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a new secure collec-
tions space for Rare 
Folios and expanded 
the scope of the Rare 
Book Collections. 
Baione has received a 
grant from the Glad-
ys Krieble Delmas 
Foundation to fund 
the digitization of the 
121,000 card index, 
which provides access to the Museum’s Cen-
tral Administrative Archives—a rich history of 
the Museum during most of the 20th century 
and a veritable who’s who of science dur-
ing the first century of the Museum’s history. 
Baione will continue his involvement with 
the Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

Daniel Hartwig has been named Stanford 
University archivist in the Department of 
Special Collections and University Archives. 
Daniel came from Yale University Archives, 
where he served as records services ar-
chivist since 2006. In that position he was 
responsible for analysis and appraisal of 
the information holdings of Yale offices, 
and acted as the primary point of contact 
between University Archives and the rest of 
Yale. In later years, he also took on systems 
administration responsibilities, collection 
management responsibilities, and supervi-
sion of accessioning staff. Hartwig has also 
spent time at Ball State Libraries and with 
the Wisconsin Historical Society. Hartwig has 
twice presented at the Society of American 
Archivists Annual Conference, once in 2007 
on the topic “Ingest of university electronic 
records: Theory and Practice,” and again in 
2008 on the topic “Pre-Custodial Intervention 
and Institutional Repositories.” He has also 
been an active blogger, and you can read his 
postings at atatyale.blogspot.com.

Sarah Leadley has been appointed associate 
dean of university libraries and director of the 

Jessica A. Koepfler has been named the 
2010 recipient of the Coalition for Networked 
Information’s (CNI) Paul Evan Peters Fel-
lowship for graduate study in the informa-
tion sciences or librarianship. Koepfler is 
currently a doctoral student in the College 
of Information Studies at the University of 
Maryland. The fellowship, which was estab-
lished to honor the memory of CNI founding 
Executive Director Paul Evan Peters, recog-
nizes outstanding scholarship and intellectual 
rigor, as well as civic responsibility, demo-
cratic values, and imagination. Koepfler’s re-
search addresses issues of human-computer 
and human-information behavior and inter-
action, currently focusing on investigating 
information presentation and participatory 
design strategies for homeless and under-
served populations. The next fellowship 
will be awarded in 2012; visit www.cni.org 
/pepfellowship/.

A p p o i n t m e n t s

Tom Baione has been appointed Harold 
Boeschenstein Director of the Department 
of Library Services at the American Mu-
seum of Natural History. Baione, who has 
worked in the museum’s library since 1995, 
has served as both the special collections 
librarian and as the acting director of the 
library. Between 1998 and 2002, Baione de-
veloped online and printed educational ma-
terials for audiences outside the museum as 
part of the museum’s new National Center 
for Science Literacy Education and Technol-
ogy. He returned to the library in 2002 and 
was promoted to assistant director for client 
services. In recent years, Baione has created 

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Kira Homo has been appointed electronic 
records archivist at the University of Oregon 
Libraries 

Ben Hunter is now head of cataloging 
and collections at the University of Idaho. 

Alexander Johnston has been appointed 
assistant librarian in the special collections 
department at the University of Delaware 
Library. 

Jeremy Kenyon is now reference/in-
struction librarian at the University of Idaho. 

Nathaniel King has been named social 
sciences librarian in the Davis Library Re-
search and Instructional Services Department 
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill. 

Hannah K. Lee has been appointed 
affiliate assistant librarian and Pauline A. 
Young Resident at the University of Delaware 
Library.

Michele Lee has been appointed the 
special collections librarian at the Fred W. 
Smith National Library for the Study of George 
Washington.

Alexis Manheim has joined the acquisi-
tions department at Stanford University as 
electronic resources and technology librar-
ian.

Robin Miller has been appointed refer-
ence/instruction librarian—government pub-
lications, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau 
Claire’s McIntyre Library.

Garth Reese is now head of special col-
lections and archives at the University of 
Idaho.

Laurie Rizzo has been appointed assistant 
librarian in the Special Collections Depart-
ment at the University of Delaware Library. 

Antoinette Satterfield has joined the 
Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy as 
reference-bibliographer for political science 
and economics.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Karyle Butcher, the Donald and Delpha 
Campbell university librarian and director of 

University of Washington Bothell Library at 
the University of Washington-Seattle.

Kirsten Leonard has been named executive 
director of Private Academic Library Network 
of Indiana (PALNI). Leonard has held posi-
tions at Kettering University, Ball State Uni-
versity, and Indiana University (IU)-Kokomo 
libraries. At Kokomo she has been given an 
increasing range of responsibilities, which 
have included cataloging, government docu-
ments and educational assessment. She has 
had significant responsibility for the develop-
ment of IU-Kokomo’s information technology 
infrastructure. 

Xan Arch is now collection development 
librarian at Reed College. 

Devin Becker has been named digital 
initiatives and scholarly communications 
librarian at the University of Idaho. 

Amy Blevins has been appointed clini-
cal education librarian in the Hardin Library 
for the Health Sciences at the University of 
Iowa Libraries. 

Kurt A. T. Bodling is now technical 
services librarian at the Fred W. Smith 
National Library for the Study of George 
Washington. 

Maureen Cech has been appointed assis-
tant librarian in the special collections depart-
ment at the University of Delaware Library.

Sarah Dahlen is the new reference and 
instruction librarian at California State Uni-
versity, Monterey Bay. 

Susan Elkins is the new electronic seri-
als librarian at the Porter Henderson Library, 
Angelo State University, in San Angelo, Texas.

Sarah Fancher has been appointed 
business reference librarian at Saint Louis 
University in Missouri. 

Katy Ginanni is the new collection 
development librarian in Hunter Library at 
Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, 
North Carolina.

Leanne Hillery has accepted the position 
of cataloging and metadata services librarian 
at the Old Dominion University Libraries in 
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the Oregon State University (OSU) Press, has 
retired from her position after 45 years in 
the profession. Butcher began her career as 
a public librarian in Los Angeles and later 
Santa Barbara before moving into academic 
libraries. She has served the profession in 
numerous leadership positions, including 
ACRL, ACRL/Oregon chapter, Greater West-
ern Library Alliance, CNI, and the Pacifi c 
Northwest academic library consortium, 
Orbis Cascade Alliance. Butcher was a 
founding board member for portal: Librar-
ies and the Academy. During her tenure at 
OSU, Butcher received the Oregon Librar-
ian of the Year Award, the OSU Woman 
of Achievement Award, and the D. Curtis 
Mumford Faculty Service award. Under her 
leadership OSU Libraries became the fi rst 
academic library to be awarded the Library 
Journal Library of the Year award in 1999. 
During Butcher’s tenure OSU Libraries es-
tablished two endowed positions as well 
as the fi rst endowment for the OSU Press. 

Jim Cole retired as the principal serials 
cataloger from Iowa State University Li-
brary June 30, 2010. Cole joined the library 
as a serials cataloger in 1984. In this role 
he published numerous articles and edited 
several books about serials cataloging. He 
was the ALCTS Serials Section representa-
tive to the ALA Committee on Cataloging: 
Description and Access, 1983–1985. He also 
was elected and served as secretary of the 
ALCTS Serials Section in the 1980s. In 1994, 
he became editor-in-chief of The Serials Li-

brarian and continued in that role until this 
year.

Terence Ford, head of research databases 
at the Getty Research Institute in Los An-
geles, has retired. Ford served as associate 
director of the Research Center for Music 
Iconography, as editor-in-chief of RILM Ab-
stracts of Music Literature, editor of the MLA 
International Bibliography, editor of the 
Bibliography of the History of Art, and was 
responsible for the Avery Index to Architec-
tural Periodicals and the Getty’s Provenance 
Index. He also served on the board and as 
president of the National Federation of Ad-
vanced Information Services (NFAIS). 

Peggy Mueller retired March 31, 2010, from 
the University of Texas (UT) Libraries at the 
University of Texas-Austin, where she was 
the special programs offi cer. Mueller re-
ceived a UT Outstanding Staff Awards at the 
President’s Staff Awards ceremony this year. 
Her professional career included positions 
in reference, management, and outreach in 
the public libraries of Greenwich, Connecti-
cut, and Fort Worth, Texas, and at the Uni-
versity of Texas Libraries in Austin.

Patrick Mullin, interim associate university 
librarian for collections and services at the 
University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel 
Hill, has retired after a professional career 
spanning 37 years. Mullin joined the library 
staff in 1987 as sys-
tems librarian. He 
subsequently headed 
the Systems Depart-
ment before becom-
ing associate uni-
versity librarian for 
systems, access ser-
vices, and systems, 
and then technical 
services and systems. 
Since March, Mullin has served as interim 
associate university librarian for collections 
and services. During his tenure, he over-
saw several comprehensive system migra-

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tions, as well as a complete reorganization 
of the library’s technical service operations 
in 2008. Mullin was president of LITA (2005-
06) and was a member of the LITA Board 
of Directors and its Executive Committee 
from 2003 to 2007. He chaired the LITA 2001 
and 2002 National Forum Program Planning 
Committees and has held leadership posi-
tions with ACRL and the Data Research Us-
ers’ Group. From 1988 to 1991, concurrent 
with his responsibilities at UNC, Mullin was 
interim director of the Triangle Research 
Libraries Network (TRLN), a collaborative 
organization of the libraries at UNC, Duke 
University, North Carolina Central Univer-
sity, and North Carolina State University. For 
this service and numerous other contribu-
tions, he was recognized by TRLN in 2000 
for his “extraordinary service and leadership 
and for outstanding contributions promoting 
cooperation among libraries.” Mullin began 
his professional career as the special collec-
tions librarian at Marietta College, in Mari-
etta, Ohio. He subsequently spent ten years 
in various positions with OCLC in Dublin, 
Ohio, before joining UNC. 

Cynthia Wright Swaine has retired from 
the Old Dominion University Libraries. She 
joined the Old Dominion University faculty in 
1975 as the education reference librarian. In 
1979, she accepted the position of managing 
the library’s instruction program, her most 
recent title being instructional services librar-
ian. In 1994, she also became the distance 
learning coordinator for the library. Swaine’s 
university service includes membership on 
committees related to distance learning, stra-
tegic planning, SACS reaccreditation, evalua-
tion of services, parking appeals, and student 
conduct. For the Old Dominion University 
Libraries, Swaine has served as chair and 
member of numerous teams and committees. 
She was a co-creator and instructor for the 
credit course “Research in the Information 
Age.” For most of her career, Swaine was a 
member of the Virginia Library Association, 
having chaired its Library Instruction Forum 
and served on its Membership Committee, 
and she also served on the Public Relations/
Membership Committee of ALA’s Library In-
struction Round Table and was a member of 
ACRL.