September 2021 C&RL News397 P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway 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. Diane M. Rodriguez is now president of the American Association of Law Libraries (2021- 22). Rodriguez is currently assistant director of the San Francisco Law Library in California. Appointments Maria Cunningham has been named director of special collections at the Oregon Health & Sci- ence University Library in Portland, Oregon. Katherine Fisher became the new head of digital archives at Emory Uni- versity’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, where she will help acquire, preserve, and provide access to digital content and provide leadership and strategic direction around the management and planning of the digital collections. Irene Herold has been appointed dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries and university librarian. Herold’s career spans nearly 30 years and includes leadership roles at several university libraries and professional orga- nizations, including serving as past president of ACRL. Herold is the author of two books, Lead- ing Together: Academic Library Consortia and Advocacy and Creating Leaders: An Examination of Academic and Research Libraries Leadership In- stitutes, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on academic libraries and library leadership. Herold previously served as univer- sity librarian at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, dean of Mason Library at Keene State College, director of the Anne Bridge Baddour Library at Daniel Webster College, and public services li- brarian at Monmouth College. Pam Werre was appointed interim executive di- rector of library services at Minnesota State Uni- versity-Moorhead (MSUM) and is currently serv- ing the second year of a two-year term. Werre’s first position at the MSUM Library was as the public services librarian (2000). In 2014, she be- came the curriculum materials center librarian and then began service as interim director in July 2020. Werre was formerly reference and Internet services librarian in Milner Library at Illinois State University for seven years (1993–2000). Werre has served on a number of ALA commit- tees including ALSC’s Mildred L. Batchelder Award Committee (2020) and ACRL’s EBSS Curriculum Materials Committee and EBSS Ref- erence Sources and Services Committee. Piper Cumbo joined Auburn University Li- braries as instruction librarian. Tara Douglas-Williams has joined the Emory Libraries as associate director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. Maria Emerson is now student success librar- ian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library. Clinton Fluker has been named curator of African American collections at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm has joined Southern Illinois University-Carbondale as as- sociate dean of library affairs directing the Special Collections Research Center of Morris Library. Karina Soni has been appointed outreach proj- ects librarian at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill University Libraries. Retirements Eleanor I. Cook, professor emerita at East Caro- Maria Cunningham mailto:agalloway%40ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40ala.org?subject= C&RL News September 2021 398 lina University (ECU), has retired from the Uni- versity of North Carolina (UNC) system after 40 years of service. She most recently served as interim head of the ECU Music Library while on phased retirement, but primarily served as assistant direc- tor for Discovery & Technology Services and assis- tant director for Collections & Technical Services while at ECU. Prior to coming to ECU in 2008, Cook served as serials librarian and assistant head of materials processing at Appalachian State Uni- versity. From 1983 to 1989, she was the supervisor of serials cataloging at North Carolina State Uni- versity. She started her library career as a student assistant and staff employee at UNC-Chapel Hill’s library Acquisitions Department and spent one year at Georgia Institute of Technology as a seri- als cataloger. Cook has served in several leadership roles within the profession. She was the president of UNC-Chapel Hill’s SILS Alumni Association (1991–92), president of NASIG (2002–03), and president of the North Carolina Preservation Con- sortium in (2006–07). Cook has been recognized by her peers for her mentorship and leadership. In 1999 she received the Significant Contribution Award from NCLA’s RTSS Section, the ABC-Clio Vicky Speck Memorial Leadership Award from the Charleston Conference in 2010, the Leadership in Acquisitions Award from the ALA ALCTS Acqui- sitions Section in 2011, and the Marilyn Miller Award for Professional Commitment award from the Women in Libraries Round Table of NCLA (2013). Lori Goetsch, dean of the Kansas State University Libraries and executive vice-president, has retired. During her tenure as dean since August 2004, Goetsch has guided K-State Libraries through many challenges, most notably the May 2018 fire at Hale Library that led to the building’s closure for 15 months. Goetsch was tasked with overseeing the recovery process and then leading the planning and renovation to turn Hale into a next-generation library. Before coming to Kansas State University, Goetsch served as director of the public services division at the University of Maryland’s library; head of reference services and associate professor at the University of Tennessee; women’s studies bibliographer, librarian, and head librarian for in- formation-reference at Michigan State University; and assistant reference librarian at the University of Illinois-Chicago. As a researcher, Goetsch’s pub- lished work covers a range of topics, including the importance of library safety and security, the im- pact of librarians on students, faculty, and staff and their accomplishment of the libraries’ missions, and the status of women in librarian positions in relevance to sex discrimination in employment. She also has been active in several professional or- ganizations, including the board member of the Greater Western Library Alliance, State Library of Kansas, and the Emporia University School of Library and Information Management; ACRL president (2009–10) and also serving on its board; and an executive member of Humani- ties Kansas. Among Goetsch’s many honors are receiving a National/International Diversity in the Curriculum grant, Michigan State Univer- sity Libraries Distinguished Librarian Award, and selection to the ACRL/Harvard Leader- ship Institute (2000). David A. Wright has retired from his position as associate dean of learning resources at Surry Community College in North Carolina. A mem- ber of ALA/ACRL, Wright served as chair of the Community & Junior College Library section (2009–10) as well as several ACRL committees. He served as chair of the National Council of Learning Resources (2011–20). Prior to his ten- ure at Surry Community College, Wright served as library director at Mississippi College (1992– 2006) and other academic libraries in Ohio and Tennessee. Advertisers Accessible Archives 345 Association for Computing 357 Machinery (ACM) Atlas Systems cover 2 Choice Reviews cover 3 ccAdvisor 369 MIT Press 364 Modern Language Association cover 4 OverDrive 349 Project Muse 346