ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 664/C&RL News People in the News Pa m Spiegel Nicholas C. Burckel, asso­ ciate dean for collections and services at the Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, has been elected vice-presi dent/ president-elect o f the Society o f American Archi­ vists. His term as vice-presi­ dent began in September, and he will assume the presi­ dency in fall 1996. W ilfred W. Fong, assistant dean o f the University o f W is c o n s in - M ilw a u k e e School o f Library and Information Sciences, was elected president o f the Chinese American Li­ brary Association. In addition to memberships in ALA and the American Society for Informa­ tion Science (ASIS), Fong acts as editor o f the Journal o f Library and Information Science. E. J. Josey, professor emeritus o f the School of Library and Information Science at the Univer­ sity o f Pittsburgh, recently received an honor­ ary doctor o f letters degree from Clark Atlanta University. The citation read in part, “Josey has helped raise consciousness of libraries and their role in society and the contributions made by African Americans to that role.” Sul Lee, dean o f University Libraries for the University o f Oklahoma, has been named edi­ tor o f Haworth Press’ quarterly journal Collec tion Management. Lee is currently editor of Haworth’s Journal o f Library Administration and is executive editor for library and informa­ tion science for Haworth Press as a whole. M ary I. Piette, reference librarian at Utah State University, Logan, began a one-year leave of absence in September to serve as librarian at the Synol o f the Nile Schools in Cairo, Egypt. While there, Piette will be developing skills in cross-cultural education and visiting libraries in the Middle East. Nolan F. Pope, associate director for automa­ tion in the General Library System at the Uni­ versity o f Wisconsin-Madison, has been elected to a second three-year term on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Board of Directors. Pope is a member o f ALA, the American Society for In­ formation Science (ASIS), and the Special Libraries Association. John V. Richardson Jr., an associate professor in the UCLA Graduate School o f Education and Information Studies, received Indiana U niversity’s 1995 Louise Maxwell Award, given annu­ ally to recognize outstand­ ing achievements made by an alumnus in the field of library science. A 1978 IU graduate, Richardson has mentored over 800 graduate students at UCLA, 40 o f whom published articles or book chapters which were the result o f his direction. Victoria Steele, acting associate dean for li­ brary advancement and external relations and head o f special collec­ tions at the University of Southern California, has been named a 1995– 96 Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom. She will be affiliated with the University o f London, working with senior li­ brary officials to create a developm ent program for the library there. Victoria Steele Steele is the author of the award-winning book Becoming a Fundraiser: The Principles and Practice o f Library Develop­ ment (ALA, 1992). Appointm ents JoAnn A rn old is the new director o f Specker Library at Calumet College o f Saint Joseph in Hammond, Indiana. Janis R. Deitch has been appointed director o f the library o f the Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, North Caro­ lina. She most recently served for 14 years as information specialist for the American Steril- October 1995/665 izer Company. She is a member o f the Special Libraries Association, the Medical Library Asso­ ciation, and the North Carolina Special Librar­ ies Association for which she chaired the Pub­ lic Relations Committee in 1994/95. Larry Hardesty has been named college li­ brarian at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He served as director o f library services at Eckerd College since 1983- Be­ fore that he served as head o f the Reference Department at DePauw University (1975– 1983) and as a reference librar­ ian at the University o f Nebraska-Keamey (1973– 1975). An active member o f ACRL, Hardesty has Larry Hardesty served on the Board o f Directors and on the Standards, Planning, and Publications committees. He is currently chair of the College Libraries .Section and on the edi­ torial board o f C&RL. Karen Horny has been appointed dean o f li­ brary services at Southwest Missouri State Uni­ versity (SMSU). She joins SMSU from Northwest­ ern U niversity, w h ere she was assistant university librarian since 1971. Active in many professional associations and advisory groups, Horny currently serves on an ad hoc commit­ tee for the White House Conference on Library and Information Services, Marilyn J. Martin has been appointed dean o f library services at Rowan College o f New Jersey. Martin previously served as director o f learning resources at Henderson State Univer­ sity in Arkadelphia, Arkansas; reference librar­ ian at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington; and cataloger at St. Martin’s Col­ lege in Lacey, Washington. Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken from library newsletters, letters from personnel offices, individuals using institutional letterhead, and other sources. To ensure that your personnel news is considered f o r publication, write to Pam Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: pam.spiegel@ala.org. David L. Pappas has been appointed library director for the Edmund Stanley Library at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. For the past three years Pappas has served as campus librarian for Washington State University (WSU) at Spokane and as director o f the Cooperative Academic Library, a joint-use library serving WSU, Eastern Washington University, and the Spokane County Medical Society. Cynthia Potter has been named director o f the Eunice and James L. West Library at Texas Wesleyan University (TW U). Potter joined TWU in 1988 as reference librarian. She was named head o f reference and circulation in 1989, and interim director in 1994. She is a member o f the Alliance for Higher Education North Texas Council o f Library Directors and the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council. Edward A. Scott has been named director o f libraries at the United States Air Force Acad­ emy in Colorado. Scott formerly served as di­ rector o f the library at Furman University, and as director o f the libraries at Keene State and Castleton State Colleges. Philip Tompkins, director o f academic com­ puting and information resources at Estrella Mountain Com m unity College in Phoenix, has been named executive director o f libraries at In­ diana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. T om p k in s p re v io u s ly served as deputy univer­ sity librarian and associ­ ate dean o f libraries at the University o f South­ ern California, chief li­ Philip Tompkins brarian at Brooklyn Col­ lege, and associate director o f libraries at the University o f Missouri-Kansas City. Jerome Yavarkovsky, director o f the New York State Library, has been named university librar­ ian at Boston College. He previously served in a variety o f positions at Columbia University Libraries (1969– 83), and was dean o f libraries at Adelphi University (1983– 85). A member o f ARL, Yavarkovsky currently serves on the Jour­ nal o f Library Administration editorial board and on the OCLC Online Computer Library Center Research Libraries Advisory Committee. mailto:pam.spiegel@ala.org 666/C&RL News Jean B. Anderson has been named distance education reference librarian/bibliographer at the University o f North Dakota, Grand Forks. Paul Anderson has been appointed assis­ tant director for library administrative services at the University o f Delaware, Newark. Karen Andrews has been appointed head o f the Physical Sciences Library at the Univer­ sity o f California, Davis. Gillian Bartoo has been named reference librarian in Harvard University’s Littauer Library. Jan Watson Cambre has been promoted to head o f reference in the Science Library at the University o f South Carolina, Columbia. Jennifer Chandler has been named sys­ tems librarian at the University o f South Caro­ lina, Columbia. Sherrida Crawford is now automated sys­ tems coordinator at Valdosta State University. Erin Davis has been appointed rare books and special collections librarian at Butler Uni­ versity, Indianapolis. John C. DeSantis has been named assis­ tant bibliographic control services librarian at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Chuck Eckman has been named principal government documents librarian at Stanford University. Kaia Stavig Esau is now architecture and allied arts reference librarian at the University o f Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth Evans has been appointed gov­ ernment information librarian at the University o f Pittsburgh Libraries. Ned Fielden is now reference/bibliographic instruction librarian at San Francisco State Uni­ versity. Michael Ford has been named reference/ public services librarian at the University o f Pittsburgh’s Langley Library. Scott Forschler has been appointed instruc­ tion librarian at Butler University, Indianapolis. Dale Foster is now head o f special collec­ tions at Auburn University, Alabama. Lindsay Gretz is the new assistant science librarian at Butler University, Indianapolis. Cathy Hartman is the new assistant gov­ ernment documents librarian at the University o f North Texas, Denton. David Hickey is the new chair o f access services at the University o f Florida Libraries, Gainesville. Gentry A. Lankewicz has been named elec­ tronic services/reference librarian at the Uni­ versity o f South Alabama, Mobile. Donna Lehman is now reference librarian at the University o f South Carolina, Columbia. Carol Lepzelter has been named science reference librarian at the University o f South Carolina, Columbia. Gwen Lochstet has been appointed science reference librarian at the University o f South Carolina, Columbia. Susan C. Luévano has been named ethnic, wom en’s, and multicultural studies librarian at California State University, Long Beach. Anthony Dianna McKissick has been named reference librarian at the University o f South Carolina, Columbia. Ann Okerson has been appointed associ­ ate university librarian for collection develop­ ment and management at Yale University. Jane Olsgaard has been appointed science bibliographer at the University o f South Caro­ lina, Columbia. Kathy Payne is the new reference and in­ formation services librarian (head o f reference) at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah. Darwin Scott is the new creative arts li­ brarian in the Brandeis University Libraries in Waltham, Massachusetts. Debora Shaw has been named associate dean o f the School o f Library and Information Science at Indiana University. Chun Shum was recently appointed cura­ tor o f the Rare Books Collection in the Har vard-Yenching Library, Harvard University. Sara B. Sluss is now business librarian at California State University, Long Beach. Caren Smith has been named knowledge and consultation services librarian at the Countway Library o f Medicine, Harvard Uni­ versity. Yongyi Song has been appointed Chinese bibliographer/cataloger at the University o f Pitts­ burgh Libraries. Lisa Stimatz is now reference librarian in public affairs/government information at Penn State University Harrisburg. Paul Studdard is now science librarian at Millersville University o f Pennsylvania. Vicki L. Tate has been appointed head o f government documents at the University o f South Alabama, Mobile. Susan Thomas is now information services/ special collections librarian at Valdosta State University, Georgia. Margaret Warner is now reserve room li­ brarian at the University o f Texas at Austin’s Tarlton Law Library. October 1995/667 Thomas Williams has been appointed di­ rector o f the Biomedical Library at the Univer­ sity o f South Alabama, Mobile. Asako Yoshida has been appointed behav­ ioral science reference librarian/bibliographer at the University o f North Dakota, Grand Forks. R etirem en ts Jean Almand, science librarian for more than 20 years at Western Kentucky University, re­ tired last December. She received the Margie Helm Award for Outstanding Performance in 1994 when the Science Library merged with Helm-Cravens Library. Thomas V. Atkins has retired from his posi tion as chief librarian o f Hunter College Library, New York City. Maidel K. Cason retired at the end o f July af ter nine years at the University o f Delaware Library in Newark. Cason most recently served as assistant director for li­ brary administrative ser­ vices, and also served as acting assistant director o f libraries for public ser­ vices, and as personnel librarian. She also worked at Northwestern U niversity as A frican documents librarian and Maidel Cason as cataloger and refer­ ence librarian in the Transportation Library. Richard M. Cheski, state librarian o f Ohio, retired at the end o f September after 17 years o f service there. Cheski previously served as director o f the Colorado State Library and as­ sistant commissioner o f library services in the Colorado State Department o f Education. He was also director o f several public libraries. A past-president o f the Chief Officers o f State Li­ brary Agencies (COSLA), Cheski is past-chair man o f the State Information Policy Consor tium. John R. Clune has retired from his position as chief librarian o f Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, N ew York. Michael J. Costin retired as senior sublibrarian at the University o f Hong Kong at the end o f July after nine years o f service. Before that he held a similar post at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for 11 years. He also served at the Library o f Congress Office in New Delhi, North­ western University, the University o f California at Santa Barbara, and the Library o f Congress in Washington. Nicolette Fraction has retired from her posi­ tion as acquisitions librarian at Hostos Com­ munity College, Bronx, N ew York. Dorothy Gray recently retired as senior refer­ ence librarian at the University o f Louisville. Janet Hodgson recently retired as associate archivist at the University o f Louisville. Lina M. Lowry has retired from her position as chief librarian o f the Borough o f Manhattan Community College, N ew York. James P. Miller, director o f library services at Somerset Community College in Kentucky, re­ tired in February after 25 years o f service there. Thomas A. Souter retired at the end o f Au­ gust as dean o f library services at Troy State University in Alabama, after ten years o f ser­ vice. Souter began his career in the Florida State University Library in 1957. From I960 to 1962 Advertiser ind ex American Psychological cover 2 Ameritech Library Serv. cover 4 AMIGOS 631 Archival Products 618 ASM 630 Blackwell 625 Congressional Quarterly 624 EBSCO 647 Gaylord 628 Graphics Press 642 Minolta 634-35 PAIS 615 Readmore 650, cover 3 SilverPlatter 652 Sociological Abstracts 643 Univ. o f Missouri 638 668/ C&RL News he was head librarian at the N ew Mexico Mili­ tary Institute, then went to Indiana University in 1962 as head o f the library’s Circulation De­ partment, then assistant director for general services. In 1975 he joined Virginia Tech, where he was associate director o f libraries for ten years. D eath s Norman B. Brown, professor emeritus at the University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), died in July. Brown began his career as reference and acquisition librarian at Union College, then joined the UIUC Library in 1953, where he served as assistant reference librar­ ian and documents bibliographer until 1958. He then became a member o f the Serials De­ partment, and continued as the serials acquisi­ tion librarian and assistant serials librarian for 20 years. After that he served as head o f the Collection Development Division, head o f the Collection Development and Preservation De­ partment, and assistant director for bibliographic services and preservation. He retired in 1989 as the assistant director for special collections and preservation. Mary Ann Griffin, director o f the Falvey Me­ morial Library at Villa nova University since 1984, died August 14 at the age o f 49. She previ­ ously served as director o f the Xavier University Library from 1979 to 1984. Professionally ac­ tive, Griffin served at various times as presi­ dent o f the Delaw are Valley Chapter o f ACRL, Mary Ann Griffin president o f the board o f PALINET, and president-elect o f the Academic Library Association o f Ohio. Dorothy M. Gropp, 88, a retired librarian, died July 18 in Greenbelt, Maryland. She began her career as a cataloger at McKenzie College in Sao Paulo, Brazil and later helped compile sur­ veys o f libraries for the Middle American Re­ search Institute at Tulane University. She re­ tired from the American Meteorological Society as chief cataloger and later worked for the Na tional Council on the Aging, where she was acting librarian. Christine Longstreet, former head o f refer­ ence services at the University o f Chicago (UC) Libraries, died August 19 at the age o f 81. Longstreet was Army librarian at Winter Gen­ eral Hospital in Topeka during World War II. She also served as a librarian at Baker Univer­ sity, the University o f Maryland, and the Art Institute o f Chicago before joining UC in 1956. She retired from there in 1979. Professionally active, Longstreet served as president o f the Chicago Library Club, and held several offices in the Chicago branch o f the American Asso­ ciation o f University Women. Miranda Hsu-Yung Pao, 59, professor o f in­ formation and library studies at the University o f Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor, died in August. Bom in Shanghai, China, Pao joined the UM faculty in 1986 and rose to international stature as a distinguished scholar in the fields o f bibliometrics, information retrieval, and evalu­ ation o f information systems. Her numerous awards include a National Library o f Medicine M edical Inform atics F ellow sh ip, and the Lazerow Lecturer Award from Texas W om en’s University. She was the only scholar in the field o f information and library studies to win the National Library o f Medicine Research Career Development Award. Beth Janet Shapiro, Rice University vice-pro vost and university librarian, died o f cancer Au­ gust 3 at the age o f 49. Shapiro began her career in 1972 as urban policy and planning librarian at Michigan State University (MSU), w here she ad­ vanced through a num­ ber o f positions to be­ come deputy director o f the MSU Libraries in 1988. She joined Rice in 1991 to become the first Beth Shapiro woman to hold the posi­ tion o f university librarian. A member o f ALA, Shapiro was also a member o f the Association o f Research Libraries and the American Socio­ logical Association. Her book, Selection o f Li­ brary Materials in Applied and Interdisciplinary Fields, was published by ALA in 1987. ■