nov13_b.indd November 2013 543 C&RL News 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. sity, held numerous positions at the Library of Congress, and has taught at Syracuse Univer- sity’s Information School and in the Simmons College doctoral program. She has been a researcher, writer, lecturer, and consultant for library transformation and was appointed by President Obama to the National Board of the Institute for Museum and Library Services in 2012. Justin Bonfiglio is the new copyright specialist/librarian in the Copyright Office at the University of Michigan Library. Leslin Charles has been appointed instructional design librarian at Rutgers Uni- versity Libraries in New Jersey. Kate Conerton is now distance learn- ing librarian at the University of Wyoming Libraries. Adriana P. Cuervo has been appointed associate director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in the Rutgers University Libraries in New Jersey. Mary (Franny) Gaede has been hired as scholarly communication librarian at Butler University Libraries. Lisa Gregory has been named digital projects librarian for the North Carolina Digi- tal Heritage Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s University Library. Manuel Jusino has been appointed School of Communication and Information/ Rutgers University Libraries intern/resident (2013–16). Krystal Lewis is now information com- mons and student engagement librarian at DePaul University. Alisha Linam has been appointed refer- ence and instruction librarian at Graceland University’s F. M. Smith Library. Laura B. Palumbo has been appointed chemistry and physics librarian in the Rutgers University Libraries in New Jersey. Jonathan Sauceda has been appointed music and performing arts librarian in the Rutgers University Libraries in New Jersey. Beth Bidlack, director of Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, has been elect- ed president of the American Theological Li- brary Association (ATLA) by the ATLA Board of Directors. Bidlack served on the Board of Directors for first term (2011–14) and as vice president (2012–13). She also served as the chair of the Bylaws Committee (2011–13), previously served on the ATLA Publications Committee, and chaired the Collections As- sessment and Evaluation Interest Group. She has been a member of ATLA for 17 years. Bidlack joined the Columbia University Li- braries in February 2013 as the director of the Burke Library. Prior to her appointment at Columbia, she was the collection assess- ment and analysis librarian at Dartmouth Col- lege Library. From 2005 to 2011, Bidlack was bibliographer for religion and philosophy at the University of Chicago Library. A p p o i n t m e n t s Michael Giordano has been appointed chief operating officer at LYRASIS. Scott P. Muir is now associate provost for li- brary information services at Rowan University. Suzanne Thorin has been named the first Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) pro- gram director. Formerly the dean of libraries and university librarian at Syracuse University, Thorin brings a passion for scalable, sustain- able preservation and a deep background in the business operations of research libraries. She is also a member of APTrust’s advisory board. In addition to Syracuse, Thorin was university dean of libraries at Indiana Univer- P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway C&RL News November 2013 544 Amanda Starkel has been named informa- tion commons and eLearning librarian at Butler University Libraries. Jennifer A. Townes is now unit head for Information and Research Services at At- lanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. Aisha Wahab has been appointed conser- vation librarian and paper conservator in the University of Michigan Library’s Preservation and Conservation department. Susan Wainscott has been appointed sci- ence technology engineering and mathematics librarian at University of Nevada-Las Vegas’ University Libraries. R e t i r e m e n t s Patricia Patterson has announced her retire- ment from Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy effective January 11, 2014. Patterson joined Nimitz Library as a part-time reference librarian in 1984 and held the position of head of reference from 1992 to 2007. She served as associate director from 2007 until her retirement. She additionally served as interim library director from 2010 to 2011. Prior to her service at Nimitz Library, Patterson was in federal service as a librarian at the National Library of Medicine in various capacities (1978–82). She received the Department of the Navy Meritori- ous Civilian Service Award in 2008. Deaths Ann Wolpert, 70, MIT’s director of libraries since 1996, has died after a brief illness. Wolp- ert was a pioneer in digital stewardship. Under her leadership, the MIT Libraries developed DSpace, a milestone in digital libraries that catalyzed the institutional repository move- ment. Wolpert became a leading voice in the discussion of how the decades-old system of peer-reviewed scholarly journals ought to operate in the digital world; she argued for unrestricted online access to journal articles. As director of libraries, Wolpert managed the MIT Libraries and the MIT Press. In 2000, Wolpert helped lead the MIT Libraries’ col- laboration with Hewlett-Packard to build DSpace, an open-source digital archive for faculty output that has been adopted by more than 1,000 in- stitutions worldwide. In 2009, Wolpert was instrumental in the conception and passage of the MIT Faculty Open Ac- cess Policy, whereby faculty authors give MIT nonexclusive permission to disseminate their journal articles for open access through DSpace@ MIT. It was the first institution-wide policy of its kind in the United States. Wolpert was recently appointed to the inaugural board of the Digital Preservation Network, created to ensure that the scholarly record is preserved for future generations by using a shared, na- tional preservation ecosystem composed of several federated, replicating nodes containing redundant copies of all deposits to protect against catastrophic loss. Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was executive director of library and information services at the Harvard Business School. In 2005 Wolpert served as president of the Association of Research Libraries and was most recently a member of its Influencing Public Policies Steering Committee. She also served as a publications advisor to the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society. Advertisers ACRL 506 Brill 505 Choice Reviews Online cover 3 John Wiley cover 2 Mathematical Association cover 4 of America Rittenhouse Book Distributors 509 Ann Wolpert