June 2019 361 C&RL News

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

Appointments

John Jax has been ap-
pointed director of Mur-
phy Library at University 
of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 
He previously served as 
the collection develop-
ment librarian at Murphy 
Library for the last 17 
years.  

Kevin Mulroy, former A. J. McFadden Dean 
of The Claremont Colleges Library, has been 
named college librarian at Occidental Col-
lege, effective July 1. While at Claremont 
(2013–18), Mulroy oversaw strategic and mas-
ter planning efforts that led to substantial im-
provements to the organization’s operations, 
information technology, resources, services, 
and facilities. Mulroy also served as lead dean 
of the intercollegiate Digital Humanities pro-
gram. The library became recognized as the 
academic center of the consortium. Before 
joining Claremont, Mulroy served as associ-
ate university librarian for academic services 
at UCLA (2008–13), associate executive direc-
tor of research collections and services and 
assistant dean for contracts and grants at 
the USC Libraries (2001–08), and director of 
the Research Center at the Autry Museum of 
Western Heritage (1993–2001).

Clara Ogbaa has been named director of li-
brary services at Southern Connecticut State 
University’s Hilton C. Buley Library in New Ha-
ven, Connecticut. She previously served as the 
library director of Gateway Community Col-
lege (2008–18). Under her leadership and man-
agement, the college experienced growth and 

she helped transform 
library spaces, services, 
and collections. Ogbaa 
previously served as 
administrative librarian 
and head of reference 
and instructional ser-
vices at Texas State Uni-
versity (2004–08).

Retirements

Dianne Ford, coordinator of library elec-
tronic resources and library liaison to the 
life science and health science departments, 
is retiring after 17 years at Elon University’s 
Belk Library. Ford led the planning team for 
the first Science Boot Camp Southeast for 
Librarians in 2014 and has served on the 
planning team and executive board for the 
STEM Librarianship in the North Carolina Li-
brary Association. 

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John Jax

Clara Ogbaa

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