March 2020 157 C&RL News 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 Jeffry Archer, associate dean of user services at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, will join Baylor University as dean of university li- braries, effective June 1, 2020. Archer joined the McGill University Library and Archives in January 2017, where he has pro- vided leadership for user experience, customer service, marketing, refer- ence, and instruction. He also leads the planning, coordinating, and de- veloping of services delivered through McGill’s eight branch libraries. Before joining McGill, Archer served for more than two decades with the University of Chicago (UC) Library. He started at UC in 1995 as bibliographer for busi- ness and economics and then became head of reference instruction and outreach in 2003. In summer 2019, Archer completed the Leader- ship Institute for Academic Librarians at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. William Noel has been appointed as the in- augural John T. Maltsberger III ’55 associate university librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University Library (PUL). He joins Princeton from the University of Pennsylva- nia Libraries, where he has been associate vice provost for External Partnerships; direc- tor of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; and director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Stud- ies. Before Pennsylvania Libraries, Noel was curator of manuscripts and rare books at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and assistant curator of manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Mu- seum. As a specialist in the fields of Anglo- Saxon and Anglo-Norman manuscripts, Noel directed the digital humanities project The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest, the world’s first publicly available multi- spectral data set for a me- dieval manuscript. Based on this project, Noel later coauthored the Neuman Prize-winning book The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist and presented a TED talk, “Revealing The Lost Codex of Archimedes,” which has more than 1 million views. He was recognized for his work in the field of open data by receiving a 2013 White House Open Science Champion of Change award from the Obama administration. Maggie Snow has been appointed director of Minitex at the University of Minnesota Librar- ies. Snow brings significant experience to the role, including appointments in the Missouri River Regional Library, Austin (Minnesota) Public Library, Carver County Library, and Minneapolis Public Library/Hennepin County Library. She previously served as director of the Anoka County Library. As president of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA), Snow engaged in the issues and professional inter- ests of all libraries in the state, and she was awarded MLA’s William G. Asp Distinguished Career Award in 2018. She has served in lead- ership positions with several nonprofits and has contributed as a member of governance committee of the Minnesota Digital Library. Mihoko Hosoi has been named associate dean for collections, research, and scholarly communications at Penn State University Li- braries. Ilana Stonebraker is now head of busi- ness/SPEA Information Commons with the Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington. Jeffry Archer William Noel mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= C&RL News March 2020 158 Advertisers Accessible Archives 105 American Philosophical Society 123 Choice 144, cover 3 MIT Press 129 Modern Language Association cover 4 Project Muse 106 Rakuten OverDrive 109 Space Foundation cover 2 Stanford University Press 122 Kimber Thomas has been named one of six inaugural postdoctoral fellows for data curation in African American and African studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Rustin Zarkar is now Middle East and Is- lamic studies librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University Libraries. Retirements Barbara I. Dewey, Penn State’s dean of university libraries and scholarly commu- nications, will retire in August 2020 after a 45-year career in librarianship. As the leader of Penn State’s information resources enterprise since 2010, Dewey serves as the of- ficial representative and advocate for the Univer- sity Libraries and Penn State Press and oversees approximately 500 full- time faculty and staff. During her tenure as dean, Dewey oversaw the transformation of spaces in the Pattee and Paterno Librar- ies, including the Knowledge Commons and the Collaboration Commons and Cen- tral Atrium. She has provided key leader- ship for Penn State’s involvement in open educational resources and the advancement of open access at Penn State. In 2014 she re- ceived the Council of College Multicultural Leadership Way Paver Award. Dewey previ- ously was dean of libraries at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (2000–10). She also has held several administrative positions at the University of Iowa’s libraries, and prior to that held positions at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science, Northwestern University Libraries, and Min- nesota Valley Regional Library in Mankato, Minnesota. She is the author or editor of seven books and has published numerous articles and presented papers on research library topics. Deaths Rita W. Jones, former dean of library and learn- ing resources at the City College of San Fran- cisco and member of the ACRL Board of Direc- tors, has died. Pamela MacKintosh, librarian at the Uni- versity of Michigan (UM) Library, has died. From 1984 to 1991 MacKintosh was corporate librarian at Crum and Forster Commercial In- surance and AT&T. She joined the University of Michigan Library in 1991 as manager of the Michigan Information Transfer Source, a fee-based information service. MacKintosh’s career at UM included a variety of other roles, including managing reserves services, coordinating reference services, and build- ing undergraduate collections. She served as president of the Michigan Special Librar- ies Association (1999–2000). MacKintosh was also instrumental in creating the UM Under- graduate Research award. Beyond campus, she was a recognized authority on under- graduate libraries, with years of involvement in ACRL’s Undergraduate Librarians Discus- sion Group and an impressive record of pub- lication. MacKintosh received the UM Univer- sity Librarian Achievement Award in October 2019. In addition to her own achievements, she mentored several generations of future librarians studying at the University of Michi- gan School of Information. Prior to her pass- ing, she established the Pamela acKintosh Undergraduate Student Support Fund at the University of Michigan Library. Barbara I. Dewey