Appointments & Retirements
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In October Carol Ann Batt was appointed chief operating officer of the Buffalo and Erie County (N.Y.) Public Library System.
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November 1 Lisa Von Drasek will become curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis.
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October 8 Jessica Chamberlain will become director of Norfolk (Neb.) Public Library.
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August 8 Sai Deng became cataloging metadata librarian for the University of Central Florida Libraries in Orlando.
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Rosemary Magee recently became director of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Chanda Temple was recently appointed director of public relations at the Birmingham (Ala.) Public Library.
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March 24 Diane Duquette retired as director of Kern County (Calif.) Library system.
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July 1 Mónica Colón-Aguirre joined full-time faculty as assistant professor for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.
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July 23 Kathy Husser became librarian and manager for the Ironwood branch library in Phoenix, Arizona.
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August 24 Christine McDonald retired as director for Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls, New York.
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August 27 Mandie Roberts became director of Spencer (Iowa) Public Library.
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Effective December 31 David Tate will retire as director of Van Buren District Library in Decatur, Michigan.