may06c.indd Ann-Christe Galloway P e o p l e i n t h e N e w s Stephen Bosch Stephen Bosch, materials budget, procure- ment, and licensing librarian at the Univer- sity of Arizona, has been selected by the Association for Library Collections and Techni- cal Services to receive the 2006 Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. Sponsored an- nually by Harrassow- itz, the award is given to a librarian to recog- nize contributions and outstanding leadership in the field of acquisitions. Bosch has writ- ten and presented extensively in the areas of serial and book pricing, use measurement, licensing, and management of electronic resources. The Greater Western Library Al- liance nominated him for his leadership in cooperative acquisitions, and licensing en- deavors on behalf of the consortia. James R. Rettig, university librarian at the University of Richmond, has been selected as the 2006 Alumnus of the Year by the Alumni Association of the University of Wis- consin-Madison School of Library and Infor- mation Studies. Tito Sierra, North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries’ digital technologies devel- opment librarian, has been named one of the 2006 “Movers & Shakers who are transform- ing libraries for the future” by the national trade publication Library Journal. Described as a “dot-com guru” by the magazine, Sier- ra joined the libraries in January 2004, after capping off several years of experience at Amazon.com. He has applied his skills to- Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -mail: agalloway@ ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. ward numerous digital initiatives at the NCSU Libraries, including Quick Search, the librar- ies’ customized Web site search engine, and its revolutionary new online catalog. A p p o i n t m e n t s Elizabeth Bagley has been appointed di- rector of library services at Agnes Scott Col- lege’s McCain Library. John Lamborn has been appointed the new head librarian at Wabash College’s Lil- ly Library, effective at end of the academic year. Lamborn has been the assistant dean for public services at Ohio University since 2004. He spent the bulk of his career at Idaho’s Weber State University, where he was special collections librarian (1985–90); interim university librarian (1991–92); auto- mation librarian (1993–96); and systems and access services librarian (1992–2004). Lam- born served as cochair of the Utah Library Association Conference Committee and previously chaired the Systems Committee of the Utah Academic Library Consortium. He is a member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ACRL, and OhioLINK. Beth Orgeron has been appointed college librarian and director of resources at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. She was pre- viously the library instruction coordinator at Loyola University-New Orleans. Barbara W hitney Petr uzzelli has been appointed library director at the Curtin Memorial Library at Mount Saint Mary College. Sarah M. Pritchard, university librarian at the University of California-Santa Barbara, (UCSB) since 1999, has been appointed 326C&RL News May 2006 http:Amazon.com Sarah M. Pritchard Photo credit: Rod Rolle the Charles Deering M c C o r m i c k u n i v e r- sity librarian at North- wester n University, beginning in Septem- ber. Before joining UCSB, Pritchard was the director of librar- ies at Smith College for seven years. She began her professional career in 1977 at the Library of Congress, where she was a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room and the special- ist for women’s studies. In 1988, she was appointed head of the Library of Con- gress Microform Reading Room. In 1990 she joined the staff at the Association of Research Libraries as associate executive director. She was a senior trustee of the Leroy C. Merritt Humanitarian Foundation, which makes special grants to librarians suffering job loss as a result of employment discrimination or First Amendment chal- lenges. She has been active in the Center for Research Libraries and the Coalition for Networked Information, and this year was elected to the national steering committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). Pritchard is the author of the Research Library Group Conspectus in Women’s Studies and The Women’s Annual 1983–1984 and was edi- tor of the ARL Statistics and Salary Survey for 1990 and 1991. She has published more than 60 articles and reviews and has lectured and consulted in North America, Europe, and Asia on women’s studies, digital systems, collection development, library manage- ment, and other professional issues. Ravindra Nath (R.N.) Shar ma has been appointed dean of University Library at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. An active professional, he is the winner of many awards and honors, including the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year (2005) and the Humphry/OCLC/Forrest Press Award from ALA for his signifi cant achievements and contributions to interna- tional librarianship. Sharma has presented 26 papers in various national and international conferences, including ACRL, ALA, and IFLA. He is the author/editor of ten books and more than 250 articles, editorials, and book reviews, and has been editor of Library Times Inter national since 1984. Before coming to his present position on March 1, he was director of library at West Virginia State Uni- versity and director of library at University of Evansville-Indiana. He has also worked at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Pennsylva- nia State University, and Colgate University. Sharma has chaired and served on many ALA and ACRL committees Mark Anderson has been appointed digital initiatives librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries. Deepa Banerjee has been appointed South Asian studies librarian in the reference and research services division of the Univer- sity of Washington-Seattle. Christopher Bigelow has been named reference librarian at Springfield College in Springfi eld, Massachusetts. Karen Bronshteyn has been appointed reference librarian at the University of Wis- consin-Eau Claire. Yolanda L. Cooper is now deputy univer- sity librarian at the University of Miami. Edee Edwards has been named reference librarian at Springfield College in Springfi eld, Massachusetts. Lyda Ellis has joined the instructional ser- vices department at the University of Northern Colorado’s James A. Michener Library. Mary F. Evangeliste is now training coor- dinator for the Information Commons at the University of Arizona. Barbara Hutchinson has joined Univer- sity of Arizona as assistant dean and team Ravindra Nath (R.N.) Sharma May 2006 327 C&RL News leader for the Digital Library and Information Systems Team. Jane W. Kogi is now preservation services librarian for SOLINET. Meris Mandernach is the new science librarian at James Madison University Libraries in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Alison Mansfield has joined Northwest- ern University as core reserve librarian. K a r a M . M c C l u r ke n h a s b e e n a p - pointed preservation services librarian for SOLINET. Colleen McFarland is the new head of special collections and university archivist at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Thomas Moritz has joined the Getty Research Institute as associate director of administration and chief of knowledge man- agement. Rob Mor rison is now an instructor at National-Louis University Library in Chicago. Pam Newberg has been named the technical services manager-cataloging at the University of Northern Colorado’s James A. Michener Library. Gregory Prickman has been appointed special collections librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries, effective June 28, 2006. Susan E. Teague Rector is now Web applications manager at Virginia Common- wealth University. Advertisers AARP 307 ACM 301 American Economic Association 305 Annual Reviews 323 Archival Products 291 ARL 300, 314 Booklist Online 317 Chemical Abstracts Service cover 2 Choice 330 EBSCO 296 Endeavor Information System cover 4 H. W. Wilson 288 Idea Group 287 Modern Language Association 304 R. R. Bowker cover 3 Rebecca Routh has been appointed cataloging librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries. Zhijia Shen has been appointed director of the East Asia Library at the University of Washington-Seattle. Anna Shparberg is now reference/col- lection development and Web applications li- brarian at Rice University’s Fondren Library. Brian E. Surratt is now catalog/meta- data librarian at Rice University’s Fondren Library. Sandra Tucker is now chair of the sci- ence/engineering discipline group at Texas A&M University. Melissa VanVuuren is the new English librarian at James Madison University Libraries in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Gang (Gar y) Wan has joined Texas A&M University as science librarian. Anne Karle-Zenith has been named special projects librarian in Library Informa- tion Technology and Technical and Access Services at the University of Michigan. R e t i r e m e n t s James Julich took an early retirement ef- fective November 19, 2004, after serving the University of Iowa Libraries for 20 years, most recently as humanities and Latin Amer- ican studies bibliographer. William C. Sayre has retired, effective No- vember 27, 2005, after serving the University of Iowa Libraries for the past 30 years. Sayre most recently served as the coordinator for financial services. In this capacity, he has been responsible for the oversight of a $23 million budget. His conscientiousness and good judgment helped the libraries thrive during the most diffi cult fiscal years. Sayre has been a member of the Foundation Board of the Iowa Library Association since 1994. Lawrence A. Woods has retired from the University Libraries at the University of 328C&RL News May 2006 Iowa, where he had served as the director for information systems since 1991. Over the years, he also served as the primary ad- ministrator for the branch libraries, techni- cal services, and the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. His technical expertise, flexibility, and good humor made him an invaluable member of the libraries’ admin- istrative team. He oversaw the implementa- tion of the InfoHawk system and has been an international leader in the field of library automation. D e a t h s Robert W. Evans, retired director of the li- brary at State University of New York Col- lege-Purchase and lifelong member of ALA, has died. From 1955 to 1961, Evans was head librarian at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. From 1961 to 1968 he was head of technical services and asso- ciate librarian at Oberlin College. In 1969 he became the first director of the library at SUNY-Purchase; he retired from that po- sition in 1989. Evans served as president of the Westchester Library Association and the SUNY Council of Head Librarians, and he served on the boards of CHOICE and METRO, the 3R’s Council headquartered in New York. Marcia Grimes, public services librarian at Wheaton College, died March 15, in Xian, China, from apparent heart failure. At the time of her death, Grimes was touring with a delegation of American academic librar- ians to conduct bilateral exchanges with their professional counterparts in China, under the auspices of People to People Ambassador Programs. Grimes worked in several libraries throughout her career and was responsible for a wide variety of library services, including circulation, reserves, in- terlibrary loan, and reference. She joined the Wheaton library staff in 1985 as a refer- ence librarian. In addition to her library re- sponsibilities at Wheaton, Grimes served as an administrative mentor to fi rst-year Wheaton students and was a member of the campus American’s with Disabilities Act committee. Jim Skipper, retired librarian and lifelong member of ALA, died on November 4, 2005. He had a long, distinguished career, shaped by an early interest in automation, a passion for building great collections, and an endur- ing belief in the value of cooperation. Skip- per was acquisitions librarian at Ohio State University Library (1950), director of librar- ies at the University of Connecticut (1959), executive director of the Association of Re- search Libraries (1963), associate university librarian at Princeton (1967), chief librar- ian at the University of California-Berkeley (1968), executive vice president of Kraus- Thomson (1971), director of the Research Libraries Group (1974), and executive direc- tor of the Midwest Regional Library Network (1980). He received a Carnegie Fellowship in Advanced Library Administration at Rut- gers University (1958). Skipper also enjoyed consulting on many library building and renovation projects over the years. He re- tired in 1983. (“Internet Reviews” continued from page 319) Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night,” Brooks notes that Van Gogh tells his sister that there is a description of a similar café in the book Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant. Brooks tells us in the footnote that “Vincent is mistaken—in fact, the Maupassant reference he is thinking of is found in the novel Yvette.” Brooks has created a site of serious scholarship that enjoys critical and popular success. The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery is endorsed by the Van Gogh Museum in Am- sterdam and is available in 17 languages.— Shannon Van Kirk, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, svankirk@calpoly.edu May 2006 329 C&RL News mailto:svankirk@calpoly.edu