Appointments & Retirements
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August 16 Brooklyn (N.Y.) Public Library named Linda E. Johnson president and chief executive officer.
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In July John Monahan retired as director of the Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES School Library System in Yorktown Heights, New York.
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Laura Laspee became director of Clymer Library in Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania, September 12.
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In August Steven Lin retired as head librarian of the American Samoa Community College in Pago Pago.
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August 1 Dana Barber was promoted to associate director of the Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
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In August Linda Phillips retired as professor and associate dean at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries and was appointed professor emerita.
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August 1 Jean Bauer became digital humanities librarian at Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship in Providence, Rhode Island.
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In August Rebecca Guenther retired as senior networking and standards specialist for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
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Effective in October, Bruce Ziegman will retire as executive director of Fort Vancouver Regional Library District in Washington.
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Marjorie E. Bloss retired June 30 as lecturer at Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science in River Forest, Illinois.
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August 1 Pamela Davenport became network consultant for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
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In July Jason Ezell joined the Albert S. Cook Library at Towson (Md.) University as distance learning and resource sharing librarian.