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C&RL News April 2011  246

Musa Wakhungu Olaka recently joined 
the University of South Florida-Tampa 
Library as the holocaust and genocide li-
brarian. 

Will Owen has been named associate 
university librarian for technical services and 
systems at the University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill.

Kelly Christianson Reynolds has been 
appointed law reference librarian at the 
John E. Jaqua Law Library at University of 
Oregon Libraries. 

Bryan Skib has been named associate 
university librarian for collections at the 
University of Michigan.

Maxine Wright has been appointed head 
of Collection Management at the Columbia 
University Law School Arthur W. Diamond 
Law Library.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Naomi Kotake has retired from the Stanford 
University Libraries. Since November 1990, 
Kotake fi rst worked full-time as the Japanese 
cataloger and later as the Japanese bibliogra-
pher in the Hoover East Asia Collection, and 
as Japanese studies librarian in Stanford’s 
East Asia Library when it was transferred to 
SULAIR in fall 2001. She coauthored Library 
of Congress Subject Headings Related to Ja-
pan: Topical Headings (1994). 

Marcia Boosinger, associate dean for public 
services at Auburn University Libraries, has 
won the Women of Distinction Leadership 
Award for faculty given annually at the Au-
burn University Women’s Leadership Confer-
ence. Boosinger has served in various capaci-
ties within Auburn University Libraries since 
1984, and has proven instrumental in moving 
the three libraries that make up Auburn Uni-
versity Libraries forward with the changing 
role of libraries in university student educa-
tion. While her 26 years of work with Auburn 
University Libraries include many distinctive 
accomplishments, most recently Boosinger 
has been a driving force behind the Learning 
Commons project in Ralph Brown Draughon 
Library that saw a large percentage of library 
space repurposed from traditional shelves of 
books to a cooperative learning area for stu-
dents to come and study together with all the 
most modern high-tech tools.

A p p o i n t m e n t s

Douglas M. Ferrier has been appointed 
library director of Texas A&M International 
University’s Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library.

Eugenia Beh has joined the faculty at the 
Texas A&M University Libraries as electronic 
resources librarian.

Kate Contakos is now head of the pres-
ervation department at Stanford University 
Libraries.

Kelly Evans has been named the Uni-
versity of South Florida-Tampa Library’s new 
business librarian.

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

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