October 2020 465 C&RL News Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, at email: agalloway@ ala.org. P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Rebecca Jefferson, curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica and joint faculty member of the University of Flor- ida’s Center for Jewish Studies, has been named to the Task Force on Holocaust Ed- ucation by Richard Corcoran, commissioner of education for the Florida Department of Education. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, associate li- brarian and Latin American and Caribbean special collections librarian at the University of Florida, has been named one of 15 RBS-Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellows for 2020–22. Vargas- Betancourt coordinates the processing of Latin American manuscripts and serves as a liaison to faculty and students. Appointments Shawn P. Calhoun has been named acting library dean at the University of San Francis- co’s (USF) Gleeson Library | Geschke Learn- ing Resource Center. Calhoun has served in various capacities at USF’s Gleeson Library for nearly 18 years and has held a number of campus leadership roles, including chair of USF’s Council of Associate Deans and a member of USF’s reaffirmation of accredita- tion team. Calhoun will continue to serve as associate for Public Services. Tyrone H. Cannon, dean of the University of San Francisco’s (USF) Gleeson Library | Geschke Learning Resource Center, has been appointed USF interim provost and vice presi- dent of academic affairs. In his nearly 25 years as dean at USF, Cannon has not only led the libraries, he has also served in a variety of aca- demic leadership roles, including as a member of the President’s Leadership Team, Provost Council, and Council of Deans. Suzanna Conrad has been named dean of university libraries at Towson University. Conrad was associate dean for digital technol- ogies and resource man- agement in the Universi- ty Library at Sacramento State University, where she provided leadership for systems, collections management, and scholarly communication. Martin Garnar is now director of the Amherst College Library. Dallas Long is now dean of Milner Library at Illinois State University. He joined Milner Li- brary in 2008 as the head of access services and later served as the associate dean for in- formation assets. Matt Shoemaker has been appointed head of the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio at the Temple University Libraries. Natalie Bennett has joined the Auburn University Libraries as the electronic resources and discovery librarian. Jacob Brintzenhoff has been named medical librarian at Temple University Libraries’ Krausz Library of Podiatric Medicine. Milan Budhathoki has been appointed the new GIS librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries. Jasmine Clark has been named digital schol- arship librarian at the Temple University Libraries. Mallory Jallas is now student success librarian at Illinois State University. Emily Jones has been named health sciences librarian at the Health Sciences Suzanna Conrad mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= C&RL News October 2020 466 Advertisers Canadian Science Publishing 417 Choice Reviews cover 3, 457 OverDrive Professional 421 Project Muse 418 Springer Nature cover 2 Taylor & Francis cover 4 Library at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill. Heather Koopsman has been named fine arts librarian at Illinois State University. Kent LaCombe has been appointed applied sciences librarian at Illinois State University. Sarah K. Myers is now public services librarian at Messiah University in Mechanics- burg, Pennsylvania. She is also manager of the campus’s institutional repository. Nicholas Perilli has been named innova- tion librarian at the Temple University Libraries’ Ginsburg Health Sciences Library. Allison Rand has been appointed instruc- tional design librarian at Illinois State University. Rachel E. Scott has been named associ- ate dean for information assets at Illinois State University. Lindsey Skaggs is now instructional design librarian at Illinois State University. Caitlin Stewart has been appointed teach- ing and learning librarian and coordinator of the teaching materials center at Illinois State University. Stacy Torian has been named health sci- ences librarian in the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University Libraries. R e t i r e m e n t s Karen Burstein has retired after 35 years as li- brarian at Temple University Libraries’ Health Sci- ences Libraries. Julie Derden has retired as teaching and learn- ing librarian and coordinator of the Teaching Ma- terials Center at Illinois State University. Rod Henshaw has retired from library service at Drake University, in Des Moines, Iowa, after a 45- year professional library career. Serving as dean of Cowles Library from 1996 to 2018, Henshaw oversaw significant growth and development of the library. Prior to Drake, he served at Iowa State University, Penn State, and Emory University li- braries. He maintained an active role in ALA, in- cluding LAMA and ACRL. In Iowa, he served as president of the Iowa Private Academic Libraries and was a founder and chair of the Iowa Aca- demic Library Alliance. During his time at Drake, he oversaw extensive renovations of the library, including the construction of a state-of-the-art ar- chives and special collections center. The library acquired the papers of former Iowa Senator Har- kin, developed an Iowa Caucus collection, and hosted collections from Henshaw, including an extensive collection of Ray Bradbury and science fiction first editions, and a collection of books and memorabilia related to Conan Doyle and Sher- lock Holmes. Kathleen Lonbom has retired as arts, theatre, and dance librarian at Illinois State University. Scott P. Muir has retired from the Rowan Uni- versity Libraries as associate provost for library information services (July 2013-July 2020), where he led the transforma- tion of the organization into a digital research library. Over his more than 40-year career, Muir also worked in libraries at Arizona State University, Eastern Michigan Univer- sity, Boston College, University of Alabama, and the Georgia Power Company. He also held sev- eral positions at the Detroit Library Area Network. Shari Zeck retired as interim dean of Milner Li- brary at Illinois State University on June 30 after 23 years at the university, where she started as a faculty member teaching film studies before serv- ing in administrative positions at the College of Fine Arts and Milner Library. Scott P. Muir