November 2011 611 C&RL News 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. Ann M. Watson has been appointed dean of the Scarborough Library at Shepherd Univer- sity in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Sara Arnold-Garza has joined the Albert S. Cook Library at Towson University for a two-year appointment as residency librarian. Femi Cadmus is the new Edward Cornell Law librarian and associate dean for library services at the Cornell University Library. Karen Calhoun has joined the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh Library System as assistant university librarian for organizational devel- opment and strategic initiatives. Felix Chu is now the interim associate dean for library operations at Western Illinois University Libraries. Matthew Cook has been appointed head of public services and outreach at the John Spoor Broome Library at California State University-Channel Islands. Carrie Daniels has been named director of the University Archives and Records Center and university archivist at the University of Louisville Libraries. Jason Ezell has joined the Albert S. Cook Library at Towson University as distance learn- ing and resource sharing librarian. Daniel B. Fitzroy is now systems and electronic resources librarian at Henderson State University’s Huie Library in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Randy Gue has been named to two posi- tions in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University Libraries: curator of modern political and historical collections and instruction specialist for primary source materials. Korey Jackson has accepted a position as a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) postdoctoral fellow work- ing in the Publishing Services and Outreach division of MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library. Jennifer Jarvis has joined Columbia University Libraries as Mellon conservator for special collections. A p p o i n t m e n t s Mohammed Abdul Shaheed Khan has been appointed library director at Spangda- hlem U.S. Air Base in Germany. Khan has held positions as chief librarian at U.S. Army Chap- lain Center and School in Columbia, South Carolina, and at the U.S. Air Base in South Korea. He was also librarian at U.S. Army Al- len Library in Fort Polk, Louisiana, as well as librarian at Sheppard Air Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. Khan was senior information specialist at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and has served as lecturer/librarian at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and he was expert librarian at the University of Sulimaniyah in Iraq. Haipeng Li has been appointed university librarian at Hong Kong Baptist University in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Adriene Lim has been appointed dean of the library at Oakland University. Alexis Braun Marks has accepted a ten- ure track position as university archivist at Eastern Michigan University’s Bruce T. Halle Library. Helen I. Reed has been named dean of university libraries at the University of North- ern Colorado (UNC). Reed, who served as interim dean for the past 15 months while a national search was conducted, has 35 years of experience in university library administration, including 20 years as an as- sociate dean of UNC’s libraries. Before that she worked in libraries at Duke University and Northwestern University. P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway C&RL News November 2011 612 33 years of service. Matthews served in a number of roles, including science/social sciences monographic catalog librarian, serials catalog librarian, monographic and maintenance cataloging librarian, catalog- ing and records management division head, and finally senior cataloging librarian. Jacqueline Mirabile, a librarian at Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University, since 1982, retired at the end of May. Mi- rabile graduated from Trinity College, Bur- lington, Vermont, with a major in history and a mi- nor in mathemat- ics. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Simmons College. Mirabile spent nine years at the Free Library of Philadelphia and several more years at a regional pat- ent company before coming to Villanova University. At Falvey, Mirabile was a refer- ence librarian who taught research strategy sessions in a variety of disciplines. In early 2009 she was selected to lead the new In- formation and Research Assistance team. As team leader she supervised the research support librarians and library information specialists. Kay Weir has retired after of 22 years as the business librarian at Illinois State Uni- versity Milner Library. Scott Mandernack is now associate dean for scholarly resources and collections at Mar- quette University Libraries. Amanda Rinehart has been appointed e-science librarian at Brown University Library. Joe Salem has been appointed head of research and learning services at the University of Akron University Libraries, in Akron, Ohio. Rebecca Sestili has accepted the position of author-publisher liaison in MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library. Shannon R. Simpson has accepted a posi- tion as the art and special collections librarian at Towson University’s Albert S. Cook Library. Carissa Tomlinson has accepted a posi- tion as first-year experience librarian at the Albert S. Cook Library at Towson University. Rebecca Welzenbach is the new text cre- ation partnership outreach librarian in MPub- lishing at the University of Michigan Library. R e t i r e m e n t s Peggy Johnson has retired after 34 years at the University of Minnesota Libraries, most recently serving as associate univer- sity librarian. She also held librarian po- sitions at the University of Iowa and the St. Paul Public Library. In 1998, Johnson cofounded the biannual University of Min- nesota Institute for Early Career Librarians Underrepresented in the Profession. She has written and edited numerous books, most recently Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (2nd ed.), and authored more than 20 book chapters and journal articles. She currently edits the journals Library Resources & Technical Ser- vices and Technicalities. Johnson has con- sulted on library development in Rwanda, Uganda, Senegal, Morocco, and China. She served as president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (1999/2000) and is the recipient of the 2009 ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2005 ALCTS Blackwell’s Scholarship Award. Priscilla Matthews has retired from Il- linois State University Milner Library after Advertisers ACRL 574 American Philosophical Society 558 Annual Reviews cover 2 ASBMB 595 Association of Research Libraries cover 3 Brill 557 Choice 610 Modern Language Association cover 4 Neal-Schuman Publishers 581 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 561 Serials Solutions 570 Jacqueline Mirabile