November 2017 575 C&RL News

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Mary Ann Mavrinac, vice provost and the 
Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly dean 
of the University of Rochester Libraries, has 
been appointed to a one-year term as presi-
dent of the Association of Research Libraries.

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

Sommer Browning is now associate 
director of technical and financial services at 
the University of Colorado-Denver’s Auraria 
Library.

Andrea Falcone has been appointed 
associate director of education and public 
services at the University of Colorado-Denver’s 
Auraria Library.

Nora Gabor has joined the DePaul Uni-
versity Library as rare books librarian.

Kelli Getz has been named coordinator 
of collections and scholarly resources at the 
DePaul University Library.  

Retirements

Christopher Hoeppner, associate university 
librarian for administrative services, has retired 
after 24 years at the DePaul University Library.

Deaths

Joan Giesecke, dean of libraries at the Univer-
sity of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL) libraries for 16 
years, has died. During her 25-year tenure at UNL, 
Giesecke tripled the library’s endowment, oversaw 
renovations to improve the libraries in size and ser-

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

vice, developed relationships to help the colleges 
advance their teaching and research and enhanced 
the diversity of the libraries’ faculty. Enhancing 
diversity in the library field was critically important 
to her. Under Giesecke’s 
leadership, the libraries 
developed a long-term 
commitment to promoting 
and supporting diversity. 
Her work in this area was 
recognized nationally by 
ALA in 2011, when she was 
honored with the Equality 
award. Giesecke joined 
UNL  in 1987 as an associ-
ate dean and became dean 
of libraries in 1996. From 
2009 to 2010, she was interim director of University 
of Nebraska Press, and, in 2010, was interim as-
sociate vice chancellor for Extended Education and 
Outreach. From 2012 until her retirement in 2014, 
she served as special assistant to the chancellor 
and coordinated campus-wide accreditation efforts. 
Upon her retirement, Giesecke was recognized as 
dean and professor emerita. During her career, Gie-
secke taught numerous graduate and undergradu-
ate classes and workshops at Simmons College in 
Boston and Emporia State University in Emporia, 
Kansas. Her professional involvement, in addition 
to the American Research Libraries, included ACRL, 
the Greater Western Library Alliance, the Nebraska 
Library Association, and the Virginia Library As-
sociation. In 2016, the University of Maryland 
College of Information Studies recognized her as 
their Distinguished Alumnus. 

Joan Giesecke

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