The Jan/Feb 2014 edition of American Libraries includes a notice about my employment at Bellview Elementary School. View and download this issue at http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/issue/januaryfebruary-2014

1. PEOPLE | Announcements
Currents
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October 7 Christine
Angeli became director of
Milford (Conn.) Public
Library.
n November 4 Katie
Blank became electronic
records manager for
Raynor Memorial
Libraries’ Special Collections and University
Archives at Marquette
University in Milwaukee.
n October 1 Adam Dodd
became head of the web
developer group at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health
Science Libraries.
n January 10 Jean Elderwind is retiring as administrator of the Carroll and
Madison County (Ark.)
Library System.
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November 4 Maria Elia
became processing archivist in the Poetry Collection at University at
Buffalo (N.Y.) Libraries.
n September 16 Esmeralda Fisher became director of communications for
University of Houston
Libraries.
n September 9 Lisa
Gregory became digital
projects librarian for the
North Carolina Digital
Heritage Center at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
n November 18 Eric
Howard became assistant
director of Palo Alto
(Calif.) City Library.
n September 16 Cynthia
Landrum became assis-
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n October 17 Durham County (N.C.) Library Director Tammy Baggett won the North Carolina
Library Association’s Roundtable for Ethnic
Minority Concerns Roadbuilders’ Award for Public
Librarianship for 2013.
n Las Vegas–Clark County (Nev.) Library District
Executive Director Jeanne Goodrich was named
2013 Librarian of the Year at the 68th annual Nevada Library Association Conference.
n Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III was named 2013 Public Administrator of the Year (for the nonprofit category) by
the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American
Society for Public Administration.
n Robert C. Maier won the New England Library
Association’s 2013 Emerson Greenaway Distinguished Service Award for Librarianship.
Jeanne Goodrich
Cynthia Landrum
tant director for public
services at the Oak Park
(Ill.) Public Library.
n October 7 Tyne Lowe
became senior library
technician at Miami University’s Wertz Art and
Architecture Library in
Oxford, Ohio.
n October 1 Dawne Lucas
became special collections
librarian at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Science
Libraries.
n December 31 Mary
Jane Mannherz retired as
director of Margaret R.
Grundy Memorial Library
in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
n November 1 Elizabeth
McCraw became special
collections and humanities
cataloger at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill’s Wilson Special Collections Library.
n November 1 Patricia
Morris became coordinator of library research at
Florida Gateway College in
Lake City.
n November 15 Jennifer
J. Natale became academic
resident librarian at Miami
University Libraries in
Oxford, Ohio.
n December 31 Lee
O’Brien retired as associate director of Cecil County Public Library in
Sonal Rastogi
Brian Shepherd
Elkton, Maryland.
n October 28 Suzanne
Olawski became deputy
director at Berkeley
(Calif.) Public Library.
n October 10 Cynthia
Parkhill became educational assistant in the
library media center at
Bellview Elementary
School in Ashland,
Oregon.
n December 13 Dorothy
Peppard retired as children’s librarian at Haddonfield (N.J.) Public
Library.
n October 14 Sonal Rastogi became director of
libraries at Norfolk (Va.)
Public Library.
n November 4 Mary Rieder became coordinator of
acquisition and discovery
services at Marquette
University’s Raynor
Memorial Libraries in
Milwaukee.
n In December Lambert
Shell became director of
Danbury (Conn.) Public
Library.
n October 28 Brian
Shepherd became director of Indian Trails
Library District in Wheeling, Illinois.
n November 1 Tom W.
Sloan became executive
director of the Mid-Hudson Library System in

2. Denise Soufi
At ALA
n
November 15 Angela
Hanshaw, program officer
and web editor in the Public
Programs Office, left ALA.
n October 11 Megan
Humphrey, manager,
Campaign for America’s
American music, including the African origin of the banjo. She was president of the Music Library Association
from 1977 to 1979.
n October 29 Catherine Romanelli,
87, former director of Sachem Public
Library in Holbrook, New York, died.
n November 25 Sylvia Royt, a retired former ALA staff member,
died. She was employed from 1969 to
1984 in ALA Publishing. Her last position was that of rights and permissions editor.
n November 1 Anita Ladden Rudolf,
90, former head librarian at Norwalk
(Conn.) High School, died.
n October 2 Ann Wolpert, 70, director of libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 17 years,
died.
n November 9 Bohdan Stephan
Wynar, 87, founder of publishing
company Libraries Unlimited, died.
Born in Ukraine, he emigrated to the
US and earned an MLIS from the University of Denver, where he later
taught. He authored many books in
library science, including Introduction
to Cataloging and Classification. He
also created the renowned guide to
reference works, American Reference
Books Annual. Wynar received the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award for his distinguished contributions to reference
librarianship in 1977.
Libraries/Public Information Office, left ALA.
n October 16 Brian Russell became program coordinator in the Public
Programs Office.
n November 4 Kristen
Sutherland became Asso-
ciation for Library Service
to Children program officer
for continuing education.
n October 10 Russ Swedowski, manager of
financial reporting in the
accounting department,
left ALA. z
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November 5 Virginia Albright, 85,
former director of the East Lansing
(Mich.) Public Library, died.
n September 19 Linda Brooks Burton, 51, southeast district manager for
the San Francisco Public Library
(SFPL) and managing librarian at the
Bayview branch, died. In more than
30 years with SFPL, Burton cofounded
the Bayview Footprints Network of
Community Building Groups and the
Bayview History Preservation Project
to build an archive of materials about
African-American migration to the
area and other aspects of local history.
n October 19 Miriam “Mimi” Chapman, librarian at the Ypsilanti
(Mich.) District Library, died. In her
33 years of service at the library, she
served as an adult services librarian,
branch manager, interim director,
and head of acquisitions.
n November 22 Ardath A. Danford,
83, former director of the Toledo–Lucas
County (Ohio) Public Library, died.
n December 1 Lorna Donley, 53,
librarian and former archival specialist at the Harold Washington Library
Center in Chicago, died. Donley was a
member of the post-punk band DA! in
the early 1980s.
n November 14 Dena Epstein, 96,
former assistant music librarian at
the University of Chicago, died. Epstein documented the history of black
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Poughkeepsie, New York.
n November 1 Lori Ward
Smith became director of
Jackson-George Regional
Library System in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
n November 1 Denise
Soufi became Middle
Eastern cataloger at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
n November 30 Thomas
Stave retired as head of
the document center and
subject liaison to the departments of International Studies and Planning,
Public Policy, and Management at the University
of Oregon Libraries after
34 years of service.
n November 1 Claudia
Sumler retired as public
services administrator for
Harford County (Md.)
Public Library.
n November 17 Porcia
Vaughn became biology
and biochemistry librarian at University of Houston Libraries.
n September 1 Brent
Wagner became department chair of the Alfred
M. Bailey Library and
Archives at the Denver
(Colo.) Museum of Nature
and Science.
n October 12 Eric D.
Weaver became library
associate at Miami University’s Amos Music
Library in Oxford, Ohio.