C&RL News November 2019 590 Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, at email: agalloway@ ala.org. P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Appointments Yolanda Cooper has been promoted to dean and university librarian for Emory University. Cooper has served as Emory’s uni- versity librarian since 2014. Prior to joining Emory, Cooper served as acting dean and uni- versity librarian at the University of Miami Libraries. Her back- ground also includes work with research li- brary systems at the University of Virginia and Indiana University-Bloomington. Andrea Falcone has been appointed dean of the library in the W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University. Jennie Pu has been appointed dean of col- lege libraries at Hudson County Community College. Claire Stewart is the new dean of Univer- sity Libraries at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. She will also hold a continuous ap- pointment as professor in the libraries. Stewart was the associate uni- versity librarian for re- search and learning at the University of Min- nesota Libraries. Prior to working at Minneso- ta, Stewart held several positions at Northwestern University over a 21-year period, including director of the Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curation and head of Digital Col- lections. She provided leadership, directed projects, and offered services and support in areas that included research data man- agement, digital humanities, and digital publishing. Stewart has written about and given presentations on data management, curation, and preservation in journals, on- line publications, and at conferences. She is active in the Big Ten Academic Alliance and is chair of the Geoportal Strategic Leader- ship Group. She has also served on commit- tees and working groups focused on digital library initiatives and data storage. She was also an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow (2016–17). Tom Walker has been selected as the as- sociate dean of the Wayne State University School of Information Sciences. Walker joins the School of Informa- tion Sciences after serv- ing most recently at Long Island University, where he was the inter- im dean of the libraries and associate dean and director of the Palmer School of Library and Information Science. Walker spent a large part of his career at the School of Informa- tion Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Advertisers Brepols cover 2 Choice cover 3 Institute for Research Design 549 in Librarianship MIT Press 541 Modern Language Association cover 4 Project Muse 538 Taylor & Francis 537 Yolanda Cooper Tom Walker Claire Stewart mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= November 2019 591 C&RL News Milwaukee (UWM). After gaining tenure and promotion, he left for an opportunity to direct the School of Library and Infor- mation Science at the University of South- ern Mississippi, but returned to UWM four years later. At UWM, Walker participated in campuswide governance groups and projects related to assessment, curricu- lum, tenure and promotion, and market- ing. Between 2013 and 2016, he was the executive director of the Wisconsin Center for the Book, an affiliate program of the Library of Congress. The author of more than 100 publications ranging from short journal articles about aspects of the history of libraries to longer treatments of topics in knowledge organization, scholarly com- munication, and historical bibliography. Walker has presented at conferences and workshops in England, Scotland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, China, Kuwait, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Ger- many, and Canada. Shali Zhang was named dean of librar- ies at Auburn Univer- sity in February 2019, where she is respon- sible for the leader- ship and administra- tion of the University Libraries. Prior to this post, Zhang was dean and professor at the University of Montana (2012–19). Zhang also held leadership positions at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro as assistant dean for Collections and Technical Servic- es (2005–12), Wichita State University Li- braries as head of Technical Services Divi- sion (1999–2005), and at other institutions. Erika Bailey has been named data and digital scholarship librarian at the University of Washington-Tacoma. William E. Baxter has been appointed assistant director of collections at the Smith- sonian Libraries. Rebecca Carlson is now health sci- ences librarian and liaison to the School of Pharmacy for the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University Libraries. Nadia Clifton has been named special collections engagement librarian for the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University. A m a n d a C l o s s e n h a s j o i n e d t h e Duquesne University Gumberg Library as the head of teaching and learning. Lilly Cook has been appointed assistant to the dean in the W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University Christina Cortland is now library software applications developer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University. James Cox has been appointed director of patron services at Hudson County Com- munity College. L. Blue Dean has joined the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill as executive director of library development. Diane Dias De Fazio has been ap- pointed curator of Rare Books & Book Arts in Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries. Jackie Fleming accepted the visual liter- acy and resources librarian position with the Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington. Christine Forbes has been named spe- cialist librarian at the Monmouth University Library. Hannah Gunderman is the new re- search data management consultant at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Sarah Hicks has joined the Duquesne University Gumberg Library as the scholarly communications and systems librarian. Matt Jansen is now data analysis librar- ian at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill University Libraries. Anna Marie Johnson is now head of scholars’ commons at the Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington Shali Zhang C&RL News November 2019 592 Jasmine Kirby has joined the Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Library as instruc- tion and engagement librarian. Jill Liebisch has been appointed li- brary education advisor/recruiter in the W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University. KT Lowe has been appointed assistant librarian for instruction at Indiana Univer- sity East. Ron McColl has been named special col- lections librarian at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Katy Miller is the new student success/ textbook affordability librarian at the Uni- versity of Central Florida Libraries. Katherine O’Clair has been appointed department head for academic services at Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Poly- technic State University in San Luis Obispo. Melody Rood has been named the new student success librarian in Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina- Greensboro. Aaron Smithers has been appointed special collections research and instruction librarian in the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Beth South has been appointed assistant librarian for access and technical services and will continue in her role as archivist for Indiana University East. Lynn Warner has been named instruc- tional services librarian in the W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky Uni- versity. Steven Wease is now library specialist II in the W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University. Andrew Weaver is now media preserva- tion librarian at the University of Washing- ton-Seattle. Sarah Wright is now School of Medicine librarian and clinical team lead in the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University. Retirements Margaret “Meg” Scharf, associate director, Communications, Assessment, and Public Relations, has retired from the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries. Scharf joined the UCF Libraries in 1984, helping to devel- op the Library Information Network and Ex- change (LINE) program. She then moved to the Reference Department, later becoming head, while teaching popular library instruc- tion classes and developing collections for business and hospitality. Scharf was promot- ed to associate director for Public Services in 1999; she assumed her current role in 2012, reporting to Director Barry Baker. During her nearly 35 years at UCF, Scharf has been an active member of many professional or- ganizations, including ALA, the Florida Li- brary Association, and the State University Libraries, serving on myriad committees and subcommittees. She has presented at such diverse venues as EDUCAUSE Conferences and the Lilly Conference on Higher Educa- tion in England. She held the position of regional reporter for the ACRL Newsletter, Florida chapter, and served as editor of In- ternet Reference Services Quarterly and as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Academic Librarianship. She also served as a mem- ber of the Central Florida Memory project, an online repository of images and stories about the area’s history. Within UCF, Scharf served on or chaired numerous committees, including the Advisory Board for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and the Quality Enhancement Advisory Plan Com- mittee. She also worked closely with Student Accessibility Services to improve library ser- vices for students with disabilities. She was instrumental in redesigning the main floor of the Orlando campus library to include more space for group and independent learning, and in planning InSTALLments, the quick- read newsletter posted inside the library bathrooms.