October 28, 1999

Middlebury College Appoints Librarian

for New Science Library — Louise

Zipp to fill post at Armstrong Library in Bicentennial Hall

Louise S. Zipp has recently been appointed

to the position of librarian for the James I. and Carol Aymar

Armstrong Library, the science library located in Middlebury College’s

newly opened academic facility for the sciences, Bicentennial

Hall. The Armstrong Library will support the natural sciences,

geography, and psychology departments.

Zipp received a bachelor’s degree from

Knox College, and a master’s degree in geography at the University

of Iowa, where she has also completed coursework toward a doctorate

in geography. She has served as the botany-chemistry librarian,

and the geology librarian at Iowa. Subsequently, Zipp held the

positions of department head for collection development, and principal

bibliographer for the sciences for the Iowa State University Library.

She received a second master’s degree, in library science, from

the University at Albany, in New York.

Zipp has been a publication contributor

for the Geoscience Information Society, and has edited proceedings

for that organization. A member of the Geological Society of America

and the American Library Association, she has also written for

society and library journals, and served on various university

committees while at Iowa State University. Zipp recently presented

a paper on the information preservation priorities of geologists

and geology librarians at the annual meeting of the Geological

Society of America, Denver, and is now preparing it for publication

in next spring’s issue of Geoscience Information Society Proceedings.

“Ms. Zipp brings to the College

a strong background of library service to the sciences,”

Middlebury College Librarian Ron Rucker said of Zipp’s appointment.

“I am very pleased that she has joined us,” Rucker added.

Zipp comes to Addison County from Ames,

Iowa, and now lives in the town of Middlebury.