nov09b.indd C&RL News November 2009 614 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. in training, online tutorials, or innovative ser- vices at their institution. Wendy Allen Shelburne, electronic re- sources librarian, and David S. Vess, visiting IMLS Portal librarian and assistant professor of library administration, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, re- ceived the Blackwell’s Scholarship Award for 2009 for their article, “Approaches to selec- tion, access, and collection development in the Web world: A case study with fugitive literature.” The article was coauthored by Karen Schmidt, formerly of the University Library and now university librarian at the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University. A p p o i n t m e n t s Laurie Alexander has accepted a perma- nent appointment as director, Undergraduate Library, and head of Graduate Library Re- search and Education Services at the Univer- sity of Michigan’s University Library. Roberta I. Shaffer has been appointed law librarian of Congress. In 1980, she was ap- pointed director of the University of Hous- ton Law Center’s Legal Communications Program and associate director of the cen- ter’s Law and Technology Program. In 1984, she became the fi rst person appointed to the position of special assistant to the law librar- ian in the Library of Congress. In 1987, Shaf- fer was named a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law in Israel. Upon her return to the United States, she served for a year as director of the law library at the George Washington University National Law Center Library dur- ing the director’s sabbatical. From 1990 until 1999, she served concurrently as adjunct co- ordinator of the law librarianship specializa- tion at the School of Library and Information Melody Allison, assistant biology librar- ian at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Library, was awarded the Award for Professional Excellence by the Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association. This award is in recognition of outstanding leadership and exceptional librarianship in meeting the in- formation needs of nursing and allied health professionals. Chatham Ewing, assistant professor and cu- rator of special collections in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), has been named a 2009–2010 UIUC faculty fellow by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Ewing’s project, “Multi-Spectral Imaging and Analysis of Manuscript Materi- als,” aims to test the potential for using multi- spectral imaging, digital analysis, and post- processing to uncover lost texts within the manuscripts holdings of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It will focus on two 14th- century palimpsest manuscripts and a set of 20th century letter-books. Carissa Holler, assistant professor of library administration and business and fi nance in- formation librarian at the University of Illi- nois at Urbana-Champaign, received the 2009 Achievement in Academic Business Librari- anship Award from the Special Libraries As- sociation. The award recognizes the accom- plishments of librarians new to the fi eld of academic business librarianship (more than three years, but less than seven years in an academic library position). Candidates must submit evidence of exemplary librarianship, which can include published journal articles, books, conference presentations, excellence P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway November 2009 615 C&RL News Melanie Griffi n was hired as an assistant librarian in Digital Collections at the University of South Florida. Ross Griffi ths joined the staff at Illinois State University as preservation librarian. Emily Hamstra has been named learning librarian at the University of Michigan. Sara Henry has accepted the new engi- neering librarian position in the Art, Architec- ture, and Engineering Library at the University of Michigan. Randy Hensley has been appointed pro- fessor and head of instruction of the Newman Library at Baruch College-CUNY. Rebecca Webber Hill has accepted a term position as science librarian in the Shapiro Science Library at the University of Michigan. Maurice Hobson has been appointed to a one-year position as W. E. B. Du Boise postdoctoral associate at the University of Massachusetts Amerherst Libraries. Andrew Huot has been appointed conser- vator at Illinois State University. Chad Kahl is now the social sciences online resource specialist at Illinois State University. Demian Katz has been appointed library technology development specialist at Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library in Vil- lanova, Pennsylvania. Barbara Lewis was promoted to assistant librarian at the University of South Florida. Ye Li has accepted the position of chemis- try librarian in the Shapiro Science Library at the University of Michigan. Science at Catholic University of America and as director of research services at the law fi rm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. In 1999, she was appointed and served for two years as dean and professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas-Austin. Af- ter working briefl y with the Special Libraries Association and as a consultant, in 2002 she accepted the position of director of external relations and program development and pro- fessor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park. Shaffer returned to the Library of Congress in 2005 as executive director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee/ Federal Library Network. A past offi cer of the International Association of Law Librar- ies, Shaffer is currently serving as the chair of the Information Policy Committee of the International Council for Scientifi c and Tech- nical Information. Shane Beers joined the University of Michigan’s Department of Preservation and Conservation as the library’s fi rst digital pres- ervation librarian. Melissa Bowles-Terry has been appointed instruction and assessment coordinator for the University of Wyoming Libraries in Laramie. Judith Carter has been appointed head of technical services at Marquette University Libraries in Milwaukee. Daniel Chamberlain has joined Occi- dental College’s Center for Digital Learning and Research as a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Academic Libraries. Sharon Comstock has been named Il- linois State University’s program director for the Post-Baccalaureate Certifi cate Program in School Librarianship. Sarah Dick has joined Illinois State Univer- sity as marketing and special projects librarian. Gabriel Duque has accepted the posi- tion of learning librarian at the University of Michigan. Khue D. Duong has begun a tenure-track appointment as science librarian at California State University-Long Beach. Advertisers AMS Press 607 Annual Reviews 573 Antioch University 569 Ashgate Publishing cover 2 Association of Research Libraries 589 ASBMB 558 Chemical Abstracts Service cover 4 Choice 580 IGI Global 557 Project Muse 592 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 561 John Wiley cover 3 C&RL News November 2009 616 Roshin Mathew has joined Mary Norton Clapp Library at Occidental College as librarian for the fi rst year experience. Molly Susan Mathias is now the learn- ing commons coordinator of the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Bill McMillin has been appointed reference/ instruction librarian at Illinois State University. Tamara Meredith is now head of the Learning Resources Center for the University of Wyoming Libraries in Laramie, Wyoming. Carla Montori is now head of preservation at the University of Maryland. Angie Oehrli is now learning librarian at the University of Michigan. Bria Parker has accepted a newly cre- ated audio digitization specialist in the Digital Conversion Unit at the University of Michigan. Sue Peacock is now e-learning and instruc- tion librarian at Marquette University Libraries in Milwaukee, Devon Persing is the new interface librar- ian in the Scholarly Publishing Offi ce at the University of Michigan. Marsha Kay Schnirring, instructional services librarian at Occidental College, is now the founding director of the college’s new Center for Digital Learning and Research. Jennifer Sharkey is the new instruction services coordinator at Illinois State University. Faith Steele has been named to a two- year academic library residency at Marquette University Libraries in Milwaukee. Tomaro Taylor was promoted to associate librarian at the University of South Florida. Lori Tschirhart is the new science li- brarian at the Shapiro Science Library at the University of Michigan. Joe M. Williams has been named head of access services for the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. R e t i r e m e n t s Judith Avery retired as librarian from the University of Michigan August 31, 2009, after 41 years of service. Avery joined the Univer- sity Library in 1968 as a reference librarian in the Undergraduate Library. From 1985 to 1986, she was acting cohead of the Undergraduate Library. She joined the Graduate Library refer- ence department in 1986 as the head of the Library Science Library and Education and Psy- chology Subject specialist. In 1987, Avery was appointed the head of reference services for the Graduate Library. During this time, she was responsible for reference, microform reading room, and the Information and Library Studies Library. In 1993, she was named the English Language and Literature, American Culture, Canadian Studies, and British and U.S. History subject specialist. Deaths Robert W. Oram, 87, director of Central Uni- versity Libraries at Southern Methodist Univer- sity from 1979 to 1989, has died. He began his career at the University of Missouri Library. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign he was circulation librarian and later associate university librarian and acting university librar- ian. Oram was active in ACRL and the Illinois Library Association; he was one of the found- ers of the Friends of the University of Illinois Library. Robert Francis (Bob) Skinder, science li- brarian at the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Thomas Cooper Library from 1996 to 2008, has died. Prior to joining to USC, Skinder served as a librarian at the Federal Aviation Ad- ministration Library, Walter Reed Army Institute for Research, and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He also served in the United States Marine Corps (1963–71) and in the Marine Corps Reserve (1976–91). Robert F. Skinder