PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
C&RL News, April 2009
Vol. 70, No. 4
Appointments
Connie Vinita Dowell joined the Jean and Alexander Heard Library system at Vanderbilt University as its first dean of libraries in March. As San Diego State University’s dean of library and information access for the past ten years, Dowell led fundraising campaigns and expanded library services during a period of great technological change. Prior to this position, she served as vice president for information services and librarian at Connecticut College. She is a three-time recipient of ALA’s John Cotton Dana Public Relations Award. In 2008 she received the SirsiDynix-ALA-APA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers. Under Dowell’s leadership, Vanderbilt will initiate a comprehensive study of the Heard Library system, with a view toward launching a major library enhancement effort.
Sarah Clatterbuck has been appointed systems librarian at Menlo College in Atherton, California.
Cheryl Collins has been appointed technical services librarian at Menlo College in Atherton, California.
Rebecca Dowson has been appointed liaison librarian for English and History at Fraser University Library in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Holly Hendrigan is now liaison librarian for education and the faculty of arts and social sciences at Simon Fraser University (Surrey Campus) in British Columbia, Canada.
Anne Linvill has been appointed access services librarian at Menlo College in Atherton, California.
Kathy A. Parsons has been named head of the stacks and media department at Iowa State University Library.
Deaths
Teresa F. Strozik, retired director of technical services at Hamilton College (1989–2001), has died. Strozik began her library science career at Syracuse University, where she served in a variety of positions, leading to her last role there as assistant director of technical services. During her ten years at Syracuse University, she was most proud of her work implementing the new state-of-the art “on-line” library system at the new Bird Library. In 1974 she became the associate director for Library Services of the State University of New York. Strozik served (often as chair) on more than a dozen state and national committees, task forces, commissions, and councils. She was a guest lecturer/instructor at numerous universities throughout North America and a frequent invited speaker at professional library association conferences. Upon special invitation by the Polish Academy of Sciences, Strozik traveled to Poland to consult and assist with the implementation of academic library networks in the four university centers at Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, and Wroclaw.
Evan Ira Farber, library director emeritus of Earlham College, has died. Farber developed a new concept of college libraries and college librarianship in the 60s, 70s, and 80s and encouraged hundreds of college students to enter the library profession. Farber’s first professional position was at Livingston State Teachers College in Alabama (1953–55), followed by a seven-year tour as serials librarian at Emory University, where he worked for his mentor, Guy R. Lyle, himself a nationally recognized librarian. It was as college librarian at Earlham College (1962–94), that Farber made his mark. Hundreds of academic leaders and librarians studied the model college library program he created at Earlham. Perhaps his most famous thesis, that “the library is not the heart of the college, the teaching-learning process is,” not only rankled his peers, but also caused them to rethink their professional roles and the services offered by their libraries. Farber’s contributions are well documented in the collection of his writings titled College Libraries and the Teaching/Learning Process (Richmond, IN.: Earlham College Press, 2007). He also advanced the academic library profession through his involvement with ACRL, which he served as president in 1977. He was a member of the ALA Council and a member and chair of numerous ALA and ACRL committees, including cochair of the conference planning committee for the 1989 ACRL National Conference in Cincinnati. To honor his many contributions, ACRL named Farber Academic/Research Librarian of the Year in 1980. He also received the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award in 1987, three honorary doctorates (St. Lawrence University, Susquehanna University, and Indiana University), and a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of North Carolina School of Library and Information Science.
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