Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2005
Mudd Library
Peter J. Gilbert has been appointed director of the Seeley
G. Mudd Library, succeeding Susan Richards, library director since 1999, who left Lawrence
in July to become director of the library at Northwest College in Powell,
Wyoming.
A graduate of Carleton College, Pete Gilbert is a reference librarian by training,
with a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University
of Wisconsin–Madison. A member of the Mudd Library staff since 1990,
he holds faculty rank as an associate professor.
In 1999 he was appointed director of instructional technology, in which capacity
he assisted in faculty development and the application of the Web and other
electronic resources to teaching and learning, returning to the library at
the end of the 2001-02 academic year.
He served as president of the Wisconsin Library Association in 2003 and has
been a member of the board of trustees of OWLS, the Outagamie Waupaca Library
System.
Research Administration
William Skinner is the new director of the Office of Research
Administration, responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining an institutional
research program for the college. In addition, he will provide leadership in
proposing and undertaking research that examines Lawrence’s distinctive
offerings and attributes, as well as contributing to the evaluation of initiatives
such as the Lawrence University Fellows in the Liberal
Arts and Sciences program.
A sociologist with the Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, he has been a faculty
member at the University of Kentucky since 1984, most recently as professor
and chair of the Department of Sociology. Co-editor of AIDS and the Social
Sciences: Common Threads and numerous scholarly articles, he has been
involved in institutional reviews and benchmarking studies
at Kentucky
and has consulted on studies and surveys conducted
on behalf of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and the National Institute
of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He has also received grants from the National
Institute of Drug Abuse, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
and the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development.