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Appointments

Spencer Bevis has been named project librar-
ian for North Carolina Historic Newspapers at the 
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University 
Libraries.

Hannah Caproon has joined the Northern Ari-
zona Cline Library as electronic resources librarian. 

Chris Holthe is now experiential learning 
librarian for Cline Library at Northern Arizona 
University. 

Samantha (Sam) Meier has been appointed 
archivist for discovery in Special Collections and Ar-
chives at Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library.

Retirements

Kurt A. T. Bodling has retired from the Fred 
W. Smith National Library for the Study of 
George Washington, where he has been tech-
nical services librarian for just under ten years. 
Before that he had been rare books librarian at 
the State Library of Pennsylvania and the direc-
tor of library services at Concordia College.

Linda Smith Griffin, head of resource de-
scription and metadata services, is retiring af-
ter 34 years at Louisiana State University (LSU) 
Libraries. During her time at LSU, Griffin was 

a significant part of pro-
grams and events that 
celebrate the African 
American Community 
across the university, in-
cluding the Black Faculty 
and Staff Caucus and the 
Black Scholars Program, 
and as a faculty member 
of the LSU African Ameri-

can Studies program. Additionally, she served 
on the LSU Admissions, Standards, and Honors 
(ASH) committee; been a faculty advisor for the 
MLK Commemorative Committee; and served 
as president of the Black Faculty and Staff Cau-
cus at LSU. 

Barbara J. Stites, interim dean of the Wilson G. 
Bradshaw Library at Florida Gulf Coast University, 
in Fort Myers, Florida, has retired, concluding a 
44-year career in education and libraries. In 1989 
she was hired as executive director of the Tampa 
Bay Library Consortium, where she led the imple-
mentation of the first access to the internet for 
Florida’s public libraries. In 1999, she assumed 
the executive director’s position at the Southwest 
Florida Library Network and sponsored the area’s 
inaugural library leadership program, precursor 
to the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute, 
before moving to Florida Gulf Coast University in 
2006. She also engaged in many years of service 
to the profession, including serving as president 
of both the Florida Library Association and the 
Special Library Association, Florida and Caribbean 
Chapter as well as the treasurer of the Florida As-
sociation for Media in Education. In recognition 
of her career accomplishments Stites was named 
the 2008 recipient of the University of South Flor-
ida School of Information Distinguished Alumni 
Award, the 2015 Alice G. Smith Lecturer, and in 
2019 was awarded Florida Library Association’s 
Lifetime Achievement Award. This year she plans 
to open an executive coaching firm for library 
leaders who wish to unlock their potential and 
increase their effectiveness. 

Tanner Wray has retired as director of library and 
information services at Montgomery College.  

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