C&RL News December 2014 668 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. Annie Gaines is now scholarly commu- nications librarian at the University of Idaho. Emily Ginier has been appointed infor- mationist at the Taubman Health Sciences Library of the University of Michigan. Lindsey Hobbs has been appointed collections conservator in the Preservation Department at Princeton University Library. Axa Mei Liauw has been appointed library web developer at Princeton University Library. Kelly Macelroy has been named the stu- dent engagement and community outreach librarian for the Valley Library at Oregon State University. Tom Marini is now associate director of the McLeod Business Library at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary. Bronwen Maxson is now the Humanities librarian at the Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis University Library. Dawn Mick has been named resource sharing and acquisitions management librar- ian at the Iowa State University Library. Hayley Moreno is now resource descrip- tion coordinator at the University of Houston. Moriah Neils has been appointed pres- ervation librarian at the University of Wash- ington Libraries. Caitlin Pollock is the digital humanities librarian for the Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis University Library Center for Digital Scholarship. Ingrid Ruffin has been named student success librarian for first year programs at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries. Anna Sandelli has joined the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Libraries as student success librarian for undergraduate user experience. Rachel Schimke has been named public policy papers project archivist at Princeton University’s Mudd Library. Timothy Thompson is now metadata librarian, Spanish/Portuguese specialty, at Princeton University Library. Appointments Kimberly Anderson has been named ar- chivist at the Iowa State University Library. Nicole Bouché has been appointed librar- ian for the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. Amanda C. R. Clark has been named direc- tor of the library at Whitworth University’s Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library. Julia Corrin has joined Carnegie Mellon University Libraries as the university archi- vist, responsible for the administration and management of Carnegie Mellon University Archives, located in Hunt Library. Corrin comes to Pittsburgh from Arkansas State University, where she was the political col- lections archivist. Evangela Q. Oates is now director of library services at SUNY-Sullivan County Community College. Celia Rabinowitz is now dean of Mason Library at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. She spent 22 years at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, the last 12 as director of the library. Michael Bobb has been named science and technology librarian at the Iowa State University Library. Orolando Duffus has been appointed diversity resident in the University Librar- ies at the University of North Carolina- Greensboro. P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway December 2014 669 C&RL News Retirements Marianne I. Gaunt, university librarian at Rutgers University in New Jersey, will retire this month. She started working at Rutgers in 1979 as a reference librarian in the Alex- ander Library. In the decades that followed she became circulation librarian, director of the humanities and social sciences libraries, associate university librarian for research and undergraduate services, then acting university librarian. She was appointed uni- versity librarian in 1997, and in 2008 she was promoted to vice president for information services and university librarian. Gaunt takes particular pride in a number of major Rutgers University Libraries’ accomplishments during her tenure. Libraries personnel played critical roles in the development and adoption of two far-reaching policies at the university—a copyright policy adopted in 2007 and an open access policy adopted in 2012. The libraries have established itself as a leader within the state’s academic libraries, helping to establish the Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey consortium, and also is an active supporter of national efforts to develop an open source integrated library system. Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, head of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has retired after six years leading the de- partment. Her first position was as the rare book cataloger at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Before joining UCF, Miletic-Vejzovic was the head of Manuscripts, Archives & Special Collections at Washington State University-Pullman’s Holland & Terrell Libraries. During her tenure at the John C. Hitt Library, Miletic-Vejzovic acquired many notable materials to support the six areas of collection for the UCF SCUA, including a first edition of Zora Neale Huston’s eight book Moses: Man on the Mountain, for the Floridi- ana collection; a Spanish Antiphonary of the Catholic Ritual Music for the first Sunday of Advent, ca. 1600, for the Rare Books Collec- tion; and for the Travel & Tourism collection, the papers of George Millay, founder of Wet & Wild. Miletic-Vejzovic has served on such committees as the Security Committee and Publications & Communications Committee of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL. Miletic-Vejzovic is recognized in the “Who’s Who in Sciences in Croatia,” an e- project of the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports promoting Croatian academics in Croatia and abroad. She taught at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Zadar in Croatia for many years. Steven Sowell, de- partment head for collections and re- source sharing at Or- egon State University Libraries and Press has retired. He has had an illustrious ca- reer of 38 years in the library profession, most of which was spent at Indiana University before he joined Oregon State in 2011. Joan Stein has retired from her position as principal librarian for assessment, marketing, and training at Carnegie Mellon University. Stein received a Library Assessment Career Achievement Award from the Association of Research Libraries in August 2014. Stein has also been honored with the 2004 OCLC/Virginia Boucher Distinguished Interlibrary Loan Librar- ian Award and the 1990 K. G. Saur Award for Best College & Research Libraries Article of the Year, for “Library Jargon: Student Comprehen- sion of Technical Language Used by Librarians” (1989). Stein has served on the editorial board of Performance Measurement and Metrics since 1998, and has chaired the ALA Library Research Round Table. Her most significant contributions in the field of library assessment have been as a participant in the Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, where she has been a presenter, keynote speaker, and member of the editorial board. Her role as Steven Sowell C&RL News December 2014 670 Advertisers Annual Reviews cover 2 Archival Products cover 3 Atlas Systems 589 Choice Reviews Online 590 Gale/Cengage Learning insert Project Muse cover 4 Rittenhouse Book Distributors 593 a host in helping to bring the Fourth Nor- thumbria Conference to the United States in 2001 was a catalyst for developing the library assessment community in North America. Joan Weber, director of library and media Services at Yakima Valley Community Col- lege (YVCC) for the past 22 years, has re- tired. Weber served the Washington Library Association in various capacities, including several years on the Board as director, vice- president, and three years as president. Most recently, she was represented community colleges on the Legislative Committee. Prior to working at YVCC, she worked as the fi rst director of Pend Oreille County Library, Spokane Public Library, Spokane County Library, Washington State University Library in Pullman, and director of Northeastern Junior College in Colorado. Deaths Eileen Bell-Garrison, dean of library ser- vices at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, has died. Bell-Garrison had been dean of the library from 2002 to the present, prior to that she was assistant dean for au- tomation and prior to that department head and cataloging librarian at Gonzaga. During her time as dean, she was instrumental in the formation of the Wash- ington Idaho Network (WIN), a multi-type consortium of libraries in eastern Washington and North Idaho. She served as WIN board president and as past president of the Inland Northwest Council of Libraries. Julia Claire Blixrud, assistant executive director for scholarly communication at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and a champion for open access to information, has died. Blixrud began her library career in 1979 as coordinator for OCLC services at the Minitex library network at the University of Minnesota. In 1983, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she became project manager of the grant-funded CONSER A&I Coverage Proj- ect at ARL. She was appointed in 1986 to head the National Serials Data Program at the Library of Congress. In 1991, she became a program offi cer at the Council on Library Resources. She moved in 1995 to the CAPCON Library Network, where she was director of training and education for one year. Blixrud joined the ARL staff in 1996 and during the past 18 years she worked with many of ARL’s programs, including Statistics and Assessment; Research, Teaching, and Learning; Leadership Develop- ment and the former Offi ce of Leadership and Management Services; Visiting Program Offi cers; Diversity Programs; and Scholarly Communication. From 1999 to 2009, Blixrud also served as the assistant director for public programs at SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). In 2009, she became ARL’s assistant executive director for scholarly communication and assumed responsibility for supporting ARL’s long history of leadership in promoting positive change in the scholarly communication system. Blixrud received the 2007 CSA/Ulrich’s Serials Librari- anship Award from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services. Charles Thomas Payne has died. Payne was a pioneer and major contributor to the fi eld of library information technology. He held various positions at the University of Chicago Library and retired as assistant direc- tor in 1992. Eileen Bell-Garrison