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

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Deborah Margolis, Michigan State University 
(MSU) Middle East Studies librarian, has re-

ceived a Fulbright U.S. 
Scholar Program award. 
Margolis will conduct 
research in partnership 
with Tomorrow’s Youth 
Organization in Pales-
tine, the University of 
Jordan Libraries Ameri-
can Corner, and in the 
Digital Scholarship Lab 
at MSU Libraries as part 
of a project to encour-

age youth development and create relation-
ships among college-age youth and among 
professionals from different parts of the world. 
The goal of Margolis’s project is for students to 
work as participant researchers to study their 
own creative spaces and the creative spaces of 
others and, in the process, get to know one an-
other. The study will focus on physical spaces 
and how to make spaces welcoming to young 
people of diverse identities. Though it was 
planned primarily as a virtual project, Margolis 
anticipates that her research will likely evolve 
due to COVID-19.

Margie Ruppel is now social sciences 
librarian at the University of Kentucky Li-
braries.

D e a t h s

William “Bill” Garrison, dean of the Univer-
sity of South Florida (USF) Libraries in Tampa 

(2008–15), has died. Garrison’s career in librar-
ianship took him to Northwestern University, 
Stanford University, the 
University of Colorado, 
and Syracuse Univer-
sity. Garrison joined 
USF with more than 30 
years of cataloging and 
library administrative 
experience, and was 
instrumental in creating 
and supporting the LG-
BTQ Collection in Spe-
cial Collections through 
several donations. He oversaw the major 
renovations of the first and second floors of 
the Tampa library that allowed for increased 
seating and technological advancements, and 
laid the foundation for rich collaborations with 
Academic Success, Career Services, and In-
novative Education. He published numerous 
research papers, books, and chapters, and 
enjoyed teaching cataloging throughout his 
career. He was an active member of the Inter-
national Federation of Library Associations and 
Institutions (IFLA) and the IFLA team that de-
veloped the foundation for the Resource De-
scription & Access standard. He served locally 
on the Tampa Bay Library Consortium Board 
of Directors and was a member of the As-
sociation of Southeast Research Libraries and 
ALA. During his service in three Association 
of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries, Garrison 
was active in ARL programs and was award-
ed an ARL Leadership Fellow (2004–06).  

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