People in the News July/August 2016 361 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; email: agalloway@ ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. Appointments Mark Christel has been appointed the Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosen- thal Librarian of Grinnell College. Christel for- merly served as director of libraries at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He will begin his new posi- tion on August 1. Julie A. Garrison is now the dean of univer- sity libraries at Western Michigan University. Garrison had served as associate dean of re- search and instructional services at Grand Valley State University. Her background includes library and information services roles at Central Michigan University, Duke University Medi- cal Center, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the University of California-Los Angeles. She is also active in a number of professional library orga- nizations: chair-elect of the Michigan Academic Library Association’s Administration Section, a member of the editorial board of portal :Libraries and the Academy, an ACRL board member, and an advisory board member for SAGE Library. Alexia Hudson-Ward has been appointed Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries at Oberlin College. As director, Hudson-Ward will be responsible for the four campus librar- ies—Mudd Center library, the science library, P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway the conservatory library, and the Clarence Ward Art Library—as well as special exhibits, collection development, technology integration, and space planning and utiliza- tion. Hudson-Ward was previously a tenured associ- ate librarian at Penn State, where she had worked since 2006—serving at the university’s Great Valley campus from 2006 to 2008, before transferring to its Abington campus. She has also worked in the Camden County Library System, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University. Prior to her transition into academia, Hudson-Ward served as a mar- keting manager for the Coca-Cola Company. Nandita S. Mani has been named director of the Health Sciences Library and associate univer- sity librarian for the health sciences at the Uni- versity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC). Mani comes to UNC from the University of Michigan, where she was assistant direc- tor for academic and clinical engagement at the Taubman Health Sciences Library. She was previously medi- cal librarian and co- ordinator of educa- tion and consumer health at the Henry Ford Hospital’s Sladen Library in Detroit, Michigan. She has held medical librarian and IT positions at the Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library of Wayne State University in Detroit, and the Cross Cancer Institute of the Alberta Cancer Board in Alberta, Canada. Mani is managing editor for the journal Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease. She has published extensively on topics related to librarianship and technology. Alexia Hudson- Ward Julie A. Garrison Mark Christel Nandita S. Mani C&RL News July/August 2016 362 Advertisers American Public Health cover 2 Association Choice Reviews Online 314 Harvard Education cover 3 Modern Language Association cover 4 of America Northwestern University Press 341 OECD 313 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 317 Jason Byrd was appointed head of the In- formation Services Team at the George Mason University Fenwick Library in January 2016. Samara Carter was appointed university records manager at the George Mason University Libraries in September 2015. Bridget Euliano was appointed director of the Technical Services Group at the George Mason University Libraries in January 2016. Jonathan Manton has been appointed music librarian for access services at Yale Uni- versity Library. Kyung-Im (Kim) Noh was appointed as- sessment and planning offi cer, in the George Mason University Libraries in February 2016. Genya O’Gara was appointed associate director of the Virtual Library of Virginia, located in the George Mason University Libraries in August 2015. Denise Pan has been appointed associate dean for collections and content at the University of Washington Libraries. Michelle Polchow was appointed elec- tronic resources librarian in the George Mason University Libraries in September 2015. Danielle Reay has been appointed Arts librarian for digital and access services at the Yale University Library. Yusel Serindag has been appointed ac- quisitions librarian, Law Library, at the Yale University Library. Aaron Trehub, assistant dean for technol- ogy, has been named the new head of Auburn University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Department. Retirements Selina Lin, continuing resources cataloging librarian, has retired from the University of Iowa Libraries after nearly 39 years of service. During her three-decade tenure, fi rst as a monographs cataloger, then as a serials cataloger, Lin had experienced the technical evolution in cataloging from card catalog to today’s online catalog. She was professionally active in ALA/ALCTS, hav- ing served as chair and member on numerous committees in continuing resources cataloging, holdings information, and divisional strategic planning. Randy Roeder, head of the Cataloging-Metadata Department at the University of Iowa Libraries, has retired after 11 years of service. Roeder joined the University of Iowa after serving 26 years as head of technical services at Coe College. Active in ALA and the Iowa Library Association, his primary professional involvement was within ALA’s ALCTS division. Deaths Charles Martell, who served for 48 years in library sciences as dean and university librar- ian at California State University-Sacramento (CSUS) and associate librarian at various universities, has died. As a scholar, he was associate editor of the Journal of Academic Librarianship and editor of College and Re- search Libraries. He contributed more than 85 articles to the fi eld of library science. He also established Friends of the Library at CSUS and served as board president (2010–15) and treasurer (2016). Martell established the CSUS Japanese American Archival Collection and Cambodian Oral History Collection. After he retired in 2000, Martell was an on-call librarian at 14 Sacramento public library branches and went on to teach graduate students for three years at Drexel University in Sacramento.