Hal Hall Named 
Hoadley/Friends Professor

      Hal W. Hall has been named the Irene B. Hoadley/Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library Professor. Hall is the curator of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. Named for Irene B.  Hoadley, former director of the Sterling C. Evans Library, the Hoadley/Friends Professorship is awarded to a librarian scholar for an outstanding research project. Hall's project, "Marketing a Research Collection: Developing Scholarly Tools as a Method of Marketing Library Research Collections," will develop three important research tools. Hall will create the first web-based register of library collections of science fiction and fantasy. He will also develop a register of individual author collections in libraries and of book manuscripts. He will continue work on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database through 2003. "The Cushing Library's science fiction and fantasy collection is already widely recognized and heavily used. These new tools developed by Hal Hall will facilitate access to and use of the collection for researchers around the world," explained Fred M. Heath, University Libraries dean, in making the award.