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Appointments & Retirements

Stambaugh, Laine

Laine Stambaugh, human resources librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries in Eugene, retired on August 1 after nearly 29 years of service.
Leonard, Katie

Katie Leonard has joined LAC Group in Los Angeles as senior director of client engagement for the LibSource unit.
DiGilio, John

John DiGilio has joined LAC Group in Los Angeles as senior director of research and intelligence for its LibSource unit.
Horrell, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Horrell, dean of libraries at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, retired in June.
Trainer, Karin

Karin Trainer retired as university librarian at Princeton (N.J.) Library in July.

At ALA

Hines, Shawnda

Shawnda Hines joined the ALA Washington Office as press officer July 25.
Cross, Jennifer

Jennifer Cross started as web services specialist for ASCLA and RUSA July 18.
Wood, Melissa

Melissa Wood became Booklist marketing director in May.
Williamson, Eugenia

Eugenia Williamson joined Booklist as associate editor, digital products, on May 23.
Murphy, Christopher

June 20 Christopher Murphy became publisher for ALA Editions.

Cited

Robinson, Alice

At the Suffolk School Library Media Association Awards Ceremony May 18, Alice Robinson, West Babylon (N.Y.) Junior High School librarian, received a Dr. Joette Stefl-Mabry Honorarium Donation for creating a makerspace program at the school library.
Person, Ruth

Ruth J. Person, chancellor emerita at Indiana University Kokomo, received an honorary doctorate from the university in May.
Holtslander, Linda

Linda Holtslander, who retired in May as programming division manager for Loudoun County (Va.) Public Library, received the first Friends of Fulbright Finland Alumni Enrichment Award for her research and planning for Helsinki City Library during and since her 2008 Fulbright fellowship in Finland.
Schaefer, Steve

Steve W. Schaefer, recently retired director of Uncle Remus Regional Library System in Madison, Georgia, was named Georgia’s 2015 Public Librarian of the Year by the Georgia Public Library Service.
Ash, Kathryn

Kathryn Ash, president of Friends of Georgia Libraries and trustee of Piedmont Regional Library System in Jefferson, was named Georgia’s 2015 Public Library Champion of the Year by the Georgia Public Library Service.

Obituaries

Morehouse, Harold

Harold Geddes “Hap” Morehouse, 88, dean emeritus of the University Libraries at the University of Nevada at Reno (UNR), died May 5. He started at UNR in 1961, became director of libraries in 1969, and served 24 years in that position. He continued cataloging books at UNR after his retirement until 2007. Geddes also mentored many librarians at the university and throughout Nevada during his career.
Martell, Charles

Charles Martell, 79, dean and university librarian at California State University Sacramento (CSUS) until his 2000 retirement, died April 23. Martell had previously been an associate librarian at several universities. He wrote more than 85 articles on library science and served as associate editor of the Journal of Academic Librarianship and editor of College and Research Libraries. He also established CSUS’s Friends of the Library group, its Japanese American Archival Collection, and its Cambodian Oral History Collection.
Kohler, Carolyn

Carolyn Willa Kohler, 72, head of the Government Documents Department at the University of Iowa Libraries from 1971 until her 2004 retirement, died May 5 after a short illness. Kohler was active in ALA’s Government Documents Round Table and received ALA’s James Bennett Childs Award in 2003 for her lifetime contribution as a documents librarian. She served as executive editor for United Nations and Foreign Government Documents for Government Publications Review from 1980 to 1985. Kohler also worked on the Iowa State Library Commission and helped the US Government Printing Office with programs for libraries that contain federal documents.
Havlik, Robert

Robert J. (Bob) Havlik, 90, director emeritus of the Architecture and Engineering Libraries at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, died February 29. Havlik was part of the Notre Dame library faculty from 1973 until his 1992 retirement. He had previously been a librarian at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; Iowa State University in Ames; Union Carbide in Buffalo, New York; and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Abraham Lincoln Group in Washington, D.C. He was also a lifetime member of ALA and contributor to the book Argon, Helium, and the Rare Gases (1961).
Hallett, Jack

Jack L. Hallett, 83, a founding brother of Hallett & Sons Expert Movers, died February 3. Hallett oversaw thousands of library moves in the United States and abroad during a career spanning more than 60 years. Hallett was an ALA member and library champion for several decades, and trained and mentored many in the industry.

Latest Library Links

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More than half of public schools in Boston do not have libraries, leaving thousands of students—the majority of them in distressed neighborhoods—without a safe place to study and access to resources so they can learn more, according to a new  Boston Public Schools report. Forty percent of students start high school without ever using a school library, according to the report, a serious disservice that officials say puts poorer kids at an even greater disadvantage.

Boston Herald, Sept. 23
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Children’s book authors Margarita Engle and Susan Tan will team up on January 21 n the Auditorium Speakers Series at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits in Atlanta to discuss diversity in children’s books and women authors. Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse books, including The Surrender Tree; debut author Susan Tan grew up in a mixed-race family, and like Cilla, the heroine of her Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire, was bald until the age of five.

Conference Services, Sept. 23
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The Sharjah International Book Fair / ALA Library Conference looks set for a strong future as preparations for the third event get under way. As ALA’s most ambitious international professional development collaboration to date, the library conference will be hosted at the 35th SIBF, November 8–10, at the Sharjah Expo Centre, United Arab Emirates. The shared location provides an opportunity for attendees to combine professional development with exploring and acquiring materials for their libraries.

American Libraries, international supplement, Sept.
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The American Libraries 2016 International Supplement is now live. Read the whole issue or browse article by article. The issue features coverage of talks at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ 82nd World Library and Information Congress in Columbus, Ohio, August 13–19.

American Libraries, Sept. 23
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You know when you’re at a cafeteria, you’ve got your lunch, and then you just don’t know where to sit? You don’t want to sit alone, but you also don’t know who would be friendly and let you sit with them. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Hampton has been there. She’s an 11th grader from Sherman Oaks, California, and the creator of a new app called Sit With Us.

NPR: All Things Considered, Sept. 9
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Windows announced that the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition will be available to purchase in the Windows Store on November 1. Since June 9, more than 35,000 students and educators around the world have tried the early access program and provided feedback that allowed fine-tuning across a diverse set of learning environments. Librarians are eligible to purchase this special edition.

Windows Experience Blog, Sept. 22
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A Banned Books Week voting campaign at the Rochester (Minn.) Public Library is getting plenty of attention—but maybe not the kind of attention librarians anticipated. The Vote to Ban campaign invites library patrons to enter a voting booth and cast their vote to ban certain books. Campaign posters are mounted in the library’s skyway entrance. Among the candidates: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Little House on the Prairie, and the Bible.

Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin, Sept. 23