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C&RL News February 2014 106

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Studies and Planning, Public Policy, and Manage-
ment. He was a founding member of the Docu-
ments Interest Group of Oregon. Stave was also 
a recipient of the 2007 ALA/GODORT Bernadine 
Abbot Hoduski Founders Award, recognizing 
documents librarians who have made significant 
contributions to the field of state, international, 
local, or federal documents. 

Gloriana St. Clair has stepped down after 15 years 
as dean of Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. As 
dean emerita, she remains engaged with the uni-
versity as the official liaison to the Osher Lifelong 
Learning Institute and director of the Olive Archive 
for Executable Content. Prior to her appointment 
at Carnegie Mellon, St. Clair held administrative 
library posts at Penn State University, Oregon State 
University, and Texas A&M University. She served 
as editor for three professional journals (College and 
Research Libraries, 1990-1996; Journal of Academic 
Librarianship, 1996-1999; and portal: Libraries and 
the Academy, 2000-2003). St. Clair was honored as 
ACRL’s Academic/Research Librarian of the Year in 
2009. In 2012, Carnegie Mellon University made 
her an honorary alumna.

Deaths

Hans E. Panofsky, 87, curator of the Melville J. 
Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwest-
ern University (1959 to 1991) and (for two terms) 
chair of ACRL’s Asian, African and Middle Eastern 
Section, has died. He also served on the ARL For-
eign Acquisitions Committee and was one of the 
founders of the Cooperative Africana Microform 
Project at the Center for Research Libraries. 

Appointments

Anne Mackereth has been appointed director 
of library services at Northwestern Health Sci-
ences University.

Katie Blank has joined the Marquette 
University Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Special 
Collections and University Archives as electronic 
records manager. 

Steve Brantley was appointed associate pro-
fessor and head of reference services at the Mary J. 
Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University.

Athena Jackson has accepted the position 
of associate director of the Special Collections 
Library at the University of Michigan. 

Elizabeth McCraw has been named special 
collections and humanities cataloger at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Wilson 
Special Collections Library. 

Mary Rieder has joined the Marquette 
University Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Resource 
Management team as coordinator of acquisition 
and discovery services. 

Curtis Small Jr. has been appointed assis-
tant librarian in the special collections depart-
ment at the University of Delaware Library. 

Denise Soufi is now Middle Eastern cata-
loger at the University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill Library.

Steven Van Tuyl has been appointed data 
services librarian at Carnegie Mellon University.

Retirements

Thomas “Tom” Arthur Stave has retired after a 
34-year career at the University of Oregon Libraries. 
Stave served as head of the document center and 
subject liaison to the departments of International 

P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway

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