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Appointments & Retirements

Fernandez, Michelle
Michelle J. Fernandez became senior librarian (bookmobile) at New York Public Library, Bronx Network, December 23.
March 11, 2020
Harris, Monica
Reaching Across Illinois Library System in Burr Ridge named Monica Harris associate executive director in January.
March 11, 2020
Kinney, Scott
Scott Kinney joined Evansville (Ind.) Vanderburgh Public Library as CEO-director in January.
March 11, 2020
Laughlin, Kate
Kate Laughlin became executive director for the Association for Rural and Small Libraries in Whitehall, Michigan, in January.
March 11, 2020
Morley, Gabriel
New Orleans Public Library appointed Gabriel Morley executive director and city librarian November 12.
March 11, 2020

At ALA

Bane, Katie
Katie Bane, marketing and sales manager for ALA Digital Reference, left ALA November 22.
March 11, 2020
Cameron, Erik
Erik Cameron, director for data applications in the Public Programs Office, left ALA November 15.
March 11, 2020
Carmichael, Jan
The Communications and Marketing Office (CMO) promoted Jan Carmichael to web content manager November 4.
March 11, 2020
Celindro, Jazzy
Jazzy Celindro joined the Public Policy and Advocacy Office as program assistant in December.
March 11, 2020
Day, Emily
November 4 Emily Day joined Conference Services as conference content manager.
March 11, 2020

Cited

Berman, Sanford
Activist librarian Sanford Berman received the Edina (Minn.) Human Rights and Relations Commission’s Tom Oye Award, which honors residents’ socially minded pursuits, in recognition of his work to eliminate language that perpetuates bias from library catalogs.
March 11, 2020
Lakvold, Pamela
East Baton Rouge (La.) Parish Library’s Children’s Services presented its Spaht Scholar Award to Pamela Cambre Lakvold, librarian at Westdale Heights Academic Magnet School in Baton Rouge.
March 11, 2020
Richardson, Simone
October 22 Simone Richardson, a librarian at Akron-Summit County (Ohio) Public Library’s business and government division, received the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s Impact Award for her work providing services to formerly incarcerated individuals.
March 11, 2020
Thomas, Felton
Cleveland Magazine named Cleveland Public Library Executive Director Felton Thomas Jr. its 2019 Community Leader of the Year.
March 11, 2020
Chicago Botanical Garden Lenhardt Library
In September, the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lenhardt Library in Glencoe, Illinois, received the American Institute of Conservation’s 2019 Ross Merrill Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections.
January 8, 2020

Obituaries

Chase, Nancy
Nancy “Nan” Ellen Chase, 72, a librarian at West Bend (Wis.) Public Library from 1997 until her 2012 retirement, died November 5. She had previously worked at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
March 11, 2020
Daniel, Evelyn
Evelyn Daniel, 86, dean and professor emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School oflnformation and Library Science (SILS), died November 24. During her five-year tenure as dean, the school added two degrees and increased the amount of funded research. She received the SILS Award for Teaching Excellence in 1999 and 2009, the Edward G. Holley for the Good of the Order Award in 2010, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education Service Award in 2000.
March 11, 2020
Singh, Gayatri
Gayatri Singh, 42, communication research librarian at University of California San Diego (UCSD), died October 31. She had worked at UCSD since 2007 after working at several libraries in Southern California. Singh held leadership roles on the library’s Diversity and Inclusion and Sustainability committees and served on committees in the Reference and User Services Association, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, the California Academic and Research Libraries Association, and the Librarians Association of the University of California.
March 11, 2020
Skallerup, Harry
Harry R. Skallerup, 92, director of libraries at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton for 15 years until retiring in 1992, died June 18. As director, he played a key role in the planning and construction of FAU’s S. E. Wimberly Library. Skallerup wrote many articles and papers as well as Books Afloat and Ashore: A History of Books, Libraries, and Reading Among Seamen During the Age of Sail (Archon Books, 197 4). He had previously worked as librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and as associate director at the US Naval Academy Library in Annapolis.
March 11, 2020
Sullivan, Michael
Michael E. Sullivan, 52, director of Weare (N.H.) Public Library, died December 10. During his tenure, the library filled the void left when the town’s only newspaper went out of business, creating Weare in the World, a weekly newsletter of local events and information. Sullivan was the author of the ALA Editions books Fundamentals of Children’s Services, second edition (2013), Connecting Boys with Books 2 (2009), and Serving Boys through Readers’ Advisory (2010).
March 11, 2020

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