sept13_b.indd C&RL News September 2013 450 Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -mail: agalloway@ ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. Comer developed a number of innovations, including an academic library consortium across three universities (Indiana State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College) in partnership with a county public library to establish an integrated online library catalog system. She has served as editor of Indiana Libraries, published by the Indiana Library Federation, as well as editor of Cognotes, the daily paper of the ALA Annual Conference. She is a member of ACRL, Ameri- can Indian Library Association, and the Indiana Library Federation. Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore has been named Marian and Alan McLeod director of the Special Collections Research Center at Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. Gaidmore served as university archivist and head of University Archives and Records Management Services at University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. Prior to his posi- tion at UNC, he was the university archivist at Brown University, where he led the Manu- scripts and University Archives division of the Special Collections department. Gaidmore began his library career as a graduate student at Old Dominion University, serving as project archivist and Special Collections coordinator for the university’s library. After completing his graduate studies, he joined the Library of Virginia as its private papers archivist. While there, he served in several positions including senior finding aids description archivist and private papers program manager. Jaclyn Grahl has been appointed the first ex- ecutive director of the Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC). CCC is a newly formed organization that pre- serves, presents, and promotes the history and culture of the Chi- Margaret Gregor, associate professor at Belk Library and Information Commons at Appala- chian State University in Boone, North Caroli- na, has been named the Martha and Nancy Lee Bivens Distinguished Fellow for Children and Reading. Gregor has served as Instructional Materials Center librarian at Appalachian for five years. She is also codirector of the second biennial Children’s Literature Symposium that will be held November 9, 2013. Kim Schroeder, Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science lecturer, has been awarded one of four 2013 Library of Congress National Digital Steward- ship Alliance (NDSA) Innovation Awards, which recognize contributions to innovation in digital stewardship. A p p o i n t m e n t s Beth Anderson Schuck is now director of libraries at the College of Southern Nevada. Kimberly Bloedel has been appointed head of the Marvin A. Pomerantz Business Library at the University of Iowa Libraries. David E. Cassens has been appointed dean of libraries at Saint Louis University. Alberta Davis Comer has been named dean and director of the University of Utah’s J. Wil- lard Marriott Library and university librarian. Comer served as dean and associate dean of library services at Indiana State University’s Cunningham Memorial Library since 2004. Un- der her leadership at Indiana State University, P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Jaclyn Grahl September 2013 451 C&RL News cago region by coordinating and leveraging the collections, programs, and expertise of its members: libraries, museums, and other institu- tions with Chicago-focused archival collections. Rebekah Kilzer has been named library direc- tor at Shawnee State University’s Clark Memorial Library. Kari Kozak was appointed head of the Lich- tenberger Engineering Library at the University of Iowa Libraries. Ann Lindell is now head of the Art and Ar- chitecture Library at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Thomas Reed Caswell has been named Archi- tecture and Fine Arts librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Leslie A. Warren has been appointed dean of Academic Information Services at Northern Michigan University. Katherine Akers has been named sci- ence librarian in science, engineering, and data at the University of Michigan Library. Grover Baker is now user services li- brarian for the visual and performing arts at Middle Tennessee State University. Beth Bernhardt is now assistant dean for collection management and scholarly com- munications for the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Brenna Campbell has been appointed assistant conservator, preservation and con- servation, at the University of Iowa Libraries. Christopher Diaz is residency program librarian for scholarly communications and collections, Collection Management, at the University of Iowa Libraries. Maria R. Estorino has been named Es- peranza Bravo de Varona chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries. Liangyu Fu has accepted the position of Chinese studies librarian in the Asia Library at the University of Michigan. Audrey Hamelers has been appointed digital humanities and Web services librarian in the Library Information Technology User Support Department at the University of Dela- ware Library. Larry Hansard has joined Middle Tennes- see State University, assuming responsibility for Integrated Systems. Patricia Hartman has joined Auburn Uni- versity Libraries as reference and instruction librarian in the subject specialties of science and mathematics. Charissa Jefferson has been named business and data librarian at California State University-Northridge’s Oviatt Library. Lauren Magnuson is now systems and emerging technologies Librarian in the Tech- nical Services department at California State University-Northridge’s Oviatt Library. Neal McClain has assumed responsibility for Library Technology at Middle Tennessee State University. Emma Molls has been named social sci- ences and scholarly communications librarian at Iowa State University Library. Hikaru Nakano has been appointed East Asian cataloger at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. David Nelson is now head of collection development and management at Middle Ten- nessee State University. Lisa Nickel is now associate dean of research and public services at William and Mary’s Swem Library. Megan O’Donnell has been named schol- arly communications librarian at Iowa State University Library. Alexa Pearce is now American culture/ British history subject specialist in arts and humanities at the University of Michigan Library. Jason Reed has been appointed faculty and graduate services librarian at Kansas State University Libraries in Manhattan, Kansas. Karen Reed has been appointed user services librarian for education at Middle Ten- nessee State University. Ariana Santiago has been appointed residency program librarian for undergraduate C&RL News September 2013 452 Advertisers American Psychological Association 393 ASM Press cover 4 Choice Reviews Online cover 3 Mathematical Association of America cover 2 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 397 University of Wisconsin-Madison SLIS 416 services, research and library instruction at the University of Iowa Libraries. Sara Scheib has been appointed sciences reference and instruction librarian in the Sci- ences Library at the University of Iowa Libraries. Sara Suiter is now learning services librar- ian at Howard Community College Library. Laurie Taylor has been appointed digital humanities librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Kelly Thompson has been named cata- loging and metadata management librarian at Iowa State University Library. David Vail has been appointed public services archivist at Kansas State University Libraries in Manhattan, Kansas. R e t i r e m e n t s Wanda V. Dole, dean of the Ottenheimer Li- brary at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock (UALR) since 2006, has retired. Dole led the renovation of public ar- eas of the library to cre- ate spaces conducive to learning and research. New technology was explored and opened to UALR users and the community, and print and online resources have been expanded. Dole also established the Ot- tenheimer Library Development Board to plan and support fundraising. Prior to coming to UALR, Dole held administrative positions in the libraries of Washburn University, SUNY Stony Brook, Penn State-Abington, and the Univer- sity of Miami. She also worked in publishing (Scott, Foresman and Co.) and book selling (NE regional representative, B.H. Blackwell’s/ Blackwell North America). Dole served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the American Uni- versity in Bulgaria. Kendra St. Aubin has retired as head of col- lection development/acquisitions services at Bridgewater State University, after 13 years of service. She began her library career with posi- tions in reference and government documents at the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan Library and Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. After moving to Mas- sachusetts she also held a reference position at Wheaton College, managed two corporate libraries, led the Rhode Island Newspaper Project, and served as bibliographic services coordinator at Southern New England School of Law. She served as a member (2002–06) and chair (2005–06) of the ACRL College Libraries Section Membership Committee and as secretary (2004–06) and membership committee chair (2006–10) of the ACRL New England Chapter. Deaths Lorna Daniells, 94, research librarian who worked at Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library from 1946 until her retirement in 1985, has died. During her nearly 40 years at HBS, she served as chair of the library’s reference department (1970–74), head of the department (1974–79), and as bibliographer (1979–85). In 1978, Daniells published a book titled Business Information Sources, which for many years was the leading comprehensive financial information source guide for universi- ties and business leaders across the country. In addition to her work at HBS, she served as a consultant for several other business schools, contributed to numerous trade publications, taught business information science at Sim- mons College, and was chairman of the Boston chapter of the Special Libraries Association for several terms. Wanda V. Dole