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April 2017 229 C&RL News

Appointments

Howard Prager joined the ACRL staff in Febru-
ary 2017 as senior leadership and change strat-
egist, providing consulting services to academic 
and research libraries to 
strategically grow and 
align their programs 
and services with their 
institutions. Prior to 
joining ACRL, Prager 
worked in executive 
education at the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame and 
Lake Forest Graduate 
School of Management, 
and played a significant 
role in learning and development as a leadership 
and change consultant in his own practice and 
for several leading Fortune 500 firms. He is also a 
lead training certificate assessor for the American 
National Standards Association. 

Lynn Eaton has been appointed director of 
the Special Collections Research Center at the 
George Mason University Libraries. 

Jan O. Rice is now director of library services 
at the Bryan College of Health Sciences Library 
in Lincoln, Nebraska.  

Roxanne Backowski has been appointed 
electronic resources management librarian for 
McIntyre Library at the University of Wisconsin-
Eau Claire.

Stephanie Grimm has been appointed art 
and art history librarian in the George Mason 
University Libraries.

Chad Haefele has been appointed head of 
user experience and assessment at the University 
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Library.

Howard Prager

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

Vickie Karasic has been appointed man-
aging librarian of the Weigle Information 
Commons and has also taken on liaison and 
bibliographer responsibilities for French and 
Francophone Studies at the University of Penn-
sylvania Libraries.

Christine Stachowicz is now director of 
technical services at the University of North 
Carolina-Chapel Hill Library. 

Fei Yu has been named health information 
technology librarian at the University of North 
Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Health Sciences Library.

Retirements

Sharon Mader completed her term as ACRL 
visiting program officer for information literacy 
at the end of January 
2017. Mader worked 
with the ACRL Frame-
work for Information 
Literacy Advisory 
Board on develop-
ing resources to pro-
mote the use of the 
ACRL Framework for 
Information Literacy 
for Higher Education, 
including the Frame-
work Sandbox. ACRL 
and FAB extend their heartfelt thanks to Mader 
for her leadership and mentorship over the last 
two years in her support of the Framework. 

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Sharon Mader