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Associate Professor Emerita of the Library Allen Louise Antone (February 28, 1943- ) was born in Florida. She received her B.A. degree in English in 1965 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1973, she earned her M.A. degree in library science from Appalachian State University. Antone married George Peter Antone on March 5, 1966, in Nashville, Tennessee. They have one daughter, Alicia (September 5, 1968-), and one son, Marc (October 5, 1971-). Antone served as the acting director and as assistant to the director of the Appalachian Center at Appalachian State University in 1974-75, as assistant to the juvenile librarian in the fall of 1975, and as interlibrary loan librarian from 1976-78. She joined the faculty at Appalachian State University in 1978 as an instructor and assistant reference librarian in Learning Resources, earning the rank of assistant professor in 1982. She received her M.A. degree in English from Appalachian State that same year. In 1984, Antone was promoted to the position of head of Reference Service and she became an associate professor in 1989. During her academic career, one of her acaccomplishments was serving as the coordinator of the MARS (Machine Assisted Reference Services) Program, and she greatly improved its organizational structure. Antone served on the Library Liaison Study Committee, the Library Image Committee, the Academic Projects Advisory Board, the Faculty Grievance Committee, and the Institutional Study and Planning Committee. Within the library, she served on the Instruction and Training Task Force, the Reference Orientation Committee, the Quartos Committee, and her Departmental Personnel Committee. In 1987, Antone chaired the American Library Association's discussion group on performance standards for reference/information librarians and was appointed to the North Carolina Library Association's Publications Committee. She also chaired the North Carolina Library Association's Reference and Adult Services Section, and the Western North Carolina Library Network Patron Services Task Force. In 1985, Antone received Sigma Xi's award for invaluable contributions to scientific research at Appalachian. Under her direction, Belk Library Reference Services was ranked number one in the Wisconsin-Ohio Reference Evaluation Program in 1986. Within the library, Antone also worked in collection development as a bibliographer, and in 1995, she completed an off-campus scholarly assignment at the University of Angers in France. Antone retired from Appalachian in 1997 and was then awarded emerita status. Since retirement, Antone has continued to study French and has spent the past four years at the Sorbonne in Paris, France where she initiated an annual French Film Festival which runs for a three-week period in March of each year. She is currently Reference Librarian and Collections Development specialist at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. Sources: Appalachian State University and long association. -Dr. Richard D. Howe
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