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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
C&RL News, June 2007
Vol. 68, No. 6
by Ann-Christe Galloway
Lisa Boxill has been named the second Cyma Rubin Libraries Fellow by North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) Friends of the Library. Boxill will receive a professional development stipend from the Cyma Rubin Endowment for the NCSU Libraries Fellows Program. As an NCSU Libraries Fellow, Boxill has two complementary projects, one focusing on license review and analysis and another centering on copyright assessment for digitized collections.
Appointments
Martha A. Bedard is the new dean of University Libraries at the University of New Mexico, effective August 1, 2007. Bedard is currently associate dean for information and collection services at Texas A & M University Libraries, where she is responsible for collection development and serves as a dean’s cabinet member creating strategic plans and establishing priorities for library services. She has worked in a wide range of library environments including the University of North Carolina’s Health Sciences Library, where she served as the associate director for Library Services; Wake Medical Center, where she served as the director of the Medical Library and Education Support Services; the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts; Lowell General Hospital; and Harvard Medical School. She has just completed a research library leadership fellowship for the Association of Research Libraries and is a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association Academy of Health Information Professionals.
 Judith Russell, former superintendent of documents at the U.S. Government Printing Office, has been named the University of Florida’s new dean of university libraries. Russell succeeds Dale Canelas, who retired as director of libraries February 1. The position is being elevated from director to dean to reflect the increasing importance of library and information services to the academic and research missions of the university. Russell has extensive experience with print and electronic resources, and she said she plans to expand and improve UF library services and facilities for both media. She started working for the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1991 as director of the Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services. She also has served as deputy director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
Donald Dean Smeeton has been named director of the library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Eileen Kuan Veng Bosch has been appointed education librarian at California State University-Long Beach.
Mary Chimato has been named head of access and delivery services at North Carolina State University Libraries.
Daniel Eshom has joined the Columbia University Libraries as the metadata specialist for the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia.
Karin Griffin has been appointed education librarian at California State University-Long Beach.
Richard Leigh is the new audiovisual cataloger at the University of Maryland.
Michelle Light has been appointed archivist at the University of California-Irvine Libraries.
Elizabeth McDonough is now reference librarian/education liaison at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Luiz Mendes has been named electronic resources librarian at California State University-Northridge’s Oviatt Library.
Kate Murray is now audiovisual archivist at the University of Maryland.
Lea Osborne has joined the Columbia University libraries as a processing archivist in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Dana Peterman has been appointed research librarian for education at the University of California-Irvine Libraries.
Jackie Kinder Petersen has been named librarian at the Arthur and Elizabeth Kellar Special Education Collection, Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities at George Mason University.
Hemalatha Ramachandran has been appointed science and engineering librarian at California State University-Long Beach.
Spiro J. Shetuni is now cataloging/database management librarian at Winthrop University’s Dacus Library.
Kenichiro Shimada has been hired as a cataloger for the Gordon W. Prange Collection and as a special collections cataloger at the University of Maryland.
Donald Dean Smeeton has been named director of the library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Deaths
James Humphry III, 90, former vice president of H.W. Wilson Company, died in January 2007. Humphry served as vice president from 1968 until his retirement in 1982, helping to see the company through major changes in the library reference industry. He also served on the Board of Directors from 1965 until his recent passing, and was chairman for several years of ALA’s Reference Services Division Committee on Wilson Indexes. Before joining H.W. Wilson, Humphry served for a decade as chief librarian of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and he was chief of the map division at New York Public Library. A champion of library education, Humphry served as library director and professor of bibliography at Colby College (Watervielle, Maine), as instructor at Columbia University’s School of Library Service and Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science; on advisory committees for the library schools of C.W. Post and Queens College (City University of New York), and as president and board member for the H.W. Wilson Foundation. Humphry’s involvement with the library community included work as ACRL president (1967–68), president of the Main Library Association (and editor of the association’s Bulletin), president of the New York Library Club, president of the Westchester Library System, 1967 conference chair for the Special Libraries Association, and other professional affiliations and activities.
David Otis Kelley, retired director of Zimmerman Library at the University of New Mexico, has died. Kelley’s career in librarianship took him from Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, to the University of Nebraska, to the University of Kentucky, before he settled in at Zimmerman Library from 1949 until his retirement in 1973. He was a life member of ALA.
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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