College & Research Libraries News vol. 83, no. 8 (September 2022)


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Emily McElroy will assume the responsibilities as associate dean for research and health 
sciences for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) on October 
3, 2022. In this position, she will provide vision and leadership for the libraries’ research 
initiatives and services to the research enterprise as well as strategic support of the multifac-
eted mission of UF’s Health Science Center.

Jennifer Meehan, head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State 
University, has been named director of the Library of Congress’s Special Collections Director-
ate. Meehan’s career spans more than eighteen years in academic and research institutions in 
positions of progressive responsibility, including fourteen years of management and leadership 
experience. She previously served as head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at 
Penn State University. In this role, she provided leadership and strategic direction for special 
collections and university archives across the university libraries. She also led operations for 
collection development, maintenance, access, reference and instruction, outreach and public 
programming, and community and stakeholder engagement.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Douglas Anderson retired as director of the library at Marietta College in July 2022 after 
seventeen years of service. Upon assuming the position in 2005, he was responsible for over-
seeing the design and construction of the college’s $17 million Legacy Library, occupied 
in 2009. Under his leadership, the library’s Special Collections department made several 
significant acquisitions and hosted author David McCullough as he conducted substantial 
research for his latest book, The Pioneers. At the college, he was faculty secretary for three 
years and served interim appointments at various times as chair of the Theatre Department 
and the Art Department. Before coming to Marietta College, Anderson worked as systems 
officer at the University of Alabama Libraries, director of the library at Presbyterian Col-
lege, and catalog and systems librarian at Furman University. Active in library consortial 
activities, he was elected to the OhioNet board of directors and served as its treasurer for 
six years. In 2002 he was one of two founding co-chairs of the Partnership Among South 
Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL).   

Joseph Weber, director of library services at Austin Peay State University since 2007, has 
retired after a thirty-year career in academic libraries. Weber also worked as a librarian at Ferris 
State University, Christopher Newport University, and the Kentucky Historical Society. He 
served on ACRL committees in the Education and Behavioral Sciences and College Librar-
ies Sections and was president of the board of directors of the Tennessee library consortium 
Tenn-Share in 2014 and 2015.