Appointments

Margaret Helms Bean has been appointed head of the Science Libraries at the University of Oregon Libraries.

Anna Gold has been appointed university librarian at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. Gold joined Cal Poly as the associate dean for Public Services in 2008, and has led research and learning support services as well as fostering public engagement programs such as Science Café, expanding library assessment programs, and improving interlibrary article delivery services. Before joining Cal Poly, Gold was head librarian of the five Engineering and Science Libraries at MIT, and previously led the Science and Engineering Library at the University of California-San Diego. From 1995 to 1999, Gold headed information services and public Web site development at the National Science Foundation; and she served at the Library of Congress for 12 years.

Vince Mariner is now deputy director of VIVA (The Virtual Library of Virginia).

Michael D. Miller, dean of library services at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, has taken on the additional duties of chief information officer overseeing Information Technology Services (ITS) and merging the library and ITS into one new division called Information Services.

Peter Runge is now head of special collections and university archives at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. He was manuscripts and digital content curator at the Cline Library Special Collections and Archives on the campus of Northern Arizona University.

Matthew Baker is now collections services librarian at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’s Burke Theological Library.

Jean Bauer has been named digital humanities librarian at Brown University Library.

Mary Brunelle is now head of library systems and technology at the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library of Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Carina Cournoyer has been appointed social sciences librarian at Brown University Library.

Joseph Deodato is the new digital user services librarian in the Rutgers University Libraries.

Karen Eberhart has accepted the position of manuscripts processing archivist at Brown University Library.

Robert Hilliker has been named digital repository manager at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services.

Sean Knowlton has been appointed Latin American and Iberian Studies librarian at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services.

Rachel Lapkin has been named library materials conservator at Brown University Library.

Derek Mosley has been named archivist/assistant director of the Ernest J. Gaines Center, an international center for scholarship on Ernest Gaines and his work, located at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

Teresa Negrucci has been appointed resource and acquisition management librarian at Brown University Library.

Eric Phetteplace is now emerging technologies librarian at Chesapeake College, in Wye Mills, Maryland.

Janice Pilch is the new copyright and licensing librarian in the Rutgers University Libraries.

Edwin (Ned) Quist has been appointed associate university librarian for research and outreach services at Brown University Library.

Caryn Radick is the new digital archivist in the Rutgers University Libraries.

Barbara Rockenbach has been named director of the Humanities and History Libraries at Columbia University.

Connie Stovall is now assistant director for collection management at Virginia Tech’s University Libraries.

Retirements

Leslie Bennett has retired as head of Music Services at the University of Oregon Libraries, after 28 years of service.

Robert Felsing has retired as East Asian bibliographer at the University of Oregon Libraries, after 22 years of service.

Marie Garrett has retired as research services librarian at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries after 23 years of service.

Barbara A. MacAdam has retired from the University Library at the University of Michigan. MacAdam’s career began as an assistant librarian in the undergraduate library at the University of Michigan (1979–81) and the Medical School’s Learning Resource Center as media consultant (1979–82). In 1982, MacAdam was appointed associate librarian and coordinator for access and automated services in the Undergraduate Library. Her publications and presentations span a wide range of issues including user instruction, critical thinking, information literacy, instructional technology, creating new learning spaces, services to a diverse community, and virtual reference services. MacAdam’s awards include ACRL’s Miriam Dudley Instructional Librarian Award (1996) and the University of Michigan’s Librarian Achievement Award in 2004 for innovative service development and professional contributions to the field of librarianship. She also received the University Library’s Diversity Award for lifetime contribution in 2011.

Lawrence J. McCrank has retired as dean and university librarian, and professor of Library, Information, and Media Studies in the College of Education, at Chicago State University (CSU). He oversaw the building of a new academic library for CSU, did the building program for the new library as dean at Ferris State University, and remodeled the library at Auburn University-Montgomery. McCrank founded FerrisNet In Michigan to broker automation services to over a dozen institutions, including Wayne Co. Public Schools around Detroit; the Montgomery Area Health Information Consortium (MAHEC) in Alabama, and the Regional History consortium in southeast Indiana. He designed and implemented a program combining the an M.A. in History and MLS for archives and special collections at the University of Maryland College of Library and Information Sciences. McCrank was a senior editor for Haworth Press, project developer and consultant for ABC-Clio and Gale, reviewer for grant agencies and journal publishers, and sat on several editorial boards. Bibliometric studies identified him as one of 20 most published academic librarians in the US, not counting his publications as a medieval historian; he authored or edited 18 monographs and more than 75 articles, and a dozen review articles.

Jane Row has retired as head of research services after 21 years at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries.