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C&RL News, December 2004
Vol. 65, No. 11

by Ann-Christe Galloway

Phillip M. Edwards, who is in the doctoral program at the University of Washington’s Information School, has been named winner of the Coalition for Networked Information’s Paul Evans Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship.

James Neal, vice president for information services and university librarian at Columbia University, has been appointed the U.S. representative to the Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). His term will begin at the IFLA conference in August 2005 in Oslo, Norway.

JoséëMarie Griffiths has been named dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Prior to this position, Griffiths held the Doreen E. Boyce Chair in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She was also an associate with the Learning Research and Development Center and the first director of the university’s Sara Fine Institute for Interpersonal Behavior and  Technology. Griffiths has had two presidential appointments, one to the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (1996–2002) and the other to the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (2003–present). Griffiths has led or participated in information and library science projects in more than 35 countries. She has received three awards from the American Society for Information Science and Technology in recognition of her contributions to the field.

Helena Rodrigues has been named university dean of libraries at Johnson & Wales University. She will also be overseeing the Culinary Museum and Archives and serving as dissertation advisor to doctoral candidates. Rodrigues has served as dean of libraries for the Providence Campus since 1993, when she joined the university. Prior to this position, she worked in the libraries of Roger Williams University and Brown University, the Rhode Island State Library, and the Library of Congress. She is a member of several professional organizations, including IFLA, ALA, and the New England Library Association.

Helen H. Spalding has been appointed university librarian at Portland State University, effective March 2005. Since 1985, Spalding has served as the associate director of libraries at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Prior to that she was with Iowa State University library. She is active in ACRL where she served as president (2002-03), initiating the Academic and Research Library @ your library Campaign, the E.J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program, and collaborative cross-border relationships.  Spalding also served as ACRL Councilor and as a member of the ALA Budget Analysis and Review Committee. She is a member of the editorial board of  portal: Libraries and the Academy.

Dave Baldwin has been named associate dean for reference and instruction at Iowa State University Library.

Ted Baldwin has been appointed head of the College of Applied Science Library at the University of Cincinnati.

Elizabeth Breakstone is now social sciences librarian at the University of Oregon-Eugene.

Jennifer Burton has been named coordinator of instruction/reference librarian at Emerson College.

Rachel Carreon has been appointed librarian residency program reference librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries.

Daniel Dotson is now librarian for mathematical sciences in the Science and Engineering Library at Ohio State University.

Carol Doyle has been appointed reference and instruction librarian in the Schaffner Library at Northwestern University.

Lateka Grays has joined the staff of Emory University’s Goizueta Business Library as its first librarian resident, a two-year position.

David Gregory is now associate dean for research and access at Iowa State University Library.

Janet Harper has been appointed project cataloger for a National Endowment for the Humanities two-year grant at Emory University’s Woodruff Library.

Mary Ann Hyatt has been named director of the John E. Jaqua Law Library at the University of Oregon-Eugene.

Andrea Imre has been appointed electronic resources librarian for the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Qiana Johnson has been appointed reference and instruction librarian at Northwestern University’s Schaffner Library.

Elizabeth Meyer is now visual resources librarian at the University of Cincinnati.

Lorna Newman has joined the University of Cincinnati as government documents librarian.

Lee Pasackow has joined Emory University’s Goizueta Business Library as a business research librarian.

Nancy Reinhold has been appointed team leader for research and instructional services at Emory University’s Woodruff Library.

Erica Schattle has been named coordinator of outreach/reference librarian at Emerson College.

James Seamans has joined the University of Cincinnati as the head of the monographs department.

Peter H. Sezzi is now associate librarian at Ventura College.

Bonnie Biggs, assistant dean, coordinator for public services, and coordinator for university arts and lectures at California State University (CSU)-San Marcos, has retired. Biggs is one of the founding librarians for the 15-year-old university and is now working as tribal liaison for CSU-San Marcos. She served as president of the American Indian Library Association (1998) and chair of ALA’s Office of Literacy and Outreach Services Subcommittee on Library Service to American Indians (1999–2001). In 2000–01, Biggs conducted a tribal library census and needs assessment in southern California for the California State Library and, in 2003, organized the first Native Libraries Round Table of the California Library Association.

Steve Meckstroth, humanities division head, fine arts librarian, special collection and rare books librarian at Illinois State University’s (ISU) Milner Library, has retired. Meckstroth joined the faculty at Milner in 1974 as fine arts librarian. In 1999–2000, he served as interim associated dean of university libraries. Meckstroth was co-curator of the ISU African Art Collection and researched and edited the ISU booklet Campus Art: A Walking Tour of Selected Artwork on the Campus of Illinois State University in 2004.

Mary Ellen Templeton, one of the founding members of Emory University’s Goizueta Business Library, has retired after nearly 22 years of service with Emory. Templeton served as acting supervisor of business information services from 1992 to 1994 before the business library was established with its own director in 1994. In 1991, Templeton published Help! My Job Interview is Tomorrow, which guides readers in using the library for research on employers.

James F. Govan, 78, university librarian emeritus at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, has died. In nearly two decades of heading UNC’s libraries, Govan oversaw the building of the Walter R. Davis Library, a stack addition to Wilson Library, and Wilson’s renovation for the housing of special collections. He led the preservation and conservation of UNC’s rare book collection and materials at risk. Govan spearheaded creation of the Triangle Research Libraries Network, a shared online system that gives scholars access to the library holdings of UNC, Duke University, and North Carolina State University. The UNC Library became a founding member of the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET), and Govan served twice on the SOLINET Board, as chair in 1977. Active in the Association of Research Libraries, he was its president in 1983. Govan was on the Board of the Center for Research Libraries from 1984 to 1990, which he chaired in 1988. He was involved in other national and international library organizations, including the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources.

Anne Lipow, 69, retired University of California (UC)-Berkeley library information officer, has died. Lipow worked in the UC library’s acquisition, systems, and cooperative services department (1961–84) and was appointed director of library instructional services in 1982. She helped institute the Baker document delivery service, the Berkeley/Stanford Cooperative Program, and virtual reference service. When Lipow retired in 1991, she was awarded emeritus status, the first such award for a Berkeley staff member. For more than three years she served as an expert witness against using mandated filtering systems on Internet terminals in public libraries and helped bring United States vs. American Library Association case to the Supreme Court. During the 1960s, she was a founder of the UC Berkeley Librarians Union. She also wrote a report on discrimination again women in the UC Berkeley library system, which resulted in increases in librarians’ salaries. Lipow founded and directed the Library Solutions Institute and Press, which focuses on training, publishing, and consulting on library and technology management issues.