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February 2017 109 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; email: agalloway@
ala.org; fax: (312) 280-2520.

Appointments

Kelly Ansley is now library director at East 
Georgia State College. 

Jamie Wittenberg has been named research 
data management librarian and head of the 
Scholarly Communication Department for 
the Indiana University-Bloomington Librar-
ies. Wittenberg previously served as the 
service design analyst at the Research Data 
Management Program at the University of 
California-Berkeley.

J. Wendel Cox has been appointed hu-
manities and social sciences librarian with li-
aison responsibilities for History and English 
Literature at the Dartmouth College Library. 

Kimberly Hamilton has joined the East 
Georgia State College Library team.

Allison McClanahan is now the col-
lections and cataloging librarian for the 
Archives of Traditional Music in the Indiana 
University-Bloomington Libraries. 

Shannon K. Supple has been named 
curator of Rare Books at Smith College in 
Northampton, Massachusetts, starting March 
1, 2017.

Retirements

Virginia Dowsing Toliver, associate uni-
versity librarian at Washington University-
St. Louis, has retired. During her more 
than 35 years at the university, she has 
been responsible for budgeting, facilities, 
human resources, and technology, and has 
been involved in two multiyear renovations 

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

of John M. Olin Library. Toliver started at 
Washington University in 1981 as part of 
the Academic Li-
brary Management 
Internship with the 
Council on Library 
Resources. She was 
t h e  f i r s t  A f r i c a n 
American woman 
to be selected for 
the program. After 
her internship, she 
was hired in 1982 
as the director of 
administration and planning for Wash-
ington University Libraries. In 2001, she 
became associate dean of administration 
for the libraries and, in 2012, was named 
associate university librarian. Her experi-
ence in libraries spans more than 45 years, 
including positions at Alcorn State Univer-
sity in Lorman, Mississippi, and University 
of Southern Mississippi-Hattiesburg. She 
has been vice-chair of the Literary Awards 
Committee for the Black Caucus of the ALA, 
a member of ACRL’s Budget and Finance 
Committee, and served on the planning 
committees of the 2007 and 2009 African 
American Librarians Conference. 

Virginia Dowsing Toliver

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