Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Subject: In honor of the passing of Betty Meehan-Black
Dear colleagues of ACQNET-L:
I asked Stephen Brooks and Janet Flowers to contribute something in honor of
Betty Meehan-Black's passing.
Betty was an acquisitions librarian *par excellence; *she was well-respected
in the field and we will definitely miss her. Eleanor Cook
March 7, 2011
IN MEMORIAM: ELIZABETH (BETTY) MEEHAN-BLACK
Web:
http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/index.php/2011/03/in-memoriam-betty-meehan-black/
Family obituary, published in Durham Herald-Sun:
http://heraldsun.com/pages/obituaries (scroll to March 5, Orange County)
“Chapel Hill - Elizabeth (Betty) Meehan-Black, head of Order Management and
assistant head of the Monographic Services Department at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, died March 2, 2011.
“Meehan-Black joined the UNC Library staff in 1986 as head of Bibliographic
Searching. She held a number of increasingly responsible management
positions in acquisitions and technical services at the Library. Her primary
area of expertise was approval plan management. She excelled at profile
development and negotiation between the selectors and the vendors. Over
time, her expertise increased to oversight of all aspects of ordering. She
served as the interim head of Acquisitions, and then Monographic Services,
during a reorganization of Technical Services in 2008-2009. In February, in
recognition of her contributions to the Library ( in particular, her
leadership in the move from centralized to decentralized selection) and the
profession, Meehan-Black was named an honorable mention for the Library's
Outstanding Employee of 2010 award.
“Meehan-Black was deeply involved in the work of many professional
associations. She was a member of the executive committee of the North
Carolina Library Association and the association’s elected representative to
the Southeastern Library Association; president of the Librarians’
Association at UNC-Chapel Hill for 2001-2002; and a member or leader of
numerous committees for those and other professional organizations.
“She was also a passionate community volunteer for literacy. She served as
president of the Orange County, N.C., chapter of the Learning Disabilities
Association and she established an ESL literacy program at the Korean
Baptist Church in Chapel Hill.
“Meehan-Black held a B.A. in psychology from the University of Connecticut
and an M.S.L.S. from Southern Connecticut State University.
“In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions be made to
the Hillsborough United Church of Christ, 200 Davis Rd., Hillsborough, NC
27278 or to the Duke Cancer Patient Support Program, Attn: Self Image
Program, DUMC-3139, Durham, NC 27710.”
Stephen
Stephen M. Brooks, MLIS
Head, Monographic Services Dept.
CB #3902, Davis Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
919-962-1128 (voice)
919-962-4450 (fax)
stephen_brooks_at_unc.edu
<cooke_at_ecu.edu>
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