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

Karim B. Boughida has been appointed dean 
of University Libraries at the University of 
Rhode Island. Boughida had been the associ-
ate university librarian for digital initiatives and 

content management 
at George Washing-
ton University (GWU) 
since 2008. Fluent in 
Arabic, French, and 
English, Boughida 
is a frequent public 
speaker on library, 
information technol-
ogy and data issues, 
and has spoken at 
the Digital Library 

Federation, the Museum Computer Network, 
and the Coalition for Networked Information. 
He was one of fi ve experts invited to discuss 
the International Bibliographic Framework 
Transition Initiative (Bibframe) at the Library 
of Congress and was recently named to the 
editorial board of the International Journal 
on Digital Libraries and the VIVO-DuraSpace 
leadership group that is focused on the 
discovery and linkage of researchers across 
institutions worldwide. Before joining GWU, 
Boughida was senior information systems 
architect at the Getty Research Institute in Los 
Angeles, which is an international research 
leader in arts, education, and humanities. 

Meg Eastwood has been appointed life sci-
ences and agriculture librarian at the University 
of New Hampshire. 

Allison O’Dell has joined the University 
of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries as 
metadata librarian.

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

Richard Saltzburg has been named the 
Arabic, Slavic and Germanic Studies liaison 
librarian at the University of Florida George 
A. Smathers Libraries.

Sarah Theimer has been appointed cata-
loging and metadata librarian at the University 
of New Hampshire.

Retirements

Ray English Azariah Smith Root director of 
libraries at Oberlin College since 1990, has 
retired. English was active in ACRL in a variety 
of contexts. He was 
a primary founder of 
the ACRL scholarly 
communication pro-
gram, serving as chair 
of the task force that 
lead to the initiative 
and also as chair of 
the ACRL Scholarly 
Communication Com-
mittee from its incep-
tion until 2006. He 
was also a longtime member of the steering 
committee of SPARC, serving as chair of the 
committee from 2006 until 2010. He was named 
ACRL’s Academic Research Librarian of the Year 
in 2006 and received ALA’s Hugh C. Atkinson 
award in 2009. The Oberlin College Library, 
under his leadership, received the ACRL Excel-
lence in Academic Libraries Award in the college 
library category in 2002. 

Ray English

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