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New Head of LIT
Vicki Terbovich has been named the new head of Library Information Technology. She comes to UCLA from the Maricopa County Library District in Phoenix, where she was chief technology officer during 2000-08.

At Maricopa Terbovich managed the library district's automated systems and administered its networks and desktop computing environments, among many other responsibilities. She also was deeply involved with the information technology planning for nine new libraries.

Terbovich previously worked as the statewide technology consulting librarian for the Washington State Library and for the Montana State Library. She holds an MLIS from the University of Arizona and a BS in education from Saint Mary College.

Terbovich replaces Stephen Schwartz, who retired last year.

New CLIR Fellow
Last fall the UCLA Library welcomed a new fellow as part of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) post-doctoral fellowship program in scholarly information resources. This program offers a novel model for identifying and training professionals to help address the challenges academic libraries face of attracting recruits to the ranks of academic librarianship and the ever-increasing demand from users for digital access to vast archival collections.

Gloria Chacon has a PhD in literature from UC Santa Cruz, with a parenthetical notation in Latin American and Latino studies. She studies contemporary indigenous literary production and intellectuals in Mesoamerica and links Mesoamerican identity politics and contemporary Chicano and Latino literary output.

Chacon has conducted field research in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Chiapas, Mexico. Some of this work was supported by three prestigious awards: a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, a fellowship from the UC Institute for Mexico and the United States, and a Ford Foundation fellowship.

For her CLIR fellowship, Chacon is putting together an oral history project on the Central American community in Los Angeles under the auspices of the UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research. She will also be assisting in the digitization of Nahuatl materials from the Library's special collections and compiling a Web page for indigenous literature resources.