Appointments

Tom Baione has been appointed Harold Boeschenstein Director of the Department of Library Services at the American Museum of Natural History. Baione, who has worked in the museum’s library since 1995, has served as both the special collections librarian and as the acting director of the library. Between 1998 and 2002, Baione developed online and printed educational materials for audiences outside the museum as part of the museum’s new National Center for Science Literacy Education and Technology. He returned to the library in 2002 and was promoted to assistant director for client services. In recent years, Baione has created a new secure collections space for Rare Folios and expanded the scope of the Rare Book Collections. Baione has received a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to fund the digitization of the 121,000 card index, which provides access to the Museum’s Central Administrative Archives—a rich history of the Museum during most of the 20th century and a veritable who’s who of science during the first century of the Museum’s history. Baione will continue his involvement with the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Tom Baione

Daniel Hartwig has been named Stanford University archivist in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Daniel came from Yale University Archives, where he served as records services archivist since 2006. In that position he was responsible for analysis and appraisal of the information holdings of Yale offices, and acted as the primary point of contact between University Archives and the rest of Yale. In later years, he also took on systems administration responsibilities, collection management responsibilities, and supervision of accessioning staff. Hartwig has also spent time at Ball State Libraries and with the Wisconsin Historical Society. Hartwig has twice presented at the Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, once in 2007 on the topic “Ingest of university electronic records: Theory and Practice,” and again in 2008 on the topic “Pre-Custodial Intervention and Institutional Repositories.” He has also been an active blogger, and you can read his postings at atatyale.blogspot.com.

Sarah Leadley has been appointed associate dean of university libraries and director of the University of Washington Bothell Library at the University of Washington-Seattle.

Kirsten Leonard has been named executive director of Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). Leonard has held positions at Kettering University, Ball State University, and Indiana University (IU)-Kokomo libraries. At Kokomo she has been given an increasing range of responsibilities, which have included cataloging, government documents and educational assessment. She has had significant responsibility for the development of IU-Kokomo’s information technology infrastructure.

Xan Arch is now collection development librarian at Reed College.

Devin Becker has been named digital initiatives and scholarly communications librarian at the University of Idaho.

Amy Blevins has been appointed clinical education librarian in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa Libraries.

Kurt A. T. Bodling is now technical services librarian at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.

Maureen Cech has been appointed assistant librarian in the special collections department at the University of Delaware Library.

Sarah Dahlen is the new reference and instruction librarian at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Susan Elkins is the new electronic serials librarian at the Porter Henderson Library, Angelo State University, in San Angelo, Texas.

Sarah Fancher has been appointed business reference librarian at Saint Louis University in Missouri.

Katy Ginanni is the new collection development librarian in Hunter Library at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Leanne Hillery has accepted the position of cataloging and metadata services librarian at the Old Dominion University Libraries in Norfolk, Virginia.

Kira Homo has been appointed electronic records archivist at the University of Oregon Libraries

Ben Hunter is now head of cataloging and collections at the University of Idaho.

Alexander Johnston has been appointed assistant librarian in the special collections department at the University of Delaware Library.

Jeremy Kenyon is now reference/instruction librarian at the University of Idaho.

Nathaniel King has been named social sciences librarian in the Davis Library Research and Instructional Services Department at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Hannah K. Lee has been appointed affiliate assistant librarian and Pauline A. Young Resident at the University of Delaware Library.

Michele Lee has been appointed the special collections librarian at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.

Alexis Manheim has joined the acquisitions department at Stanford University as electronic resources and technology librarian.

Robin Miller has been appointed reference/instruction librarian—government publications, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s McIntyre Library.

Garth Reese is now head of special collections and archives at the University of Idaho.

Laurie Rizzo has been appointed assistant librarian in the Special Collections Department at the University of Delaware Library.

Antoinette Satterfield has joined the Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy as reference-bibliographer for political science and economics.

Retirements

Karyle Butcher, the Donald and Delpha Campbell university librarian and director of the Oregon State University (OSU) Press, has retired from her position after 45 years in the profession. Butcher began her career as a public librarian in Los Angeles and later Santa Barbara before moving into academic libraries. She has served the profession in numerous leadership positions, including ACRL, ACRL/Oregon chapter, Greater Western Library Alliance, CNI, and the Pacific Northwest academic library consortium, Orbis Cascade Alliance. Butcher was a founding board member for portal: Libraries and the Academy. During her tenure at OSU, Butcher received the Oregon Librarian of the Year Award, the OSU Woman of Achievement Award, and the D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service award. Under her leadership OSU Libraries became the first academic library to be awarded the Library Journal Library of the Year award in 1999. During Butcher’s tenure OSU Libraries established two endowed positions as well as the first endowment for the OSU Press.

Jim Cole retired as the principal serials cataloger from Iowa State University Library June 30, 2010. Cole joined the library as a serials cataloger in 1984. In this role he published numerous articles and edited several books about serials cataloging. He was the ALCTS Serials Section representative to the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, 1983–1985. He also was elected and served as secretary of the ALCTS Serials Section in the 1980s. In 1994, he became editor-in-chief of The Serials Librarian and continued in that role until this year.

Terence Ford, head of research databases at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, has retired. Ford served as associate director of the Research Center for Music Iconography, as editor-in-chief of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, editor of the MLA International Bibliography, editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art, and was responsible for the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the Getty’s Provenance Index. He also served on the board and as president of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS).

Peggy Mueller retired March 31, 2010, from the University of Texas (UT) Libraries at the University of Texas-Austin, where she was the special programs officer. Mueller received a UT Outstanding Staff Awards at the President’s Staff Awards ceremony this year. Her professional career included positions in reference, management, and outreach in the public libraries of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Fort Worth, Texas, and at the University of Texas Libraries in Austin.

Patrick Mullin, interim associate university librarian for collections and services at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill, has retired after a professional career spanning 37 years. Mullin joined the library staff in 1987 as systems librarian. He subsequently headed the Systems Department before becoming associate university librarian for systems, access services, and systems, and then technical services and systems. Since March, Mullin has served as interim associate university librarian for collections and services. During his tenure, he oversaw several comprehensive system migrations, as well as a complete reorganization of the library’s technical service operations in 2008. Mullin was president of LITA (2005–06) and was a member of the LITA Board of Directors and its Executive Committee from 2003 to 2007. He chaired the LITA 2001 and 2002 National Forum Program Planning Committees and has held leadership positions with ACRL and the Data Research Users’ Group. From 1988 to 1991, concurrent with his responsibilities at UNC, Mullin was interim director of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), a collaborative organization of the libraries at UNC, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina State University. For this service and numerous other contributions, he was recognized by TRLN in 2000 for his “extraordinary service and leadership and for outstanding contributions promoting cooperation among libraries.” Mullin began his professional career as the special collections librarian at Marietta College, in Marietta, Ohio. He subsequently spent ten years in various positions with OCLC in Dublin, Ohio, before joining UNC.

Patrick Mullin

Cynthia Wright Swaine has retired from the Old Dominion University Libraries. She joined the Old Dominion University faculty in 1975 as the education reference librarian. In 1979, she accepted the position of managing the library’s instruction program, her most recent title being instructional services librarian. In 1994, she also became the distance learning coordinator for the library. Swaine’s university service includes membership on committees related to distance learning, strategic planning, SACS reaccreditation, evaluation of services, parking appeals, and student conduct. For the Old Dominion University Libraries, Swaine has served as chair and member of numerous teams and committees. She was a co-creator and instructor for the credit course “Research in the Information Age.” For most of her career, Swaine was a member of the Virginia Library Association, having chaired its Library Instruction Forum and served on its Membership Committee, and she also served on the Public Relations/Membership Committee of ALA’s Library Instruction Round Table and was a member of ACRL.