Appointments & Retirements
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July 1 Laura-Ellen Ayres was promoted to director of Rapides Parish (La.) Library.
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Herrick District Library in Holland, Michigan, named Diane Kooiker as director May 16.
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Debbie McCluer retired as children’s librarian at Hillsdale (Mich.) Community Library in April.
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Vicki Croft, head of Washington State University’s Animal Health Library in Pullman for 38 years, retired June 1.
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Mary Ann Sherman retired as librarian at Jefferson Elementary School in Corona, California, June 9.
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Steve Dix retired as director of Muskegon (Mich.) Area District Library in June.
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Martella M. Nelson has been named medical librarian at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Montgomery campus.
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June 2 Sharon Yearwood retired as director of the Children’s Department at Brehm Library in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
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Nann Blaine Hilyard retired May 1 as director of Zion-Benton Public Library in Zion, Illinois.
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June 9 Timothy Cherubini joined the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies as its first executive director.
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April 30 Deborah A. Carver retired as Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries at the University of Oregon in Eugene, after 24 years with the libraries.
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Julie White Walker has been named state librarian for the Georgia Public Library Service in Atlanta.