People in the News

Ann-Christe Galloway

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Appointments

Rachael Posey has been appointed health and life sciences research librarian and associate director at the North Carolina State University’s William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine. Posey was most recently the pharmacy librarian and coordinator of systematic review services for the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Prior to this appointment, Posey served as research librarian/research assistant at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-CH, as research analyst/data technician at Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center, and as web developer at Process Innovations. Posey’s recent professional activities include coauthoring “Quality of Data Downloads from Bibliographic Databases Frequently Used in Systematic Reviews,” a paper presented at Medical Library Association (MLA) Annual Meeting in 2017. She has served as editor of MLA Pharmacy and Drug Information Section in PharmGuide.

Jasmine Clark has been named resident librarian at the Temple University Libraries.

Sarah Jones has joined Temple University Libraries as science and engineering librarian.

Urooj Nizami is now resident librarian at the Temple University Libraries.

Stefanie Ramsay has been appointed digital projects librarian at the Temple University Libraries.

Holly Tomren is now head of cataloging and metadata strategy at the Temple University Libraries.

Alex Wermer-Colan has been name Council on Library and Information Resources postdoctoral fellow in the Digital Scholarship Center at the Temple University Libraries.

Retirements

Carol Hunter, deputy university librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), has retired. She joined the UNC-CH Library in 2010 as associate university librarian for collections and services. From January until August 15, 2017, Hunter served as interim university librarian and vice provost for university libraries. She also was interim director of the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library and associate university librarian for special collections in 2016. Hunter joined UNC-CH after 12 years at the University of Virginia Library, where she held increasingly responsible posts leading to her appointment as associate university librarian for public services and collections. Hunter has chaired and served on numerous committees during her career, including as a member of the Triangle Research Libraries Network Advisory Council, chair of the Resource Advisory Committee of the NC Live statewide digital library, and chair of an ALA interest group for chief collection development officers at large research libraries. At UNC-CH, Hunter chaired the University Committee on Copyright for several years. Hunter was a UCLA Senior Fellow in 2010, an EDUCAUSE Frye Leadership Institute Fellow in 2008, and a participant in the 2005 ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute. She has published and presented extensively about collections, public services, and managing digital scholarship services.