November 2012

November 12 Jaclyn Finneke became communications manager of Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

Ruth Reeves

December 31 Ruth Reeves will retire as director of adult services for Normal (Ill.) Public Library.   

Robert North Jr., 102, assistant deputy director of the Buffalo and Erie County (N.Y.) Public Library until 1973, died November 15 after a brief illness.

Sandra Van Wert, 64, former director of Homer (Mich.) Public Library from 1994 to 2010, died November 22.

Effective November 21 Lynn Slawsky will leave her position as program officer for Public Library Association’s Turning the Page 2.0.

November 19 Roberta Pierce became communications specialist for ALA Graphics.

November 19 Krista Joy Johnson was appointed senior production editor for Production Services.

Susan A. Matson, 74, former serials cataloger at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and former trainer for the Illinois Statewide Online Catalog, died October 9.

Nancy Roderer

Effective January 15 Nancy Roderer will retire as director of Welch Medical Library and the Division of Health Sciences Informatics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.  

Frances Tompson Rutter, 92, cofounder and publisher of the Shoe String Press, Inc., died September 13.