may11b.indd May 2011 307 C&RL News of delivery services in access services at Columbia University. Mark Baggett has been named systems development librarian at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries. Michala Biondi is now project archi- vist at the Burke Library of Columbia Uni- versity. Jennie Burroughs is now department director for arts and humanities at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Jennifer Comins has been appointed project archivist for the Albert Ellis Papers in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Kate Contakos has been named head of preservation at Stanford University Li- braries. Aimée deChambeau has been appoint- ed head of electronic services at the Uni- versity of Akron. Anthony Elia is now public services librarian at Columbia University’s Burke Theological Library. Nancy Fawley has been appointed head of Gorgas Information Services at the Uni- versity of Alabama Libraries. A p p o i n t m e n t s April Anderson has been named university archivist for the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfi eld Archives at Illinois State University. Anderson was pre- viously senior archivist and adjunct instructor in History at the University of Central Florida. Ana Dubnjakovik is the new head of the Music Library at the University of South Carolina. Gale Etschmaier has been appointed dean, library and information access, at San Diego State University. Marna Hostetler has been appointed associate dean and director of Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina Libraries. James Rettig has been appointed library director and associate dean for informa- tion services at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA). He is currently university librar- ian at Boatwright Memorial Library at the University of Richmond and will begin at USNA in August 2011. Brent Appling has been named ref- erence librarian at the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina. Veronica Arellano is now reference and instruction librarian at St. Mary’s Col- lege of Maryland. Seangill Bae has been appointed head P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -mail: agalloway@ ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520. Advertisers American Psychological Association 249 APA Journals cover 3 ASBMB 297 Annual Reviews 299 Archival Products 268 Association of Research Libraries 306 Bowker 250 Brill 280–81 Choice Reviews Online 277 John Wiley cover 2 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 253 Thomson Reuters cover 4 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 269 C&RL News May 2011 308 ALA has reserved a block of rooms at the Liaison Hotel at a reduced rate at the hotel, but they are going quickly. The block is listed under American Library Association 2011. Call 1-866-AFFINIA to make a reservation. For more information or to register for NLLD, go to www.ala.org/nlld. tion—particularly as we continue our efforts to recover from the economic recession. Members need to hear from constituents that support for libraries is always the best thing for our nation. (“Washington Hotline, cont. from page 296) Linda Galloway has been appointed biology, chemistry, and forensic sciences librarian at Syracuse University. Shelley Hayreh is the new archivist for Drawings and Archives at Columbia University’s Avery Library. Jim Holmes is now technology and media resources librarian at Reed College. Andrea Jarratt has been named refer- ence librarian at the Thomas Cooper Li- brary at the University of South Carolina. Jonathan Koffel has been appoint- ed liaison/information specialist in the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota. Mary Miller has joined the University of Minnesota Libraries as collection man- agement and preservation strategist. Nick Patterson is now music librarian at Columbia University. Roy Patterson has been appointed as- sociate librarian at the A. Pierre Guiller- min Library of Liberty University. Rachel Radom is now instructional services librarian for undergraduate pro- grams at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville Libraries. Kathy Snediker is now reference li- brarian at the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina. David Stern has been appointed as- sociate dean for public services at Illinois State University. R e t i r e m e n t s Christine Kubiak retired from Illinois State University library after serving 20 years as the university’s music librarian. Karmen Crowther has retired as profes- sor and business librarian at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries and is now professor emerita. Beth Schobernd retired as the associate dean for technical services and facilities from Illinois State University library after 22 years of service. Schobernd served as head of the library’s preservation department prior to working in administration. D e a t h s Elizabeth (Betty) Meehan-Black, head of order management and assistant head of the Monographic Services Department at the Univer- sity of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill Library has died. Meehan-Black joined the UNC Library staff in 1986 as head of bibliographic searching. She held a number of increasingly responsible management positions in acquisitions and tech- nical services at the library. In recognition of her contributions to the library and the profession, Meehan-Black was named an honorable men- tion for the Library’s Outstanding Employee of 2010 award. Meehan-Black was deeply involved in the work of many professional associations. She was a member of the executive committee of the North Carolina Library Association and the association’s elected representative to the Southeastern Library Association; president of the Librarians’ Association at UNC-Chapel Hill (2001–02); and a member or leader of numer- ous committees for those and other professional organizations.