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Appointments

Mary M. Somerville is now university librar-
ian at the University of the Pacifi c. Somerville 

had served as university 
librarian and director of 
the Auraria Library at 
the University of Col-
orado-Denver since 
2008. In her new role, 
Somerville will lead the 
vision and implementa-
tion of an integrated li-
brary system that serves 
faculty and students on 

University of the Pacifi c’s three campuses in 
Stockton, San Francisco, and Sacramento. 

Evan Simpson has joined Northeastern Uni-
versity Libraries as associate dean for research 
and learning services. 

Retirements

John Popko brings his 37-year academic library 
career to a close in July when he retires as uni-
versity librarian emeritus for Seattle University. 
Since July 1994, he contributed to university 
planning and policy as a member of the Council 
of Deans, the Executive Council, the University 
Leadership Council, and a wide variety of com-
mittees. He counts among his most signifi cant 
accomplishments his role in helping to design 
and build the nationally recognized Lemieux 
Library & McGoldrick Learning Commons, 
which opened in September 2010. He earned 
his professional credentials at the University of 
Kentucky in 1978 and for a year cataloged state 
documents for the Missouri State Library. He 

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

held several positions during his 15 years at the 
University of Missouri-Kansas City (1979–94), 
including assistant director for technical services, 
at which time he also managed the statewide 
Missouri Newspaper Project, a component of the 
U.S. Newspaper Program jointly administered by 
the Library of Congress 
and the National En-
dowment for the Hu-
manities. Throughout 
his career, Popko has 
been actively involved 
in professional associa-
tions and with academ-
ic and multitype library 
consortia at the local, 
regional, and national 
levels. He has served 
in elected and appointed offi ces in a variety of 
professional associations, most notably the OCLC 
Users Council, ACRL, the Library Leadership and 
Management Association, the Missouri Library 
Network Corporation, and the Orbis Cascade 
Alliance. He served two terms as chair of the 
ACRL Budget and Finance Committee and as an 
ex-offi cio Board member, he was the inaugural 
chair of the ACRL Friends Fund Committee, 
and he was an unsuccessful candidate for ACRL 
President in 2002. He represented the Missouri 
Library Network Corporation on the OCLC Us-
ers Council, serving on its Executive Committee 
and as Users Council President in 1993/94. 

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