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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
C&RL News, July/August 2007
Vol. 68, No. 7
by Ann-Christe Galloway
Rosann Bazirjian, university librarian at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, has been elected to the SOLINET delegation of the OCLC Members Council.
Charles Henry, president of the Council on Library and Information Resources, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialist award to lecture and consult in China in fall 2007. Henry will work for several weeks with librarians, faculty, administrators, and IT specialists at Shantou University, advising on their plans to construct a new library and on issues pertaining to new staff organization and deployment of IT on campus. He will also deliver several lectures on current issues at the intersection of higher education and the evolving library. Shantou University, located in the southern province of Guangdong, enrolled its first students in 1983. It is a progressive school that has recently reformed its curriculum to align its courses and degree programs with the new knowledge-based economy of the 21st century. Henry is the recipient of two previous Fulbright awards. As a Fulbright Scholar from 1980 to 1981, he conducted research and lectured in Vienna, Austria. In 2003, he was selected as a Senior Scholar, hosted by the Humanities Society of New Zealand.
Allison Level, college liaison librarian to the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU), is the recipient of the 2007 CSU Libraries Faculty Award for Excellence. The award recognizes a member of the libraries faculty for outstanding contributions to the libraries, to the university, and/or to the library profession. One of Level’s significant achievements is her work on the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant-funded Colorado Agriculture Bibliography Project (lib.colostate.edu/research/agbib/). The Web site and searchable database is now used as a model for other librarians. Level and three colleagues received the libraries’ Bright Idea Project Award in 2006 for their work on that project. Level has also been active with the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) and is currently serving as a director on the USAIN Executive Council. She collaborates on the two CSU Agriculture Network Information Center projects. Among her scholarly achievements are six published peer-reviewed articles since 2003, with two more in press; three chapters in refereed books with another in print; and many articles and reviews for a variety of other publications.
The following have been elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries—president: Louis Pitschmann (dean of University Libraries, University of Alabama), past president: Lance Query (dean of libraries and academic information resources, Tulane University), president-elect: Bonnie
MacEwan (dean of libraries, Auburn University), secretary-treasurer: Sylverna Ford (dean of libraries, University of Memphis); at-large members: Rosann Bazirjian (university librarian, University of North Carolina-Greensboro), Deborah Jakubs (vice provost for library affairs, Duke University), and Julia Rholes (dean of libraries, University of Mississippi).
Appointments
Thomas Atwood has been named dean of university libraries at Bowling Green State University. He most recently served as director of the Ocasek Medical Library at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine. He is also responsible for the Northeastern Ohio Cooperative Regional Depository and the library’s Academic Learning Resources and oversees the management of areas such as academic technologies and course management systems, and public, technical, and media services. He is also chief medical librarian for the Oliver Ocasek Regional Medical Information Center. Atwood, chair of the OhioLINK Coordinated Depositories Task Force, also served on OhioLINK’s Governing Board and Executive Committee (2004–05) and has been a member of its Library Advisory Coordinating Committee Council since 2002. He has been on its Advisory Council of Deans and Directors since 1990, serving as chair (2004–05).
 Doug Frazier has been named university librarian of the Lane Library at Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU). Frazier had served as interim university librarian since June 2006. In that capacity he oversaw the relocation of the library from a temporary space on campus to the fully renovated Lane Library building last June. He will oversee a budget of $1.7 million and a staff of 19, including 10 librarians. From 1996 to 2006, Frazier served as assistant university librarian. He joined AASU in 1991 as head of technical services and systems librarian. Frazier has been involved with the Georgia Historical Society providing consulting work and assisting with cataloging and staff training.
Cynthia Robinson has been appointed director of the George T. Harrell Library, Pennsylvania State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, effective August 27, 2007. Robinson’s present position is director of the Jacobsen Library and assistant director for the Information Services Division at the University of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Her previous positions include 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. She was a National Library of Medicine Associate in 1992. In addition to her experience in academic institutions, Robinson has also held positions in hospital libraries.
Kenning Arlitsch is now associate director for administrative and information technology services at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.
Fred Barnhart has been named associate dean for library services and collections at the Loyola University Chicago Libraries.
Wanda Brown is now associate director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Keith Chevalier has been appointed college archivist at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Susanna Davidsen has been named director of library services for the Walden University Library.
Daniel Eshom has joined the Columbia University libraries as the metadata specialist for the Electronic Publishing Initiative.
Eric Garcia has been appointed general reference librarian at the Oviatt Library at California State University-Northridge.
Michelle Mittrach Garcia is now the librarian for the Museum of Indian Art and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology Library in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Michelle Hajder is the new associate librarian for the Walden University Library.
Lindsay Hansen has been appointed music and media librarian at the Oviatt Library, California State University-Northridge.
Juli Hinz has been named associate director for research and learning services at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.
Alex R. Hodges has been promoted to instruction coordinator at American University Library in Washington, D.C.
Tracy Hull has been appointed associate dean at the Mary Couts Burnett Library at Texas Christian University.
Janna Lawrence has been appointed assistant director of collections and outreach at the University of Iowa Libraries Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.
Cheiko Maene has been named maps and state documents librarian at Northwestern University Library.
Max Marmor has been appointed president of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Michael Matos has joined American University in Washington, D.C., as reference/instruction librarian.
Elizabeth McDonough has been appointed reference librarian/education liaison at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Niamh McGuigan is now reference librarian at the Loyola University-Chicago’s Cudahy Library.
Rosemary Nigro has been appointed acquisitions librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries-Eugene.
Laura O’Keefe is the new head of cataloging and bibliographic maintenance at the New York Society Library.
Lea Osborne has joined the Columbia University Libraries as a processing archivist in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
John Overholt has been appointed assistant curator of the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson at Harvard University’s Houghton Library.
Jennie Quiñonez-Skinner has been appointed general reference librarian at the Oviatt Library at California State University-Northridge.
Gary Rasmussen has been appointed associate director for scholarly resources and collections at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.
Amy Robb has been appointed coordinator of instruction/reference librarian at the Emerson College Library.
Meggan Emler Smith has been named reference and instruction librarian at Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library.
Gregory Thompson is now associate director for special collections at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.
Retirements
John P. Cummings, a librarian at the U.S. Naval Academy for 37 years and associate library director since 1977, retired on June 1. Among his many contributions to the academy was his “Reading List for Life,” a Web-based compilation of book titles recommended to students by faculty members.
Deaths
Cynthia B. Duncan, retired university librarian at Old Dominion University Library, died June 4, 2007. Duncan’s tenure at the Old Dominion University Library (1977–91), was distinguished by a number of firsts. She was the first woman library director, as well as the first library director with a doctorate. As dean, she held the highest academic appointment any woman had held at Old Dominion up until that time. Under her leadership, in 1982 the library became the first in Virginia to be fully automated. Duncan was instrumental in helping Old Dominion University’s Library receive grant funding to support installation of Virginia’s first union list catalog of all periodicals found in libraries in Hampton Roads and implement the state’s first linked systems project. She also began the first interlibrary loan document delivery system for Tidewater Consortium Libraries. Duncan served on the SOLINET Board of Directors and as a representative on the OCLC Users Council.
Sandra S. Kerbel, 50, associate director for public services in the university libraries at the University of Pennsylvania (UP), died April 3, 2007. Sandra joined UP in June 2001, and was responsible for a wide range of user services in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Libraries serving the physical sciences, the Annenberg School, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Design, and the Museum. In a brief tenure, Kerbel left a significant mark on UP’s library and information services. She helped guide the expansion of the Blackboard courseware system; oversaw the library’s participation in groundbreaking resource-sharing programs (EZBorrow and RAPID); and steered the creation of UP’s institutional repository program, the ScholarlyCommons@PENN. In connection with the latter, she worked tirelessly to promote new models for disseminating scholarly information and to advance the intellectual property rights of scholars. Kerbel’s signal accomplishment was her contribution to the design and construction of the Weigle Information Commons, a state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. A passionate advocate for the library and its role in fostering the research competency of students, Kerbel worked closely on the Commons project with academic support professionals in the School of Arts and Sciences. The library will honor the memory of Kerbel’s service to UP by naming a space for her in the Weigle Information Commons.
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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