ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


168/C&RL News

People 
in the 
News

Pa m Spiegel

The winners o f the Conser­
vation Division o f Information 
C onservation , In c.’s (IC I) 
Prize for a Plan 1995 were 
announced in January. The 
Special Collections Division at 
the University o f Texas at Ar­
lington w ill receive $3,000 
worth o f ICI conservation ser­
vices for the plan submitted 
by Shirley Rodnitzky, archi­
vist, to preserve the maps and 
a journal o f Henry Washing­
ton Benham, an engineer and 
army officer w h o fought in 
the Mexican and U.S. Civil wars. The Milner Li­
brary at Illinois State University will receive $1,500 
worth o f services for the plan submitted by Beth
Schobernd, preservation librarian, to repair, 
deacidify, and encapsulate the posters in the 
library’s Circus History Collection. And the 
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, 
and Reproduction at Indiana University will 
receive $750 worth o f services for the plan 
submitted by John Bancroft, director o f the 
institute, and Margaret H. Harter, head o f in­
formation services, to conserve portions o f the 
notebooks o f newspaper and magazine clippings 
that document public reaction to Alfred Kinsey’s 
research on human sexual behavior.

Gloria S. Werner, university librarian at the 
University o f  California at Los Angeles, was 
elected vice-president/president-elect o f the As­
sociation o f Research Libraries (ARL) at its mem­
bership meeting in October. Elected to three- 
year terms on the ARL Board o f Directors were: 
Betty G. Bengston, director o f university li­
braries at the University o f Washington; Will­
iam J. Crowe, dean o f libraries at the Univer­
sity o f  Kansas; and Carole Moore, c h ie f
librarian at the University o f Toronto.

 

 

Appointm ents
Mary Biggs, formerly dean o f the library at 
Trenton State C ollege (TSC ), has been ap­
pointed dean o f the library and information ser­
vices at TSC. H er expanded responsibilities 
include Academic and Administrative Comput­

ing; Telecom m unications; 
the Media Center; Institu­
tional Research; and Mail- 
room, Storeroom, and Du­
plicating/Printing Services.

Ernie Ingles, library direc­
tor at the University o f Al­
berta (U A ) in Edmonton, has 
been named to the new po­
sition o f executive director o f 
learning systems at UA. In his 
new position, Ingles takes 
responsibility for Computing 
and Network Services, Uni­

versity Information Enterprises, the University 
Bookstore, Technical Resource Group, and Print­
ing Services; he retains responsibility for the li­
brary system, museums, archives, and the Uni­
versity Press.

Angie Whaley Le Clercq has been named di­
rector o f the Citadel’s Daniel Library. She for­
merly held the post o f head o f user education 
and assistant to the dean o f libraries at the Uni­
versity o f Tennessee, Knoxville. Le Clercq has 
written w idely on librarianship, especially in 
the areas o f technology and copyright issues. 
Her most recent work, Life on an Ante-Bellum 
Low Country Plantation, w ill be published by 
the University o f South Carolina Press in the 
fall o f this year.

Sarah C. Michalak has been named director o f 
the Marriott Library at the 
University o f Utah in Salt 
Lake City. She previously 
served at the University 
o f Washington as assistant 
director o f libraries, li­
brary development, and 
planning; head o f collec­
tion access services and 
library development; spe­
cial assistant to the direc­
tor o f libraries; and head Sarah Michalak
o f the Science Libraries. 
Before that she served as reference librarian, head 
o f the Bio-Agricultural Library, and chief bibli­
ographer for the life sciences at the University o f 
California, Riverside. A  m em ber o f  ALA and 
ACRL, Michalak served on the ACRL Seattle 
National Conference Executive Committee.



March 1996/169

Lewis A. Armstrong is n o w  technical ser­
vices librarian at Abilene Christian University 
in Texas.

Jeffrey Barr has been named rare books 
and special collections librarian at the Univer­
sity o f Florida, Gainesville.

Hugh Blackmer has been appointed sci­
ence librarian at W ashington and Lee Univer­
sity in Lexington, Virginia.

Judith Brink has joined the Kresge Busi­
ness Administration Library at the University o f
Michigan as selection coordinator.

Kathleen J. Butler has been appointed as­
sistant education and p sychology librarian at 
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Ann Copeland is n o w  half-time assistant 
original serials cataloger at the University o f
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tamara Fetzer is the n ew  acquisitions li­
brarian at Calvin C ollege and Calvin T h eo lo gi­
cal Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Jeffrey Franks is n o w  head o f  reference at 
the University o f  Akron.

Nancy George has joined the Salem State 
College Library as electronic resources librarian.

David Griffiths has been named half-time 
assistant documents librarian at the University 
o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jill M. Hackenberg has been appointed 
reference/electronic services coordinator in the 
Sciences and Engineering Library at the State 
University o f N e w  Y ork  at Buffalo.

Charlotte Henderson has b een  nam ed 
head o f governm ent documents and periodi­
cals at Southern University in Baton Rouge.

Tracey J. Hunter has been appointed as­
sistant undergraduate librarian Southern Illinois 
University at Carbondale.

Robin Hutchinson is the new  serials con­
trol/reference librarian at St. Lawrence Univer­
sity.

Barbara Joyce is n o w  science librarian at 
St. Lawrence University.

Scott Kehoe has been appointed reference 
and interlibrary loan librarian in the Loeb Li­
brary o f the Graham School o f  Design at Har­
vard University.

Diane Klaiber is n o w  executive director o f
the N e w  England Law Library Consortium.

Cheryl Kugler recently began work as head 
o f the Catalog Department at the University o f
California, Irvine.

Marta H. Kuszczak has been named head 
o f the Maps/Government Information Depart­
ment at Syracuse University.

 

 

 

 

Marygrace E. McDonald is n o w  kn o w l­
ed ge and consultation services librarian at the 
Countway Library o f  Medicine, Harvard Uni­
versity.

Julie Mellby has b een  named assistant cu­
rator o f the department o f Printing and Graphic 
Arts in the Houghton Library at Harvard Uni­
versity.

Pamela J. Merriman has been appointed 
user education librarian at Syracuse University.

Ammon Ripple has been appointed refer­
ence/public services librarian at the University 
o f Pittsburgh.

Stephen Smith has been named assistant 
OCLC catalog librarian at the University o f Illi­
nois at Urbana-Champaign.

Timothy E. Thompson has b e e n  ap ­
p o in te d  th e lib ra ry  d ire c to r fo r  Syracuse 
University’s study abroad program in Florence, 
Italy.

Victoria Shwonek Williamson has been 
named documents librarian/ethnic studies bib­
liographer at the University o f  California, San 
D iego.

Frank Wojcik is n o w  library system man­
ager o f  the Five Colleges o f  O h io consortium’s 
shared online system.

Sha Li Zhang has been named head o f tech­
nical services at O hio W esleyan University.

Peter Zhou has been appointed head o f 
the East Asian Library at the University o f  Pitts­
burgh.

Ya’Aquov Ziso has been named technical 
services librarian at W illiam  Paterson College 
in W ayne, N e w  Jersey.

R etirem en ts
Angela B. Rubin retired at the end o f D ecem ­
ber as assistant humanities librarian at South­
ern Illinois University at Carbondale after 22 
years o f  service.

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 person­
nel news is considered f o r  publication, write 
to Pam Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL New s, 
50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e- 
mail: pam.spiegel@ala.org.

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Eliska Ryznar, head o f  Stanford University’s 
Law Library Catalog Department, retired in Janu­
ary after m ore than 20 years o f service. In addi­
tion to w o rk in g in the Catalog Department, 
Ryznar is the author o f  several bibliographies, 
a specialist translator, a professional indexer, and 
has contributed entries on the Czech and Slovak 
Republics to the Encyclopedia Americana.

D eaths
Lianne Schroeder Clark, a form er librarian 
in the Rare B ook  Department at the Univer­
sity o f Chicago, died o f  brain cancer in Janu­
ary at the age o f  65.

Charlotte Jacobson, a retired associate profes­
sor and associate librarian at St. O laf College in 
Northfìeld, Minnesota, died in Decem ber at the 
age o f  86. Jacobson started working at St. O laf
in 1931. During her 43-year career she served as 
assistant registrar, secretary to the president and 
to the dean o f men, associate professor o f En­
glish, and associate librarian. She retired from 
St. O la f in 1974 and becam e archivist for the 
N orw egian -A m erican  Historical Association, 
based at the college. That second career lasted 
16 years.

Mary Alice Eggleston Kraehe, retired African 
bibliographer at the University o f Virginia (U V), 
died last August. In positions at the Universities 
o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kentucky, 
Kraehe developed her expertise in the antiquar­

 

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ian book trade. She m oved to U V in 1970 as out- 
of-print librarian, and subsequently became A f­
rican bibliographer until her retirement in 1994. 
Professionally active, Kraehe held many offices 
in the African Studies Association’s Africana Li­
brarians Council and the Southeastern Regional 
Seminar in African Studies.

Margaret Kelly Toth, retired head o f  acqui­
sitions at the University o f Rochester (U R), died 
on D ecem ber 15, 1995. During her 26 years at 
Rochester, Toth also w o rk ed  in the areas o f 
special collections and microtext. From 1953 
to 1968 she was editor o f  the UR Press, and 
served as editor o f  the ACRL Microcard Series 
from  1954 to 1966.

John C. Tyson, state librarian o f Virginia from 
1990 to 1994, died in Novem ber after a brief 
illness. He was 44. At the 
time o f his death, Tyson 
was an associate profes­
so r at th e G ra d u a te 
School o f Information Sci­
ences at the University o f 
Tennessee, Knoxville. He 
also w as p resid en t o f  
John Tyson and Associ­
ates, a library m anage­
m en t c o n s u ltin g  firm  
sp ecia liz in g  in human John C. Tyson
resource d evelopm en t.
B efore his appointment as Virginia’s state li­
brarian, Tyson served as university librarian at 
the University o f  Richmond (1986– 1990), and 
associate professor and assistant director for 
planning, administration, and developm en t at 
Northern Illinois University (1984– 1986). A  pas­
sionate supporter o f the library profession, T y ­
son was a force behind the creation o f the 
Black Caucus o f ALA (B CALA ). In 1992 he re­
ceived the Distinguished Service A w ard from  
the BCALA for “his leadership and vision in 
planning the First National Conference o f A f­
rican Am erican Librarians.”

Lucille M. Wert, retired professor emeritus at 
the University o f  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
(U IU C ), died last August at the age o f  76. W ert 
served as science librarian at Harvard Univer­
sity, the Massachusetts Institute o f  Tech n ol­
ogy, the State University o f  Iow a, and UIUC. 
She retired in 1986 as professor emeritus at 
UIUC, w h ere she had been on  the faculty and 
in administration. ■