ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 2 0 2 /C&RL News People in the News Pam Spiegel Arlyne Jackson, librarian o f the Littauer Library at Har vard University, has taken a leave from Harvard to par ticipate in the Libraiy o f Con gress’ (LC) Leadership Devel opm ent Program. The 15- month program is designed to develop leaders for the library profession and in crease the number o f mi nority-group librarians pre p a red to assume library leadership positions. Ten people were selected for the program, which was funded by a gift from John Kluge, chair o f the LC Madison Society. Erlinda J. Regner and Amy D. Seetoo were recently installed as president and vice-presi dent o f the Asian/Pacific American Librarians As sociation (APALA), re spectively. R egn er is business reference li brarian at the Chicago Public Library. Seetoo, w ho is program assis tant with the Michigan Initiative for W om en’s Health, University o f Michigan, Ann Arbor, Amy Seetoo previously served as ex ecutive director and president o f the Chinese- American Librarians Association. Andrew H. Wang, director o f OCLC’s Asia Pacific Services, has been appointed advisor o f the National Central Libraiy o f Taiwan for 1995. W ang said, “I hope to help the National Central Library and OCLC work closely in pro viding information to libraries in Taiwan and in strengthening the information bridge be tween the East and the West." A ppointm ents Larry Compton is the new librarian for the Reactor Engineering Tech nology Center at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque. Shana Fair, formerly acting library director at Ohio Uni versity, Zanesville, has been named library director there. Douglas M. Ferrier is now director o f the Arnulfo L. Oliveira Memorial Library at the University o f Texas at Brownsville in partnership with Texas Southmost Col lege. He most recently served as dean o f the library at Texas Wesleyan University. Paul Schrodt has been appointed librarian in the John D. Werkman endow ed chair o f Theo logical Bibliography at Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio. Faye Abrams has been appointed document delivery librarian at the University o f Waterloo, Ontario. Scott A. Anderson has been named busi ness/economics librarian at Millersville Univer sity in Pennsylvania. Althea Aschmann is now head o f technical services at Emporia State University, Kansas. Gary D. Byrd has been named director o f the Health Sciences Library at the University o f Buffalo, State University o f N ew York. Cindy Buhi has been appointed reference librarian at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. Robert L. Canida has been named automated public services librarian at Pembroke State Uni versity, North Carolina. Joan Carey has been appointed reference librarian at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash ington. Ruth Carter has been promoted to assistant director for automated and technical services at the University o f Pittsburgh Libraries. 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 con sidered f o r pu blica tion , write to Pam Spiegel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Hu ron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: pam.spiegel@ala.org. mailto:pam.spiegel@ala.org March 1995/203 Cynthia Coccaro has been named assis tant professor o f bibliography in the Bierce Li brary at the University o f Akron, Ohio. Adele Combs is now assistant university li brarian o f general services at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Brian Dunlap has been appointed tempo rary assistant periodicals librarian at Emporia State University, Kansas. Patrick Dunn has been appointed acting head o f the Interlibrary Loan Division at the University o f British Columbia. Jane Goh is n ow information services li brarian at Stanford University, California. She was mistakenly listed as Joan Goh in the D e cember issue. The editors regret the error. Charles Green is the new catalog librarian at Pembroke State University, North Carolina. Nancy Hayes has joined the Science and Technology Library at the University o f Akron as life sciences and medical bibliographer. L. Dexter Honeycutt Jr. has been ap pointed serials librarian at Pembroke State Uni versity, North Carolina. Kathryn Hornby is n ow temporary refer ence librarian in the W oodw ard Biomedical Libraiy at the University o f British Columbia. Scott Kantor has been named reference li brarian at Yakima Valley Community College, Washington. Kevin Lindstrom has been named refer ence and outreach librarian in the Science & Engineering Division o f the Main Library at the University o f British Columbia, Vancouver. Michael Lorenzen is now bibliographic in structor and reference librarian at Ohio Uni versity, Zanesville. Laura Minott has been named assistant uni versity librarian o f public services at Northwest ern University, Evanston, Illinois. Janet Spaeth has been appointed biblio graphic educational services librarian at the University o f North Dakota, Grand Forks. Joe Straw is now assistant professor o f bib liography in the Bierce Library at the Univer sity o f Akron, Ohio. Richard Stringer-Hye has been named head o f access services in the Sarah Shannon Stevenson Library for Science and Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Dajin Sun is n o w head o f East Asian tech nical services at the University o f Pittsburgh. Morag Sutherland is n ow journalism, reli gion, and speech bibliographer at Northwest ern University, Evanston, Illinois. Pamela Vance has been promoted to asso ciate director o f the University o f Pittsburgh Libraries. John Whelan has been appointed reference librarian/selector for the Sarah Shannon Steven son Library at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Jennifer W u is now a librarian at North Se attle Community College. R e tirem en ts Graham Elliston recently retired as head o f the Gifts and Exchanges Division at the Uni versity o f British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, a position he held since 1973. He began w ork ing at UBC as a cataloger in 1961. Helen Mayoh recently retired as science ref erence librarian at the University o f British Co lumbia, Vancouver, after 19 years in that posi tion. Willie Scott, acting head o f the Undergradu ate Library at Southern Illinois University (SIU) at Carbondale, retired at the end o f last year. Scott began his career serving as a catalog li brarian at four colleges before switching to ref erence and instruction in 1972, when he joined the Undergraduate Library at SIU. He earned his B.A. from West Virginia State College in 1957, and his MLS from Western Reserve Uni versity in 1959. Martha Shepard, librarian at the Alaska Re sources Libraiy in Anchorage, retired in Janu ary. She had been w orking there since the 1970s. D eath s Cheryl Griffin, director o f learning resources at Danville Community College (DCC), Virginia, since 1992, and DCC librarian from 1989 to 1992, was found dead at her home in October. Roland Lanning, head o f serials at the Uni versity o f British Columbia, Vancouver, from 1926 until his retirement in 1965, died late last year at the age o f 94. 204/C&RL News