College & Research Libraries News vol. 85, no. 5 (May 2023)


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

Innocent Awasom, a science librarian at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, has been suc-
cessful in the prestigious Fulbright Scholars Award program. He will be spending the aca-
demic year attached to the Bindura University of Science Education in Bindura, Zimba-
bwe. He will be working in the university libraries and the Research and Innovation Hub 
Department as well as collaborating with the Zimbabwe Library Association (ZIMLA) and 
the Zimbabwe Young Academy of Sciences.

Appointments
Delritta “Del” Hornbuckle has been appointed executive director of University Libraries 
at Howard University. Hornbuckle joins Howard University from California State Univer-
sity-Fresno (Fresno State), where she served most recently as the dean of library services for 
the Fresno State Library. She had previously served as director of the Brennan Library at 
Lasell University in Massachusetts, library manager at Montgomery College, and associate 
director, information services of the Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. A native of 
Texas, Hornbuckle is a graduate of Texas A&M University, where she received a bachelor’s 
in political science. She then completed a master of science degree in library and informa-
tion sciences at the Pratt Institute in New York City.

Christopher Harter has joined the University of Cincinnati (UC) Libraries as the university 
archivist and head of the Archives and Rare Books Library. Harter comes to UC from the 
Amistad Research Center, an independent, nonprofit library affiliated with Tulane Univer-
sity, where he currently serves as deputy director and interim executive director. Harter has 
worked in special collections libraries at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and 
Indiana University. He holds an master’s in English from Tulane University, a master’s in 
library science from Indiana University, and a bachelor’s in history from Ball State University.

Kevin Seeber has joined Penn State University Libraries as head of the Abington Campus 
Library. Prior to arriving to Penn State, Seeber served for nearly eight years at University of 
Colorado Denver’s Auraria Library, which serves the University of Colorado Denver, Met-
ropolitan State University of Denver, and the Community College of Denver, as a senior 
instructor, head of its Education and Outreach Services Department, and initially as a first-
year teaching and learning librarian. Seeber earned a master’s degree in library and infor-
mation studies and an undergraduate degree in history, both from Florida State University.

Meaghan Alston is now assistant curator for African American collections at the University 
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Ginelle Baskin has been appointed student success and open education librarian at Middle 
Tennessee State University.

Katrina Rahn has joined the Santa Rosa Junior College library team as electronic resources 
librarian.