ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■  N o v e m b e r 2000 /  951

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s Ann-Chr¡ste Young

M ary E. E dsall, librarian and archivist at 
Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsyl­
vania, has b e e n  elected president o f the Con­
gress o n  Research in D ance located o n  the 
campus o f the State University o f New York 
College at Brockport.

Hal Hall, director o f Education and Media 
Services at the Texas A&M University Library 
and Irene B. Hoadley/Friends professor, re­
ceived the Pilgrim Award from the Science 
Fiction Research Association. He received the 
award for his lifetime contributions to the aca­
dem ic study o f  scie n ce  fiction. He b e gan  
publishing the annual Science Fiction Book 
Review Index in 1971 and his Science Fiction 
a n d  Fantasy Research Index will m ove to the 
Internet in a seachable form.

SOLINET has e le cte d  the follow ing to its 
Board o f  D irectors for 2 0 0 0 -0 2 : J e r r y  W. 
Stephens, University o f Alabama at Birming­
ham (vice president/president elect); F ran ces 
N. C olem an, M ississippi State University; 
Ja n ic e  R. Franklin, Alabama State Univer­
sity; Loretta O’Brien-Parham, Hampton Uni­
versity; and J o h n  A. P ritch ard , Mississippi 
Library C om m ission. T h e  follo w in g  w ere 
elected as delegation to the OCLC Users Coun­
cil: E m m a B radford P erry , Southern Uni­
versity and A&M College; Je n n ife r Cargill, 
Louisiana State U niversity; and J e r r y  W. 
S tep h en s, University o f Alabama at Birming­
ham. In addition, the follow ing officers w ere 
elected  to SOLINET: Rhoda K. Channing 
( c h a ir ) , W ak e F o r e s t U n iv e r sity ; S tella 
B en tley (v ic e  ch a ir), A uburn U niversity; 
M erryll S. P en son  (treasurer), University o f 
Georgia; and L orrain e D. Sum m ers, State 
Library o f Florida.

Ed. n o te : To ensure th a t y o u r p erso n n el news is 
considered fo r  p u b lic a tio n , w rite  to  Ann -C h riste  
Young, prod u ctio n  editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala.org;  fax: 
(312) 280-2520.

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

Kristine B ran colin i was nam ed director o f 
the Indiana University (IU) Digital Library Pro­
gram. This program is a university-wide co l­
laboration o f IU Libraries, the O ffice o f the 
Vice President for Infor­
m a tio n  T e c h n o lo g y , 
and academ ic research­
ers led by the School o f 
Library and Information 
Science. T he collab ora­
tion capitalizes on IU’s 
ex te n siv e  ho ldings o f 
scholarly material to make 
these available in digital 
form (see http://www. 

K r is t in e  B r a n c o lin i
d l i b . i n d i a n a . e d u / ) .
Brancolini joined the IU Libraries in 1983 as Me­
dia and Reserve librarian in the Undergradu­
ate Library. In 1985 she was appointed li­
brarian for Film Studies and head o f Media 
and Reserve Services. Brancolini joined the 
IU Digital Library Program in 1997 as chief 
planner and has served as acting director since 
1998.

Fried a P atrick  Davison is now  dean o f the 
library at the University o f South Carolina, 
Spartanburg. She was director o f library ser­
v ices at Mississippi University for W om en 
from  1993 to 2000. From 1989 to 1993, she 
served as assistant director for Reader and 
Technical Services at San Francisco State Uni­
versity. Prior to that position, she served in 
positions at Columbia University’s Health Sci­
e n c e s  L ib r a r y , E a s t  T e n n e s s e e  S ta te  
University’s M edical Library, and the Univer­
sity o f Kentucky. Her b o o k , The H onαker 
Family in America, was published in 1998 
and she is writing a novel about coal mining 
in Southw est Virginia.

C h arlotte Slocum  w as appointed co lleg e 
librarian at Beloit College. Slocum had been 
head o f the technical services department at 
D ePaul University in Chicago. Prior to this

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position she was acqui- 
sitions and collection de- 
velopment librarian at St. 
Lawrence University in 
Canton, New York, for 
ten years. She has been 

  consultant at a num- 
 ber o f institutions and 
 has chaired and partici- 

pated in numerous pro­
C h a rlo tte  Slocum fessional organizations, 

primarily in the area o f 
databases and the management o f informa­
tion resources and technology.

Wilbur Stolt is now  director o f libraries at the 
University o f North Dakota in Grand Forks.

M ichelle B eattie has b e e n  ap p o in ted  
clinical m edical librarian at the University o f 
Missouri-Kansas City.

Hi Hua Chua has joined  the staff o f the 
University o f South Carolina’s Thom as Coo­
p er Library as electronic governm ent infor­
m ation librarian.

D eborah C lanton has accep ted  the p o­
sition o f  assistant head o f the business library 
at the University o f South Carolina.

J a n e  C ostanza has b e e n  appointed tech ­
nical services librarian at Trinity University 
in San Antonio, Texas.

C arol C raw ford is the n ew  laboratory 
director and sen ior conservator at the Uni­
versity o f South Carolina’s Conservation Labo­
ratory.

Ja m e s  D. F o x  has b e e n  appointed direc­
tor o f special collections and archives at the 
University o f Oregon.

Ann H artness was nam ed acting head 
librarian o f  the B en so n  Latin American Col­
lectio n at the University o f Texas at Austin.

Phil Hoehn  is now  the map librarian for 
the David Rumsey Collection in San Francisco.

Kristina Howard is now  manager o f ac­
cess services at Trinity University in San Anto­
nio, Texas.

Samir Iskenderov has b e e n  appointed 
manager o f digital support at Trinity Univer­
sity in San Antonio, Texas.

Michael Kaminski is now  reference librar­
ian at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

B arb ara MacAlpine is now  referen ce li­
brarian at Trinity University in San Antonio, 
Texas.

W il l i a m  G. M u r r a y  h a s  b e e n  a p ­
p o in te d  h e a d  o f  th e  a u to m a tio n  d e p a r t­
m e n t at th e  N im itz L ib ra ry  o f  th e  U .S. 
N aval A ca d e m y .

M aren  N iem eier has b e e n  ap p o in ted  
digital services librarian at the University of 
North D akota in Grand Forks.

Allison P irri has b e e n  appointed refer­
ence/social scien ces librarian in the Univer­
sity o f W ashington Libraries at the Cascadia 
Community College/University o f Washing­
ton Bothell Campus Library.

D e b o ra h  P. R o b in s o n  h as b e e n  a p ­
p oin ted  head  o f the E lectronic R esou rces 
Program  in the Nimitz Library o f the U.S. 
Naval Academy.

S teven S h ap iro is now  e le c tro n ic  re ­
sources librarian at Montclair State Univer­
sity in New Jersey.

Todd Spires has b e e n  appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at Southern Illinois University 
at Carbondale.

Tess Tobin has b e e n  appointed adminis­
trative and personnel services librarian in the 
Ursula C. Schw erin Library at New York City 
T echn ical College, CUNY.

William Vincenti is now  reference librar­
ian at M ontclair State University in New J e r ­
sey.

R obert T. (B o b ) Wolfkill has b e e n  ap­
pointed coordinator o f gifts o f  library materi­
als at the University o f  Texas at Austin.

Stephen W ynn  has joined  Truman State 
University, in Kirksville, Missouri, as catalog­
ing librarian.

R e t i r e m e n t s

N arindar Aggarwal, associate Asian librar­
ian at the University o f Illinois at Urbana- 
Champaign, has retired after 36 years o f ser­
vice.

N ancy A nderson, mathematics librarian at 
t h e  U n iv e r s ity  o f  I l l i n o i s  a t U r b a n a -  
Champaign, has retired after 32 years o f ser­
vice.

M adhavaro B alach an d ran , professor and 
com m erce librarian at the University o f Illi­
nois at Urbana-Champaign, has retired after 
28 years o f service.



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R ichard Bopp, assistant map and geography 
librarian at the University o f Illinois at Ur- 
bana-Cham paign, has retired after 22 years 
o f service.

J a n e  Garner, head o f  Manuscripts and Ar­
chival Processing, B enso n Latin American Col­
lection, retired after 36 years with the Uni­
versity o f T exas at Austin.

Jean  Geil, music special collections coordinator 
at die University o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
has retired after 29 years of service.

Nelson J .  Gilman has retired from  his p osi­
tion as director o f  the University o f Southern 
California University Health Scien ces Librar­
ies and the Norris Medical Library after 29 
years o f service.

M arcy Jo n c ic h , referen ce librarian at the 
University o f  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
has retired after 2 9  years o f  service.

Robert Jones, cinema studies and theater librar­
ian at the University o f Illinois at Urbana- 
Champaign, has retired after 30 years o f service.

A d v e r t is e r  in d e x

ACM $41
ACRL 889, 918, 950
Am erican Chemical So ciety 932
American Psychological Assoc. 937
Am erican T heological Library 926 

Association
Chemical Abstracts Svc C over 2
CHOICE 901, 911
D ialog Corporation 893
EBSCO Cover 4
E-G lobal Library 908
Endeavor Inform ation Sys. Cover 3
Haworth Press 944
H. W. W ilson 8 8 4
InfoUSA 9 2 7
Lexis-Nexìs 881
OCLC 921
Scholarly R esou rces 9 4 7
SWETS/Blackwell 912
T heatre Research D ata G roup 939

B arb ara Loom is, assistant engineering librar­
ian at the University o f  Illinois at Urbana- 
Champaign, has retired after 30 years o f ser­
vice.

Lois P ausch, geology librarian at the Uni­
versity o f  Illinois at Urbana-Cham paign, has 
retired after 28 years o f service.

Walter Stubbs has retired as the documents 
librarian/assistant social studies librarian at 
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), 
after 32 years o f service to Morris Library. 
Stubbs joined the library ’s faculty in 1968 as 
assistant social studies librarian and becam e 
the documents librarian in 1974. H e was ac­
tive on several library committees, the Illinois 
D ocum ents Coordinating Council, and had 
given presentations on government publica­
tions and the Internet. In 1985, Greenw ood 
Press published his bo o k  entitled Congres­
sional Committees, 1789-1982: a  Checklist.

D e a t h s

A lm a B en nett, retired head  o f  the Social 
Scien ce departm ent at the University o f  Mis­
souri-Colum bia (UMC), has died. In 1941, 
B enn ett began w orking as an exten sion li­
brarian for Emporia State University. Six years 
later, she b e ca m e social scie n ce  librarian at 
UMC, later b ecom in g head o f the social sci­
en ce department at UMC, and retiring in 1975. 
She was a m em b er o f  the ALA.

Ja c k  Dalton, dean o f the School o f Library 
Service at Columbia University (1 9 5 9 -7 0 ), has 
died. Dalton began his library career at the 
University o f Virginia, w here he was assistant 
reference librarian (1934—35); reference librar­
ian (1 9 3 6 -4 2 ); associate librarian (1 9 4 2 -5 0 ); 
and librarian (1 9 5 0 -5 6 ). From 1956 to 1959, 
he was director o f the International Relations 
Office o f ALA, was a member o f Council (1 9 6 4 - 
68), and was chair o f the Ethics Committee. 
He was director o f the Library Development 
Center at Columbia University (1970-78), which 
focused on the needs o f those w ho have lim­
ited access to library service. In 1954, Dalton 
received the J. W. Lippincott Medal and was 
awarded an honorary lifetime m em bership in 
the ALA in 1983. ■