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

Joanne (Joni) V. Lerud-Heck, librarian emeritus at 
the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, is 
the recipient of the 2020 Mary B. Ansari Distinguished 
Service Award of the Geoscience Information Society 
(GSIS). For more than 25 years, until retiring in 2016, 
Lerud-Heck served as director of the School’s Arthur 
Lakes Library. Prior to that position, she was director 
of libraries at the Montana College of Mineral Science 
and Technology. She began her professional career as as-
sociate technical information specialist for the Marathon 
Oil Company. She is a past- president of GSIS and has 
served on numerous committees including the Mary B. 
Ansari Best Reference Work Award and the Best Website 
Selection Committee. She was the first member of GSIS 
to sit on the AGI Executive Board, where she served as 
secretary. Lerud-Heck’s impact extended to the larger 
library community through her extensive service in Al-
liance (formerly CARL, Colorado Alliance of Research 
Libraries), ACRL, SLA, International Association of 
Technological Research Libraries, and numerous other 
organizations. Besides her distinguished professional ser-
vice, Lerud-Heck has written extensively on mining his-
tory and archives and received the 2003 Peter Schmidt 
Award for her contributions to the cultural heritage of 
geosciences, mining and metallurgy.

Appointments

Kerri Goergen-Doll has been appointed interim as-
sociate university librarian at Oregon State University 
(OSU) Libraries and Press. She will continue to pro-
vide high-level oversight of the Resource Acquisition 
and Sharing Department within the library while she 
is serving in this interim role. Goergen-Doll joined 
OSU Libraries and Press in 2005 as an on-call refer-
ence librarian. In 2008, she took over management of 
the Inter-Library Loan unit, and in 2012 she became 
the manager of the Resource Acquisition and Sharing 
(RAS) unit. At that time, RAS focused on resource 

sharing and acquisitions. In 2014, she became the 
Resource Acquisition and Sharing director overseeing 
acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, col-
lection maintenance and resource sharing.  

Kathleen Schmand is the new dean of Middle Ten-
nessee State University’s James E. Walker Library. 
Schmand had been Northern Arizona University’s 
director of development and communications since 
2006. Schmand obtained her first professional li-
brary position at Northern Arizona. She started as a 
shared resources/document delivery librarian, hold-
ing a variety of positions over the years, including 
interim associate dean.

Leslie Gascon, has been named assistant librar-
ian, Public Health and collection librarian, at the 
University of Washington Libraries .

Retirement

Douglas K. Lehman, director of Thomas Library 
at Wittenberg University since 2004, retired at 
the end of August 2020. This is the culmination 
of a 42-year career as a librarian. Active on the 
local, state, regional, and national levels, he held 
offices in the Florida Library Association, served 
on OCLC Users Council, and various positions 
with in ACRL, including elected positions in the 
Community and Junior College Library Section 
and the College Library Section. He was a past 
member of the ACRL Board of Directors, where 
he served as the ACRL Divisional Councilor for a 
three-year term.  

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