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Ann­Christe Galloway P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s  

Nguyen Thi Bac, director of the Gener­
al Sciences Library of Ho Chi Minh City, 
Vietnam, has received a Simmons College 
Graduate School of Library and Information 
Science 2007 Alumni Achievement Award. 
Thi Bac, who received her MLIS from Sim­
mons in 1995, was one of the fi rst library 
students from Vietnam to study at Simmons 
under a new program designed to help 
the Vietnamese rebuild and expand their 
country’s library services. She returned to 
Vietnam after completing her studies and 
created new library services for the people 
of Ho Chi Minh City, while assuming top 
leadership roles in the Vietnamese library 
profession. Inspired by children’s libraries 
she visited while in the United States, Thi 
Bac created a children’s library in the Gen­
eral Sciences Library with assistance from 
local groups and the French Consulate and 
Consular Wives Group. She also brought 
free Internet access to library patrons by 
establishing a new media center in the 
library. This year, she secured a grant to 
outfit a bookmobile (mobile library) to pro­
vide services to Ho Chi Minh City residents 
who live far from the library. 

Joel Patrick Berger, president of C. Berger 
Group, Inc., a library consulting and staff­
ing firm, was elected president elect of the 
Special Libraries Association’s Wisconsin 
Chapter. 

John Campbell, Purdue University’s as­
sociate vice president for teaching and 
learning technologies, has been appointed 
a scholar­in­residence with the EDUCAUSE 
Learning Initiative, a community of higher 
education institutions and organizations 

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committed to advancing learning through 
information technology innovation. Dur­
ing Campbell’s one­year appointment with 
EDUCAUSE, he will be testing whether an­
alytics can be used to improve student suc­
cess as measured by retention and gradu­
ation rates. 

Deborah Lee, coordinator of library in­
structional services at the Mississippi State 
University Libraries and associate director 
of the university’s Center for Teaching and 
Learning, will be serving as a fellow at the 
2007 Frye Leadership Institute. The Frye 
Leadership Institute provides an intensive 
two­week residential program held in early 
June for faculty, librarians, and university 
information technology professionals who 
aspire to more significant leadership roles. 
The program, which focuses on creative 
leadership and the qualities needed to con­
front strategic changes in higher education, 
includes both the residential program and 
a year­long practicum, where participants 
explore some of the issues raised in the 
institute within the context of their home 
institution. 

Brian E. C. Schottlaender, university li­
brarian at University of California­San Di­
ego and a key partner of the San Diego 
Supercomputer Center on a variety of proj­
ects involving the management, steward­
ship, and preservation of digital data, has 
been awarded the inaugural 2007 Ross At­
kinson Lifetime Achievement Award from 
the Association for Library Collections and 
Technical Services (ALCTS). 

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

Lynn Baird has been named dean of li­
brary services at the University of Idaho. 

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Mona C. Couts has been named director of 
Triangle Research Libraries Network. 

Melissa E. Jadlos has been named library di­
rector at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, 
New York. 

Mar y K. Moeller has been named chief 
operating officer of the Linda Hall Library in 
Kansas City, Missouri. 

Julia Zimmerman has been named direc­
tor of University Libraries at Florida State 
University, effective July 1. Zimmerman, 
who currently serves as dean of University 
Libraries at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, 
succeeds F. William Summers, who has 
been serving as interim director since Al­
thea Jenkins (former ACRL executive direc­
tor) retired in 2006. As director of University 
Libraries, Zimmerman will oversee a staff 
of 129 and a budget of about $15 million. 
She will have daily oversight of six of the 
university’s ten libraries. Before joining OU 
in 1999, she served in several capacities at 
the Georgia Institute of Technology Library. 
Beginning in 1979, she has held positions 
as the head of the systems department, as­
sistant director for information services, and 
associate director. In that capacity, she was 
responsible for the day­to­day operation of 
the library. Before that, she was an assistant 
librarian and serials cataloger at Pennsylva­
nia State University. She has been active in 
ACRL and most recently served on the ACRL 
Excellence in Academic Libraries Awards 
Committee. In addition, she serves as chair 
of the Board of Trustees of OhioNet, a mem­
bership organization that provides Online 
Computer Library Center (OCLC) and other 
products and services to libraries in Ohio, 
West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. 

Laurel Bliss has been appointed fi ne arts 
librarian at San Diego State University Library 
and Information Access. 

DeAnn Buss has been named associate 
university librarian for digital programs and 
systems at Syracuse University Library. 

Xi Chen is now East Asian and Web 
development librarian at Oberlin College 
Library. 

Michael Creech has been appointed 
Web content manager at the University of 
Michigan. 

Sue Diehl, reference and instruction 
librarian, has been promoted to associate 
professor at Montreat College in Montreat, 
North Carolina. 

Dean Farrell is the new information 
systems librarian at the University of North 
Carolina­Wilmington. 

Alexandra Rosen Gagne is now temp 
reference and instruction librarian in the So­
cial Sciences and Humanities Library at the 
University of California­San Diego. 

Steven Gailbraith is now the Andrew 
W. Mellon curator of books at the Folger 
Shakespeare Library. 

Sally Gibson has been promoted to head 
of technical services of the Reinert­Alumni 
Memorial Library at Creighton University. 

Rebecca Graham has been named as­
sociate librarian for administrative services 
at Harvard College, effective July 1. 

David James has joined Southeast Mis­
souri State University as head of the informa­
tion services department. 

Steven Kiczek has been appointed li­
brarian in the cataloging department at San 
Diego State University Library and Informa­
tion Access. 

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Loyd Mbabu has joined the staff of the 
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library at the Uni­
versity of Michigan as the African Studies 
librarian. 

Pamela McLaughlin has been appointed 
director of communications and external rela­
tions at Syracuse University Library. 

Susan Metcalf has been appointed 
reference librarian/social sciences liaison 
at Western Carolina University’s Hunter 
Library. 

John Osinski has been appointed public 
services librarian at the University of North 
Carolina­Wilmington. 

Janet Pease has been named head of 
Syracuse University Library’s Science and 
Technology Services. 

Rachel Radom is now instructional 
services librarian at the University of North 
Carolina­Wilmington. 

Angel a R amnarine-Rieks has  been 
named Web administrator at Syracuse Uni­
versity Library. 

Kevin Ross is now associate dean of 
Chapman University’s Leatherby Libraries. 

Katherine Silton is now outreach ser­
vices librarian in the Scarborough­Phillips 
Library at St. Edward’s University. 

Gayatri Singh is now temp reference and 
instruction librarian in the Social Sciences 
and Humanities Library at the University of 
California­San Diego. 

Annelise Sklar is now political science/ 
government librarian in the Social Sciences 

and Humanities Library at the University of 
California­San Diego. 

Michael Smith is map librarian in the 
Social Sciences and Humanities Library at the 
University of California­San Diego. 

Ken Varnum has joined the University 
Library at the University of Michigan as 
Web systems manager. 

Lauren Wahman is the new reference/ 
instruction services librarian in charge of 
collection development at the University 
of Cincinnati’s Raymond Walters College 
Library. 

M a r g a r e t  Wa r n e r  i s  n o w  h e a d  o f  
public services librarian in the Scarbor­
ough­Phillips Library at St. Edward’s 
University. 

M a r g a r e t  We s t b u r y  i s  n o w  t e m p  
reference and instruction librarian in the 
Social Sciences and Humanities Library at 
the University of California­San Diego. 

Mary Wickline is now instruction and 
outreach librarian in the Medical Center 
Library at the University of California­San 
Diego. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

Karen I. Junker, director of Lavery Library 
at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New 
York, retired in 2006 after 12 years of ser­
vice. 

(“Reviews” continues from page 320) 

“HIV Data” contains the UNAIDS and 
World Health Organization’s (WHO) 
collection of information on the estimation 
of HIV prevalence and projections. Also, the 
current “Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic” 
is found here. 

“Policies” provides a compilation of policy 
documents related to HIV issues. “Publications” 
contains a list of UNAIDS publications that are 
available for downloading in English, Spanish, 
French, and Russian languages. Also, an order­
ing form for printed copies is accessible. 

An extremely helpful feature of the Web 
site is the keyword search box. The search 
results screen allows options for displaying by 
date, relevance, and language. Results from a 
search will yield UNAIDS Web pages, press 
releases, and publications. 

Overall, UNAIDS is a valuable resource for 
students and researchers around the world 
who are interested in the latest developments 
in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. —Nancy Allen, 
University of South Florida­Sarasota/New Col­
lege, nallen@banshee.sar.usf.edu 

326C&RL News May 2007

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