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

Appointments

Thomas R. Caswell has been appointed as-
sociate dean at the University of North Flor-
ida’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library.

Andrew Hart has been named MacDonald 
Director of Preservation at Penn State Librar-
ies. Hart is currently the head of the preser-
vation department at the University of North 
Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he has served 
for more than 20 years. In that role, Hart 
oversees needs assessment, general collec-
tions conservation, preservation reformatting, 
commercial binding, shelf-preparation, disas-
ter preparedness, education, and outreach. 
He also collaborated with peers to build and 
manage a digital preservation program. His 
professional service includes roles on boards 
and committees at the ALA Association for Li-
brary Collections and Technical Services, the 
ALA/ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting 
Section, the Academic Preservation Trust, the 
Association of Research Libraries, the Council 
on Library and Information Resources, and 
HathiTrust, among others. Hart’s work has 
been published in the Microform & Imaging 
Review, International Preservation News, and 
Abbey Newsletter, and he has been honored 
with awards from ALCTS. He will assume his 
new post June 1. 

Jennifer L. Murray is now associate dean at 
the University of North Florida’s Thomas G. 
Carpenter Library.

Devin Savage has been named dean of li-
braries for the Illinois Institute of Technology 
(IIT). Savage served previously in a variety 
of management and leadership roles, most 

recently as the interim dean of libraries. Prior 
to his work at IIT, Savage also served in a va-
riety of roles in his 15 years at Northwestern 
University Library, including assessment li-
brarian. Among his other current profession-
al commitments, Savage currently serves as 
the vice-chair of the ACRL Academic Library 
Statistics and Trends Editorial Board.  

K. T. Vaughan has been appointed univer-
sity librarian at Washington & Lee University 
Library, effective June 1, 2020. Vaughan has 
most recently been at James Madison Uni-
versity (JMU) since 2013, first as the director 
of Rose Library and then as associate dean. 
Before JMU, she was the pharmacy librarian 
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill Health Sciences Library for ten years and 
served as a Libraries Fellow at North Carolina 
State University (2001–02). 

Carrie Cullen has been appointed re-
search librarian for physical sciences at the 
University of California-Irvine Libraries.

Samuel Lemley is the new special collec-
tions curator at the Carnegie Mellon University 
Libraries. 

Joellle Pitts has been appointed associ-
ate dean of administration, planning, and 
assessment at the Carnegie Mellon University 
Libraries.

Kristen Weischedel is now digital re-
sources management librarian for the Paul 
V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of 
Technology.   

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