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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
C&RL News, November 2006
Vol. 67, No. 10
by Ann-Christe Galloway
Jane Block, architecture and art librarian for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named the first recipient of the Andrew Turyn Professorship, a five-year appointment that supports research and collections in the university library.
Tom Teper, head of preservation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named the first recipient of the John “Bud” Velde Endowed Professorship, which focuses on preserving endangered and rare library materials.
Appointments
Gordon N. Baker was appointed director of libraries at Clayton State University (CSU) in Morrow, Georgia. Baker has served as head of public services and interim library director previously. Prior to his association with CSU, Baker was a coordinator of instructional technology and media services and library/media specialist with the Henry County (Georgia) Schools in McDonough for 15 years.
Melissa Jadlos has been appointed library director of Lavery Library at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. Active in academic librarianship for more than 15 years, Jadlos has served in public and private colleges. Jadlos was most recently associate director at Milne Library, for the State University of New York-Geneseo.
Colleen Alstad has been appointed liaison librarian for political science and sociology and anthropology at the Simon Fraser University Library in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Kaijsa J. Calkins has joined the University of Wyoming Libraries as English reference librarian.
Marcy A. Carrel has joined the reference staff of Poynter Library at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg.
David Clendinning has been named associate director of Penfield Library at the State University of New York College-Oswego.
Erica L. Coe has been appointed head of instruction services at the University of Washington-Seattle’s UW Tacoma Library.
Jennifer Darragh is reference librarian for behavioral and social sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Barbara DeFelice has been named director of digital resources program at Dartmouth College Library.
Eugene Dickerson has been appointed lead librarian for cataloging and metadata in the Ralph J. Bunche Library at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Kirk has been named associate librarian for information resources for Dartmouth College Library.
Emily Love is outreach librarian for multicultural services for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tansy Matthews has been named associate director of the Virtual Library of Virginia.
Tami Morse McGill is now a catalog librarian at the University of Wyoming Libraries.
Jean E. McLaughlin has been appointed honors college/assessment librarian at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Anna Leta Moss has been named circulation/instruction librarian at Lipscomb University’s Beaman Library, Nashville, Tennessee.
Kathleen Mullen has been appointed collection conservator at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Michael Ours is now public services librarian/electronic resources at Lynchburg College.
David Seaman has been named associate librarian for information management at Dartmouth College Library.
Christy Stevens has been appointed humanities librarian at California State University’s Sacramento Library.
Sharon Tabachnick has joined the University of Memphis as instructional services librarian.
Greg Tourino has been appointed liaison librarian for computing science and engineering science at Simon Fraser University Library in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Kaya M. Townsend has joined the reference staff of University of South Florida-St. Petersburg’s Poynter Library.
Scott Walter has been appointed associate university librarian for services and professor of library administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Patricia J. West has been named reference and instruction librarian at American University Library in Washington, D.C.
Robin Williams has been named cataloger/public services librarian at Lynchburg College.
Tracie Wilson is now CLIR fellow and folklore scholar for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nikki Wright is now assistant engineering and technology librarian for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Stephen Wynn has been appointed head of technical services and systems at Truman State University.
Retirements
Robert Burger, associate university librarian for services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has retired.
Gladys Chaw took early retirement at the end May 2006, after serving as librarian with increasing levels of responsibilities for College of San Mateo (CSM) Library for 33 years. During her tenure at CSM, she enjoyed teaching and helping students and faculty in their research questions, and actively served on campus and on Peninsula Library System committees, events, and projects. She has served as advisor for a youth organization on campus, which successfully brought cultural awareness through events and activities to the campus community for 21 years. She has been active in CARL and ACRL as a member serving in various program planning committees, campus liaison for Northern California, and chaired the Coalition of Academic and Research Librarians from Underrepresented Groups. She has also been an active member with ALA, CLA, and Chinese American Librarians Association, serving as board member for the latter and president for the California Chapter. She has been involved with all these professional organizations for over three decades and plans to continue to do so.
Ron Force, dean of library services at the University of Idaho Library, has retired after 24 years of service. Prior to this position, Force was at the Ohio State University and Washington State University libraries. His career has been devoted to using technology to further the interests of library practice, having ushered in the University of Idaho’s first integrated library system and developing a model of library collections built on electronic resources. He worked to develop statewide resource sharing based on a model of online resources during his tenure as dean. His leadership in Idaho was evidenced by his participation on statewide initiatives, his service as president of the Idaho Library Association, and his work on building cooperative agreements with other academic libraries.
Tom Kilton, modern language and linguistics librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has retired.
Maria Porta, assistant acquisitions librarian at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has retired.
Deaths
Paula Pearce Hinton, 62, social sciences reference librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), died on September 17, following a sudden illness. Hinton joined the reference staff at UNC’s Davis Library in 1991 and was known to library staff and patrons for her knowledge combined with a deep commitment to service. Hinton was an active and widely respected leader in state and national library organizations. In 2005, she began a two-year term as secretary of the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA), serving simultaneously as chair of NCLA’s Reference and Adult Services Section. From 2001 to 2002, she chaired the Documents Section of NCLA. At the time of her death, she was an associate editor of North Carolina Libraries, the official publication of NCLA. Hinton also made contributions as a member of ALA’s Reference and User Services Association and as a member of the Librarians’ Association at UNC-Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH). From 1999 to 2000, she served as elected treasurer of LAUNC-CH. She chaired the association’s Program Committee in 2000-2001. Prior to working at UNC, Hinton was an elementary school teacher from 1963 to 1974. She then returned to Campbell University in a variety of library positions that included head of circulation, cataloger, assistant librarian for technical services, and assistant librarian for public services and head of reference.
Kay L. Shaffer, senior associate librarian at the University at Albany (UA)-State University of New York, died on September 16. She joined the UA Libraries in 1973. In her nearly 33 years at Albany she held a number of assignments, including her most recent duties as bibliographer for Russian and East European studies. During her tenure at UA she was involved in an exchange program with Moscow State University and traveled more than six times to Bulgaria to participate in a U.S. Information Agency (USIA) project with Sophia University. Shaffer belonged to a number of national and state professional organizations, including ALA, ACRL, ALCTS, ENY/ACRL, and the State University of New York Librarians Association.
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.
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