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Alford elected trustee of online library center

Larry Alford, UNC's deputy university librarian, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit organization based in Dublin, Ohio. He will serve a six-year term.

The center provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services to 41,000 libraries in 82 countries and territories. It was founded in 1967 to improve access to information and reduce information costs. The center works to develop technologies to support that mission.
Together, libraries and the center have built WorldCat, the world’s largest database of bibliographic information. Forest Press, a center division since 1988, publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

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Dr. Evelyn H. Daniel, professor and dean emeritus at UNC's School of Information and Library Science, has been named the school’s Frances Carroll McColl Professor for 2002-2004.

The professorship was established in 1995 by a $250,000 gift to the school from Hugh L. McColl Jr., retired chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America Corporation.

The professorship honors the memory of McColl's late mother and late sister, Frances Carroll McColl and Frances McColl Covington. McColl said the school's needs and his mother's love of literature inspired him to set up the fund. Part of the professorship supplements the faculty member’s salary; the balance supports research, teaching and service.

Daniel, dean of the school from 1985-1990, was chosen in part for her research mentoring of younger faculty. She came to UNC in 1985 from Syracuse University, where she was on the faculty from 1976 to 1980 and a dean from 1980 to 1985. She also has taught at the University of Rhode Island, the University of Kentucky and California State University-Chico.

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