Library Bids Adieu to Two

The University Library says farewell to two longtime librarians

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, MS ’94 LIS, EDM ’98, spent 20 years advancing Library efforts in teaching, learning, and professional development. An experienced academic librarian, she headed the Undergraduate Library and served as coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, helping countless students hone their research skills. More recently, Janicke Hinchliffe focused on advancing the professional growth of Library faculty and academic professionals. She is known for her expertise in information literacy, assessment and metrics, scholarly publishing and communication, and librarian/ faculty collaboration.

Her numerous recognitions include the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Scholarly Publishing in 2023, the Larry Romans Mentorship Award from the ALA Government Documents and ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Roundtables in 2017, and the 2009 ACRL Special Presidential Recognition Award for the Information Literacy Immersion Program. She also serves as a “chef” in The Scholarly Kitchen, a blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

Janicke Hinchliffe retired June 30. She is now the Founder and Principal of the Librarian in the Loop consultancy.

Susanne Belovari, ’85 LAS, MA ’87 LAS, MS ’02 LIS, PHD ’97 LAS, associate professor and archivist for faculty papers, University Archives, will retire September 25 after a dozen years at the university.

Belovari brought significant faculty papers to the University Archives, including those of Nobel laureate and U. of I. physics professor Anthony Leggett; Fred Kummerow, comparative bio-sciences professor; and Gerald McWorter (aka Abdul Alkalimat), professor emeritus of African American studies and of information sciences.

She is also known for her work in Jewish and Holocaust studies, where her contributions include serving as the historian and archivist for the Holocaust Victims’ Information and Support Center for the Jewish community of Vienna, Austria. In 2020, she received the Sophie Coe Prize, the world’s most well-known award for writing on food history, for her treatise, The Viennese Cuisine before Hitler—‘One Cuisine in the use of Two Nations’ which uncovered the hidden story of the dual origins (Jewish and non-Jewish) of that city’s vaunted gastronomy.