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Appointments

Martha Lawler is now director of the James 
Smith Noel Collection at Louisiana State Uni-
versity in Shreveport. She has been a member 
of ACRL’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Section 
since 1998 and has participated in several proj-
ects, including the work of the Bibliographic 
Standards Committee and the Controlled Vo-
cabularies Editorial Group. Currently, she is 
a member of the Standard Citation Formats 
working group and the editorial board of RBM: 
a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscript & Cultural 
Heritage. She has worked with the Noel Col-
lection since 1996.

Bethany Nowviskie has been appointed 
dean of libraries and educational technologies 
at James Madison University, beginning July 
1. Nowviskie currently serves as distinguished 
presidential fellow at the Council on Library 
and Information Resources and senior advisor 
to the Digital Library Federation, where she has 
served as director for the past four years. Prior to 
her current position, Nowviskie was the found-
ing director of the library-based Scholars’ Lab 
at the University of Virginia, where she contin-
ues to serve as a research associate professor in 
digital humanities in the department of English. 
Nowviskie has numerous scholarly publications 
with several forthcoming in 2019. In 2013, she 
was named one of the “Ten Tech Innovators” 
by the Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Deaths

Leland M. Park, retired director of Davidson 
College’s E. H. Little Library (1975–2006), has 
died. Park’s career spanned a time from when 

he was the first Davidson College library staff 
member with an electric typewriter to the 
days of digital access. After completing his 
ROTC obligations 
to the U.S. Army 
and a stint as ref-
erence librarian 
in the Charlotte 
public library, 
Park returned to 
Davidson in 1967 
as head of refer-
ence and student 
personnel for the 
library. He stayed 
for more than 
30 years. Under 
his leadership, the library’s offerings com-
plemented what Park saw as a broadening 
and deepening of the college’s core educa-
tional mission toward a more interactive and 
research-oriented approach to education. In 
2002, Park established a $1 million endow-
ment to provide support for the directorship 
of the E. H. Little Library. In 2007, a group of 
alumni who were influenced by Park estab-
lished a scholarship in his name. 

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