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July/August 2011  437 C&RL News

Librarian Award (1991), and the Council 
of Planning Librarians’ Holway R. Jones 
Distinguished Service Award (1997). 

Martin Gallas has retired from Illinois 
College, in Jacksonville, as library direc-
tor after 25 years. He served previously 
as library director at Springfi eld College 
in Illinois and Oakland City University in 
Indiana.

Virginia (Ginny) Moreland has retired as 
director of library services at Lenoir-Rhyne 
University, completing 36 years of service 
to libraries in higher education. Prior to her 
fi ve years at Lenoir-Rhyne, Moreland was 
library director for 12 years at Agnes Scott 
College, where she helped guide a major 
library expansion and renovation project. 
She held earlier professional positions at 
Georgia State University and the University 
of Nebraska, and before that, paraprofes-
sional positions at Harvard University and 
Boston College. 

Sara Penhale, head of Wildman Science 
Library at Earlham College, has retired as 
science librarian and associate professor 
of biology after 31 years of service to the 
institution. 

A p p o i n t m e n t s

Brad Eden has been appointed dean of li-
brary services and professor of library science 
at Valparaiso University.

Peggy Hoon has been named scholarly 
communications librarian at University of 
North Carolina-Charlotte’s J. Murrey Atkins 
Library.

Thomas Johnson is now digital applica-
tions librarian/associate professor at Oregon 
State University Libraries.

Tom Peters has been appointed assistant 
dean for Strategic Technology Initiatives at 
Illinois State University’s Milner Library. 

Ellen Wilson has accepted the posi-
tion of head, original print cataloging in the 
University of Michigan Library’s Technical 
Services Unit. 

R e t i r e m e n t s

Elizabeth Byrne has retired after 27 years 
as the head of the University of California 
(UC)-Berkeley’s Environmental Design 
Library. Her 42 years of service to the 
profession included librarian positions at 
the University of Cincinnati, San Diego 
Public Library, Detroit Public Library, and 
the University of Louisville. Byrne has 
edited a number of books, including San 
Francisco Architecture and, most recently, 
Design on the Edge: a Century of Teaching 
Architecture at the University of California, 
Berkeley, 1903-2003. She has received 
UC-Berkeley’s Chancellor’s Distinguished 
Service Award (2011) and Distinguished 

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

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