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

Appointments

Trisha Mileham has been named dean of 
the library at Valparaiso University. Mileham 

has been serving as 
the dean of the library 
in an interim capac-
ity since April 2018. 
Mileham joined the 
Valparaiso faculty in 
1998, was promoted to 
associate professor in 
2004, and was granted 
tenure in 2005. In 2008, 
she was named direc-

tor of research services, managing the team-
based department that encompasses library 
instruction, reference, circulation, program-
ming, and outreach services. Previously, she 
served as advisor for the exploratory major 
and has taught in the Valpo Core program. 
She also serves as a mentor for pre-tenure 
cohort librarians. In 2018, Mileham was se-
lected to be a Library Senior Fellow at UCLA. 
This international cohort of 17 top manag-
ers of academic libraries participated in a 
three-week residential program that com-
bines management perspectives, strategic 
thinking, and practical and theoretical ap-
proaches to the issues confronting academic 
institutions and their libraries. 

Gail Barton has joined Auburn University 
Libraries as head of the interlibrary loans/
document delivery department. 

Richard Cho has been appointed re-
search librarian for humanities and literature 
at the University of California-Irvine Libraries.

Jenna Dufour has been appointed re-
search librarian for visual arts at the University 
of California-Irvine Libraries.

Nicole Helregel has joined the Purchase 
College (SUNY) Library as the student suc-
cess librarian.

Deaths

Wanda V. (Victoria) Dole, retired dean of the 
Ottenheimer Library at the University of Arkansas-
Little Rock, has died. Dole held library positions 
at the University of Kentucky, the University of 
Illinois-Chicago, the University of Miami, Abing-
ton College Library (Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity), the State University of New York-Stony 
Brook, and Washburn University. Subsequent to 
her retirement, Dole was the interim director of 
library services at the Abraham Lincoln Presiden-
tial Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. 
She held committee appointments with ALA for 
many years, including serving elected terms on 
ALA Council. She was also an official ALA rep-
resentative to the International Federation of Li-
brary Associations and Institutions (IFLA). In her 
role as chair of the IFLA Statistics Section, she 
served on the IFLA Governing Board and the 
IFLA Professional Committee. Dole was a highly 
regarded speaker and authored many publica-
tions. Her areas of interest included strategic 
planning and assessment, as well as quantitative 
analysis of statistics. She spoke at many national 
and international conferences. 

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