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PEOPLE IN THE NEWSC&RL News, February 2008Vol. 69, No. 2 by Ann-Christe Galloway Dina Giambi, assistant director for library technical services at the University of Delaware Library, has been elected vice-president/president elect of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. Appointments Gerald Franz has been named library director for Southwest Florida College in Fort Myers, Florida. Susan Gibbons has been named vice provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly dean of River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester, effective March 1. She succeeds Ronald F. Dow, who will step down March 1 after 11 years as dean. Gibbons was appointed associate dean for public service and collections development in 2004, and since then she and Dow have worked closely together on a number of projects that renewed the relevance of the campus’ libraries in the face of the Internet and digitally formatted research resources. The Gleason Library, completed this fall, uses many elements of student designs thanks to an initiative started under Gibbons and led by the library’s anthropologist. Gibbons has taken the reins on Dow’s user-based philosophy and it has spurred another anthropological study, this time on graduate students, as well as a variety of software and technological developments meant to make data navigation and storage easier. Gibbons—one of eight “up-and-coming” librarians featured in an October 2007 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the future of libraries—speaks around the globe to librarians and university administrators interested in the anthropological methods in use at the University of Rochester and emerging library technologies. In 2007 she coedited a book, Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester, on the process. She also authored The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student: Making the Connections, last year. Gibbons has risen steadily through the ranks of the library since September 2000, when she joined the staff as part-time employee, who evaluated and recommended institutional repository software for an upcoming library transition. From there she was promoted to manage the implementation process, and eventually to digital initiatives librarian. Two years later, she was appointed to director of the Digital Library Initiatives project, and in 2004 she was named associate dean. Before coming to the University of Rochester, Gibbons was an audiovisual librarian at St. John Fisher College. Julia Kiple Sollien has been named director of the Capella University Library in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to this appointment, Sollien held positions at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis, Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, Plattsburgh State University in Plattsburgh, New York, and Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids. Toni Anaya has joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries as multicultural studies librarian. Marilia Antunez has been appointed science and allied health librarian at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Jeanne Boyle is now associate university librarian for planning and organizational research at Rutgers University. Jason Casden is now digital technologies development librarian at North Carolina State University. Kevin Clarke is the new digital initiatives and scholarly communications librarian at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Michael Crumpton has been appointed assistant director of administrative services at the university libraries at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Evelyn Day has been appointed social sciences reference librarian (Psychology, Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Education) for the Central University Libraries at Southern Methodist University. Mary Evangeliste has been named director of user services and outreach at Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library. Jennifer Exum has joined the University of Michigan as the rare/non-book cataloger. Amanda Feigley has been appointed research and instruction librarian for science and mathematics at Albert S. Cook Library of Towson University, Towson, Maryland. Jacob Glenn has joined the staff of the Shapiro Science Library at the University of Michigan as science librarian. Nicholas Graham is now North Carolina maps project librarian in the Carolina Digital Library and Archives at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jacqui Grallo has been named reference and instructional technology librarian at California State University-Monterey Bay. Chad Haefele has been appointed reference librarian for Emerging Technologies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Moira Hinderer has joined the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries as project manager for the Diaspora Pathways Archival Access Project (DPAAP). Patricia Kim is now librarian at College of the North Atlantic’s Happy Valley-Goose Bay Campus in Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. Sara Klink has joined the Ashland University Library as a reference and instruction librarian. Mary Krautter is now head of reference and instructional services for the university libraries at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Mark MacEachern is now liaison services librarian at the University of Michigan. Gwen Martins has been appointed human resources manager at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Ed McBride has been named chief marketing and outreach officer of SOLINET. Sharon Morris is now the regional campus librarian at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries where she is responsible for coordinating library services at the university’s Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County campuses. Julie Murphy has joined Illinois State University as an online science librarian. Nadia Nasr has been named university archivist and digital collections librarian at Albert S. Cook Library of Towson University, Towson, Maryland. Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts has joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries as catalog and metadata services librarian. Francoise Puniello is now associate university librarian for facilities planning and management at Rutgers University. Greta Reisel Browning has been appointed reference archivist/librarian for special collections at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. David Reynolds has been appointed manager of scholarly digital initiatives at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Scott Rice is now e-learning librarian at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Nicole Robinson has joined Muskigum College in New Concord, Ohio, as reference librarian. Jeanine Scaramozzino has been appointed research librarian for Math, Physics, and Astronomy at the University of California-Irvine. Jill Sexton is now information infrastructure architect in the Library Systems Office at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Lisa Sibert has been appointed electronic resources acquisitions librarian at the University of California-Irvine. Daniel J. Slive is now reference and special projects librarian in the Mandeville Special Collections Library of the University of California-San Diego Libraries. David Stern has been appointed associate university librarian for scholarly resources at Brown University Library. Julia Stewart has been appointed social sciences reference librarian (Government Information, Political Science, Business and Economics) for the Central University Libraries at Southern Methodist University. Matt Sumner is now geospatial data services librarian at North Carolina State University. Whitney Townsend has been appointed liaison services librarian at the University of Michigan. Retirements Patricia Meckstroth, humanities librarian since 2000, retired in December 2007 from Illinois State University Milner Library after 31 years of service. She worked as in the General College Library before serving as acting director of general education for Illinois State. Pearline Palmer Harmon, library coordinator for the LRC-Norfolk Campus of Tidewater Community College since January 2001, has retired. She has been active in the Virginia Library Association serving as forum chair of Region III and the Ethnic Forum, and as a member of the awards committee and convention and conference committees; she was also a member of ACRL. Harmon was a librarian for more than 40 years, serving as a school librarian and the department head of reference and circulation at Norfolk State University. W. Walter Wicker, dean of library services at Louisiana Tech University, retired on December 31, 2007, after 14 years of service at the university and more than 50 years of service to the profession. Wicker also served as president of the Louisiana Library Association. Deaths Wayne Morris Burton, 58, head of access services at the Old Dominion University Libraries in Norfolk, Virginia, died December 1, 2007. Burton was interlibrary loan librarian at Old Dominion from 1978 to 2002, when he was appointed head of access services. He was selected as Old Dominion Librarian of the Year in 2003. 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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