People in the News

Staff -- Library Journal, 4/15/1999

Debra Austin has launched LibraryWise Marketing,located inBelmont, CA,specializing in helping companies capture market share inlibrary andeducation markets. Austin has held marketing and salespositions atInformation Access Company and EBSCO Industries.

Among several appointments at the University of Texas atAustin, Adin Benavides has been named Assistant tothe Head Librarianfor Research Programs, Benson Latin American Collection;Susan M.Macicak has been namedSocial Sciences Bibliographer, Collections and InformationResources Division; and Alsa "Sally" King Cotner hasbeen namedAssistant Librarian inthe Marine Science Library. Also at UT, DamonJaggars wasnamed Acting HeadUndergraduate Library Services Division and continues asHead of Referenceand Information Services in the Undergraduate Library.Also, VirginiaGaines, Germanic Languages Bibliographer and Cataloger,retired on December31, 1998, after 19 years of service.

Peggy Bulger has been appointed Director of theAmericanFolklife Center atthe Library of Congress, effective July 6. Since 1989,Bulger has beenSenior Program Officer at the Southern Arts Federation,Atlanta.

John Callahan III, formerly Assistant City Librarianat theNewport BeachPublic Library, CA, has been appointed Director of theDelray Beach PublicLibrary, FL.

Richard Cornfield, Director of the Book Division oftheBureau of NationalAffairs (BNA), has been appointed Executive Editor of BNA'sLegalInformation Services Division. Cornfield joined BNA in1974.

Jacqueline Coats has been appointed Manager, LibraryTechnical Services, forYankee Book Peddler. Coats was Head of Acquisitions at theUniversity ofChicago since 1980.

Sheila Creth, University of Iowa Librarian, hasannouncedher resignation,effective December 1999. Creth is planning to establish anorganizationaldevelopment and human resources consulting business.

Joanne Deeken has been named Head, AcquisitionsDivision,Main Library,Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. MarionFrank-Wilson was namedLibrarian for African Studies, and Jo McClamroch isnowHead, Halls ofResidence Libraries.

Barbara Stites Goodwin has been named ExecutiveDirector ofthe SouthwestFlorida Library Network, a nonprofit cooperativeresponsible forimplementing access to Florida's statewide library network,FLORINET, aswell as providing continuing education to area libraries.

Anne T. Herbert has been named Administrative HeadofInformation Systems atthe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

Jane Kolbe has been appointed Head of the LibraryExtensionDivision of theArizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records.She had beenActing Director since January.

Lillian Lewis, Deputy Executive Director of theAssociationof Specializedand Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), has beenappointed DeputyExecutive Director of the Reference and User ServicesAssociation and willcontinue in the ASCLA position.

George Lundberg, who was Editor of the Journal oftheAmerican MedicalAssociation (JAMA) for 17 years, has been named Editor ofMedscape, amedical site on the web for physicians, healthcareprofessionals, andconsumers.

Linda Sacks has been appointed Senior VP, Marketing& Salesfor BIOSIS, thelife sciences abstracting and indexing service. Previously,she served asMarketing Director with Elsevier Science.

James Smallwood has joined GE Capital ServicesCommercialFinance Division,Stamford, CT, comanaging the research function. Hepreviously headed theCorporate Information Center at Aetna in Hartford.

Holly Richards Sorensen has been named Head of theAdultServices Departmentat the Des Plaines Public Library, IL. For the past sixyears, she has helda similar position at the Bloomingdale Public Library, IL.

Gerry Youmans has retired from the Granby PublicLibrary,CT, after 27 yearsof service.

OBITUARIES

Else Granheim, President of the InternationalFederation ofLibraryAssociations and Institutions (IFLA) from 1979 to 1985,died March 7. Shewas director of the Norwegian Directorate for Public andSchool Librariesuntil her retirement in 1991.

Ruth M. Grundy, a Librarian at the Marine ScienceLibraryof the Universityof Texas, died September 22, 1998. She had worked for theUniversity ofTexas at Austin for over 27 years.

Raymond Edward Mabry, Reference Librarian in the ArtandMusic Department ofthe Richmond Public Library, VA, died February 12, after along battle withcancer. He was 61. He worked in the Fine Arts Department ofthe AtlantaPublic Library before coming to Richmond in 1975.

Hugh Montgomery, a former academic librarian, diedrecentlyat the age of87. He worked at the Littnaur School at Harvard College,the University ofMassachusetts in Amherst, the University of SoutheasternMassachusetts, andthe Wentworth Institute in Boston. He retired in 1976.

Beth O'Mahoney, VP and Head of Support Services atGoldmanSachs in New YorkCity, died recently. A 22-year veteran of Goldman Sachs,she ran thecorporate library and was promoted eventually to managenine areas.

Elaine Kirkpatrick Rast died February 12 in Chicago.Shewas 65. A formerprofessor at Founders Library, Northern IllinoisUniversity, DeKalb, and amember of the Executive Board of the National Associationof SerialsInterest Group, Rast was named Illinois Academic Librarianof the Year for1993.

Ruth Helen Strand died February 8. She was 94. HeadLibrarian at theElmhurst Public Library, IL, for more than 30 years, Strandbegan her careerin the library as a page during high school and returned asHead Librarianafter earning her MLS degree.

Janice Suter, president of Suter Associates, aConnecticut-based executivesearch firm specializing in the information industry, diedJanuary 29 aftera prolonged battle with breast cancer. She was 53.

Helen Walsh died recently at the age of 62. Sheretired in1997 from theUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst Library after 25 yearsof service.