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P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway

Blynne Olivieri, head of special collections 
at the University of West Georgia, has been 
awarded the Faculty Member of the Year award 
for the 2018/2019 academic year. Olivieri, an 
associate professor, has been employed at the 
University of West Georgia since 2012. She is 
currently the ACRL/RBMS chair of the Budget 
& Development Committee, a member of the 
inaugural ALA Philanthropy Advisory Group, 
and is an active member of the Association of 
Centers for the Study of Congress. 

Appointments

Scott Walter has been appointed university li-
brarian and professor, and university copyright 
officer at Illinois Wesleyan University. Walter pre-
viously served as university librarian at DePaul 
University, and as associate university librarian 
for services and associate dean of libraries at 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
Walter has served as a member of the Board of 
Directors of the Consortium of Academic and 
Research Libraries in Illinois, as well as the Cath-
olic Research Resources Alliance and the Library 
Publishing Coalition. He was a founding mem-
ber of the Board of Directors of Chicago Collec-
tions and has been a leader in the establishment 
of campus and community partnerships sup-
porting innovation in library services and spaces, 
and collaboration among academic affairs and 
student affairs programs. Walter is an active 
scholar, presenter, and LIS educator, and has 
served ACRL in a number of positions, including 
chair of the ACRL Research Coordinating Com-
mittee, chair of the Education and Behavioral 
Sciences Section, and editor-in-chief of College & 
Research Libraries. In 2012, he was the recipient 
of the ACRL-EBSS Distinguished Education and 
Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award.

Brian Mathews has joined the Carnegie 
Mellon University Libraries as associate dean 
for innovation, preservation, and access. 

Alicia M. Salaz has been appointed asso-
ciate dean for research and academic services 
at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.

Emma Slayton has been named data 
curation, visualization, and GIS specialist 
at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. 

Retirements

Susan Swords Steffen, director of the Elm-
hurst College A. C. Buehler Library since 1997, 
has retired. Swords Steffen has been an active 
leader in many national, state, and local library 
professional organizations, received the Mel-
vin George Award from LIBRAS (the Chicago 
area consortium of college libraries), taught in 
the graduate library science program at Do-
minican University, and in 2014 was named 
Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year by the 
Illinois Library Association. In 2010, under her 
leadership, the A. C. Buehler Library received 
the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries 
Award. 

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