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Rachael K. Anderson, director of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona/Tucson since 1991, retired January 19. * Louella B. Bickford was named head librarian at the Lawrence Library in Fairfield, Maine. * Three decades of work ended at the East Baton Rouge (La.) Parish Library when Elizabeth E. Bingham, head of the adult services division, retired December 21. * Antoinette Cook has retired as director of the Keewatin (Minn.) Public Library. * Betty Corwin, the creator of the New York Public Library's Theater on Film and Tape Archives collection, has retired. * The University of Louisville Libraries has appointed Beth Denham libraries development officer. * After a four-month search, Sonya Dintaman was named director of the Steuben County Library in Angola, Indiana, after serving as interim director. * John Jacob Epstein has joined the staff of Ohio University/Athens as reference librarian/Web manager. * Dorothy W. Field, director of the Orange County Library District in Florida, will retire effective December 2001. * Shirley George, director of the Beaverton (Greg.) City Library for nine years, has retired. * Debra Gniewek, coordinator of libraries for the School District of Philadelphia, resigned in January to take a position with the Council Rock School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. * Grand Rapids, Michigan, native Jim Hibler is the director of the Flat River Community Library in Greenville, Mich., replacing the retiring Pat Noordhoorn. * Chrystal Jeter, youth services manager at the Anchorage (Alaska) Municipal Libraries' AJ. Loussac Library, has accepted the position of youth services manager at the Cleveland Public Library. * Anna Marie Johnson is the new information-literacy team leader at the University of Louisville Libraries. * Steven Koblik is president of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, after leaving his post as president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. * Former Minnesota Library Association president Joan Larson has retired as director of the Northern Lights Library Network. * Sue Luce, former director of the Ontario (Calif.) City Library, is now library director of the Josephine County Library System in Grants Pass, Oregon. * After more than 22 years, Sue Mahmoodi retired as a library specialist for library development and services for the Minnesota Development of Children, Families and Learning. * Nearly 28 years of service came to an end when Chuck Manley, associate director for the Washoe County (Nev.) Library System, retired December 8. * David McArdle has returned to his position as director of the Sawyer Free Library in Gloucester, Massachusetts, after retiring last April from the post where he had served for eight years. Since 1987, she served as Association for Library Collections and Technical Services executive director, and since 1989, Library Adminstration and Management Association executive director. * Library and Information Technology Association Executive Director Jackie Mundell will resign in April. * Mary Pullen has been promoted to human resource generalist-recruiter.
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Rachael K. Anderson, director of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona/Tucson since 1991, retired January 19.
* Louella B. Bickford was named head librarian at the Lawrence Library in Fairfield, Maine. * Three decades of work ended at the East Baton Rouge (La.) Parish Library when Elizabeth E. Bingham, head of the adult services division, retired December 21. * Antoinette Cook has retired as director of the Keewatin (Minn.) Public Library. * Betty Corwin, the creator of the New York Public Library's Theater on Film and Tape Archives collection, has retired. * The University of Louisville Libraries has appointed Beth Denham libraries development officer. * After a four-month search, Sonya Dintaman was named director of the Steuben County Library in Angola, Indiana, after serving as interim director. * John Jacob Epstein has joined the staff of Ohio University/Athens as reference librarian/Web manager. * Dorothy W. Field, director of the Orange County Library District in Florida, will retire effective December 2001. * Shirley George, director of the Beaverton (Greg.) City Library for nine years, has retired. * Debra Gniewek, coordinator of libraries for the School District of Philadelphia, resigned in January to take a position with the Council Rock School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. * Grand Rapids, Michigan, native Jim Hibler is the director of the Flat River Community Library in Greenville, Mich., replacing the retiring Pat Noordhoorn.
* Chrystal Jeter, youth services manager at the Anchorage (Alaska) Municipal Libraries' AJ. Loussac Library, has accepted the position of youth services manager at the Cleveland Public Library. * Anna Marie Johnson is the new information-literacy team leader at the University of Louisville Libraries. * Steven Koblik is president of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, after leaving his post as president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. * Former Minnesota Library Association president Joan Larson has retired as director of the Northern Lights Library Network. * Sue Luce, former director of the Ontario (Calif.) City Library, is now library director of the Josephine County Library System in Grants Pass, Oregon. * After more than 22 years, Sue Mahmoodi retired as a library specialist for library development and services for the Minnesota Development of Children, Families and Learning. * Nearly 28 years of service came to an end when Chuck Manley, associate director for the Washoe County (Nev.) Library System, retired December 8. * David McArdle has returned to his position as director of the Sawyer Free Library in Gloucester, Massachusetts, after retiring last April from the post where he had served for eight years. The new appointment ended an eight-month search for his replacement. * Joseph McElroy has been named librarian for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and director of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library. * Jae Minor is the new technical services director for the St. Johns County Public Library System in Florida. * Tara Murray is head librarian at the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania. * Verla Peterson is the new dean of library services at City University in Renton, Washington. She was previously acting director at the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library in Las Cruces, New Mexico. * Davenport (Iowa) Public Library Director Kay Kretschmar Runge will become the director of the Public Library of Des Moines on April 2. * Eiko Sakaguchi is now curator of the Gordon W. Prange and East Asia Collections at McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland in College Park. * The Lima (Ohio) Public Library has a new director. Former assistant director Scott Shafer has taken the place left by James Bouchard, who retired in November. * January 11 Barbara A. Shailor was appointed director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. * Cheshire (Conn.) Public Library Board chair Emmett Shutts has retired. * Douglas Stehle has been appointed head of reference at Southwest Missouri State University/Springfield. * In receiving a six-month leave to pursue work for the architectural firm Allison and Allison, Sally Stokes, curator of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection at the University of Maryland, is the first library staffer to receive sabbatical leave since librarians were granted nontenured faculty status last July. * Scott Walter is now head of the George B. Brain Education Library at Washington State University/Pullman. * Formerly director of the Roanoke County Public Library in Virginia, Spencer Watts is now director of the Mobile (Ala.) Public Library.
* Patty Wong has been named deputy director of library services at the Stockton-San Joaquin County Library in California after serving as library program manager for children's services at the Oakland Public Library.
At ALA
Linda Bostrom, former Association for Library Service to Children program officer, is the new education director for the Public Library Association, replacing Scott Allen. * The new Public Information Office public relations specialist-advocacy is Marci Merola. She, previously worked as an editor/writer for Summit and Cahners Publishing Companies. * Robert F. Moran Jr., director of library services at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana, is associate editor of Library Adminstration and Management. * Karen Muller is ALA's new knowledge management specialist/librarian. Since 1987, she served as Association for Library Collections and Technical Services executive director, and since 1989, Library Adminstration and Management Association executive director. * Library and Information Technology Association Executive Director Jackie Mundell will resign in April. * Mary Pullen has been promoted to human resource generalist-recruiter. She previously served as human resource information systems and payroll analyst.
YOUTH-FILLED LEGACY. Lola Teubert's 25-year commitment to helping students was honored when she received the annual Bish Thompson Memorial Award for service to youths. The award is named for the late Evansville Courier and Press columnist, who frequently supported community youth projects. Teubert (right), pictured with Maggie Haire during a meeting of her Advisory Council for Today's Teens, is young adult/literacy services librarian at the Evansville-- Vanderburgh County Public Library in Indiana. The award was presented in December by the Downtown Optimist Club of Evansville.
CITED
Meredith Butler, director of the university libraries and library faculty dean at the University of Albany in New York, has been appointed the State University of New York's first Distinguished Librarian. The distinction honors and promotes the achievement of personal excellence, groundbreaking professional progress, and wide-ranging benefit to the academic community. * The sixth recipient of the Library Quarterly Award for excellence in refereeing is Marianna Tax Choldin, the C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Library/UrbanaChampaign. She was selected from more than 100 referees who read manuscripts in 2000. * Julie Klauber has been selected for inclusion in the 2001 edition of Who's Who in the World. For the past 16 years, she has worked as administrator of
Talking Books Plus, a subregional library of the Library of Congress/National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. * Anne E. Pemberton, James Jackson Sanborn, and Lisa A. Sheets have been appointed to the Fellows Program at North Carolina State University/Raleigh honoring new MLS graduates or MIS degrees. * The Order of Lincoln medallion was awarded to Marian (Cindy) F. Pritzker, president of the Chicago Public Library. She received one of six medallions from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois for her work in restoring the prestige of Chicago's library system. * The Detroit Public Library's art and literature Department posthumously honored Dudley Randall, librarian and poet laureate of Detroit, who passed away last August at 85. Randall was a publisher, and editor and founder of Broadside Press.
Copyright American Library Association Mar 2001