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Ann-Christe Galloway P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s  

Rosann Bazirjian, university librarian at the 
University of North Carolina­Greensboro, has 
been elected to the SOLINET delegation of 
the OCLC Members Council. 

Charles Henry, president of the Council 
on Library and Information Resources, has 
received a Fulbright Senior Specialist award 
to lecture and consult in China in fall 2007. 
Henry will work for several weeks with li­
brarians, faculty, administrators, and IT spe­
cialists at Shantou University, advising on 
their plans to construct a new library and 
on issues pertaining to new staff organiza­
tion and deployment of IT on campus. He 
will also deliver several lectures on current 
issues at the intersection of higher education 
and the evolving library. Shantou University, 
located in the southern province of Guang­
dong, enrolled its fi rst students in 1983. It is a 
progressive school that has recently reformed 
its curriculum to align its courses and degree 
programs with the new knowledge­based 
economy of the 21st century. Henry is the 
recipient of two previous Fulbright awards. 
As a Fulbright Scholar from 1980 to 1981, he 
conducted research and lectured in Vienna, 
Austria. In 2003, he was selected as a Senior 
Scholar, hosted by the Humanities Society of 
New Zealand. 

Allison Level, college liaison librarian to the 
Warner College of Natural Resources at Colo­
rado State University (CSU), is the recipient of 
the 2007 CSU Libraries Faculty Award for Ex­
cellence. The award recognizes a member of 
the libraries faculty for outstanding contribu­
tions to the libraries, to the university, and/or 
to the library profession. One of Level’s sig­
nificant achievements is her work on the Na­

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tional Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 
grant­funded Colorado Agriculture Bibli­
ography Project (lib.colostate.edu/research 
/agbib/). The Web site and searchable data­
base is now used as a model for other li­
brarians. Level and three colleagues received 
the libraries’ Bright Idea Project Award in 
2006 for their work on that project. Level 
has also been active with the United States 
Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) 
and is currently serving as a director on the 
USAIN Executive Council. She collaborates 
on the two CSU Agriculture Network Infor­
mation Center projects. Among her schol­
arly achievements are six published peer­
reviewed articles since 2003, with two more 
in press; three chapters in refereed books 
with another in print; and many articles and 
reviews for a variety of other publications. 

The following have been elected to the 
Board of Directors of the Association of 
Southeastern Research Libraries—presi­
dent: Louis Pitschmann (dean of Univer­
sity Libraries, University of Alabama), past 
president: Lance Query (dean of libraries 
and academic information resources, Tu­
lane University), president­elect: Bonnie 
MacEwan (dean of libraries, Auburn Uni­
versity), secretary­treasurer: Sylverna Ford 
(dean of libraries, University of Memphis); 
at­large members: Rosann Bazirjian (uni­
versity librarian, University of North Caro­
lina­Greensboro), Deborah Jakubs (vice 
provost for library affairs, Duke University), 
and Julia Rholes (dean of libraries, Univer­
sity of Mississippi). 

A p p o i n t m e n t s  

Thomas Atwood has been named dean of 
university libraries at Bowling Green State 
University. He most recently served as direc­
tor of the Ocasek Medical Library at Northeast­

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Doug Frazier 

ern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine. 
He is also responsible for the Northeastern 
Ohio Cooperative Regional Depository and 
the library’s Academic Learning Resources 
and oversees the management of areas such 
as academic technologies and course man­
agement systems, and public, technical, 
and media services. He is also chief medi­
cal librarian for the Oliver Ocasek Regional 
Medical Information Center. Atwood, chair 
of the OhioLINK Coordinated Deposito­
ries Task Force, also served on OhioLINK’s 
Governing Board and Executive Committee 
(2004–05) and has been a member of its 
Library Advisory Coordinating Committee 
Council since 2002. He has been on its Ad­
visory Council of Deans and Directors since 
1990, serving as chair (2004–05). 

Doug Frazier has been named university li­
brarian of the Lane Library at Armstrong At­

lantic State University 
(AASU). Frazier had 
served as interim uni­
versity librarian since 
June 2006. In that 
capacity he oversaw 
the relocation of the 
library from a tempo­
rary space on campus 
to the fully renovated 
Lane Library building 

last June. He will oversee a budget of $1.7 
million and a staff of 19, including 10 librar­
ians. From 1996 to 2006, Frazier served as as­
sistant university librarian. He joined AASU in 
1991 as head of technical services and sys­
tems librarian. Frazier has been involved with 
the Georgia Historical Society providing con­
sulting work and assisting with cataloging and 
staff training. 

Cynthia Robinson has been appointed direc­
tor of the George T. Harrell Library, Pennsyl­
vania State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center 
and Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, 
effective August 27, 2007. Robinson’s present 
position is director of the Jacobsen Library 
and assistant director for the Information Ser­

vices Division at the University of Wisconsin’s 
Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. 
Her previous positions include associate di­
rector of the Bio­Medical Library, University 
of Minnesota; assistant director for Collection 
Services, Health Sciences Library, University 
of Virginia; and head of education, McGoogan 
Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska 
Medical Center. She was a National Library of 
Medicine Associate in 1992. In addition to her 
experience in academic institutions, Robinson 
has also held positions in hospital libraries. 

Kenning Arlitsch is now associate direc­
tor for administrative and information tech­
nology services at the University of Utah’s J. 
Willard Marriott Library. 

Fred Barnhart has been named associate 
dean for library services and collections at the 
Loyola University Chicago Libraries. 

Wanda Brown is now associate director 
of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake 
Forest University in Winston­Salem, North 
Carolina. 

Keith Chevalier has been appointed 
college archivist at Saint Anselm College in 
Manchester, New Hampshire. 

Susanna Davidsen has been named 
director of library services for the Walden 
University Library. 

Daniel Eshom has joined the Columbia 
University libraries as the metadata specialist 
for the Electronic Publishing Initiative. 

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Eric Garcia has been appointed general 
reference librarian at the Oviatt Library at 
California State University­Northridge. 

Michelle Mittrach Garcia is now the 
librarian for the Museum of Indian Art and 
Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology Library 
in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Michelle Hajder is the new associate 
librarian for the Walden University Library. 

Lindsay Hansen has been appointed mu­
sic and media librarian at the Oviatt Library, 
California State University­Northridge. 

Juli Hinz has been named associate director 
for research and learning services at the Univer­
sity of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. 

Alex R. Hodges has been promoted to 
instruction coordinator at American University 
Library in Washington, D.C. 

Tracy Hull has been appointed associate 
dean at the Mary Couts Burnett Library at 
Texas Christian University. 

Janna Lawrence has been appointed 
assistant director of collections and outreach 
at the University of Iowa Libraries Hardin 
Library for the Health Sciences. 

Cheiko Maene has been named maps 
and state documents librarian at Northwestern 
University Library. 

Max Marmor has been appointed presi­
dent of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. 

Michael Matos has joined American 
University in Washington, D.C., as reference/ 
instruction librarian. 

Elizabeth McDonough has been ap­
pointed reference librarian/education liaison 
at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, 
North Carolina. 

Niamh McGuigan is now reference 
librarian at the Loyola University­Chicago’s 
Cudahy Library. 

Rosemary Nigro has been appointed 
acquisitions librarian at the University of 
Oregon Libraries­Eugene. 

Laura O’Keefe is the new head of cata­
loging and bibliographic maintenance at the 
New York Society Library. 

Lea Osborne has joined the Columbia 
University Libraries as a processing archivist 
in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 

John Overholt has been appointed as­
sistant curator of the Donald and Mary Hyde 
Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson at Harvard 
University’s Houghton Library. 

Jennie Quiñonez-Skinner has been 
appointed general reference librarian at the 
Oviatt Library at California State University­
Northridge. 

Gary Rasmussen has been appointed 
associate director for scholarly resources and 
collections at the University of Utah’s J. Wil­
lard Marriott Library. 

Amy Robb has been appointed coordina­
tor of instruction/reference librarian at the 
Emerson College Library. 

Meggan Emler Smith has been named 
reference and instruction librarian at Gettys­
burg College’s Musselman Library. 

Gregory Thompson is now associate di­
rector for special collections at the University 
of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

John P. Cummings, a librarian at the U.S. 
Naval Academy for 37 years and associate 
library director since 1977, retired on June 
1. Among his many contributions to the 
academy was his “Reading List for Life,” a 
Web­based compilation of book titles rec­
ommended to students by faculty members. 

D e a t h s  

Cynthia B. Duncan, retired university li­
brarian at Old Dominion University Library, 
died June 4, 2007. Duncan’s tenure at the 
Old Dominion University Library (1977–91), 
was distinguished by a number of fi rsts. She 
was the first woman library director, as well 
as the first library director with a doctorate. 
As dean, she held the highest academic ap­
pointment any woman had held at Old Do­
minion up until that time. Under her lead­
ership, in 1982 the library became the fi rst 

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in Virginia to be fully automated. Duncan 
was instrumental in helping Old Dominion 
University’s Library receive grant funding to 
support installation of Virginia’s fi rst union 
list catalog of all periodicals found in librar­
ies in Hampton Roads and implement the 
state’s first linked systems project. She also 
began the first interlibrary loan document 
delivery system for Tidewater Consortium 
Libraries. Duncan served on the SOLINET 
Board of Directors and as a representative 
on the OCLC Users Council. 

Sandra S. Kerbel, 50, associate director for 
public services in the university libraries at 
the University of Pennsylvania (UP), died 
April 3, 2007. Sandra joined UP in June 2001, 
and was responsible for a wide range of user 
services in the Van Pelt­Dietrich Library Cen­
ter and Libraries serving the physical sci­
ences, the Annenberg School, the School of 
Engineering and Applied Science, Design, 
and the Museum. In a brief tenure, Kerbel 
left a significant mark on UP’s library and 
information services. She helped guide the 
expansion of the Blackboard courseware 
system; oversaw the library’s participation 
in groundbreaking resource­sharing pro­
grams (EZBorrow and RAPID); and steered 
the creation of UP’s institutional repository 
program, the ScholarlyCommons@PENN. 
In connection with the latter, she worked 
tirelessly to promote new models for dis­
seminating scholarly information and to 
advance the intellectual property rights 
of scholars. Kerbel’s signal accomplish­
ment was her contribution to the design 
and construction of the Weigle Information 
Commons, a state­of­the­art teaching and 
learning facility in the Van Pelt­Dietrich Li­
brary Center. A passionate advocate for the 
library and its role in fostering the research 
competency of students, Kerbel worked 
closely on the Commons project with aca­
demic support professionals in the School 
of Arts and Sciences. The library will honor 
the memory of Kerbel’s service to UP by 
naming a space for her in the Weigle Infor­
mation Commons. 

2007 marks the 
40th anniversary of 
Ashgate Publishing 
For the past 40 years Ashgate 
has proudly been a leading 
independent publisher 
committed to providing the 
library market with the finest 
academic scholarship.  
From our humble beginnings, Ashgate 
now publishes more than 700 new books 
annually, representing the best academic 
research and professional practice from 
around the world. 

We would like to take this opportunity to 
thank the countless librarians and scholars 
who have added Ashgate product to your 
shelves over the past four decades. Without 
your support, this milestone would not 
have been reached. We are proud of 
this achievement and look forward to 
serving the global academic marketplace 
for many years to come.  

“…Ashgate are to be congratulated on their 
endeavor to bring ‘high quality research 
monograph publishing back into focus’.” 

—POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, 
reviewing Liberty, Property and Markets 

“In its elegant design and lustrous illustration, 
this volume is an aesthetic gem typical of the 
care Ashgate lavishes on all its publications.” 

—INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY, 
reviewing Representing the Royal Navy 

“Ashgate is publishing some of the best 
academic theology right now, and this 
book deserves to be at the top of their 
very impressive list.” 

—REVIEWS IN RELIGION AND THEOLOGY, 
reviewing The Rhetorical Word 

“Ashgate should be commended for their 
commitment to scholarship of distinction…” 

—MUSIC AND LETTERS, 
reviewing French Opera 1730–1830 

“…high standards and quality are exactly 
why I choose to publish with Ashgate.” 

—Jean Hillier, Newcastle University, UK, 
Stretching Beyond the Horizon 

“…as always, Ashgate’s presentation 
is a delight…” 
—SINGING, reviewing Pills to Purge Melancholy 

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