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

María R. Estorino has been named interim vice-provost for university libraries and 
university librarian at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. Esto-
rino had been associate university librarian for special collections and director of 
the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library since 2017. During her time at 
UNC-Chapel Hill, Estorino has been instrumental in expanding and transforming 
the work of special collections. She coauthored or advised on numerous grant and gift 
proposals, including a successful recent proposal to the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chari-
table Trust for a new $2 million endowment and challenge match. She also helped 
to secure major new collections, such as the entirety of the Florence Fearrington rare 
book collection valued at more than $6 million. One of Estorino’s signature initia-
tives at Wilson Library has been the development of a fellowships program to support 
undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty and community researchers in their 
scholarly and creative uses of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s special col-
lections. Before joining UNC-Chapel Hill, Estorino was vice-president of museum 
collections at HistoryMiami Museum in Florida. Prior to that, she spent 14 years in 
positions of increasing responsibility at the University of Miami Libraries, concluding 
as the Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection (2013-15). 

Makiba J. Foster, who has attracted national recognition for leading digital projects 
that curate the Black experience, such as “Documenting Ferguson,” and, most recent-

ly, “Archiving the Black Web,” has been named Librarian of 
the College at The College of Wooster. She begins her work 
July 15. For the past three years, Foster has led the African 
American Research Library and Cultural Center in Bro-
ward County, Florida, while also working with a network 
of public libraries and libraries at colleges and universities 
on “Archiving the Black Web.” Foster received a $150,000 
National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum 
and Library Services to advance the project, which has a 
goal of documenting the digital presence of Black culture 
and content through the practice of web archiving. Library 
Journal praised the project when it listed Foster as one of 
its 2021 Movers & Shakers—Digital Developers. Prior to 

her work in Broward County, Foster was assistant chief librarian at the Schomburg 
Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library and served as 
curator of oral history and subject liaison for American History, Women, Gender, & 
Sexuality Studies, and Sociology at the Olin Library at Washington University in St. 
Louis. 

Makiba J. Foster

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