C&RL News February 2021 94 P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Retirements Vicki Bloom, dean of library services at Indiana University-South Bend, retired at the end of 2020, after nearly 11 years. Putting student success at the forefront of all library services, she added comput- ers, bookable study and Zoom rooms, makerspace technology, a subject librarian program, and a dis- covery service for searching across databases. She oversaw the implementation of several digital ini- tiatives, including a robust open access repository and journal hosting of both faculty and student publications as well as a growing presence in Indi- ana University’s Archives of Institutional Memory and Media Collections Online. During her tenure, Bloom oversaw the move and expansion of the Dorothy J. Wiekamp Educational Resource Com- mons, a curriculum library and teachers’ resource center into a larger, modern space. In addition, she expanded community engagement by leading a Veterans Book Club and bringing 3rd–12th grade students, exhibits, and speakers to campus. For many years, she served in leadership roles in Aca- demic Libraries of Indiana, ALA, and as a resume reviewer and mentor to new librarians. Deaths Everett Wilkie, independent scholar and consul- tant in rare books and manuscripts since 1997, has died. Wilkie previously served as the head li- brarian of the Connecticut Historical Society (1985-97), bibliographer at the John Carter Brown Library (1981-84), and reference librarian at the Lilly Library (1980-81). Between 1989 and 2008 he received fellowships for research at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Lilly Library, the Huntington Library, and the John Carter Brown Library. Wilkie also held the position of research associate in the Department of Comparative Lit- erature at Brown University (1978-80), conduct- ing post-doctoral research for the final compilation and editing of a bibliography initiated by Durand Echeverria. Published in 1994, The French image of America: A descriptive and subject bibliography of French printed works relating to the British North American colonies and the U.S. through 1815, is the standard work for this area of European Americana in the colonial period. Wilkes’s notable publications on French Americana also include two Harvard University Library Bulletin articles: “Mercier’s L’An 2440: Its Publishing History During the Author’s Lifetime” (1987) and “The Authorship and Pur- pose of the Histoire naturelle et morale des îles Antil- les, An Early Huguenot Emigration Guide” (1991). His later descriptive bibliographies focused on pre- viously underdocumented printed works concern- ing Texas and Mexico: Lilly Texana: One Hundred Eighty Broadsides, Pamphlets, and Other Ephemera Relating to Texas Printed and Published before 1849 in the Lilly Library of Indiana University (2008) and The 1861 Texas Printings of the Ordinance of Seces- sion A Declaration of the Causes and An Address to the People of Texas: An Illustrated Descriptive Print- ing History Commemorating the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of Their Adoption and the Secession of Texas from the United States of America (2011). Wilkie served as the moderator of the Ex Libris discussion list for two decades, beginning in 1995. He was also moderator of the RBMS electronic discussion list from 2001 until 2016. For RBMS he was the section liaison to the ACRL Standards and Accreditation Committee for at least a decade, guiding numerous RBMS guidelines and standards through the ACRL approval process. He also served as the chair of the RBMS Security Committee for nearly two decades. In this latter role he oversaw the committee’s work on several iterations of the security and theft guidelines for RBMS/ACRL. On a related note, he compiled and edited the Guide to Security Considerations and Practices for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Libraries, pub- lished by ACRL in 2011. In addition to bringing this essential and still relevant volume to print, he also wrote 13 of the 18 chapters. 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. mailto:agalloway%40ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40ala.org?subject=