College & Research Libraries News vol. 83, no. 11 December 2022)


December 2022 533C&RL News 

David Free P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w s

John Wilkin has been appointed CEO of Lyrasis, a mission-driven, community-led non-
profit serving libraries, museums, and research communities. Wilkin, who is currently dean 
of libraries and university librarian at the University of Illinois, brings deep experience in 
building community-driven programs with a focus on increasing access to knowledge, a 
core tenet of the Lyrasis mission. Wilkin played a key role in the creation of HathiTrust, 
a nonprofit collaborative digital library that preserves and provides access to 17+ million 
digitized items, serving as its first executive director. He has long been an advocate for 
open source and open access initiatives, developing pioneering digital library systems and 
spearheading open access to content such as Making of America. Wilkin was the recipient 
of the 2011 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and 
Information Technology and the 2019 Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award. Wilkin began the 
role December 1, 2022.

Katie Delezenski is now business librarian at Salisbury University in Maryland.
Abigail Higgins has joined the Auburn University Libraries’ Research and Instruction 

Services department as an instruction and student success librarian.
Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman is now education and research help librarian at the University 

of Washington Libraries. 
Junghae Lee is now e-resources metadata librarian at the University of Washington.
Isabelle Schenkel is now metadata librarian for Slavic languages at the University of North 

Carolina-Chapel Hill University Libraries.
Erin Weber has been appointed research and instructional services librarians at Salisbury 

University in Maryland.
Emily Zerrenner has been appointed research and instructional services librarians at 

Salisbury University in Maryland.

Retirement
David J. Nutty has retired after 19 years as university librarian/director emeritus of libraries 
and learning at the University of Southern Maine. He has also served in leadership posi-
tions at Loyola University Chicago, George Washington University, and Richmond, the 
American International University in London.