December 2017 667 C&RL News Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, at email: agalloway@ ala.org. A p p o i n t m e n t s Bridget Burke has been appointed associ- ate dean for special collections at the Uni- versity of Oklahoma (OU) Libraries starting next month. Burke will be responsible for the leadership and strategic vi- sion for OU Librar- ies’ seven distinct special collections. Burke recently visited OU Librar- ies’ Western His- tory Collections as a member of a team of western American history materials ex- perts to assess and recommend best prac- tices for preservation, acquisition of new materials and enhancement of both the col- lections’ web presence and its centrality to the scholarly fields of western and Native American history and culture. Currently, Burke is the director of the American Heri- tage Center at the University of Wyoming. She formerly served as the dean of libraries at North Dakota State University, as well as having held positions at the Boston College University Libraries, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Maggie Gilburg has been named director of development the University of Texas- Austin’s Harry Ransom Center. Gilburg will provide strategic direction for the Ransom Center’s development activities, identifying and securing resources to sustain growth and advance its mission. She will provide P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway leadership for the center’s active fundrais- ing program, including managing member- ship and annual giving, major gifts, and grants and donor relations. Her work will focus on building resources to strengthen and ensure the long-term care of the cen- ter’s diverse collections, advance scholarly research and broaden access through ex- hibitions, research fellowships, and public programs. Gilburg comes to the Ransom Center from the university’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she helped secure major gifts for the new LBJ Washington Center and developed plans to grow the school’s fundraising program. Previously, she led development efforts at the online media entity The Texas Tribune, helping to raise nearly $23 million in its first five years of operation and building a strong founda- tion for sustainability. Alex R. Hodges has been appointed the librarian and director of Monroe C. Gutman Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Jessica Benner has been appointed li- brarian at Carnegie Mellon University Librar- ies with liaison responsibilities for Computer Science, Robotics, and GIS. Kimberley Bugg has been named chief of the Humanities and Social Sciences Divi- sion at the Library of Congress. Julie (Xiaoju) Chen has been hired as library liaison to the Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering and Public Policy departments at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Adriana Flores has been appointed archivist and special collections librarian at the University of Puget Sound’s Collins Library. Melanie Gainey has been appointed liaison librarian to the Biological Sciences department at the Carnegie Mellon Univer- sity Libraries. Bridget Burke mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= C&RL News December 2017 668 Advertisers American Psychological cover 4 Association Atlas Systems 583 Choice Reviews cover 3 OECD centerspread Oxford University Press 579 Project Management Institute 580 Project Muse cover 2 Anna Goslen is now metadata librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Anna Harper has been appointed Fine and Performing Arts Librarian at the Califor- nia State University-Sacramento University Library. Tiffany Henry has been named discov- ery cataloger in technical services at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Rebekah Kati has been appointed insti- tutional repository librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Josephine McRobbie has been appoint- ed community archivist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Maggie Murphy is now first-year instruc- tion and humanities librarian in research, outreach, and instruction at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Suzanne Sawyer as the new library technician in preservation services at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Jennifer Hodl Solomon has joined the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as the open access librarian. Huajin Wang has been named librar- ian liaison to the Computational Biology and Machine Learning departments at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. She will also be responsible for Bioinformatics. Sarah Young is now the library liaison to the Social and Decision Sciences and Statistics and Data Science departments, as well as to the Heinz College School of Public Policy and Management, at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Retirements Allen Lanham, dean of library services at Eastern Illinois University, has retired after nearly 26 years of service. During his ten- ure at Eastern, Lanham encouraged a wide range of library programming in the arts and humanities and has been the principal in- Allen Lanham vestigator for Art and Architecture in Illinois Libraries since 2006. He has consulted for libraries in Central and South America and Africa. He led the extensive renovation and expansion of Booth Library from 1999 through 2002, result- ing in a building that celebrates its historic architecture while providing the space and technological capability to meet future library needs. Lanham was named an Illinois Library Association Luminary in 2016 and Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year in 2008. His work in library innovation and programming led to Booth Library being named a final- ist for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service and winner of the DEMCO Library Innovation Award, both in 2014. He has been active in many regional, state, and national library organizations and has held many leadership positions, including serv- ing as Illinois Library Association president (2004–05). He is currently an ALA councilor. Prior to his work at Booth Library, Lanham taught in the Music Department at The Inter American University of Puerto Rico-San Ger- man, beginning in 1976. He served as direc- tor of the department from 1979 to 1987.