dec12_b.indd C&RL News December 2012 716 Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -mail: agalloway@ ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. to that, she was director of libraries at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and has also served as an independent consultant for libraries and higher education focusing on assessment, innovation, and accessibil- ity. In addition to presenting at numerous national and international conferences, Bostick has also written extensively on academic library consortia in the United States and information-seeking behavior in university students. She is coauthor of the book Library Anxiety: Theory, Research, and Applications. Beatriz Betancourt Hardy has been ap- pointed the dean of libraries and instruc- tional resources at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. Since 2006, she had served as Marian and Alan McLeod Director of the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary. She previously was the France-Merrick Director of the Library of the Maryland Historical Society. Rosemary M. Magee, vice president and sec- retary of Emory University, has been named director of the univer- sity’s Manuscript, Ar- chives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Ap- pointed vice president and secretary of the university in 2005, Ma- gee has worked closely with Emory trustees and the president in de- veloping and strength- ening governance pro- cesses across the university and in setting the agenda for the future. She is a member of various universitywide committees and chairs the Creativity and Arts Initiative of the Univer- sity Strategic Plan. Previously, Magee served as senior associate dean of Emory College where she also chaired the Steering Committee for Nataly Blas is now the 2012–2014 diversity resident at the University of North Carolina- Greensboro libraries. Arcot Rajasekar, professor in the School of Information and Library Science and chief scientist at the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, will lead one of eight research teams that have won a Big Data grant—a new federal funding initiative that aims to improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize, and glean discoveries from huge volumes of data. The National Science Foundation (NSF), with support from the National Institutes of Health, awarded the eight research teams about $15 million six months after the White House announced the Big Data Research and Development Initiative. Rajasekar is principal investigator for a three-year project, “DataBridge—A So- ciometric System for Long-Tail Science Data Collections.” The $1.5 million project funded by NSF will use sociometric networks similar to LinkedIn or Facebook but on a larger scale to enable scientists to find data and like- minded research. A p p o i n t m e n t s Sharon Bostick has joined the Illinois Insti- tute of Technology (IIT) as dean of libraries. As the chief administrative officer of IIT’s libraries, Bostick’s responsibilities include the coordination and oversight of all library operations and services. Bostick previously served as dean of university libraries at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Prior P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Rosemary M. Magee December 2012 717 C&RL News Advertisers ACLS Humanities E-Book cover 4 ACRL 638 Annual Reviews cover 3 Antioch University 657 Archival Products 637 Association of Research 653 Libraries Atlas Systems 661 Choice 715 Elsevier 651 Emerald Group Publishing cover 2 Project Muse 659 Rare Book School 665 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 641 the Arts at Emory. An artist-in-residence at both the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Magee has published es- says, reviews, and short stories in a variety of journals and literary magazines. Among her publications are articles on several of the writers closely associated with MARBL, including Flannery O’Connor, Salman Rush- die, Alice Walker, and others. She also has edited two volumes, both published by Uni- versity Press of Mississippi: Conversations with Flannery O’Connor and Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers. Magee will continue to serve as secretary of the university for the coming year in order to identify a new vice president and secretary of the university. Debbie Sibley has been appointed director of libraries at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in New Orleans. Sibley has worked at the LSUHSC Library since April 2007 as associate director and since July 2008 as interim director. Prior to arriving in New Orleans, Sibley worked at Thomas Jefferson University as deputy uni- versity librarian, University of Massachusetts- Worcester as deputy director and associate director of the Regional Medical Library, and at LSUHSC in Shreveport as the collection management librarian. Her first library posi- tion was library associate, evening supervi- sor at the LSUMC Library in 1978. Courtney Cunningham is now refer- ence librarian and emerging technologies specialist at Franklin & Marshall College. Sai Deng has been appointed catalog- ing/metadata librarian at the University of Central Florida Libraries. Anne Elguindi is now the associate director for the Virtual Library of Virginia. Bethany Harris has been named re- search librarian for Health Sciences at the University of California-Irvine. Jason Imbesi is now music librarian at the University of Michigan Library’s Music Library. Kelsey Keyes is now librarian/assistant professor at Boise State University’s Albertsons Library. Sarah Loudenslager is now business/ instruction librarian at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. Nandita Mani is now liaison librarian at the University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library. Timothy McGeary has been appointed head of library systems at the University Library of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Elizabeth Ramsey is now librarian/as- sistant professor at Boise State University‘s Albertsons Library. Giselle Simón has been appointed conser- vator (senior librarian), Preservation and Con- servation, at the University of Iowa Libraries. Rob Van Rennes has been named interim head of acquisitions at the University of Iowa Libraries. Christopher Woodall is now technology librarian at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. Michael Wright has been appointed interim associate university librarian for Col- lections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Iowa Libraries. Molly Olney-Zide is now content services librarian at Franklin & Marshall College. C&RL News December 2012 718 R e t i r e m e n t s Kathryn DeGraff has retired as head of Special Collections and Archives at DePaul University after 40 years of service. Both the founding head of Special Collections and Archives and DePaul’s first university archivist, DeGraff oversaw the integration of individual collections held at DePaul into a center for research and teaching in areas such as local history, Vincentian Studies, and the study of social justice. Over the past 20 years, DeGraff established enduring collaborative efforts with members of the community through the Lincoln Park Com- munity Research Initiative and with teachers and students through the development of an active instructional program that was recog- nized upon her retirement with the naming of an undergraduate research award given by the Department of History in her honor. Sid Huttner, senior librarian, Special Collec- tions and University Archives, at the Univer- sity of Iowa Libraries, has retired. Susan Marks, director of Human Resources and Diversity Programs at the University of Iowa Libraries for the last 11 years, has retired after 40 years of service. Most of her career was spent managing the Libraries’ Circulation/Access Services department. Marks conducted many national searches for librarians and other staff positions and was skilled at advising supervisors and staff on more effective and sensitive ways to man- age personnel challenges. She was an active member of the Libraries’ Administrative team and the campus human resources group. Marks is a strong advocate for diversity, and she contributed to the library profession at a national level. Edward Shreeves, associate university librarian, Collections and Scholarly Commu- nication, at the University of Iowa Libraries, has retired after 23 years of service. Under his tenure, more than 2.5 million volumes were added to the libraries. Thousands of electronic publications were also made accessible to the campus. Shreeves is well- respected nationally for his knowledge of collection development, commitment to open access, and understanding of complex issues pertaining to scholarly publishing. Shreeves frequently was “in charge” of the University Libraries in the absence of the university librarian and was an adjunct fac- ulty member in the School of Library and Information Science. D e a t h s Mary M. Doak, 91, retired librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), has died. At the UNL Love Library, Doak was a librarian from 1946 to 1986 in various posi- tions, including social studies librarian, public service librarian, chair of Humanities and Social Services Department. Doak retired as chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department with rank of professor. She also received special recognition as NE-JMRT Men- tor of the Year and an admiralship in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska. Doak was a member of ALA, UNL Emeriti Association, and University Place Art Center. Elsie Viktoria Anna Von Raison Thomas 91, has died. In 1954, Thomas began work- ing part-time for the University of Nebraska as a library specialist, and she began full- time employment in 1955. She remained in the employ of the university, working at both Donald Love Memorial Library and C. Y. Thompson Library for the next 37 years, finally retiring in 1992 at the age of 72. Dur- ing her tenure, Thomas would often have students over for meals or have them stay at the house while the dormitories were closed for the holidays or the summer. Her last as- signment was in the Special Collections of the University Archives, where she cataloged and translated the collection of Latvian President and Prime Minister Karlis Ulmanis, who at- tended the university.