ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


December 1995/785

People 
in the 
N ews

Pa m Spiegel

S h e rrily n n e  F u lle r has 
been appointed by Donna 
Shalala, Secretary o f Health 
and Human Services, to a 
four-year term on the Na­
tional Library o f Medicine 
Board o f Regents. Fuller cur­
rently serves as director o f 
the Health Sciences Librar­
ies and Information Center, 
and c o o rd in a to r o f  the 
Health Sciences Information 
Systems Integration at the 
University o f Washington,
Seattle.

A pp ointm ents
Connie V. Dowell, college librarian at Con­
necticut College, has been named dean o f in­
formation services in ad­
d itio n  to her oth er 
responsibilities in recog­
nition o f the grow ing 
ro le o f  com puters in 
higher education in gen­
eral and Connecticut 
C ollege in particular. 
D ow ell said, “A high
tech liberal arts college 
is no longer an oxymo­
ron. At Connecticut Col­ Connie V. Dowell
lege w e expect advanced 
technology to be a pervasive, underlying, seam­
less part o f the environment.”

Charles M. Getchell Jr., former assistant di­
rector for reader services and collections at 
Wake Forest University, has been appointed 
director o f the library at Quinnipiac College in 
Hamden, Connecticut. Getchell was also a ref­
erence librarian/bibliographer and coordinator 
o f library instruction at the University o f Kan­
sas. Active in ACRL and ALA’s Reference and 
Adult Services Division (RASD), he currently 
chairs the RASD HS History in Libraries Discus­
sion Group.

C h risto p h e r M illson -M artu la has been 
named director o f the Knight-Capron Library at

Lynchburg College in Vir­
ginia. Before that he was 
associate librarian and assis­
tant director for administra­
tive services at Arizona State 
University West. He has also 
held positions at Lake For­
est College, the Greater Mid­
west Regional Medical Li­
brary Network, St. Xavier 
College, and Cornell Univer­
sity. Professionally active, 
Millson-Martula currently 
serves on committees o f 
ACRL’s College Libraries Sec­

tion and ALA’s Library Administration and Man­
agement (LAMA) division.

Arnold Hirshon was recently named vice-pro
vost for information resources at Lehigh Uni­
versity in Bethlehem, 
Pennsylvania. Hirshon 
previously served as uni­
versity librarian at Wright 
State University, associ­
ate director o f university 
library services at Vir­
ginia C om m onw ealth 
University, and in other 
capacities at Duke Uni­
versity and Wayne State 
U niversity. A c tiv e  in Arnold Hirshon
ACRL and ALA, Hirshon 
served as president o f the Association for Li­
brary Collections and Technical Services 
(ALCTS) in 1992, on the ALCTS Board o f Direc­
tors for many years, and as editor o f the ALCTS 
Newsletter for six years.

Susan K. Nutter, director o f libraries at North 
Carolina State University 
(NCSU) since 1987, has 
been given the additional 
title o f vice-provost. Pro­
vost Phillip Stiles said 
that Nutter’s change in 
title “is a long overdue 
re c o g n itio n  o f  Ms. 
Nutter’s excellent and in­
dependent leadership of 
the libraries, which are 
the backbone o f our aca­
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in the university.” The vice-provost designa­
tion was supported by the Commission on the 
State o f the Library at NCSU, the 1994 institu­
tional self-study, and the Faculty Senate as rec­
ognition o f the libraries’ critical role in creating 
direct communication links with key academic 
decision-makers.

David Pinto has been appointed director o f 
the Wallace E. Mason Library at Keene State 
C ollege in N ew  Hampshire. He previously 
served as director o f libraries at Mercyhurst 
College in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Paul M. Anderson has been appointed as­
sistant director for library administrative services 
at the University o f Delaware, Newark.

Doris M. Archer has been named reference 
services librarian at Christopher Newport Uni­
versity in Virginia.

Gillian Bartoo is now reference librarian 
at Harvard University’s Littauer Library.

Rosann Bazirjian is now assistant director 
o f technical services at Florida State University.

Richard Bleiler is now coordinator for in­
structional services, research, and information 
services at the University o f Connecticut Storrs 
campus.

Vicki Bloom  is the new head o f reference 
services at the University o f California, River­
side.

D aniel E. Burgard has been named psy­
chology/speech communication subject special­
ist in the Education and Social Science Library 
at the University o f Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Faye Christenberry is now a part-time ref­
erence librarian at the University o f Kansas’ Re­
gents Center Library.

Michèle Valerie C loonan has been ap­
pointed curator o f rare books at Smith College.

C arla Davis is now  catalog librarian at 
Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

John DeSantis is n ow  assistant b ib lio­
graphic control services librarian at Dartmouth 
College.

Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken from
library newsletters, letters fro m  personnel offices,
individuals using institutional letterhead, and
other sources. To ensure that y o u r personnel new
is considered f o r  p u b lica tio n , write to Pam
Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E.
H u ro n  St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-m ail:
pam.spiegel@ala.org.

Jim Dryden has been named part-time ref­
erence librarian at the University o f Kansas’ Re­
gents Center Library.

Sidney Eng has been appointed acting chief 
librarian at Borough o f Manhattan Community 
College, N ew  York.

Charles Faulhaber has been named James
D. Hart director o f the Bancroft Library at the 
University o f California at Berkeley.

Michael Fitzgerald has been named elec­
tronic texts librarian at Harvard University’s 
Widener Library.

Jeffrey Garrett is now  humanities bibliog­
rapher at Northwestern University.

Kalina G rew al has been appointed refer­
ence librarian/psychology-sociology bibliogra­
pher at York University in Ontario.

Jason A. Holm es is now  assistant reference 
librarian at the University o f Evansville Librar­
ies, Indiana.

Robin Hutchinson has been named seri­
als control/reference librarian at St. Lawrence 
University in N ew  York.

Barbara Joyce is now science librarian in 
the Launders Science Library at St. Lawrence 
University, N ew  York.

Nancy M. Kline is now acting director o f 
the Jeremy Richard Library at the University o f 
Connecticut Stamford campus.

Helene Lafrance has been appointed ref­
erence librarian/social sciences liaison at Santa 
Clara University.

Lawrence Marcus has been appointed head 
o f reserves services at Harvard University’s 
Lamont Library.

L in d a M atson  has jo in e d  S p rin gfield  
College’s Babson Library as reference/patron 
services librarian.

Michael M orin has been named instruc­
tional media librarian at D ’Youville College in 
Buffalo, N ew  York.

M ary Lynn Morris is the new reference/ 
electronic services librarian in Magill Library at 
Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

Nancy A. Newsom e is the new head o f se­
rials at Western Carolina University.

Eileen Oliver is now reference librarian/ 
bibliographer at the University o f Texas at San 
Antonio.

Brent Roe has been appointed reference 
librarian/history bibliographer at York Univer­
sity in Ontario.

Roxanne Sellberg joined the Northwest­
ern University staff as associate university li­
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Catherine M. Tierney is the new assistant
university librarian for technical services at Stan
ford University.

Elizabeth M. Vihnanek joined the West
ern Carolina University Library as educational
resources librarian.

Darlene W aller has been appointed refer
ence librarian/selector for social sciences, re
search, and information services at the Univer
sity o f Connecticut Storrs campus.

GladysAnn W ells has been named interim
director o f the N ew  York State Research Library.

Lyn W olz is now a part-time reference li
brarian at the University o f Kansas’ Regents
Center Library.

G reg Y ou n gen  is the new physics/as
tronomy librarian at the University o f Illinois a
Urbana-Champaign.

 
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R e tire m e n ts
Hugh Amory, senior rare book cataloger in 
the Houghton Library at Harvard University, 
retired last summer after 23 years o f service. 
Amory said upon his retirement, “I think the 
main requirement for a senior rare book cata­
loger is being old.”

Janet Ayers, physical sciences/engineering li­
brarian at Northwestern University (NU), retired 
in August after 38 years o f service. Ayers joined 
NU in 1957 as the Tech Library’s first reference 
librarian.

Jerry Drost recently retired as associate librar­
ian from the State University o f N ew  York at 
Buffalo’s Lockwood Library after 31 years of 
service.

Shonnie Finnegan, university archivist at the 
State University o f N ew  York at Buffalo, re­
cently retired after 28 years o f service.

Alar Kruus, associate director and coordina­
tor o f programs and services for METRO, the 
N ew  York Metropolitan Reference and Research 
Library Agency, retired in July after 12 years of 
service. Kruus joined METRO in 1983 after serv­
ing for 22 at the N ew  York Public Library as 
librarian, assistant branch librarian, and branch 
librarian. He served in central offices as adult 
group work specialist and a s supervising adult

specialist for Manhattan branches and was prin­
cipal branch librarian at the Library for the Blind 
and Physically Handicapped. His last NYPL 
position was that o f chief o f the Materials Ac­
quisitions Office.

Ross Stephen, director o f library services at 
Rider University in Lawrenceville New  Jersey, 
retired in September after 15 years o f service. 
Stephen’s 33-year career included positions as 
acquisitions librarian at Harper College and 
associate director o f university libraries at the 
University o f Wisconsin-Oshkosh. A member 
o f ALA’s Library Administration and Manage­
ment Association (LAMA), Stephen edited the 
LAMA Newsletter for four years.

Pat Zadner recently retired as associate librar­
ian from the State University o f New  York at 
Buffalo after 31 years o f service.

D eath s
Martha Teros Boaz died July 24 at the age of 
83. Boaz served as dean and professor o f the 
Graduate School o f Library Science at the Uni­
versity o f Southern California, Los Angeles; pro­
fessor o f library science at the universities o f 
Tennessee and Michigan; and assistant librar­
ian at Madison College. A member o f ALA, the 
Special Libraries Association, and other profes­
sional organizations, Boaz also served as chap­
ter president o f the American Association o f 
University Women.

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