oct12_b2.indd C&RL News October 2012 568 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. Technology and MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library. Jeannette Pierce has been appointed di- rector of the Klarchek Information Commons at Loyola University-Chicago. Kelly Robinson is now reference librarian at the Universal Orlando Foundation Library of the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida. Meg Scharf has been appointed associate di- rector for communications, public relations, and assessment at the University of Central Florida. Elaine Smyth is now assistant dean of the Louisiana State University Libraries. Michael Waugh is now systems librarian at the Louisiana State University Libraries. Angelina Zaytsev is now HathiTrust spe- cial projects librarian in Library Information Technology and MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library. R e t i r e m e n t s Sherrie Bergman has retired as librarian of Bowdoin College, after 20 years of service. Bergman was named director of the Roger Williams College Library and later served as A p p o i n t m e n t s Andrea Baruzzi has been named biologi- cal sciences librarian at Princeton University Library. Penny Beile has been appointed asso- ciate director for information services and scholarly communication at the University of Central Florida. Annette Buckley has been named re- search librarian for business at the University of California-Irvine. Jeffra Bussman is now science and Web services librarian at California State University-East Bay. Michael Furlong has been named the Daytona State College regional librarian at the University of Central Florida. Susan Gilman has been appointed ac- cess services and outreach librarian, Portland Library and Learning Commons, at the Uni- versity of Oregon Libraries. Peggy Gunnell is now the Sanford/Lake Mary regional librarian at the University of Central Florida Libraries. Heather G. James has been appointed research and instructional services librarian at Marquette University’s Raynor Memorial Libraries. Patricia “Patti” McCall has joined the reference services department faculty at the University of Central Florida Libraries. Ian McCullough has been named as- sistant professor of bibliography, physical sciences librarian at the University of Akron. Jennifer Mitchell has joined Louisiana State University Libraries’ faculty as head of manuscripts processing. Meghan Musolff is the new special projects librarian for Library Information P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Advertisers AAAS 509 ALCTS cover 3 American Psychological covers 2, 4 Association Annual Reviews 550 Archival Products 567 Association of Research Libraries 535 Atlas Systems 527 Bowker/RCL 531 Choice Reviews Online 510 Palgrave Macmillan 523, 562 Project Muse 522 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 513 October 2012 569 C&RL News Sherrie Bergman of Maryland-College Park. Access: http://dhsi. org/ and http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/. • THATCamp. The Humanities and Tech- nology Camps, described as “unconferences” with no formal agenda or presentations, have exploded across the country and worldwide in the last couple of years. All participants contribute, in a collegial setting, to creating tools, problem-solving, discussing issues, etc. Notes 1. Special thanks to the BLAST Committee: Marc Bess, Edna Dash, Betty Ladner, Donna Lanclos, Stephanie Otis, Beth Scarborough, and Shoko Tokoro. Camps are usually small, with an average of 75 participants. Access: http://thatcamp.org/. Notes 1. For further resources, see our research guide “Digital Humanities” at http://guides. lib.cua.edu/digitalhumanities. 2. Visit http://codeyear.com for more in- formation about the Code Year Web site. 2. The Paws for Exam Therapy video is located at http://youtu.be/xOPoNF7ZMnc (“BLASTing the zombies,” cont. from page 546) (“Digital Humanities” cont. from page 539) college librarian at Wheaton College in Mas- sachusetts for 17 years before joining Bow- doin. In recognition of her dedication to the college, the Bowdoin College Alumni Coun- cil presented Bergman with the 2012 Alumni Service Award for Fac- ulty and Staff. Under Bergman’s leadership, Bowdoin’s Hawthorne- Longfellow Library un- derwent a $6.4 million renovation (completed in 2005); collections grew to more than 1 million volumes; the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, and the Bowdoin Digital Commons were established; and the scope of the library’s offerings was expanded through shared library catalogs with Colby and Bates colleges, and the Maine InfoNet and NExpress consortia. Active professionally, Bergman’s ALA involvement included service as chairperson of ACRL’s College Libraries Section; president of ACRL-New England; ALA Councilor; cofounder of the LLAMA Women Administrators Discussion Group; membership on the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship; planning commit- tees for several ACRL conferences; and active participation in the College Library Directors Mentoring Program and the Dr. E. J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program. Cathy Miesse, assistant dean for technical services and outreach, has retired after 27 years of service to the Loyola University- Chicago Libraries. Miesse went to Loyola from Governors State University in July 1985, where she had been reference coordinator. At Loyola she was head of circulation and head of access services before assuming the position of assistant dean in 2006. Miesse is very active in ALA, especially with LLAMA, where she has held prominent positions on several committees. At Loyola she was responsible for the Friends of the Libraries Speaker Series, a mentoring program for new library faculty and staff, and the libraries’ an- nual celebration of faculty scholarship. Joe L. Storey, associate director and head of Collections Support Services at the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Library, has retired after 33 years of service.