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PEOPLE IN THE NEWSC&RL News, October 2007Vol. 68, No. 9 by Ann-Christe Galloway Appointments Cynthia Robinson has been appointed director of the George T. Harrell Library at Pennsylvania State’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. Her previous positions include director of the Jacobsen Library and assistant director for the information services division at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin; associate director of the Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota; assistant director for collection services, Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia; and head of education, McGoogan Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Nina Warren has been named director of library services at SUNY-Genesee Community College’s Alfred C. O’Connell Library. Joseph Weber has been appointed director of library services for Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Marcy Allen is now head of the maps library at the University of Pennsylvania-University Park. Thea Allen has been named special project cataloger in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Anne Bahde is now special collections and university archives librarian at San Diego State University Library and Information Access. Michelle Batchelor has been appointed access services/reference librarian at the University of Washington-Bothell and Cascadia Community College. William Black is now professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he directs administrative services for the James E. Walker Library. Marcia Boosinger has been appointed associate dean for public services at Auburn University Libraries. Katherine Carr has joined the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries as print collections librarian. Lisa R. Carter is now head of the special collections research center at North Carolina State University. Naun Chew has been appointed principal cataloger at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Kirsten Clark is now government publications and regional depository librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Patrick Cullom has been appointed visual materials archivist in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. JeeHyun Davis has joined the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries as digital tangible media cataloger. Leslie Delserone has been named science librarian, physical sciences and engineering, at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Valeda Dent is now associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Rutgers University Libraries. Amy Elliott is now a reference librarian at Boise State University’s Albertsons Library. Eric Forte has been named head of public services at Boise State University’s Albertsons Library. Lila Fredenburg is the new director of administrative services for Rutgers University Libraries. Theodore Gerontakos has been appointed metadata/cataloging librarian, monographic services division at the University of Washington-Seattle. Leslie Haas has been appointed director of the information commons at Loyola University-Chicago Libraries. Cody Hanson has joined the University of Minnesota Libraries as coordinated educational services librarian. Philip Herold has been appointed academic program director for agricultural, biological and environmental sciences at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Amy Hribar is now science librarian for agricultural, biological and environmental sciences at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Elizabeth Hull has been named assistant photographic archivist in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Thomas Izbicki is the new humanities librarian for Rutgers University Libraries. Keven Jeffery is now digital technologies librarian at the San Diego State University Library and Information Access. Kristi Jensen has been named head of the John R. Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Bruce Johnston has been named associate professor of learning resources/health sciences librarian at the Robert Morris University Library in Pittsburgh. Nichole Julian has been appointed assistant instruction coordinator at the University of Southern California Libraries. Rachel Kirk, team leader for acquisitions, has been tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor at the James E. Walker Library of Middle Tennessee State University. Kim Leeder has been appointed reference librarian at Boise State University’s Albertsons Library. Wayne Loftus has been named science librarian, Health Sciences, at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Henry McCurley has been appointed head of cataloging with Auburn University Libraries. R. Arvid Nelsen has been appointed archivist for the Charles Babbage Institute Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries. David L. Podboy is now reference and information commons librarian at Smith College Libraries in Northampton, Massachusetts. Amy Rustic has been hired as reference and instruction librarian at the Pennsylvania State University-New Kensignton. Donna Schulman is now director of the Carey Library at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Ted Schwitzner has joined Illinois State University as the head of the bibliographic services division. Sara Seely has been appointed as a reference librarian at Boise State University’s Albertsons Library. Jason Sokoloff has joined the business librarian team as a new liaison librarian for business at James Madison University Libraries’ Carrier Library. Karen Spilman is the new collections archivist in Archives and Special Collections for the University of Minnesota Libraries. Erin S. Stalberg is now head of metadata and cataloging at North Carolina State University. Stephanie Stewart is now moving image archivist in the Manuscripts Department at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Rick Stoddart has been appointed reference librarian at Boise State University’s Albertsons Library. Bruce Stoffel has been appointed reference coordinator for Illinois State University. Mayo Taylor, team leader for access services at the James E. Walker Library of Middle Tennessee State University, has been tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor. Rebecca Troy-Horton is now head of the government documents department at Frazar Memorial Library at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Judit Hajnal Ward has been appointed director of the Center of Alcohol Studies Library at Rutgers University. Tao Yang is the new East Asian librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. Retirements Virginia Massey-Burzio, head of research services and collections at the Johns Hopkins’ Sheridan Libraries, retired July 1, after 15 years at the university and more than 41 years of service to the profession. Massey-Burzio began her career at the Boston Public Library and went on to serve at Dartmouth College, Brandeis University, and the University of Maryland-College Park. While at Brandeis, Massey-Burzio created what became known as the “Brandeis Model,” an in-depth type of reference service that best uses a librarian’s professional expertise. It delivers the kind of service library patrons need and librarians are most qualified to deliver, but are unlikely to receive in the traditional reference service model. She won ALA’s Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award in 1999 “for distinguished contributions to reference librarianship.” The hallmark of her career has been encouraging staff to create services that make using the library easy and convenient for users rather than focusing on what librarians think patrons ought to learn. Kathleen Conley has retired as head of general reference and documents at Illinois State University after 36 years of service. Paul A. Willis retired as dean of libraries at the University of South Carolina (USC) on June 30. Willis led the USC libraries for five years, providing leadership to staff members in all areas, enhancing development efforts, and planning for a new special collections library for the Columbia campus. His work at USC culminated a career of 41 years of service, primarily at the University of Kentucky. Deaths Virginia Phillips Whitney, 92, former university librarian at Rutgers University, has died in June. After earning her MLS degree at Rutgers University in 1962, she worked in the university’s libraries until her retirement. She was appointed university librarian in 1971, becoming the first woman administrator of a major university library system in the United States. In that role oversaw a system with 19 libraries and 260 employees. One of her signature projects was the installation and integration of computers throughout the Rutgers University libraries. Virginia was an active member of the ALA and the Association for Research Libraries and also taught in the Rutgers Graduate School for Library Science. 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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