May 2010 271 C&RL News 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. ten years, Bury has been at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, where he is a deputy director and head of Eu- ropean and American Collections, as well as Maps, Music, and Philatelic Collections. Previ- ously, Bury was head of learning resources at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in Lon- don. Bury joined the British Library in 2000 as head of Modern English Collections, and he was promoted in 2002 to head of European and American Collections. Bury is also chair of ARLIS (Art Libraries Society) UK & Ire- land National Co-ordination Committee, and he is a member of the Arts & Hu- manities Research Council’s Peer Review College. At the British Library he leads the Mellon-funded 21st Century Curator Project, a program that encourages staff to remain engaged in learning and to take advantage of new technologies entering the field, while helping them pass along traditional skills that are disappearing from the library school curriculum Posie Aagaard has been named assis- tant dean for collections and assessment at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Caroline Barratt is now responsible for library operations at the Miller Learning Center at the University of Georgia. Kossivi (Jean-Paul) Bessou is the new systems librarian for the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. Sean Bird has joined the instruction team at Washburn University’s Mabee Li- brary as instructional librarian. Michelle Reed Canipe has joined the instruction team at Washburn University’s Mabee Library as distance education li- brarian. Jenny McCraw Dale has joined the Uni- versity Libraries at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro as the first-year instruc- tion coordinator and reference librarian. Kimberly Detterbeck has been ap- pointed reference librarian and coordinator Ana D. Cleveland, Regents professor of li- brary and information sciences at the Uni- versity of North Texas (UNT), has received the 2010 Award for Teaching Excellence in the Field of Library and Information Science Education from the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Cleve- land joined the UNT faculty in 1988 to es- tablish and direct a master’s degree program with an emphasis on medical informatics in the university’s School of Library and Infor- mation Sciences, now the College of Infor- mation. Cleveland is the author of Health Informatics for Medical Librarians, which she cowrote with her husband, Donald B. Cleveland, UNT professor emeritus of li- brary and information science. A member of the Medical Library Association, she was selected as the association’s first recipient of the Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Edu- cation Award, which is given to a library and information sciences educator concentrat- ing in health science. Cleveland has served as the coordinator and the director of the College of Information’s distance education program in Houston since 2001. Linda Yamamoto won the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter of the Special Libraries Association’s Special Projects award in recog- nition of her work as reflector and electronic list coordinator. A p p o i n t m e n t s Stephen J. Bury has been appointed Andrew W. Mellon chief librarian at The Frick Collec- tion’s Frick Art Reference Library. For the past P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway may10b.indd 271 4/22/2010 12:22:51 PM C&RL News May 2010 272 R e t i r e m e n t s William N. Nelson has retired as the di- rector of Augusta State University’s (ASU) Reese Library after 17 years of service. Nelson has held leadership roles in the Geor- gia Library Association (GLA), ACRL, South- eastern Library Association, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He has also served on the Regents Academic Com- mittee on Libraries, as well as GALILEO Georgia’s Virtual Library and GALILEO In- terconnected Libraries committees. He was the recipient of GLA’s Nix-Jones Award for his distinguished service to Georgia librari- anship. The award recognizes substantial contributions to the library profession and outstanding support of Georgia libraries. He also received the GLA Lifetime Membership Award. Diane Wheeler Strauss, associate universi- ty librarian for collections and services at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, has retired after more than 36 years of service with the library. Strauss joined the library staff in 1973 as the social sciences reference librarian in what was then the Business Administra- tion/Social Sciences Reference Depart- ment. In 1976, she became head of the department, which has since been in- tegrated with the library’s other reference and research services. She became associ- ate university librarian for public services in 1992, and additionally took on administra- tive responsibility for library collections in 2004. Strauss is the author of the Handbook of Business Information (Libraries Unlim- ited, 1988), which was reissued in 2003 as Strauss’s Handbook of Business Informa- tion: A Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers Second Edition. In 1990, she received the Gale Research Award for Ex- of library instruction for fi rst-year students at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. Audra Eagle has been appointed librar- ian, project archivist at Wake Forest Univer- sity’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. P. Toby Graham, director of the Digital Library of Georgia at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has also become the deputy university librarian at the University of Georgia. Amy Harper has been appointed clinical librarian at the University of Washington- Seattle’s Health Sciences Libraries. Gary Hausman has joined Princeton University’s Firestone Library as South Asia librarian. Molly Keener is now as the scholarly communication librarian of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. Bill Landis is now head of special col- lections research and instructional services at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jennifer Oenning is the new library development director at Portland State Uni- versity Library. Joan Petit has been named humanities and social sciences librarian at Portland State University. Regina Roberts is now subject bibliog- rapher for anthropology and sociology at Stanford University. Lisa Carlucci Thomas has been named digital services librarian at Southern Con- necticut State University. Diane Wheeler Strauss Advertisers ACM cover 2 Annual Reviews 261 Archival Products 256 ASBMB 263 Association of Research Libraries 237 ASM Press 225, cover 3 Choice Reviews Online 257 The Crowley Company 226 Harvard Education Publishing cover 4 John Wiley 273 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 229 may10b.indd 272 4/22/2010 12:22:52 PM May 2010 273 C&RL News cellence in Business Librarianship from the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of ALA’s Reference and User Ser- vices Association. Along with her service at the UNC Library, Strauss taught the Busi- ness Information Sources and Services class at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science from 1986 through 2001. Prior to joining the UNC Library, she held positions at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland; the University of Wisconsin-Madi- son School of Library and Information Stud- ies; the May Memorial Library in Burlington, North Carolina; and the U.S. Department of Labor Library in Washington, D.C. D e a t h s Sylvia Ann McDowell, who was honored by the Mayor of Boston who proclaimed Saturday, March 6, 2010, to be Sylvia Ann McDowell Day, died March 11. McDowell worked as a librarian at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, Middlesex Community College, Boston University, and Harvard Uni- versity’s Schlesinger Library. She was one of the founders of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail and served many years as president and vice president. McDowell was awarded the Crystal Staircase Award from the Simmons College African American Alumnae Associa- tion in 1966. She also received the Simmons College Alumnae Association’s Golden Shark Award in 2006. Monty L. Montee, 71, retired head of the catalog department and first chief catalog librarian at the Yale University Libraries, died October 30, 2009. He began his profes- sional career as music cataloger at Cornell University in 1963, and in 1966 he joined the staff of the Yale University Library as assistant head of the descriptive cataloging division. He remained at Yale for the rest of his library career, retiring in 1996. Montee became the submission editor for the Poi- soned Pen Press, retiring from that position in 2007. The definitive reference to quantitative finance Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance faith- fully reflects the multidisciplinary nature of its subject, with contributions from over 400 leading academics and professionals worldwide. “ What initially looked like an impossible undertaking has become a formidable achievement, stretching from the theoretical foundations to the most recent cutting edge methods. Mille bravos!” —DR. 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