People in the News

Ann-Christe Galloway

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Janet Carleton has been appointed to the State Library Board by the State Board of Education of Ohio. Carleton has 24 years of library experience, including more than 20 years at Ohio University Libraries, and extensive knowledge of librarianship in special collections and digitization. Since 2005, Carleton has been the digital initiatives coordinator for Ohio University Libraries, where she is responsible for digitization, digital preservation, and social media promotion of the libraries’ unique resources. Her career at Ohio University Libraries began in 1998 at the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections as a Scripps project reformatting archivist and continued in 2000 as digital projects librarian.

Appointments

Caroline Curry Mills has been named director of Furman Libraries. As part of her strategic leadership in her previous post as interim director of Furman Libraries and assistant librarian, Mills facilitated a library external review and cochaired the library self-study. Mills has assumed a variety of roles within the library and across the Furman campus, including Ally, Safe Zone Training, and has served as committee member for Furman’s Cultural Life Program, academic discipline, and first-year experience. She has also served as university copyright officer. Prior to her arrival at Furman in 2008, Mills served as library director at Tri County Technical College and associate director at the Eugene T. Moore School of Education Media Center.

Patricia Guardiola has been named the director of the Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn Libraries. Guardiola joined the Penn Libraries in 2015 as assistant director of the Fisher Library. Before joining Penn, she was a Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship and then reference and instruction librarian in the Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University. Guardiola’s experience spans the library and fine arts fields. Her professional background includes research and instruction services, collection development, cataloging, teaching, and curation. Her career in libraries began with a role at the Louisville Free Public Library. Guardiola is active in the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Ashley Blinstrub has been appointed student success and inclusion librarian at George Mason University Libraries.

Melanie Bopp has been named head of Access Services at George Mason University Libraries.

Rivkah Cooke is now head of electronic resources acquisitions with the Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington.

Mayra Corn has joined the University of Nevada-Las Vegas University Libraries as the undergraduate medical education liaison librarian and technology manager in the Health Sciences Library.

Rosanne Couston is now social sciences distance education librarian for Pima Community College.

Sharona Ginsberg has been appointed head of Terrapin Learning Commons at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Karen Glover has been named associate dean for content, access, and user services at Georgia Institute of Technology Library.

Michael Hunter is now resource sharing librarian at George Mason University Libraries.

David Lemmons has been appointed instruction coordinator at George Mason University Libraries.

Catherine Manci has joined the Georgia Institute of Technology Library as the public programming and community engagement librarian.

Katherine O’Clair is now associate dean for academic services at Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

Dorothee Schubel has been named metadata and cataloging librarian at George Mason University Libraries.

Nancy Shin has been appointed senior assistant librarian, NNLM PNR research and data coordinator, at the University of Washington Libraries.

Christine Woods has been named regional librarian for Saint Leo satellite centers at Saint Leo University in Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and California.

Retirements

Barry B. Baker has retired from the University of Central Florida Libraries (UCF) after 22 years as director. Baker joined UCF in 1997 from University of Georgia Libraries, where he had served as assistant director for technical services for 16 years. Baker was instrumental in developing the libraries’ Regional Campus network of librarians, the opening of the Rosen College and Downtown libraries, and oversaw a marked increase in both print and digital information resources. He was particularly interested in building special collections and archives, and several important collections were obtained during his tenure, including the Georgine and Thomas Mickler Floridiana Collection, the Sol and Sadie Malkoff Book Arts Collection, the Carol Mundy African-American Legacy Collection, the Harrison Price Company Archives of travel and tourism, and numerous additions to the Libraries’ Caribbean and Latin American art collections. Baker’s most notable accomplishment is the successful redevelopment of the John C. Hitt Library on UCF’s main campus. Over his 53-year library career, Baker was active professionally with ACRL, the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services, and the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. He served on the Executive Council and in other leadership positions with the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries, and was selected Caribbean Information Professional of the year in 2007. Baker edited the “Technical Services Report” in Technical Services Quarterly and is a noted expert in cataloging and acquisitions.

Wendy Pradt Lougee has retired after more than 17 years as university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Minnesota. Previously, she spent 20 years at the University of Michigan with earlier appointments at Brown University and Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Throughout her career, Lougee has been at the forefront nationally —developing a number of programs, initiatives, and policies that have revolutionized academic librarianship, particularly in the area of innovation and technology.