College & Research Libraries News vol. 85, no. 4 (April 2023)


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Larry P. Alford, university chief librarian at the University of Toronto, has been awarded 
the MacDonald Award by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Board of 
Directors. 

Innocent Awasom, science librarian at Texas Tech University, is participating in the 
Fulbright Scholars Award program. He will be spending the academic year attached to the 
Bindura University of Science Education in Bindura, Zimbabwe, as well as collaborating 
with the Zimbabwe Library Association (ZIMLA) and the Zimbabwe Young Academy of 
Sciences.

Tyler Walters, university libraries dean at Virginia Tech, was recently appointed govern-
ing board chair of Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), a consortium of colleges and 
universities across the country committed to providing a preservation repository for digital 
content and developing related services.

Appointments
María R. Estorino has been appointed vice provost for University Librar-
ies and university librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill. She joined the University Libraries in 2017 as associate university 
librarian for special collections and director of the Louis Round Wilson 
Special Collections Library. In that role, she was a member of the Univer-
sity Libraries’ leadership team, with a focus on expanding and advancing 
the work of the university’s outstanding special collections. Estorino is a 
strong advocate for accessibility in libraries and has worked to build ex-
pansive and inclusive collaborations with North Carolina communities. 
She has helped special collections units refine their vision for rare and 
archival collections to broaden representation of the many cultures and communities that 
make up the state. 

Sarah Shreeves has been named the new dean of libraries at the Uni-
versity of Utah, beginning in June 2023. Shreeves is currently the vice 
dean of libraries at the University of Arizona, where she serves as chief 
operating officer, providing leadership and support to the departments of 
Access and Information Services, Special Collections, Technology Strategy 
and Services, and Research Engagement. Before joining the University of 
Arizona, Shreeves served as associate dean for digital strategies and faculty 
affairs at University of Miami Libraries, co-coordinator of the Scholarly 
Commons and associate professor of library administration at University 
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries, and project manager for integrated library system 
migration at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. 

Jack Ahern is now director of annual giving at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Regina Gong has joined the University of San Diego Copley Library as associate dean 

for student success and diversity.
Hannah Sommers is now associate librarian for researcher and collections services in the 

Library Collections and Services Group at the Library of Congress.

María R. Estorino 
(Photo by Jon Gardiner/
UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Sarah Shreeves