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June 2012  373 C&RL News

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ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520.

Alexis Antracoli has been appointed 
records management archivist at Drexel 
University Libraries. 

Joshua Boyer has been named head of 
the user experience department at North 
Carolina State University Libraries.

Kelly Delevan has been appointed 
instructional services/CORE librarian at Le 
Moyne College’s Noreen Reale Falcone Li-
brary in Syracuse, New York.

Benjamin Heet is now electronic re-
sources librarian at North Carolina State 
University Libraries.

Ann Yurcaba has been appointed di-
rector of administrative services at Drexel 
University Libraries.  

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

MacKenzie Smith, an academic research 
library leader specializing in information 
technology and digital knowledge manage-
ment, has been chosen to lead the University 
Library at the University of California-Davis.
Smith, who was chosen through a national 
search, will lead the library’s integration of 
digital resources and information technology 
to serve the academic community into the 
future. Smith has helped lead technology 
strategy for libraries at MIT and Harvard 
University. Most recently research director 
for MIT Libraries from 2011 to 2012, she 
led cutting-edge research projects in digital 
libraries and archives, Web applications 
for scholarly communication, and digital 
data curation in support of e-science. As 
associate director for technology at the MIT 
Libraries from 2002 to 2011, Smith oversaw 
the libraries’ technology operations and 
strategic planning. She led the development 
of an open source software platform for 
digital archives and created a digital library 
research program on applied technology for 
libraries and archives. At Harvard University 
Library from 1997 to 2002, Smith served as 
digital library projects manager and then 
digital library program manager. There, she 
oversaw the design and implementation of a 
multiyear program to build a first-generation 
digital library for Harvard. Smith also con-
sults widely in the library field, most recently 
for the Association of Research Libraries to 
design and lead a new E-Science Institute, 
helping research libraries to develop stra-
tegic plans to support digital research data 
curation.

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