team leader for the Collection Develop­
ment and Management Department at the Loui­
siana State University Library.

Kristin McDonough has been named di­
rector o f the New  York Public Library’s new 
Science, Industry, and Business Library.

AnnMarie Mitchell is now librarian for Ital­
ian collections at the University o f California, 
Berkeley.

Diane Perushek is now assistant univer­
sity librarian for collection management at 
Northwestern University.

Patricia A. Phillips has been appointed as­
sociate university librarian for technical services 
at the University o f Texas at El Paso.

Dorman H. Smith has been appointed as­
sociate university librarian o f University Librar­
ies at the University o f Cincinnati.

Kristin Standaert is now halftime govern­
ment publications librarian at Northwestern 
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Larry Thompson is now college libraria
for the College o f Engineering at Virginia Tech
University.

Patricia E. Wilson has joined Hunter Li
brary at Western Carolina University as elec
tronic resources librarian.

R e tire m e n ts
Melvin R. George, who has served as the Delpha
and Donald Campbell university librarian at Or
ego n  State University 
(O SU ) since 1984, w ill 
retire at the end o f this 
year. George has over­
seen the construction o f 
the Marilyn Potts Guin 
Library at OSU’s Hatfield 
Marine Science Center, 
the introduction o f a wide 
variety o f automated ser­
vices, and the $40 million 
fundraising effort to con­ Melvin R. George
struct the new Valley Li­
brary located on OSU’s main campus.

Barbara Jones, reference librarian/bibliogra­
pher at the University o f Kansas (KU), recently
retired. Jones joined KU in 1960 as an assistant
reference librarian. She has also served as as

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sistant head o f reference, acting head o f refer­
ence, and as supervisor o f interlibrary services.

Joseph P. Shubert retired in July after serving 
as assistant commissioner for libraries in the 
N ew  York State Education Department since 
1977. He has been named state librarian emeri­
tus by the N ew  York State Board o f Regents. 
Shubert began his professional career as refer­
ence and documents librarian at the Nevada 
State Library. He has also served as state librar­
ian o f Ohio and Nevada, and as assistant direc­
tor o f the ALA International Relations Office. 
He was appointed by President Ford to the 
Advisory Committee for the 1979 White House 
Conference on Library  and Information Services 
and served on a planning group for the 1991 
conference. He has received distinguished alum­
nus awards from the University o f Denver (1979) 
and SUNY College at Geneseo (1985), and re­
ceived the Distinguished Public Service Award 
and medal from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Col­
lege o f Public Affairs at the University at Al­
bany (1987).

D e a th s
Henry G. Gilbert, a reference librarian at the 
National Agricultural Library (N AL) since 1969, 
died last April after recovering from a bone 
marrow replacement operation he had in 1995 
to fight against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He 
was 66. At NAL Gilbert served for several years 
as librarian for the U.S. National Arboretum, 
and was until recently the curator o f the library’s 
Nursery and Seed Trade Catalogs Collection. 
Before joining NAL, Gilbert held positions with 
various agricultural organizations including ex­
periment stations and garden centers, and was 
a plant quarantine inspector for the USDA at 
the Port o f N ew  York.

Wallace R. Nethery, retired librarian o f the 
Hoose Library o f Philosophy at the University 
o f Southern California (USC), died at home last 
February. Nethery served as librarian o f the 
Hoose Library from 1956 to 1976. From 1964 to 
1976 he also served as editor o f CORANTO, the 
journal o f the Friends o f the USC Libraries. An 
authority on Charles Lamb, Nethery was the 
author o f several books and a contributor to 
many scholarly publications.



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Louise Jones Giles, 46, 
outstanding in the field o f 
community college learn­
ing resource centers, a 
leader in the American 
Library Association and 

past-president o f the Association o f College 
and Research Libraries, died on December 31, 
1976. Detroit firemen responding to a fire in 
her home discovered the bodies o f Louise and 
her husband o f 23 years [Edwin C. Giles] at 
about 6:30 a.m.

Mrs. Giles was born in Aragon, Georgia, 
on April 20, 1930. She received her B.A. in 
foreign languages from the University o f Ak­
ron in 1952 and her M.S. in library science 
from Drexel Institute o f Technology in 1953 
(Alice B. Kroeger Scholarship recipient). In 
1953 she received the Buenos Aires Conven­
tion Fellowship to spend one year as an ex­
change student in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She 
had completed course work for her doctorate 
from the Center for the Study o f Higher Edu­
cation at the University o f Michigan.

At the time o f her death, Mrs. Giles was 
dean o f learning resources at Macomb County 
Community College, Warren, Michigan, a p o­
sition she had held since March 1970. Although 
her contributions were most instrumental in 
the growth and influence o f learning resources, 
her influence and insight will be sorely missed 
throughout the college. Prior work experiences 
were positions as associate dean o f learning 
resources at Oakland Community College, first 
at Highland Lakes Campus, Union Lake, Michi­
gan, and then at Orchard Ridge Campus, 
Farmington, Michigan, in 1965– 70, and head 
o f the foreign language collection and first as­
sistant, young adult and adult librarian at De­
troit Public Library in 1953– 65.

Mrs. Giles was active in the American Li­
brary Association (past president o f ACRL, past 
chairman o f the Community and Junior Col­
lege Libraries Section, member o f many ALA 
committees), Michigan Library Association, As­
sociation for Educational Communications and 
Technology, Michigan Association o f Admin­
istrators o f Learning Resources, National Soci­
ety for Programmed Instruction, Michigan As­
sociation o f Community College Instructional 
Administrators, and Michigan Academy o f Sci­
ence, Arts and Letters. She had served on ac­

creditation teams for both the North Central 
Association and the Middle States Association 
Commission o f Higher 
Education and had just 
completed an accredi­
ta tio n  v is it fo r  the 
Middle States Associa­
tion at the Caribbean 
Junior College, Puerto 
Rico, in November.

Mrs. Giles had been 
appointed a member o f 
the Library A d visory 
Committee which was Louise Jones Giles
e s ta b lis h e d  b y  Dr.
Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian o f Congress, to 
review the LC operation with an eye toward 
reorganization.

She w as a rec ip ie n t o f  the John S. 
Brubacher Award from the Center for the 
Study o f Higher Education at the University 
o f Michigan in 1975 for her outstanding gradu­
ate essay on the history and philosophy o f 
higher education.

Her publications included: Aspects o f  the 
Junior College Field, A Bibliography (AACJC, 
1969); “Planning Community College Resource 
Centers,” American Libraries (January 1971); 
“Focus on Community C ollege Libraries,” 
Michigan Librarian (Summer 1971); “The 
Black Librarian As Change Agent” in What 
Black Librarians Are Saying, edited by E. J. 
Josey (Scarecrow Press, 1972); “On the Cut­
ting Edge o f Change” in New Dimensions in 
Academic Library Service, edited by E. J. Josey 
(Scarecrow Press, 1973).

Edwin C. Giles attended Kent State Uni­
versity. He was graduated from Wayne State 
University, Detroit, Michigan, with a master 
o f arts degree in administration. He taught in 
the school system o f Detroit and for the past 
few  years he was principal o f the Scripps El­
ementary School.

Mr. and Mrs. Giles are survived by their 
daughter, Susan, 19, w ho is a student at City 
University o f N ew  York. (Ed. note: During 
the celebration o f its 30th anniversary, C&RL 
News will feature each month one prominent 
librarian whose death was reported in the 
News as a way o f  remembering those who 
made a mark on ACRL and on the profession. 
This write-up is from  March 1977 )  ■



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