People in the News

Ann-Christe Galloway

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Appointments

Jeffry Archer, associate dean of user services at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, will join Baylor University as dean of university libraries, effective June 1, 2020. Archer joined the McGill University Library and Archives in January 2017, where he has provided leadership for user experience, customer service, marketing, reference, and instruction. He also leads the planning, coordinating, and developing of services delivered through McGill’s eight branch libraries. Before joining McGill, Archer served for more than two decades with the University of Chicago (UC) Library. He started at UC in 1995 as bibliographer for business and economics and then became head of reference instruction and outreach in 2003. In summer 2019, Archer completed the Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

William Noel has been appointed as the inaugural John T. Maltsberger III ’55 associate university librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University Library (PUL). He joins Princeton from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, where he has been associate vice provost for External Partnerships; director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; and director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. Before Pennsylvania Libraries, Noel was curator of manuscripts and rare books at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and assistant curator of manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Museum. As a specialist in the fields of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman manuscripts, Noel directed the digital humanities project The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest, the world’s first publicly available multi-spectral data set for a medieval manuscript. Based on this project, Noel later coauthored the Neuman Prize-winning book The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist and presented a TED talk, “Revealing The Lost Codex of Archimedes,” which has more than 1 million views. He was recognized for his work in the field of open data by receiving a 2013 White House Open Science Champion of Change award from the Obama administration.

Maggie Snow has been appointed director of Minitex at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Snow brings significant experience to the role, including appointments in the Missouri River Regional Library, Austin (Minnesota) Public Library, Carver County Library, and Minneapolis Public Library/Hennepin County Library. She previously served as director of the Anoka County Library. As president of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA), Snow engaged in the issues and professional interests of all libraries in the state, and she was awarded MLA’s William G. Asp Distinguished Career Award in 2018. She has served in leadership positions with several nonprofits and has contributed as a member of governance committee of the Minnesota Digital Library.

Mihoko Hosoi has been named associate dean for collections, research, and scholarly communications at Penn State University Libraries.

Ilana Stonebraker is now head of business/SPEA Information Commons with the Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington.

Kimber Thomas has been named one of six inaugural postdoctoral fellows for data curation in African American and African studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Rustin Zarkar is now Middle East and Islamic studies librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University Libraries.

Retirements

Barbara I. Dewey, Penn State’s dean of university libraries and scholarly communications, will retire in August 2020 after a 45-year career in librarianship. As the leader of Penn State’s information resources enterprise since 2010, Dewey serves as the official representative and advocate for the University Libraries and Penn State Press and oversees approximately 500 full-time faculty and staff. During her tenure as dean, Dewey oversaw the transformation of spaces in the Pattee and Paterno Libraries, including the Knowledge Commons and the Collaboration Commons and Central Atrium. She has provided key leadership for Penn State’s involvement in open educational resources and the advancement of open access at Penn State. In 2014 she received the Council of College Multicultural Leadership Way Paver Award. Dewey previously was dean of libraries at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (2000–10). She also has held several administrative positions at the University of Iowa’s libraries, and prior to that held positions at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science, Northwestern University Libraries, and Minnesota Valley Regional Library in Mankato, Minnesota. She is the author or editor of seven books and has published numerous articles and presented papers on research library topics.

Deaths

Rita W. Jones, former dean of library and learning resources at the City College of San Francisco and member of the ACRL Board of Directors, has died.

Pamela MacKintosh, librarian at the University of Michigan (UM) Library, has died. From 1984 to 1991 MacKintosh was corporate librarian at Crum and Forster Commercial Insurance and AT&T. She joined the University of Michigan Library in 1991 as manager of the Michigan Information Transfer Source, a fee-based information service. MacKintosh’s career at UM included a variety of other roles, including managing reserves services, coordinating reference services, and building undergraduate collections. She served as president of the Michigan Special Libraries Association (1999–2000). MacKintosh was also instrumental in creating the UM Undergraduate Research award. Beyond campus, she was a recognized authority on undergraduate libraries, with years of involvement in ACRL’s Undergraduate Librarians Discussion Group and an impressive record of publication. MacKintosh received the UM University Librarian Achievement Award in October 2019. In addition to her own achievements, she mentored several generations of future librarians studying at the University of Michigan School of Information. Prior to her passing, she established the Pamela acKintosh Undergraduate Student Support Fund at the University of Michigan Library.