NEWS FROM THE FIELD
C&RL News, March 2008
Vol. 69, No. 3
by Ann-Christe Galloway
Appointments
Kristine Alpi has been appointed director of the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. As director, Alpi will develop and manage collections and services in support of the university’s veterinary medical programs and related disciplines. Alpi’s previous positions include adjunct science reference librarian at New York University, information services librarian at Weill Cornell Medical Library, and library manager of the Public Health Library of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Alpi actively participates in many professional organizations, including the American Medical Informatics Association and the Medical Library Association (MLA), where she is at the distinguished level within the Academy of Health Information Professionals. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Medical Library Association and Hypothesis, the journal of the Research Section of MLA. She has developed and taught courses for librarians and information professionals on Evidence-Based Public Health Resources, Bioinformatics, and Molecular Biology and Genetics. She was a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow and the recipient of the Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences.
Alison Aldrich has been appointed technology outreach coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region, Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Washington-Seattle.
Cherry Dunham Williams has been appointed special collections librarian for the Sciences and the William Sweet Papers archivist in the History and Special Collections Division of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Jenny Emanuel is now digital resources and reference services librarian at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.
Cherie Geiser has been named assistant to the dean and head of interlibrary services at Kansas State University Libraries.
William Ingram has been named visiting research programmer at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.
Sarah Lawson has been appointed to the position of monograph cataloger at the Simon Fraser University Library (Burnaby, BC, Canada).
Janis McKenzie has joined the Simon Fraser University Library (Burnaby, BC, Canada) as the new head of library reference.
Tracy M. Nectoux is now visiting INP cataloger at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.
Heidi Nickisch Duggan is the new associate director at the Galter Health Sciences Library of Northwestern University.
Jenny Oleen is the new science librarian at Kansas State University Libraries.
Tara Olivero has been appointed special collections librarian and college archivist at the Julia Rogers Library of Goucher College.
Megan Perez is the first participant in a residency program at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville’s Library, with a special concentration in human resources and
diversity.
Mark A. Puente is now coordinator of music digital projects and special gift collections at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.
Susan Raidy-Klein has joined Simmons College as associate director for collection services.
Marcus Richter has been appointed catalog librarian at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri.
Bryan Skib has been named collection development officer at the University of Michigan Library.
Robert Slater is now Web tech and content coordinator at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.
Tony Stankus has been named life science librarian at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.
Adam Wathen has been named interim department head for collection services at Kansas State University Libraries.
Kelley Wolfe Bachli has been appointed coordinator of the Center for Primary Research and Training in the Department of Special Collections at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Kelly Jo Woodside is now the information literacy librarian at Simmons College.
Qiang Zhao has been appointed electronic resources research programmer at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.
Retirements
Michael Romary retired in September 2007 after 17 years of service—first as coordinator of bibliographic instruction (1990–2002) and then as reference and instruction librarian—from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. His career has included appointments at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he worked as a reference and instruction librarian; Ohio State University-Mansfield, as reference and instruction librarian and interlibrary loan librarian; and the Hudson Institute on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, where he was coordinator of services for the institute along with cataloging and interlibrary loan librarian. He also worked part-time at the Lilly Library and Career Services Library in Bloomington after graduating in 1983.
Barbara Via retired from her position at University at Albany as assistant director for the graduate and science library and circulation services division on March 28, 2008. During her tenure at the University at Albany, she has been an active member of a number of professional groups, chief among them is the Eastern New York Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ENY/ACRL), which she served as president. Via was also very active in the State University of New York Librarians Association for many years, and served as president of that organization. She has published several articles and book chapters focusing on journal publishing in the field of library and information science. She has frequently taught as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Information Studies, College of Computing and Information. In 2006, she was promoted to the rank of librarian. Following her retirement, Via will return to the library on a temporary, part-time basis.
Deaths
Kent Hendrickson, dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries (1985–95) before being promoted to associate vice chancellor for information services (IS), has died. His tenure in the libraries saw the birth of the Friends of the Libraries, the adoption of new technologies (such as the online catalog and the addition of the 2-millionth volume, Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, 1623). During his tenure in IS, many advances in computing technology services were accomplished, including a 950 percent increase in the use of computing. From 1964 to 1970, he was associate director for technical services for the UNL Libraries. From 1970 to 1982, Hendrickson worked in the publishing industry in Oregon for Richard Abel and Company, which was later acquired by Blackwell’s North America. He joined the University of Arizona in 1982 in library services and later returned to UNL from Arizona.
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