Appointments

Doris Ann Sweet is the new director of library services at Assumption College. Sweet was associate director for research services in the library at Simmons College. In her work at Simmons, Sweet directed a $661,000 MassBLAST grant to introduce teens to librarianship as a career through internship opportunities. She is currently serving on ACRL’s Intellectual Freedom Committee.

Stu Baker is now associate university librarian for library technology at Northwestern University Library.

Theresa Beaulieu has joined the research and instructional support department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Hannah Bennett is now architecture librarian at Princeton University.

Maria Bonn has been named associate university librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan.

Bridget Burke is now the head of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Thomas Cetwinski is now director of administrative services at the University of South Florida Libraries.

Gail P. Clement joined the faculty at Texas A&M University Libraries as outreach librarian in the department of digital services and scholarly communications.

Natalie Erb has been appointed chief financial officer of LYRASIS.

Sarah Fletcher has been appointed Web services librarian at the University of South Carolina’s School of Medicine Library.

Michelle Foss has joined the faculty of Marston Science Library at the University of Florida as a science and technology librarian.

Kate Ganski is now library instruction coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Gregory Grossmeier is the new copyright specialist at the University Library at the University of Michigan.

Heidi M. Hanson is the new electronic resources librarian at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas.

Lorelei Harris has accepted the position of liaison librarian at the University of Michigan’s Health Sciences Libraries.

Yolanda P. Jones has been named assistant director of the Wayne State University Library System’s Arthur Neef Law Library.

Caroline (Carrie) Kent has accepted a position as director of research support and instruction at the Connecticut College Library.

Ellen Knudson is now associate in the department of special and area studies collections at the University of Florida.

Ahmed Kraima is now the multicultural studies librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Josh Lupkin has been appointed reference librarian-humanities for the Central University Libraries at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Molly Mathias has been appointed Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons coordinator at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Carla Montori is now head of preservation at the University of Maryland Libraries.

Joann Palmeri has been appointed history of science librarian at the University of Oklahoma Libraries.

Susanna Pathak is the new associate director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Jane Marie Pinzino has been appointed humanities research librarian at Florida State University.

Nancy Poehlmann is the new rare books librarian in the special and area studies collections department at the University of Florida.

Julia Proctor is the new social science data librarian at the University of Michigan Library within the spatial and numeric data unit.

Jeannette Robinson has been appointed cataloger/metadata librarian in technical services at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.

Marianne Ryan is now associate university librarian for public services at Northwestern University Library.

Alexandra Shadid has been appointed librarian of the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma Libraries.

Brena Smith is now coordinator of reference, outreach, and instruction for the Division of Library and Information Resources at California Institute of the Arts.

Jean Song is the new research and informatics coordinator for the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Michigan.

Holly South has joined the staff at BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) as project coordinator for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project, Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives.

Kathryn Summey is the new public services librarian at the University of Florida-Jacksonville’s Borland Library.

Brian Vivier has accepted the position of coordinator of public services in the Asia Library at the University of Michigan Library, selecting Western language materials on East Asia.

Rebecca Welzenbach has accepted the position of digital publishing project manager in the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office.

Ning Zou has been appointed instruction coordinator at Dominican University Library in River Forest, Illinois.

Cindy Zwies has joined the Physics Library staff at Stanford University as the fixed-term collections consolidation specialist.

Retirements

Alice Hudson, chief of the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at the New York Public Library, has retired after 39 years of service.

Grace York retired as coordinator of government documents and political science librarian at the University of Michigan Library on August 31, 2009. York joined the University Library staff as a serials cataloger in 1969 and became a government documents reference librarian the following year. She was best known distributing government information via the Internet beginning in the early 1990s. York received numerous recognitions, including ALA GODORT’s James Bennett Childs Award, ACRL Law and Political Science Section’s Marta Lange Award, Michigan GODORT’s Paul Thurston Award, and the University of Michigan Librarian Achievement Award.

Deaths

Janet Bergquist Dixon, maps librarian; liaison to the geosciences, environmental dynamics, and anthropology programs and departments; and full librarian/full professor in the University of Arkansas Libraries, has died. Dixon served as Environmental Specialist and Park Planner for the Planning Division, Southeast/Southwest Team of the U.S. National Park Service in Denver, Colorado. She worked in 1982 as a research assistant at the University of Arkansas in the Department of Botany and Microbiology, then at the University Libraries as an hourly staff member in 1983, and was promoted as a library technical assistant III in 1984. She was appointed a visiting assistant librarian in 1989, served as acting head of the Periodicals Room for a year in 1998, was promoted to associate librarian in 2001, and was then promoted to librarian and awarded tenure in 2007. She accumulated a total of 26 years of service at the University of Arkansas. During Dixon’s tenure as maps librarian at the University Libraries, the map collection grew by more than 19,000 maps, the historic and archival maps in Special Collections were organized and cataloged for the first time, and library services related to pioneering electronic map and aerial images of Arkansas, made in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies through Geographical Information Systems (GIS), were initiated and grew rapidly. Under her leadership, the popular GIS Day was implemented in 1998 and continues each year, attracting numerous campus faculty and students, as well as community citizens, businesses, and organizations.